njn's comments

This is very cool. I'm involved with an open source project that's similar to this, called 3Demos: https://3demos.ctl.columbia.edu/

On github at https://github.com/ccnmtl/3demos

I imagine it would be disorienting to actually play this on a CRT.

It's closed source. [Trac](https://trac.edgewall.org/) is better.

I live for drama.

you don't like github drama? (https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama)

Good. Fuck that startup.

Why is this on hacker news, lol.

Missing Lennart Poettering.

Wow, she sounds annoying.

rms comes from the old macho male programmer culture of, “logic and reason over all else”. The original hacker mindset of, “this is a meritocracy, and everyone who happens to be into programming is white and male. And there’s no problem with that.”

Eric S Raymond is the same way, but much, much worse. I don’t give him a pass, cause he has no clear vision or morality. He’s just a self-aggrandizing loser.

Linus Torvalds also grew up in that world, but is trying to change: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

I wouldn't work at any of those companies as long as I have the choice not to: they all make money off of proprietary software.

Why not disclose my current salary? I absolutely would if anyone asked. I wouldn't leave my job over another for a pay raise because I like my job, everything I work on is free software, and I can work as slowly as I want.

When I've worked at start-ups in the industry (I've worked in Palo Alto, SF, Seattle, and other places in NYC), it was like, working crazy hours, constant stress and drama, dealing with annoying requirements, and basically working on stuff I don't care about, like mobile apps, vying for popularity, etc.

If a startup wants to pay me to work on these Astronomy simulations I've made, I'd be interested: https://github.com/ccnmtl/astro-simulations (this is what I've done over the past year at Columbia).

Yeah, in general I find people to be excessive with their spending. $5k a month sounds like an insane waste to me. I'm pretty thrifty. I feel like tech workers are living in a different world than me.

My direct deposit income is something like $2400 every two weeks. That's after my IRA investments, monthly health insurance cost, metro card cost through my job, etc. I work at Columbia University, by the way.

I live in a rent stabilized 1br apartment in west Harlem: $1500/mo rent. After that I have no major expenses other than food, and I shop at local grocery stores and cook at home a lot. I make my own bread, because I like to, not because I have to. I always feel like I have more than enough money. I put around $800 a month into savings and investments.

I'm even able to travel frequently to Europe, Latin America, and to see my parents in Seattle. I agree with Bradley Kuhn on this one: in general, tech workers are wayyy overpaid.

lol I'm a senior developer, been in the industry since I graduated with a BS in 2010. I'm in NYC. My salary is currently $82k. I'm not doing anything wrong here - the numbers in the article are way exaggerated.

I don't mess with browser extensions anymore, I just use Brave: https://brave.com

> The techniques and technologies we’ve used on the new Twitter.com mean you only download and run code when it’s needed. So a mobile user won’t download the sidebar you see on the home page, and may not download the settings pages until they go to update their display name. However, it also means that the full functionality of the site is still available to them should they want to access it.

Can someone explain to Twitter's web developers that there's nothing groundbreaking about this idea? Like... lmao. That's how web apps should work. That's how traditional django and rails apps already work. I like JavaScript and React as much as any web developer but if you're loading unnecessary code that's actually degrading the usability then that's a problem to be fixed asap. And it's definitely not something worth mentioning in this press release.

Oh wait, this was post written by "software engineers", not "web developers". They're probably too smart for these details.

Good! Keep them down.

I just received this email:

  Hi Nikolas,
 
   My friend Oliver and I have included d3 in our chrome 
 extension https://getmatlock.github.io/, which works by 
 identifying the open source libraries a webpage is using. 
 Our goal is to give credit to the work that open source developers make.
 
   We just submitted it to Hacker News news.ycombinator.com, 
 so if you think this would be useful for open source 
 developers, we hope you'd consider throwing an upvote our way ;)

 
  Hope you don't mind the unsolicited email

Lol. Okay, every time I submit something to Hacker News I'm just going to spam a bunch of people as well :P

I'm going to make a similar library called Verizon.

haha, nice. https://alt.org/nethack/fastasc.html