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rainpain | 4 years ago | on: Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm

8 people and one bathroom. WTF! Lotta people gonna be shitting in bags

rainpain | 4 years ago | on: The code that controls our money

>The Bank of New York Mellon in 2012 found it had 112,500 individual COBOL programs.

OG microservices.

rainpain | 4 years ago | on: The EU: Made in America

"The internet is an American invention" don't know where the author got that from.

rainpain | 4 years ago | on: I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)

This made me shed a tear. Wonderful.

rainpain | 5 years ago | on: Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify

This is tortuous double speak.

I used to work in a 10k employee mega organization where we had this kind of over formalization. It was probably invented to prevent feelings being hurt.

I then moved to a tiny five man consultancy where efficiency was what we lived (or died) by. Never forget the day when my first code review from the CEO was "that is f##king s@#t code!

rainpain | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

I've been living in the USA for a year and I don't think I will ever get over this odd 'spaced out' way of living. I see 3 lane roads that would work so much better as a mixed tram/bicycle lane. Crossing roads is also terrifying.

Nix the thought of walking to do the following activities: - fetching a missing ingredient from a local shop/store that would take 25min round trip and benefit you with additional exercise. - spending an evening going between bars being mildly intoxicated but not requiring a taxi.

rainpain | 5 years ago | on: Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet

I think the guy who made the internet is also trying to fix the worst bits rather than reinventing it. I'm backing Mr Berners-Lee. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_...

rainpain | 5 years ago | on: Predictions as a Substitute for Reviews

This is some real insight. The website is a bit unwieldy.

Would be keen on an app