rmdashrfroot's comments

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds

Virtue signaling? Your main priority should always be yourself. No one, except yourself, will look out for you.

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life

Please send one over!

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?

You sound like a California politician

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects

He's advocating using ORMs rather than writing raw SQL queries

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

Apparently raising a good, quality child/person isn't a respectable ambition and should instead be avoided in pursuit of the rat race know as a career... gotta love this mass damnation of mother/fatherhood!

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: I simulated California housing and learned about simulators

Who are you arguing with? You don't like poverty? Neither does anyone else.

And if the metrics don't appeal to your preconceived notion of how the metrics should work, you want to change the metrics? You want metrics to not notice changes in demographics?

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men

Why does promoting special treatment rather than fairness increase your respect for them?

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men

Special treatment versus fairness

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine

I wrote a collection of Dockerfiles for images running Python 2.7 or Python 3.6 + Selenium with either Chrome or Firefox and using Xvfb for the X display (necessary for running Selenium headlessly).

https://github.com/seanpianka/docker-python-xvfb-selenium-ch...

Using this, in conjunction with AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and ECS, it became merely cents a month to run a headless scraper task in the cloud.

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs

That is a old armchair argument made from those in an ivory tower.

If it was YOUR business, you would want to control your dream, your vision -- not a bunch of rich folks who could decide to kick you out from your dream if your main goal is not to _remain profitable to the shareholders_.

rmdashrfroot | 7 years ago | on: My Unpopular Career Advice for Today's College Graduates

A master's in _museum studies_? Why? Why in the world would you pay for that? What could the study of that possible produce?

rmdashrfroot | 8 years ago | on: A school-based obesity prevention programme was ineffective

The hard truth where sometimes our feelings _need_ to be hurt early on to save our health (despite all of this modern social acceptance of unhealthy, irresponsible people who lack the self control to put the sugar down and consume less calories daily).

rmdashrfroot | 8 years ago | on: Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

Consider, though, those living outside major population centers, where the police response time can be on the order of 10 to 30 (or more) minutes and there's an active shooter situation. There's very little that can be done to mitigate damage done by the shooter or prevent him from escaping in that span of time.

rmdashrfroot | 8 years ago | on: Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

America's obsession with credentials at its finest... these people are allowed to have guns because we say so, but no one else! (except those pesky criminals and shooters who don't abide by laws)

rmdashrfroot | 8 years ago | on: Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

Is it not true? What did they do in response to an active shooter? They called the police and SWAT -- people with guns.

rmdashrfroot | 8 years ago | on: Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (2015)

I agree with this argument, please continue explaining.

rmdashrfroot | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

100% reading comprehension, great work.

rmdashrfroot | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?

Do you have any examples of this type of company? I'm a sophomore CS student looking to work in Aerospace, and this type of company, where the work is done in a self driven manner and where the work matters, that I'd love to work for.