samsgro | 3 years ago | on: Vanished in the Pacific
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samsgro | 3 years ago | on: My 4 Days in Fake Gay-Conversion Therapy
The idea of extending the concept of the LARP to experience real world, difficult scenarios is remarkable. Media/political polarization is a real problem today. Applying the concept of real world workshops to bridge party lines is out there today [0], but maybe tackling difficult concepts head-on isn't the best method. For some subjects (abortion, gay conversion therapy as in the article) stepping out of your own shoes into another via imagination or fantasy would tackle it well.
samsgro | 4 years ago | on: Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal
Generally agree, but on the other hand, the game feels a LOT better since since the Activision divestment.
In the last 12 months narrative team of Destiny 2 have REALLY knocked it out of the park, with the seasonal plot actually making sense and having some interesting activities (like Battlegrounds). Some significant improvements in QoL too.
While there definitely gaps as you say - the New Light experience in particular needs some serious work - so long as Sony lets the team continue on its current trajectory, there may be hope.
samsgro | 4 years ago | on: Israeli trial, world’s first, finds 4th dose ‘not good enough’ against Omicron
Viruses evade defenses as a matter of evolutionary outcome, becoming something less recognizable to the herd’s immune system.
The idea that you might need updated shots has nothing to do with business model, and everything to do with observed cause and effect.
samsgro | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
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We are looking for talented engineers to grow our team with product development and engineering roles across web and mobile (React/React Native), core services (Java/JS), devops (AWS, k8s) and data (Spark, Kafka, Snowflake).
If you're interested, take a look through our careers list (https://www.lendingclub.com/company/careers) or contact [email protected] directly.
samsgro | 5 years ago | on: Getting Started with AWS Amplify Flutter
Had the exact same experience. Excited about Amplify, but ran into bugs that hadn't been fixed for months blocking AmplifyJS social login from working as documented.
Switched to Firebase, and it all just worked.
samsgro | 5 years ago | on: Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
We've spent a lot of time working around the limitations of FireStore, but it does work reliably. Pricing is VERY hard to extrapolate from early use; all it takes is one feature request and your assumptions are blown.
Love to hear from anyone who has gone beyond the prototype phase.
samsgro | 5 years ago | on: Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
How!? I am a VC backed startup, just went through the same grief described in the original linked post.
I like Firebase, but the moment the utility runs out we're heading back to AWS.
samsgro | 5 years ago | on: We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it
Troy is sarcastically explaining that this is a "good password" according to older password complexity rules, but a horrible password given predictable password substitution logic. Password complexity rules accomplish little.
Obligatory xkcd comic link: https://xkcd.com/936/
samsgro | 6 years ago | on: I have a secret to tell you about healthcare
A clickbait titled shill post. Doesn’t belong on HN!
samsgro | 8 years ago | on: Post-Scarcity Economics (2013)
Great rebuttal to one of the other commentator's lines... "Yes, the accumulation of capital gains should rightly go to the owners of capital." This position elevate the good of capital assets while ignoring/not balancing it with the "... acute, prolonged, and wide-spread suffering of conscious beings".
samsgro | 8 years ago | on: “Use of open source software has been declining rapidly in the private sector”
Unsubstantiated, self-serving FUD from Oracle.
samsgro | 9 years ago | on: Blox – Open Source Tools for Amazon ECS
I am in the same boat: burned, early on, when playing with ECS. Given this announcement, and Netflix announcing they will contribute to the project, it's time to take a second look.
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In the heart of the pandemic, the YouTube misinformation rabbit hole lead two US residents, at least one VERY well educated, to jumping to their death, in treacherous waters in the South Pacific.