timelincoln's comments

Excuse me, I witness snarky behavior in comments on this site constantly, but thank you for using your power to keep me in line :)

Go ahead and Vote me down , it’s still true https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/lab-leak-china-intern...

I’m not, it’s clear you’re too lazy to even consider anything until it’s kicked down to you by the political machine

I think the real point that no public figure is willing to say, is that if this virus did leak out of a CCP lab after being modified the entire world will to some degree or another demand consequences for the CCP.

While doubtful the consequences would lead to nuclear war that’s not outside the scope of possible outcomes. What’s more likely is the vast consumer public rejecting the relationship with the CCP, leading to a quicker downward spiral of relations leading to risky military situations and a lot of rich people with a stake in China trade becoming slightly less rich.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting you learn about virology and fly to wuhan and start looking around. Maintaining multiple explanations as possibilities until one is proven, while resisting political tribalism shrouding your view of the truth, is I suppose hard for many people to pull off. But that is what we’re suggesting you try to do, maybe next time we have a global pandemic…

its a good point but more interesting to consider the history of money as a private enterprise, aka fractional reserve banking and independence of the fed, -> private financiers of governments going back through the ages. Modern gov fiat has been the best form of money yet but is still backed by private 'lending' . Whats SUPER interesting is how the proof of work -> proof of stake models continue to provide a monetary system in which the money holders control the system, it seems for now an unavoidable component -> good incentives for value allocators

office space for the universe

love this!

By the way if you're interested in experimenting more broadly outside of a stripe integration I wrote the quickstarts for Optimizely Full Stack which use a discount example, feel free to ask me questions about how it works :) (we have a free plan too) https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/full-stack/docs/javas...

love it, is this a repeatable trick?

That is so funny, I didn't know this! hahaha

Devrel here, (by the way it’s typically called a Developer Advocate or a Developer Evangelist, don’t get me started on how many questions I’ve gotten about the relation to religion lol)

I think the article does a good job describing what devrel looks like at companies that are smart about selling to the new “tech business world” which is desperate for a way to measure the technical credibility of potential vendors.

But what’s more interesting from someone who knows devrel because I’ve worked in it for 7 years, is that at a more general level it’s just a communication layer that a business can have with an audience or a persona(in this case developers), that is growing ever more important. Whether you’re a platform (google Apple) and need more devs making stuff within your ecosystem, or you’re not selling to developers but you need technical integrations by third parties to enhance The value prop of your product, or you’re ACTUALLY selling directly to developers and trying to expand their mental model of what is possible with the low code tooling available today and why they can and should trust it.

It’s a wide and interesting world in which almost every company is becoming a software company, and almost none of these companies have any idea how to communicate with developers or what they care about.

You’re right that devrel is like a pre-sales role somewhat, but we all know developers are the hardest group to sell to in history, who else could more easily go find a free open source solution or just make it themselves?? You have to be able to communicate about the pros and cons of technology in an honest and coherent way, and that is what Devrel is all about to me.

Today being logged out might equate to choosing the “default” view of the world (as far as the internet is concerned) while the AI creates a view for every “logged in” person that distorts the world to fit their biases almost completely

amen, likewise

awesome!

Amazing!

Charles Schwab is currently relocating their HQ from bay area to texas

Ever wondered how the secretive Apple releases features to production on iOS, macOS, etc? Spoiler: not well!

That's changing now that they've publicly announced a new shift to "feature management" with an internal tool dubbed "flags".

ASK HN: What level of feature management do you use for your projects and/or what do you see developing in the feature management tool space to help increase developer velocity?

Part of the issue is that the chinese people literally don't see what the world is saying, the only information they get is constantly filtered and developed by the state. Really the state has created a perfect machine to control the thoughts of the population, its a very scary situation. So we'd maybe be able to conduct some information warfare involving full blown cyber war of unknown proportions attempting to hack into the chinese internet, I think things like starlink are going to make it harder for the chinese gov to implement the great firewall, however maybe they will just launch their own starlink...

I think its important to regulate the potential runaway effect of these ideologies that satisfy the religious instincts of groups