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Karuhanga

8 karma · joined January 7, 2018

Developer still finding exactly what I'm passionate about.
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Karuhanga··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
I agree with this sentiment. His tweet was quite disingenuous and it doesn’t help that he’s tagging Musk and Vance. The noise they make about free speech is a charade.

I still can’t understand why these tech CEOs are doing so many cynical things even in places where they have the chance to start healthy debate.

It’s so frustrating.

Karuhanga··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
Community notes typically kicks in after the tweet has already gone insanely viral. It’s not useless, but I wonder about its effectiveness.

I see your point about free speech but I think it has to be more nuanced. For example, where has continuing stupid anti vaxer debate left the Americans?

Karuhanga··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
I think the upside is drawing a line in the sand now before they tighten requests any further and (maybe) not losing the revenue from some genuinely illegal pirating services that use them.
Karuhanga··on Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
You can start a local lambda server and invoke the functions without a deployment.
Karuhanga··on Ask HN: What are your best purchases in 2020?
Hi, does this have the capability of a smart TV?
Karuhanga··on Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
I suspect Intel will in the future have separate processors which can less painfully take advantage of more decoders, perhaps with a restricted instruction set?
Karuhanga··on FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices
https://youtu.be/Nn_Zln_4pA8 John Oliver dives into why.
Karuhanga··on Bringing the print statement back
> which does not have partial application functools.partial?
Karuhanga··on Ask HN: How Blog/side projects helped you land a job
+1 on this. Trying to get back that hacker velocity that doing professional software engineering seems to put a drag on.
Karuhanga··on Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg
Anyone watching this would agree the question here isn't whether or not Zuck has a principle around it but rather whether that principle is 'good' for the future. Their perspectives here are clearly different.