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I expect interns to learn and CEOs to lead. If your decisions lead to mass layoffs then you need to lead the way to the unemployment line.

The latter. If you can not manage the company correctly and it leads to the job losses of hundreds of people not to mention the millions in salary that was wasted by their poor planning then yes they should be immediately relieved and not allowed to run any other company. They are clearly incompetent.

Considering dropbox is not facing some economic recession outside of its control we can only blame the CEO's incompetence.

I agree. I attribute that mostly to NixOS though. It reminds me of the old Prince of Persia game where I could make a mistake, rewind time, and try again.

I find Ubuntu and others to be pretty fragile still. IMO, technologically Linux has been ready for years. If NixOS were packaged into an actual product experience it would be a great new entrant into the desktop operating system space.

Goodhart's law in action. Though in this case it seems to be the "strong version" of it where targeting a proxy worsens performance.

Will my 8 year old be exposed to sports gambling commercials?

Let's let 8 year olds drive drunk. I'm more than capable of spotting them on the road and avoiding them.

> A two party system is the logical conclusion of a first past the post voting system, which they have created. It is a bug, and fixing it is also effectively impossible.

AFAIK it only mandates it for the President. We're free to elect representatives and Senators how we please.

The boat might not have been big enough to carry her family, attendants, and material wealth. All of which can be more important to people than immediate escape. Pliny writes that the cloud had not reached Stabiae. Its likely she was anxious and wanted to evacuate but was not under noticeable threat and did not understand the severity of her situation.

Edit: https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/plin...

15 hours! You're hiring contractors not interviewing.

Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814161

I am also a nixos enjoyer but I have mixed feelings around the fact that I still don't really understand the configuration language.

I'm happy in the sense that its simple enough that I can install programs and do all the other usual desktop stuff with minimal knowledge. But I'm unhappy in the sense that when I started with nixos I wanted to replace docker and docker-compose. I still haven't accomplished that.

But all-in-all I'm very happy with Nixos for desktop use. No crashes, no bugs. Its the reason I was able to permanently drop Windows.

"A canal on one side of the planet is broken? Just use the canal on the other side of the planet."

I'm enjoying that sentiment very much. I wonder if there's a mileage breakdown of China -> US (around South America) versus China -> US (through the Suez Canal).

Some commenters here should watch the talk "The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki. Else you're gonna get Jeff'd.

Glad that doesn't happen any where else!

Don't leave Washington... believe it or not you live in a well-managed, representative state that is both fiscally responsible and socially liberal.

Had something similar happen to me in San Francisco. While I was walking a driver rolled down their window and shouted "white power" at me (I'm white). Very strange experience. At the time I lived in Chicago, walked everywhere, and never experienced that sort of hostility.

Same trip, I ended up renting a car and going to Bodega Bay where I was again screamed at by a driver who was apparently upset with my driving (this was on the access road to the park). The "f" word was used at me as well.

I'm not sure walking explains it all. There seems to be an abundance of miserable people in this country...

Static typing won there's no point arguing over it anymore. The issue is the type systems. Someone writing Haskell will have a very different opinion of types versus someone writing Rust versus someone writing Typescript versus someone writing Bash.

That's why you see a negative reaction to static typing. Its the developer experience. Its the error messages. Its the amount of time and mental effort it takes to type something correctly.

If you told me I had to choose between dynamic Python or strict Typescript I would choose Python. I love static typing. I hate Typescript.

So don't die on a hill! Just make better type systems!

I'm reminded of a certain episode from The Office...

People should be responsible for the machines they operate. North Carolina should be responsible for their roadways. Google _should_ update their maps but that's aspirational. It's clearly a hard problem to solve when no data exists.

The great thing about Kafka is the ability to batch operations. Collect a set of messages in memory and, when its time to commit, submit a bulk operation. If something fails you just rebuild the buffer from the last committed offset. Pretty neat piece of technology.