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dejaimeon The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym

No talk about averages and medians... that's weird... Oh, I see, it's just hasty generalization. Ohhhhh it's on Medium, should have guessed

dejaimeon Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB

TLDR All databases corrupt data, and mongodb is reasonably performant, and also easier to scale than most.

I have had instances of data corruption in production servers with both OracleSQL and MySQL. Several sql databases take forever to fix bugs (e.g. the crappy handshake in MySQL took 5y to get fixed).

MongoDB is actually the best database I have ever used in production, in question of both performance AND scalability. So I call your bluff there, no data, no fact.

dejaimeon You can't impress developers. So don't try

This is just a gross generalization

dejaimeon Side Projects are deadweight to employability

I got my first job with a side project that was not anywhere near successful.

dejaimeon Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

That reminds me, I forgot to enable it

dejaimeon Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China

Yeah, let's make sure no one can repair anything ever, and they need to buy a new one every time we pull the kill switch! Now, 0% repair fraud, hooray...

dejaimeon Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto

I would say he misses a big point on the hard bugs though. Saying something is proprietary does not mean it makes enough money to hire such high caliber professionals, on the contrary.

I have worked with a lot of extremely competent developers on open source, but my experience with proprietary software was quite the opposite: professionals are untrained (to the point where they can't even use versioning properly) and would be incapable of finding such bugs anyway.

Now assuming that a proprietary cryptocurrency has the resources to hire a respectable audit firm... it is more far fetched than assuming that such star developers will just work on an open source one for fun.

dejaimeon Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto

Ignoring the biggest problems of proprietary software (e.g. the fact that such software can be deactivated at any time for no reason, backdoors) and citing pseudo problems on free software.

"You can also argue that OSS tends to be reused by other OSS, which amplifies the impact of a given bug."

This guy clearly as a horse on that race.

dejaimeon Prepare for changes to macOS Server 5.7.1

MAcos server? Is that even a thing? wow

dejaimeon Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

It depends on why you are seeking an alternative service.

Since you mentioned privacy, Proton Mail is, in theory, good for those with privacy concerns. Why in theory? Well, can't really trust anyone these days, can we?

I mean, trusting a convicted perp or an unknown entity? Well, the unknown might be clean still, so it's better than nothing.

But in the end, for privacy, the best is definitely self hosting.

dejaimeon Ask HN: As a technical founder what is the best business book you've read?

How to take all the blame