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elbrian··on Super Easy and Lightweight(
OP's account is 16 days old and has literally no activity, besides spamming the same couple repos.
elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
By political discussions, you mean openly supporting (and fundraising at Google for) white pride organizations?
elbrian··on Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)
Why?

(Is this a setup for a joke?)

elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
Kevin was fired for promoting alt-right views on internal message boards at Google, and not for supporting a protest. He made several of his co-workers uncomfortable enough to report him to their managers, who gave him several warnings before rightfully terminating him as an employee.

Here's a more detailed write-up about Kevin Cernekee, what he stands for, and why no one wants to work with him (link below).

https://medium.com/@mikewacker/the-other-side-of-kevin-cerne...

edit: Thanks for the downvotes, too. I'm sorry you couldn't contribute more (read: anything) to this thread.

elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
It's been >2 hours and we're still waiting for your examples and/or sources.
elbrian··on My Time at Snap
I'm just amazed that developers have the confidence to lambaste former employers in such a public, toxic and hostile manner.

If I was hiring for a developer position and Google'd Marko Tupper's name, I wouldn't even agree to meet with him based on this article alone. Why would I want someone so ego and drama-driven on my team?

I won't even leave negative reviews on Yelp or Google Maps out of fear of reprisal or future employers finding them.

elbrian··on Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide
End the war on drugs.
elbrian··on Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes
> Boeing assumed that pilots could be relied upon to recover from a MCAS induced runaway trim. Practice has shown that they can't. Whether Boeing or the pilots is at fault is, from a safety perspective, irrelevant.

From a practical perspective, however, Boeing making universal assumptions about pilot capabilities in life-or-death situations, utilizing new equipment that they were not trained on, is anything but irrelevant.

elbrian··on How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers
I feel so fortunate that I have never been desperate enough to even entertain the idea of working for 8+ hours, for free, as part of an interview process.

Yikes.

elbrian··on Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system
2019 model-year Samsung QLED sets come with ads baked into the UI.
elbrian··on China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
Do you think they'd send the inoperable drones to someone who thinks "they are a pain," or do you think they'd send the drones to a vendor who is experienced with their specific model and can quickly address any issues they find?
elbrian··on The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup
Huntz is a vastly superior product, for a similar (or cheaper) price.

Give it a shot!

edit: I made the switch a couple years back, when Huntz switched back to sugar (from corn syrup) and haven't looked back. AFAIK, Heinz still uses the high fructose rubbish.

elbrian··on Android 10
What is difficult to understand about OP wanting features that iOS does not offer?
elbrian··on Rules for Intuitive UX
Every time I select a bit of text on this page, a share box pops up, at least partially covering some other text on the page.

Is this intuitive UX?

elbrian··on I don’t hire Junior data-scientists
If Julien Kervizic offers you a job, don't take it.

Noted.

elbrian··on Terminating Service for 8Chan
The definition of the word `deplatform` is:

> To prevent someone from utilizing a platform to express their opinion.

CloudFlare is not a platform for expressing opinions. As such, 8chan was not deplatformed... so what point are you really trying to make, here?

elbrian··on The Last Days of John Allen Chau
Would you consider attempting to convince an entire civilization to bend to your (lord's) will, against their own (as expressed on several occasions, spanning several decades), to be a harmful act?
elbrian··on Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone
I'm still waiting, 5+ years later...
elbrian··on Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says
Not even close to the same thing.
elbrian··on Brooklyn Burger King Delivered Beef Whoppers to Customers Expecting ‘Impossible’
> Your 20 seconds of googling got an article that talks about "may get" and doesn't really explain how that would apply to this situation.

That wasn't part of your question.

Do you typically rely on others to read your mind, while asking questions?

elbrian··on Brooklyn Burger King Delivered Beef Whoppers to Customers Expecting ‘Impossible’
I took 20 seconds to Google "vegans protected UK" and find this article for you:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vegans-discr...

elbrian··on We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
> paypal has no business in regulating what software their customers are allowed or not allowed to sell.

PayPal is a private company. They do have business in regulating what types of customers they'd like to serve, and they are well-within their rights to create and enforce their own terms of use.

Certain types of customers (scammers, spammers, etc) are a greater liability and can end up causing more issues (and less revenue) than they are worth, so it makes perfect sense for PayPal to choose not to do business with them.

elbrian··on My Internet History in Web Browsers
The article seems like a thinly-veiled advertisement for Brave, in my opinion.
elbrian··on Atom 1.36
While Atom was Mac-only, VSCode was eating their lunch.

It's too little, too late now.

elbrian··on Julian Assange Indictment (2018)
The probe came to a conclusion, which means it did not fail.

What that conclusion was, we may never know.

elbrian··on Ask HN: How do I ask for a raise?
When does it stop working?

I've been jumping ship every 2-3 years, for the past 15 years, and it's been working out well for me.

elbrian··on Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
I don't have any evidence, because I don't use Facebook. Furthermore, I never made any claims to provide evidence for.

Do you have evidence or source for the claim you made? Or are you just here to call people silly names and pass anecdotes off as fact?

elbrian··on Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
Your anecdotal experience is completely irrelevant to the statement that you made.
elbrian··on A woman who doesn't feel pain
Here's an AMA he did, if anyone is interested in reading more about him specifically:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4xmbu9/iama_16_year_o...

elbrian··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help
Hot take. Care to elaborate a little more, for the sake of discussion?
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