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enw··on Logging at Twitter
The missing space in "adoption.Our" is triggering me.
enw··on How to skate a 10k
Also "skating" is ambiguous; for me it's skateboarding.
enw··on Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ”
Also a sad reflection of the state of public discourse in the US.
enw··on The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
Tangential, but it’s the first time I’m hearing of MuleSoft. I wonder what kind of companies use it?

There’s a side of “enterprise” software that’s so foreign to me.

I still don’t know what Salesforce is. Or SAP (I see their name in a lot of shitty software though). I wonder how the developers in those companies are like, what their processes and code reviews and technical discussions look like.

enw··on How I built a date picker
But why build a date picker?
enw··on How We Lost the Women in Computing (2018)
> In July 2017, Google engineer James Damore distributed a memorandum [...] > In essence, argued Damore, women are less interested in computing then men.

It still baffles me how that was even controversial. It's not rocket science that men tend be more interested in computers than women (anyone not lying to themselves will see that in high school or campuses).

enw··on New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
Potentially you're also missing the forest from the trees: it may be an order of magnitude higher, but in relation to the population size, the number of deaths is minuscule regardless.
enw··on New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
No, I would tell: since you are at-risk, use the means provided to stay safe and take precautions to reduce the risk of getting infected.
enw··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
Can’t edit anymore. Just wanted to say sorry if that came off too negative. I really want to like a potential Google competitor.

UX things that I wish were improved:

- scrolling vertically and horizontally to find results is quite confusing and a lot of effort

- low DPI icons make the page look unpolished

- too many “things”, the results page doesn’t fit on an iPhone 12 mini’s screen without horizontal scrolling

- fonts change style after they appear making it look jittery and unpolished

- upvoting/liking seems like a good idea; would reconsider value downvote brings. It seems to convey results are user controlled and prone to vote wars

The results are pretty good, but the UX is poor. Wishing you and the team the best.

enw··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
I haven’t seen a more tone-deaf, smug, and patronizing CEO for a long while.

User-hostile UX, a baffling inability to process feedback and seemingly no interest in potential customers.

You should really think things through.

enw··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
> Chrome says that so clearly when you install it :)

Sorry to be off-topic, but you should really learn how to better communicate with your potential customers.

The little smiley face and saying it's shown "so clearly" has an extremely patronizing tone that is no way to build trust. Be more humble.

enw··on Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship
Everyone I asked understood the potential for misuse it introduces.
enw··on Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor
Isn’t this VS Code with the Vim extension?
enw··on Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
I like it as well. I typically have only a handful of tabs open, for both mental clarity and focus.

There's so much empty space on the address bar, and vertical space is typically expensive real estate.

enw··on Containers are tents
> glorified tarballs

Calling container images glorified tarballs is like calling cars glorified lawnmowers.

enw··on Peter Norvig: Singularity is in the eye of the beholder
> Is it correct to ask about the idea of a table? i.e. is there such a thing as a table in the abstract?

I don't understand. The "idea" of a table is an object that provides a level surface to place stuff on.

What am I missing? What is the interesting part?

enw··on Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
Honestly I don’t understand what the whole point of that statement is, apart from fueling racist woke rhetoric and contributing to divide.
enw··on There are no results for tank man
There are now results but none about Tiananmen Massacre
enw··on Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (2019)
This is exactly the type of article that belongs on HN.
enw··on Peak non-creepy dating pool
What do you mean by "enjoy life"?
enw··on Faster web fonts
One step to fastest web fonts: use native fonts
enw··on A URL Lengthener

  curl ai
Worked as well.
enw··on The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day
Honestly reading that felt extremely anxiety-inducing and like a nightmare work culture. My work patterns are too chaotic to ever pair for more than an hour if I’m forced to.
enw··on Why I Love Coding (2012)
> When you're five years old (the age I was when I started programming "seriously")

I know this is HN, but I have a hard time believing this. Somehow feels like nostalgic self-congratulatory boasting.

Honestly curious, what does it mean for a 5-year-old to be programming seriously?

enw··on The Animal Is Tired
There’s something very comforting about vices.

A vice is a psychological safety net. The unknown unknowns are infinite, so you can always romanticize life without them, and the effect that would have. That gives you hope, and hope is extremely powerful.

enw··on The Animal Is Tired
What kind of good food do you eat?
enw··on Gnuplot is not GNU
Yes, if not GNU is Unix.
enw··on Dropping cache didn’t drop cache
This patch got me curious how the kernel is even tested. I have yet to see a single kernel commit that included any sort of tests.
enw··on I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
Somehow one of the tastiest memories I have is as a kid being outside and eating rye bread with butter.
enw··on LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
The video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iazTQVi1CEE

Skip to 1:45.

Warning, it’s disturbing. Perhaps in a good way.

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