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goldbrick··on E Programming Language: Write Secure Distributed Software
I'm disappointed that Z is already here and it's only incremental updates to Bash.
goldbrick··on RIP Kuro5hin
More rather, people arguing on the internet are moreso what the average person is "like".

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    - Oscar Wilde
goldbrick··on Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
Hardly. Obsolescence is designed into the very system.
goldbrick··on Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
No, it's deeply flawed. Witness all the exchanges that absconded with their users' funds.
goldbrick··on What is the best part about being a Software Engineer?
Why does it seem everyone in the UK that doesn't live in London dreads it? Is it just the high rent? London is the only part of the UK I'd seriously consider moving to. Everywhere else reminds me of something out of a Radiohead song.
goldbrick··on MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China
I think that was a calculated move. The dirt farmers aren't supposed to like American Apparel.
goldbrick··on Chez Scheme is now free
This is pretty close: https://github.com/deferpanic/gorump
goldbrick··on Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe
To add to that, even if virus was to be pluralized in Latin, it would be "viri" not "virii".
goldbrick··on Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
> With CRISPR and gene drive, it changes from "fucking hard" to "trivial", so it is not only likely to change, it's already changed.

The kind of hubris displayed here almost certainly belies deep ignorance. Please, doctor, tell us how trivial editing DNA is.

goldbrick··on Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side
That article is good, but keybase.io is a non-starter until they open registration. I have been on the pending queue for over a year now.
goldbrick··on Off the Grid
In fairness, that's kind of Stephen Fry's thing. He does have a certain way with words, but I can only tolerate it in small doses.
goldbrick··on How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm
What does "statistically and empirically" mean to you, because it seems a lot like you are using it to mean logic is optional.
goldbrick··on Got a Hot Seller on Amazon? Prepare for Amazon to Make One Too
To me, the mStand was going a more premium market segment, you know, the "stand Apple forgot to make" kind of thing. The Amazon knockoff looks like shit.
goldbrick··on The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change
You're joking right?
goldbrick··on The Absurd Primacy of the Car in American Life
There's a number of pedestrian streets in New York. Including sections of Broadway. In squares, with street cafes. Have you been to New York?
goldbrick··on Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium
Try most of them?
goldbrick··on Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
Source?
goldbrick··on Our software must get better
> OO filesystems weren't going anywhere.

Really? Have we forgotten Smalltalk machines so quickly?

goldbrick··on What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population
It's a mistake to compare the two -- statistics 101.
goldbrick··on Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York?
No, there are lots of things in New York named after Peter Stuyvesant. "Stuy Town" is a large private development north of the the east village that was built after WWII and supposed to be a revolutionary model of urban living, but failed to live up to the hype.

Having known people who lived there, it feels like living in a housing project, but with the rent of a normal apartment. Not the best deal in the city, but it works for some.

goldbrick··on Apply HN: Brodlist – a new type of database
Go is used on many low-level performance-intensive databases, InfluxDB, CockroachDB and etcd just off the top of my head.
goldbrick··on Now: realtime Node.js deployments
Silliness. Here's me building a production php server:

1) `apt-get install php5 apache2`

2) upload index.php

3) There is no step 3

goldbrick··on A Corporate Tax Dodge Gets Harder
Preposterous. It might work for you, and it might even work for FuzzyZeus, but it's quite clearly impossible for everyone to "earn" themselves a bigger piece of pie.
goldbrick··on Now: realtime Node.js deployments
So you have 3 configuration steps for PHP and none for Node? You're completely full of it.
goldbrick··on Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City
One that's especially relevant in New York is that I never have to worry about a cab trying to get rid of me when they find out I'm going to an outer borough. It's technically illegal but that doesn't stop a lot of them from being shady, plus what are you really going to do? With Uber the driver already knows exactly where I'm going.
goldbrick··on Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
You don't give your employees push access to their repos?
goldbrick··on Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
Why would you not be able to use Github as a backup? Github keeps all the branches that are pushed to it, as any git repo.
goldbrick··on Echo – Golang micro web framework
Basically. If a fat framework is what you need, you chose your language poorly.
goldbrick··on Echo – Golang micro web framework
Go doesn't need a fat framework. If you need a fat framework, use Rails or Django.

You don't have to (re)write everything in Go, you know.

goldbrick··on Ask HN: How do you review code?
Well don't you just sound like a charming guy to work for.
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