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grzmon Blender – Top Committers 2021

It's a piece about commuters. I suspect it's the number of commits attributed to that commiter.

grzmon United, Spirit offer higher pay to on board staff during January

For title changes, it's more effective to email the mods directly via the Contact link in the footer.

grzmon Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

Sure, but that's belied by the body:

> Does anyone have any insider information or generally good theory as to why YC's own job posts include none of that information?

grzmon Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

Sure. When there's an authoritative or knowledgeable answer, it can be shared. That's not what's happening here.

grzmon Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

You can get an authoritative answer from asking them directly rather than encouraging the kind of low-effort speculation that's going on in this thread.

grzmon Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

From the guidelines:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

grzmon LinkedIn Silently Deleted Several of My Posts

> Why? Is this guy some sort of nut job they are trying to ignore or is he playing nefarious games that might catch the ire of ad platforms for misbehavior?

Neither. Here's 'dang's comment when 'djsumdog was banned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25743498

grzmon Against Translation

Something I enjoyed about reading Murakami both in Japanese and in translation is that there are a couple of translations of "Norwegian Wood". Seeing how two translators (Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin) handled the translation into English gave me different views of how one could approach Japanese from an English perspective (my native tongue).

grzmon Windows: The next killer application on the internet (1994) [pdf]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by-election

> "a special election held between regular elections in order to fill a vacancy"

grzmon [dead]

Contact the mods using the link in the footer to ask questions like these. They are the ones who can take action.

grzmon Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?

That their comments are marked [dead], not [flagged][dead].

grzmon Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?

Your parent wasn’t downvoted. The account is banned so their comments are dead by default.

grzmon Teachers and parents will say goodbye to public schools in 2022?

Submit the link as a submission, and then add a comment with your comment.

grzmon The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

Spectacle is no longer being maintained. I find Rectangle to be a good replacement.

https://rectangleapp.com/

grzmon Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

From this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29389350

grzmon PostgREST 9.0

One way I've approached this in the past is to dump the database schema after each schema modification and use version control on those schema. There's a python project out there (apologies: I can't recall the name of it right now) now that leverages pg_dump and its options to make this easier. Not perfect, but useable. And better than nothing!

Found it: https://github.com/omniti-labs/pg_extractor

grzmon A Constitutional Convention is closer than you think (2019)

(2019)

grzmon Abstract Clojure

Design is about tradeoffs, as I think something the submission addresses very well. Something I recognize about your implementation of get-article! is that it knows a number of implementation details:

* it handles http requests * it uses a jdbc data source * the result of the parsing function and the arguments of the database fetch function are coupled, * the result of the database fetch and the formation of the http response are coupled

This has implications both in testing and in application maintenance. What needs to change if you decide you want to add caching in front of the database? What if you want to pick up requests off of a Kafka stream instead of from a web server?

Like I said, there are tradeoffs. The entire premise of the article is about depending on abstractions rather than implementations. Depending on your particular context, where you want to end up on the continuum should reflect your particular context.

grzmon Buying an ebike

That’s what I’m asking for, an electric version. You’re right, there isn’t one yet. The CSC Monterey looks close, though:

https://electrek.co/2021/01/07/csc-monterey-first-ride-retro...

grzmon How do I make sure my URL is not killed if I have recently signed up to HN?

Read and follow the guidelines, which include what to submit, what not to submit, and

> "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

grzmon An Odd Card Trick

Looks like it's Pearson's Square or the Box Method:

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/111440/is-ther...

grzmon Buying an ebike

I'd love to have an electric version of the Honda Super Cub. Good carrying capacity for around-about, not as large as a full-sized motorcycle. Dunno if it's available in the US yet.

grzmon Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

"@dang" doesn't do anything special. The most reliable way to reach the mods is to email them using the Contact link in the footer.

grzmon End of Support for Firefox Lockwise

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grzmon IMF warns El Salvador: “Bitcoin should not be used as a legal tender”

Yes, there is also autobanning and filtering software. But that is not what happened here.

grzmon IMF warns El Salvador: “Bitcoin should not be used as a legal tender”

As typically used, the term "shadow banned" is a ban without alerting the user that they are banned. That's not the case here. On HN, "banning" means to to have your posts be dead by default. And "banned" is the language 'dang himself used in the message to the user.

grzmon IMF warns El Salvador: “Bitcoin should not be used as a legal tender”

They are not shadow banned. They were explicitly banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29091010

If there's something in the comment you want to respond to, great: then add your comment.

grzmon Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law

I've heard both used in the US.

grzmon I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit about kafka the product

> Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka#History

grzmon Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation

The phrase is taken from the title of the submission.