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Ah, totally see where you're going with this. Definitely my bad- I really should have ended this time programming post with a long treatise on hip hop styles and lyricism rather than toss in an obvious joke as a small aside to the longer point.

(I am being patronizing here, fwiw.)

Sorry you found it patronizing, I guess. Nas does great shit, though.

Sorry about the lack of support for Reader mode; not entirely sure why that's happening (it's a pretty basic markup structure). If anyone's got thoughts on that, let me know and I'm happy to fix it.

(Finna hang on to my videos, though! Life doesn't always need to be so one dimensional, particularly for one-offs like this.)

I generally really enjoy my USB-C riddled MacBook Pro.

The one thing that kills me, though, is that Apple itself still hasn't bothered to ship a USB-C cable for the Apple Watch. I'm ready to eat the costs of an early adopter and upgrade most of my peripherals to be USB-C... but jeez, it's been one and a half years, and Apple still hasn't solved its own ecosystem problems. To make matters worse, Apple prevents others from making a USB-C Apple Watch cable, too, so I'm stuck carrying an adapter whenever I need to charge my watch.

Same. Especially at poker's hottest peak, I had a number of friends who ended up going really large on online gambling (and they didn't come from money, either- just had built up a bank roll over a few years). After awhile they found themselves experiencing these huge $xx,xxx swings on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. I think they intellectually understood what that meant, but once you got to that level you kind of have to put the idea of it being a lot of money aside to be able to properly gamble it (if there is a "proper" way to gamble it).

Anyway, one friend in particular told me he was making ~$200k a year, when we were around 22. Asked him about taxes and he said he had never paid a dime. So, uh, that could have been his greatest gamble right there.

The likelihood of this being the case seems so close to nil. For one, the coverup required would involve thousands of military and non-military personnel. But secondly, if we really did destroy an incoming warhead, well, that would constitute an attack — the attack — and I can’t fathom the US military not counter-attacking.

So no, I don’t think you have to worry about that. Just a fat fingering, no more.

Yup. I have a monorepo with 5-6 Gemfiles/package.jsons in subdirectories and it picks 'em all up.

Lovely seeing Nathan and co ship this.

Interestingly enough, this feature is the primary reason behind Atom itself existing. We saw the first internal demo of "Atom" (I believe it was "Thunderhorse" at the time) 6-7 years ago, and the main idea was real-time collaboration on code. That sorta took a backseat for awhile as GitHub started to recognize that a collaborative editor was pretty swell in its own right, but glad to see that it's finally all come full circle.

Source maps aren’t actually loaded by the browser unless specifically requested by opening web inspector, fwiw.

Something I’ve been wondering lately and have seen a few different — and rather surprising — takes: do you include source maps in production?

I’ve seen a somewhat surprising amount of people say that they absolutely wouldn’t these days, which seems fairly security-through-obscurity. Would love to hear some different opinions on this, though.

I wanted to post this since 1) it seems to have huge impacts on Silicon Valley and 2) I really haven't heard really anyone talk about this yet.

It's still really early, of course, and I don't even think the GOP really understands many of the details yet (which, ahem, isn't much of a surprise). But I think it's still worthwhile to discuss the impact of what we know so far.

Congrats on the $1.9B preseed raise! Looking forward to the MVP.

(OP here). I don't necessarily want to disagree with you, but I think the answer with all of these things is "well, it depends". It really depends on the person, the situation, and everything.

I think some people are perfectly fine seeing a therapist. My therapist was a psychologist as well, so that opened up some avenues that we might not have been able to explore otherwise, but when it came to any brain chemistry thing he was very quick to say, hey, go see a specialist in this area.

I think that's kind of the commonality here; I know people who have seen different people (of varying professional degrees) and they hated their person. Sometimes it just depends on if you click or not.

(Unfortunately, "hey go see a therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist, but also it might take you a few months and people before you're comfortable!" is not a great rallying cry for people who are really depressed. But unfortunately that's how it goes sometimes.)

In either case, I do agree with you that it's important to know what type of person you're seeking out, and whether you think that'll jive with what will help.

It’s extremely minor, and is a very common side effect. I’ll take these for a week or two over how I was feeling 100% of the time, every time.

Ha, I dig the name `spark`. I did a tangentially related project years ago — also called spark — that did simple sparklines in shell: https://github.com/holman/spark

Just as a warning, though; over the years I’ve gotten 3-4 requests by media companies to write a book on Apache Spark, so, um, watch out for that one. (Regardless of whether you know Apache Spark or not, you should go for it. I believe in you.)

To be an SEC accredited investor, you have to be making 200-300k in the last two years, or a net worth of > $1M.

I initially wrote that as "angel", but then changed it to "true angel" to distinguish those who might make a small investment once or twice to friends or family from those who can handle their investments a little more seriously. Or, put another way: as a founder, I feel less bad taking their money because it's not a major component of their net worth (at that point they shouldn't be investing in the first place, but yeah).

> I would counter that they're still in an awful spot because this announcement reeks of incompetence and isn't something you want to hear from the guys you're entrusting with keeping your code safe.

This might be a good time to note that GitHub dropped their database awhile back (twice!). Bad Things always happen; you recover, learn, and hopefully fewer Bad Things happen in the future. Nature of the beast, unfortunately.

It's also worth noting that the lead maintainer, Mark Otto, is also simultaneously heading design at GitHub as well. Not entirely two small things to deal with in your life, ha. :)

He was an early exec at Apple, and he founded Be and BeOS. I think we can allow him to be a bit out of the ordinary when it comes to his computing. :)

They're not even out of beta, yet; give 'em a bit of time first. :)

For what it's worth, I've been on the beta for a few months now, and have known Eamon for years. They're very good people, and I'm really stoked to see this out in the wild.

I think a lot of the problems with the YC/Thiel discussion stems from the difference between how people view it: is it a political disagreement, or is it an ethical disagreement?

In a "normal" election, this would be pretty cut-and-dry: it'd primarily be a political disagreement over taxes or something, and letting someone go because of their political beliefs would be viewed by many as being pretty extreme.

Many people — myself included — view support for Trump today as an ethical problem. When you see him and his followers advocating misogyny, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, aggressiveness, and basically all the other -isms and -obias, it becomes much harder to "see the other side" of the debate. It's not political for many people who will see — and have seen throughout this election cycle — very real repercussions in terms of discrimination and hostility that affects them every day in their lives.

So yeah, there's a lot of anger with YC supporting someone in a leadership position here. I know YC keeps mentioning that Thiel is in a part time position, but he's still in an advisory position, which brings with it a lot of responsibility and ownership that we'd hope YC would be much more understanding about the impact of such a position.

I appreciate that it's a tricky situation for Sam and others to be in, but I do hope that they'd reconsider their stance in the future. Until then, on a personal level, I'm not interested in applying to Y Combinator. That's one small thing that I can do in the meantime, at least.

It's becoming fairly normal at this point for more mature private companies, from what I can tell. If you've been at a company for 4-7 years with no IPO in sight, it can make some sense for the company to do a buyback. I know Uber has a tenure-based buyback program, Palantir did at least one in the last year or so, etc.

I think this might be one of those times where the title might lead to confusion in the comment section and leads people a bit astray.

I saw this talk in person at Nordic Ruby, and it was one of the best talks I've seen (and I've seen a bunch). Strangely enough, I don't really think back and think much about "optimism" when I think of the talk, though, even though the talk is about optimists.

My takeaway was the type of tooling and thought processes that are advantageous when approaching problems and conflict. In many talks — mine included — people will say something along the lines of "be nice to your teammates and leave good feedback", for example, but that's really vague. Reg's talk helped me understand what that type of feedback might be, how it can be explicitly phrased, and how I can give concrete feedback without being antagonistic. I think it makes for a more effective argument, especially when building product, but also it just makes for friendlier humans.

Yeah, this does lead to "optimistic people", hence the title, but I just thought it was weird to see discussion here about the merits of positive people versus negative people. I think the talk's a much bigger dialogue about interacting with humans and, possibly more importantly, yourself.

Anyway, I really liked the talk, and as much as this Markdown is great at getting the point across, this is one of the talks I'd suggest actually watching. \m/

> The very public example of zach holman and other articles creates chilling effects on startup hiring.

fwiw, this post has really bothered me a lot too. I keep track of companies with >90 day windows, and I just added a note about a16z portfolio companies on it: https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows#vcs

This may be good for a16z's bottom line, but I think it's important for those of us actually doing the work that we talk about how this has that chilling effect on hiring. We're still early in the process — not many startup workers really understand this yet — but I think we're moving in the right direction.

GitLab advisor here!

Not really sure what you're getting at, but I'm assuming you mean searching for specific syntax or language aspects.

GitHub's definitely not "protecting" shit; it's just that search is a hard problem, and searching code is a really hard problem, at least at the scale they're at. They're running one of the largest Elasticsearch clusters in the world, and a lot of significant things in code are stop words (or not words at all) in most search databases. Not to mention you need to invalidate entire repo indexes when you force push, etc. It just takes a lot of resources, and like anything, will get better over time.

Fun to see this up here. Originally when I built this there was some discussion on whether it made any sense to show a global view; most people are just going to use the issues dashboard to look at their own issues, obviously. Honestly, I just thought it was cool to have filters across the whole site, so I left it in (which was only an option given how quick it was to calculate and return these results in Elasticsearch — that's also part of the reason the numbers are fluctuating a bit, as some have pointed out here).

Still wish more people knew about this dashboard view into Issues. Even though it's now a prominent link in the header, I don't think the page got to be something I was really happy with — most of the work was done in the final week before we shipped Issues, so it was somewhat an afterthought. There's a ton of power in there, but it's hidden away behind an arcane syntax that I, the creator of the damn thing, can't really remember at this point, two years later, ha. Still dig the overall motivation behind the page, though!

Nah. I grew up in Fargo and, like everyone in Fargo, spent most of my time aspiring to spend more time in Minnesota and Minneapolis. Both Fargo and Grand Forks — on the border of the state, on the Red — share a ton culturally with Minnesota. If anything, I'd probably split North Dakota in half: east and west, which is growing into more of a divide lately anyway given the Bakken.

It could be that Minnesota doesn't want North Dakota, of course, but tbh Fargo's getting fairly cosmopolitan, surprisingly enough, and is closer to the Cities culturally than most anything else in a few hundred mile radius.

Anyway, this discussion is probably completely irrelevant to about a billion percent of normal Hacker News readers. Gotta represent your people, though. :)

I was not permitted to.

All is forgiven. :) Thanks.