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meedon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)

    Location: San Francisco Bay Area
    Remote: Open to it, flexible
    Willing to relocate: Open to it, flexible; can work in EU too
    Technologies: embedded Linux (C, C++, Python, bash...), Linux-based infrastructure & tools, browsers internals (former WebKit committer), native Apple platforms (macOS, iOS), web backend (Python based, eg Flask)
    Résumé/CV: please ping hello@sempliva.com
    Email: hello@sempliva.com

meedon People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study

I’m so fcked.

meedon Fly Through a Star-Studded Nebula [video]

Very mesmerizing; too bad for the usual animated-text-overlay thing so popular these days.

meedon Linux exists only because of a happy accident

I wasn't aware of this anectode. It's rather nice, actually.

meedon C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features

YAFUATMCWCIN

Yet Another Fucked Up Attempt To Make C What C Is Not

C is not “unsafe” as in “flawed”: it’s designed to fill certain gaps. Its syntactic stability through the decades - as well as its “minimalism” (for a lack of better word) - are among its most important features.

Personally I have been having an hard time trying to figure out why there’s some part of the industry that desperately tries to change what C is in a way or the other.

...but probably I’m just an old Valley fart. Apologies for the rant.

meedon 16-inch MacBook Pro

As much as I appreciate Apple's U turn on the idiotic design of the butterfly keyboard switches, I still:

- cannot even begin to understand why these things lack an important usability feature like MegSafe: there is really absolutely no reason why it cannot coexist with the ThunderBolt I/O (4 TB ports, one MegSafe: charge it however the heck you want).

- find the presence of the castrated TouchBar an offense to users. It seems they just want to shove it down our throats whether we want it or not. Just make it optional: I'm sure that there are certain users out there that love it but every single peer of mine [1] hates the sole idea of something like that.

[1] I'm a software guy in the Valley

meedon Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'

So much truth...

meedon California Is Becoming Unlivable

Yeah, build actual houses not made of cardboard like in the rest of the civilized world.

Paying 1.2M+ for a palework built with rotting wood in the Bay Area is simply laughable at this point.

meedon ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

Yes to alt-right propaganda, no to boobs. Sounds about right.

meedon Thank You, Guido

Off topic (sorry): Dropbox's overall typography is blatantly offensive to the eye.

meedon Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study

I feel that my cognitive abilities, along with my overall mental state, to be steeply declining.

And I'm a senior software guy in a big Valley corp.

Probably the real priority here is to find one's "happy place" and stay there as long as it stay that way.

meedon Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption

Is there anything that this company does that ain't suck?!

meedon Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome

> I don't understand how Mozilla has over a thousand employees

The figure is pretty much correct. To put things in perspective, though, only a fraction of those thousand people work on the actual browser. And, of that fraction, an even tinier number work on the rendering engine.

The Chrome team, on the other hand, has pretty much the same number of people of the entire Mozilla (or MoCo, to be specific) but almost all of them work on the browser/rendering.