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mosdave··on Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
and his customers?
mosdave··on NASA declines to rename JWST
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
mosdave··on “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
first as tragedy, then as farce
mosdave··on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
if your frontend is interrogating the jwt you're doing it wrong
mosdave··on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
I, for one, enjoy not needing to coordinate an encryption key between my service and my IdP.
mosdave··on The case against masks at school
https://stanfordreview.org/stanford-bicycles-helmets-masks/
mosdave··on The Rolling Stones’ studio receipt for recording ‘Wild Horses’ and ‘Brown Sugar’
Gimme Shelter (the film) has some good footage from these sessions.
mosdave··on How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
> They already enforce other practices top down like hiring etc, so if they had data saying that mandating Scrum would make the company X% more efficient they would absolutely do it.

lol, as if their top-down hiring practices are at all driven by concerns for company efficiency.

mosdave··on Amazon announce two new leadership principles
> You don't bother to list new principles if you're already living up to them.

ah, ok, now Don't Be Evil makes more sense

mosdave··on I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
thanks for this
mosdave··on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison
> It's maybe not on par with fate of Atlantis, but still really good.

thanks, I was hoping someone would comment on this. I haven't played this one, but FoA is one of my favorites.

mosdave··on Is Dev Compensation Bimodal? (2016)
I just scrolled through the entirety of the comments waiting for someone to provide this most obvious answer of all. Of course it's downvoted, this is hn.
mosdave··on Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper
two options:

a.) you confront them when you witness them doing it b.) nothing

mosdave··on What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
I'm more curious about why a new hire with 20 years of experience starts at T3.
mosdave··on Over 60% of people view journalism as more dangerous than ten years ago
fair point.

Now let's play this game with MSNBC, Reuters, AP, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, etc.

Assigning vector values to each of these sources, is it your contention that they too sum to zero?

mosdave··on Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year
> Would you say people aren't software developers unless they are employed by a company to predominately develop software?

Yes, without question. It's tautological.

mosdave··on “I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
This is dumbfounding. Kinda tells you what kind of shit-eating devs they're looking for. What staff-level engineer possessing even a modicum of self respect would willingly subject themselves to this?
mosdave··on ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
In absolutely no way is Tim Pool "far-right"; to make such an assertion is an offense both to him as well as to far-rightists.
mosdave··on Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
> * Disable song in album

<glares at The Girl Is Mine>

mosdave··on How Apple Is Working From Home
> When you work remote it's assumed you have flexible hours and when people need more or less of your time, they queue it up whenever it's good for them, your freetime and personal life can take the back burner.

This is true only insofar as you allow it to be. My coworkers make none of those assumptions about me or my time.

mosdave··on Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference
Yeah, I think I would do really well with a 36 hour day.
mosdave··on When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
> Or maybe it's just a Houston thing.

I'd call it a Ford Raptor thing.

mosdave··on Reasons not to reveal your DNA
> How long until the average phone is capable of scanning for DNA on any random surface? I'd bet not as long as we'd like.

PCR in a phone? How novel.

This sort of nonsense belongs over at /r/futurology.

mosdave··on Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code
> Find something to specialize in and do it fast.

I specialize in unfucking harebrained implementations written by teams of "engineers" with five months of experience.

mosdave··on Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
A 747 cockpit looks pretty unintuitive to me, but the recognition that I don't know how to fly a 747 prevents me from passing premature judgement on it.
mosdave··on Bringing people back to the open web
I don't think he was shouting.

What words do you use to categorize/describe your lazy conformist friends?

mosdave··on Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
I'm guessing you don't know many people over the age of 65.
mosdave··on Why design is too important to be left to designers
more appropriate title: Why ideas are too important to be left to videos
mosdave··on Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation
glad I'm not the only one to find this subscription BS patently insulting.
mosdave··on The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore
I don't disagree with your point, but this is a literary device that the Economist uses sometimes.
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