Good point. I only have my own anecdata and that of friends; it would be nice to see some real stats. Of course, even if Amazon has that data, they would be unlikely to share!
That’s a fair point. I would say the agreement that has been broken is an implicit social contract (in the sense of Rousseau) that people should share the burdens of society to make society function, and that individuals should do the work that would most appropriately be their responsibility.
I didn’t think so, but it’s the text I used as an undergrad, so I don’t have a basis for comparison. I just have seen that criticism pop up on HN when this topic has arisen in the past.
So happy to see the love for Griffith’s Intro to Electrodynamics. I know it gets dinged for not being sufficiently rigorous, but I’ve never read another math or science textbook that did as good a job of getting a beginner to truly understand the subject.
Respectfully, aside from whether or note the tone of the piece is or is not justifiable, I think your comment misses the point, which is that there is injustice in people (or a system) who unfairly shunt work off to you that they should rightly own. The US health industrial complex is indeed a prime example.
Your mileage may definitely vary. In 20+ years, I’ve had four incidents of receiving obviously counterfeit goods; no idea if it has happened more often than that and I was just unaware.
Haha… Amazon, you say? You mean the large money laundering operation, putting third party counterfeit goods in the same warehouse bins as legitimate goods from legitimate suppliers, so that as a consumer you never know if you’re going to get counterfeit goods? Yes, that’s the Amazon we know and love.
Strongly agree. “Why are academic papers always written in such mumbo jumbo?” is the same complaint as “Why are contracts written in such legalese?”, which is a manifestation of “I’m smart and I don’t get this, so the author is dumb for not writing clearly.” It’s a natural human bias that most HN denizens insist they don’t possess, but of course we do.
One of the many consequences of global warming is going to be a reckoning of trying to support large cities in areas that fundamentally cannot sustain them. Las Vegas, Phoenix, even Southern California do not really have any business existing in their present forms.
Go ahead and downvote me all to hell, but the comments in this thread from bike enthusiasts sound like Trump apologists - they are alike in their adamant refusal to acknowledge reality. Do you think any amount or quality of bike infrastructure is going to make most people willing to bike in harsh winter climates? And no, Copenhagen nor Amsterdam have harsh winter climates. Look, I too think it’s crazy that we’ve built our society around cars, but saying that everyone should ride e bikes year round is such an ageist, ableist load of horse shit that I don’t know why I’m even surprised to see it on HN.
The biggest problem I ran into was that ORBs from different manufacturers just didn’t play nice with one another. And then SOAP and Enterprise Service Bus repeated the whole damn thing.
Interesting, I’ve had somewhat similar experiences. Big one-time events were handled no problem. But chronic illnesses have always been a nightmare - for my daughter to get her meds, she pretty much has to have the same chain of conversations once a quarter with doctor, pharmacy benefits manager, and insurance. PBMs are the worst though, by far.
I’m 51 and had this conversation too many times to indulge this. All I can say is that I wish you luck if you or your loved ones ever have a serious medical issue in the US. And you may be lucky. Or you may spend years on telephone calls trying to get a pharmacy benefits manager to send you the prescription your doctor prescribed. Or calls with your insurance company to get them to pay what they are supposed to pay.
At least in the US, I would argue your reply is not totally correct. The US has a long history of not really knowing if it wants prison to be punishment, rehabilitation, or both.
It’s a good question. I took it as an Extension student working on a degree, but if you made yourself do the assignments, you’d have much the same experience. The only thing you’d miss are sections with a TA, which is valuable, but I think you could replicate with a study group.
Alan Kay once pointed out something along the line that when excitement exceeds knowledge you get fashion. For 10 years I’ve been in and around languages that were declared dead by the HN crowd because there wasn’t enough new hype around it. It’s not a perfectly inverse correlation, but honestly at this point when I see HN is excited about something new it raises red flags for me.
Context matters. If you’re going to be scaling huge, this advice is silly. If you’re just starting, or planning to rewrite later, or for good reasons never expect huge scale, staying as simple as possible makes sense. Also, tons of devs build to scale huge for systems that will never, ever scale huge.
I have two competing values in this space: someone else has solved problem x better than you will, and you will live to regret every dependency you introduce.
Exactly. When people say “agile sucks!” I always want to ask “compared to what?” Engineers who say that they meet for a few minutes once a week and then everyone somehow just knows what to do… frankly I call bullshit. That may work at a 5 person startup, but as soon as you have 100 people, you’re going to have a lot of programmers writing code who are sure they know what’s best but in fact have no idea how their work aligns with the company’s overall goals.