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rgawdzik··on A Teen Programmer Built a Tool to Generate Fake Lyrics for Your Favorite Artists
welcome to HN -_-: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
rgawdzik··on Uber S-1
Any idea on the size of the employee option pool given 22.3% is owned by "other shareholders", with 22,263 employees and 3000+ engineers?
rgawdzik··on GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
A must read if you don't want to make mistakes, it's given to all new Square employees.
rgawdzik··on Rust at OneSignal
Hey steve,

Using clippy is not as straightforward as you put it because clippy and the latest nightly often are broken together. There would be much less hassle if it was a stable crate. Also no worries of backwards compatibility between stable/nightly.

- rg

rgawdzik··on Amazon Restaurants
I think it's a gray area where voting should decide. Articles/blog posts/etc can be pure advertisements as well.
rgawdzik··on The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006)
You are taking the quote too literally.

> First they ignore you

Tesla Roadster

> then they laugh at you

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/c3neux/top-gear-reviews-the...

> then they fight you

Tesla Model S + EV clones

> then you win.

Tesla Model 3

rgawdzik··on The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006)
Why are you obsessing over the origin of the quote? There is nothing to defend here.
rgawdzik··on The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi
rgawdzik··on Show HN: Transparent Onboarding documents for Elixir startups
You are right, we will start purchasing 1Password for our employees after the 30 day period.

Our company is 3 months old, so most our employees are still in the trial period.

We purchased the licenses for any employees who completed the trial.

We let our employees choose between 1Password, Last Pass, etc, they have choice (which is why they need to trial it).

rgawdzik··on Show HN: Transparent Onboarding documents for Elixir startups
I'll buy it for any of my employees who it does expire for (where they can't access their passwords).
rgawdzik··on Show HN: Transparent Onboarding documents for Elixir startups
'Make a habit' != mandating

We share all our documents (financials, cap table, etc) with all our employees, making sure an employee cannot be social engineered is key.

Plus, to be honest, using 1Password is easier then remembering passwords.

rgawdzik··on Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot
If you can't beat them, join them.
rgawdzik··on Millennials Flee Vancouver for More Affordable Cities
Many Canadians return back to Canada; even Drake lives in Toronto :)
rgawdzik··on Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world
I forwarded this problem to Mapbox, thanks for letting me know!
rgawdzik··on Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world
You are right. I already removed the xfinity hotspots. We'll be adding a feedback form into our web + mobile app so non-free or low quality APs can be removed.
rgawdzik··on Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world
Yup, 100% agree. We actually know the speeds of a minority of these APs. We'll be bumping them up in the searches + advertising their speeds soon.
rgawdzik··on Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world
Try by street; We are using Mapbox's geocoding API so it's a bit inaccurate compared to Google's.
rgawdzik··on Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world
We aggregated from a bunch of private sources.
rgawdzik··on Elixir-mail – Build composable mail messages
I don't use golang; what's faster than Gin? It seemed performance centric: https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/
rgawdzik··on Elixir-mail – Build composable mail messages
For anyone new to Elixir and is interested in it's performance, check out: https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown

tldr: It rivals Go in performance.

rgawdzik··on The Rails Doctrine
+1 to that, it has comparable performance to Gin!

https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown

rgawdzik··on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved
Where do you keep up to date with the latest carrier/wifi/networking news? (besides HN of course)
rgawdzik··on Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
It won't be archived because of the robots.txt
rgawdzik··on New York is installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi
How would a city handle the pressure from telco's if they offer free, reliable wifi? Wouldn't all residential's switch to the free wifi, making telcos lose hundreds of thousands of customers?

Has there been a case where free wifi for a city has been implemented reliably where residential stopped purchasing internet from a telco?

rgawdzik··on AWS mistakes to avoid
Check out http://convox.com/ (YC S15) for an alternative to avoiding manual infrastructure.
rgawdzik··on iPad Pro Has an App Store Problem
Note that this is looking at 10-30 years into the future (so this might be RPi v30). Most low volume (< 1k units) hardware products are expensive due to development costs. When you need to hire 10 engineers to make a computer, but only have 100 customers, your customers foot the bill.
rgawdzik··on iPad Pro Has an App Store Problem
Assuming Apple will always allow programming apps and don't have a change of heart; it's their walled garden.
rgawdzik··on iPad Pro Has an App Store Problem
If the iPad Pro becomes a replacement for laptops (say for children/teenagers), the fallout will affect tinkerers. On a iPad, children don't get a terminal, can't run their own programs, and need to convince their parents to spend $x in order to get a linux machine that has a Von Neumann architecture.

In the worst foreseeable case, desktops/laptops become so rare that they costs tens of thousands of dollars. Children interested in programming will then have a massive barrier to entry.

Really another form of making Stallman's 'Right to Read' a reality; instead of licensing debuggers, you make all mainstream OS's a non-Von Neumann architecture.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-death-of-the-von-neuman...

rgawdzik··on VR company announces Dungeons and Dragons debut to virtual reality on Monday
http://svdictionary.com/words/vr-critical-mass-prison
rgawdzik··on Ask HN: Will iOS developers loss value if Swift goes open source?
Swift going open source allows usage outside of iOS/OSX (ex. server side linux).

iOS developers will still need Macbooks.

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