sethherr

I mostly spend time on sites that I use multiple times a day. I prefer that those sites are designed for people who use them multiple times a day, not for people who visit once, from HN.

This might be targeting a minority of users - it’s design for power users. I’d expect HN to be supportive of this sort of design.

Thank you. I now will not consider switching to Fastmail.

Also, I don’t trust Australia on encryption.

I want to access the menu 100% of the time that I'm using the site I've added the header to, after some scrolling. I re-scroll 50% of the pages that I visit.

Seems like a definite win to me? Maybe your usability desires are different than other users desires? In the case of an autohiding header - it doesn't seem like a big reduction in page visibility?

I'm an enthusiastic supporter of auto-hiding headers and have added them to sites. I don't understand the hate? It's easy to scroll back down again and have the header re-hide (ie overscroll when you see it happening and then scroll down).

To me, this is better usability. I agree - fixed headers obscure the page and it's bad. But simultaneously, it's nice to be able to access the header and navigation instantly. This seems like a good compromise?

Bitwarden

From that piece:

> I do believe she actually thinks she is making the world a better place but in reality any interaction with her has been incredibly stressful having to carefully weigh every move made in her presence.

What if what some vocal minority advocates say is correct, and they have to carefully weigh every move they make, throughout their whole lives? If living that carefully is incredibly stressful, what percentage chance of it being the lived experience of minorities in tech justifies someone fighting aggressively to make things easier for minorities?

Indeed, world class shipping rail system.

Our passenger rail is depressingly subpar.

It’s very expected to get options, pensions (401k matching) and premium health insurance.

Donate to Bike Index! We’re more widely used everywhere except for Vancouver. Also, we wrote this article! And Bike Index is a non profit, so it makes sense to donate to us, rather than a for profit company.

https://bikeindex.org/donate

From Wikipedia:

> WD-40 is an American brand and the trademark name of a water-displacing spray

… and the definition of “water displacing spray” is “penetrating fluid”

It definitely is an oil, it definitely lubricates. But we normally name things by their primary purpose.

Why are you writing your own drivers?

WD40 is a penetrant, not a lubricant, I don’t know any Mechanics who use it.

Definitely will debate lubricants for days, but no one who is in the industry uses standard WD40

The vast majority of this problem lies on the United States’ shoulders. We’ve contributed an outsize share to global warming. Your standard of life requires having benefited from creating global warming. Blaming developing countries for their current emissions is cowardly.

Absolutely! You spend the majority of your awake time at work. Some people optimize for money, others optimize for status, happiness or any other objective humans can have.

I think the thing that really upsets people is that the company changed course. People who go to work at a HFT firm are probably all motivated by compensation - and would expect that, because it’s baked into the company culture and business model.

People choose to work somewhere based the reward it offers. If that changes, without their consent, it breaks an unwritten contract.

Because mercenary motivation is in and of itself a choice. If everyone was motivated by money alone there wouldn’t be non-profits. There is clearly a market for occupations with different incentives.

It’s not a good look and that matters. If I’m going to rely on something for production, and that thing ships breaking changes and considers weird, terrible monetization strategies, I go elsewhere.

If you believe the world is flat, you would likewise attempt to separate teaching physics from less potentially challenging subjects. I don’t believe that makes physics not part of education.

Just because you (or Texas) thinks abortion should be illegal, doesn’t miraculously make the information not part of knowledge other people believe is educational.

I am also curious about this, and would like a response before signing up. You’ve established your knowledge of data brokerages, but not your motivations.

Did you all have a change of heart? Just see a product opportunity?

Nationalism aside, there is a common refrain on HN comments that breaking up companies will result in a decline in innovation. History suggests otherwise:

The last company broken up was AT&T; at the time everyone was worried about Japanese electronics companies.

> breaking up AT&T in 1982 was the best thing that could have happened to America. AT&T's core project in 1982 wasn't fighting Japanese electronics companies: it was suppressing the growth of the internet in the USA

> Antitrust enforcement isn't an economic drag, it's an economic STIMULUS

Source: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/each-drop-of-strych-a-nin...

Great! As a modern resident of planet earth, I’m not opposed to international competition. I’d love for FAANG not to be able to crush or acquire competitors, regardless of their country of origin.

I bet, based on recent history, that most of the upstarts would be from the US. If that isn’t the case, it will be a wake up call and hopefully the US will rise to the occasion.

Why aren’t YIMBYs pushing for 10x (or 100 or 1000) the number of liveaboard slips?

This has frustrated me for years. The low number and price is crazy, when I visited the Netherlands I stayed in a houseboat and it was amazing and cheap - and there were so many of them.

Looool. Zing. I’d absolutely trust pretty much any company more than google on that front.

Are you looking for product market fit? If so, you need to focus on that and not scaling.

If you have a guaranteed internal market so you need to launch with scale, then that’s more important

Ruby is still alive and well! It’s still focused on functionality over flash, and it’s not hard to find developers for it.

> I'll also note that in code that is well-commented and well-tested, this step is rarely necessary.

This is the most important line from this comment.

If I'm using blame or bisect, it means I did something wrong.

I merge 10 times a day - and if it takes me a minute, because I'm slower than you - that means it's ten minutes a day. Add the cognitive load of the whole process and the added time of explaining it to other team members - 10 minutes is an underestimate.

I'm going to spend that time writing tests and comments, since even you note that they're the better option.

Squash is good enough. I spend my energy improving the right things.

There is also a Bike Index map of bike thefts, https://map.bikewise.org

Where is your data from if not arrests?

Counterpoint: I and my friends have bought this bag for gravel/randonneuring.

And that segment is a growing segment.

I think another take away from this article is “don’t allow users to upload malicious files that you then host from your domain”

This seems easier to do than jumping domains.

As a note: this article says Strava uses Google maps, which is incorrect. Strava has for a while used Mapbox, which uses OSM.