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If a music producer starts showing you Excel spreadsheets you need to fire their ass

I wasted too much of my time arguing that crap. This site is full of book-smart people that are not as smart as they think they are. They just happen to find a bunch of neckbeards who also haven't touched grass in the last week.

Because this is HN and it's more important to launch definition critiques than to discuss substance ever. I think half of HN came from the horrible world of high school policy debate

The Agile shop I currently work for treats UML as mandatory before any code is written. Then we proceed to ignore all designs until the next time someone has to look at the design doc again

I tried installing and using it. At the “Deploy” screen, I get stuck at “Deploying…” and then just returned to the previous screen.

Pretty sure this whole thread is a lesson in subtle racism

> You’re incorrect

Good argument

The difference is that Microsoft Excel is more important than dancing, and we won’t stop until all of humanity is subjugated to the wonders of Excel 24/7! /s

The difference is that a bottom 20% developer can make 6 figures after a few years of experience, while even a top 10% musician can barely make rent in a major city

How about the consideration that making an item less easy to service incurs more complaints? That's a metric too right?

So more cameras to catch you slipping up once or thinking you have the "right" to do something, when in reality you don't because it's an airport.

If I miss my flight I'm more motivated to catch the next one, not test my available civil liberties in front of poorly-paid ex-military. Best case you end up detained (in the real sense) for a long time and potentially acquitted in court, months later and having incurred plenty of mental trauma. Worst case you just go to jail. Sounds like a lose-lose

Clickbaity article. The question really is, why should I care about resource optimization for a tiny program when the total available resources on my computer is hundreds of millions of times greater?

Now multiply that by thousands of tiny microservices, all crufted together into a massive web 3.0 app, and you end up with the landscape of modern web development.

This is the second time today on HN I've heard someone claim that the brain is an "interpreter". Someone even went as far as to cite Wernicke's area, followed by a sly winky face, as if they're not supposed to know that.

Wernicke's area isn't an "interpreter" in the CS sense. It's not a compiler either. Or a transpiler. It's not "converting" from one language to another, because language is a man-made construct.

I'll prove this by taking the counterargument - let's say {insert brain area that a well-educated engineer happens to know about} IS an interpreter. What would you think of an interpreter that runs totally differently on every single machine in existence, for no perceivable reason? It's a pretty shit interpreter right? I'm not talking about a few bits difference here and there, I'm saying that when I read Moby Dick, I understood the book completely differently from a close friend.

You could perhaps argue that everyone has their own separate interpreter built into their brain, for compiling to their own unique machine instruction set (the connectome). At least that way software engineers can feel like they've inherited an understanding of neuroscience without having studied the field.

Learning to read and write regex was one of the first things that made me feel like those programmers you see on TV reading indecipherable symbols and knowing immediately what they mean

Seems to be the fatal flaw in capitalism. Companies will do anything to get an edge, including playing with the meta-rules of the system. They'll do anything else first before benefitting the customer

It must have been one of the few well-made smartphones back then. It's still hard to make a perfectly waterproof seal that last for years and is inexpensive enough to use on a smartphone. Some team has to sit around designing it, so without the removable battery and seal they could in theory be freed up to do something else

Just because something is possible to do, doesn't mean every manufacturer wants to do it

Makes sense, given the massive security theater in the US and the fact that it's so off the beaten path of the rest of the world that most flights probably don't just "transit" through the US on the way to somewhere else.

Thank you, I was waiting for someone to clarify the word "detain". You're right this is more nefarious than an official police detention

Because that's a premise of a fair market? I realize there are plenty of examples in other industries of companies suing their way into dominant market share, but it's a practice that's just antithetical to a free market. If someone makes a better product (that complies with regulations), in a fair capitalist world competitors need to catch up. Not engage in shady tactics to bully their customers into accepting their own.

I realize America doesn't work this way but it's something I think a lot of people would agree with

Do you think there's a situation in an airport, of all places, where you refusing to comply with a security guard's orders goes well for you? I comply with everything an airport official says because a) I'm brown and b) I'm at the airport to go on a flight, not argue with some power-tripping douche.

Another way to fix it is to accept that a better product (i.e. skiplagged) has entered the market and attempt to improve their own (shitty pricing UI). Instead they're intimidating minors.

Not that I disagree with you but I've heard of sushi restaurants doing this

I guess the burden of proof lies with the person writing the story, so if you want to believe it's all wrong then go ahead.

I think some observation and a little engineering thinking makes this clear.

In the early 2010s one of the biggest issues with smartphones was battery life. The packaging of the battery is limited if a requirement is to make it removable (i.e. it must be a certain shape, have connectors in a certain location, etc). If that requirement is removed, battery can be made to fill whatever space is available in the device.

People drop their phones in water all the time. Then call the company and complain it's broken. People get mad when the company tells them it's their fault. If you have fewer holes in a device, it's less likely to be damaged by water. A removable battery means exposed connectors sealed by imperfect covers, making them more likely to be damaged by any water ingress. So they removed that failure point.

Another issue in tech generally is end-users messing with the device internals, accidentally breaking the device, and blaming the company. Remove that failure-case by making the internals inaccessible and complaints go down.

Making the device impossible to access because of a deep-state conspiracy is just a convenient mental shortcut to believe in. I'm as annoyed as the next person about less-repairable devices but I don't think it's a conspiracy, just practical engineering.

Alright the first paragraph:

> A teen traveling solo for the first time from Gainesville, Florida to Charlotte was taken to a security room by American Airlines. There he was interrogated – and forced to buy a new ticket – according to the boy’s father.

What is your definition of "detained"?

I specifically referred to fraud - lying and cheating to get ahead. If you support that kind of thing then I don't really know what to tell you. That's the kind of mentality that's fucking up this world.

I think that's exactly what they're condoning.

I would agree that some of the companies that "faked it til they made it" don't really deserve to be around, but I wouldn't go so far as to say "fuck all those companies"

I would love to know of another service or product where NOT using the product results in being detained. Airlines sound more and more like a cartel than anything these days.

You sympathize with creating a fraudulent medical business?