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vast··on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
And how to learn it?
vast··on How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]
Dynamic yield was practically pushed into AI. They never promoted doing AI but investors and clients liked it more. So they simply gave up and went with it.
vast··on Moving towards a faster web
This is Googles blueprint to eradicate apple. They want Web apps to dominate because they already have a standing there and apple has a large marketshare in native apps.
vast··on Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
It is quite common that sql servers run just with a few accounts. Helpful audit logs on critical systems have a high cost. So technically it is not hard but practically it is.
vast··on Ask HN: Are GDPR cookie popups useful or just annoying?
Annoying and useless. These kind of popups have become so widespread that a regular internet user pretty much agrees to anything as soon as the pop up. Private mode users are being trolled for opting for privacy with this regulation.
vast··on My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
It is unfair if a bridge loan is involved. If the preferred stakeholders have the chance they will remove the commons from the equation. In the end both sides take a risk with their shares and it is usually more meaningful to people with little money.
vast··on React Concurrent Mode
"You don't have to use it" is a very common statement when a part of the userbase battles feature creep, complexity or just bad decisions. And it is always a lie. Most projects are driven by collectives or passed to new maintainers, which naturally takes this choice away from you. Optional is never optional.
vast··on Ask HN: Does web design business still works
What do you consider web design? What do you offer?
vast··on How to not rewrite it in Rust
The linked RIIR post pretty much described 2016 the behaviour of people shown in this thread. It is hilarious that seeing the arguing for RIIR in this context.

Rewriting in some language is a matter of skill and preference. To even consider a rewrite there should be a rational reason, i.e. it is broken or can't work in the ecosystem.

For fun and learning you can do what you want, of course.

vast··on Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
Side question: how interesting and flexible is algolia as a replacement of a custom solr setup? I don't like the HN search and never heard that it is in use for larger data sets.
vast··on A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
I only use chrome when I need access to my google account (gmail), so my FF is completely disconnected from my google account.

FF is really on par with chrome for me, with the exception of few extreme performance applications like webgl.

vast··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
Sorry no previous poster talked specifically about pre-flop actions.
vast··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
Thanks for the help mate. I will now focus on the right things.
vast··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
I don't know the guy who is doing the commentary in the vid but he is already very convinced of mikes guilty. Is there a list of scenes without commentary? I'd like to see few of the with context of the whole game to get a clue.
vast··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
This argument makes no sense. People throw away quads because they sense something or get scared. By a small fraction cards aren't the winning factor in poker.
vast··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
Can you point out those magic plays with yt links (on the full vis)?
vast··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
Sorry I've just watched a random show with Mike Apostle on yt and I have to say - by this small sample - bullshit. Assuming he cheats, I don't see how. He played dominating hands with very classic conservative playstyle, not unnecessarily asking for value. He made risky pre flop all ins. He bluffed loosing hands. All sort of stuff that happens in an average poker game. Not sure why I even watched him playing considering the awful article.
vast··on Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
Basic human rights prevent people being jailed on sight. Some of them are criminals. Some of those rights are constantly challenged, yet no one questions their general value. Privacy, thus end to end encryption is a basic human right. There shouldn't be any reason to require proof of this. What we have here is simply the fear of the loss of an extremely powerful tool.
vast··on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
Wow. It is already a struggle to live through conflicts in an average company. Turning any conflict down early on is insane. Sounds like he is trying to built a brainwashed cult.
vast··on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
I think corp life is something that is extremely romanticized by public success stories and anecdotes from (occasional/incidental) winners. Everything suggests that you should be in check and control of the situation, but you are not. You are in the rat race and just reacting with your best effort. The suggestive stories contain a lot of lies or leave out the negativity. There is always the 1% that is crazy good, but we should compare to the 99% to stay sane. But they are unheard of.

Kill your idols and realize that we are the plebs that actually get shit done.

Personally I take too little risk myself. I am 40 now but I cannot imagine anymore how I can myself in a joyful working position. I have no fun in hunting new jobs, but getting out of the rat race and getting back into social life would bring way more opporturnities. Also I believe that I am not holding down my 1% potential, but the environment you are acting in.

vast··on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
* three planning layers

* no reasonable reaction on devastating feedback

* purely numbers driven. Ignoring tech debt and creativity

* no new recruits in years

* not honoring experienced programmers

* no working creative process to bring the product to the next level

* naive and reactional cargo culting

I have great colleagues. Workload is usually fine, except too many topic on the table. We have quite a lot freedom how to handle things, but not so much about the what. Our tech management is quite horrible. The top manager has unsolved conflicts with the majority of coders. Mostly because he has no idea about tech and never gives reasonable feedback. Fluctuation is currently extreme and I will be leaving soon with only 2 tech people remaining that have been there long term.

Our company has the potential to break the 1bn threshold next decade, just to give an idea about the scale.

vast··on We are clueless about how long things should take
I don't agree with everything but I can resonate with you a lot. There are a ton of go to approaches and utilities, all the hipster shit, that people easily reach for and integrate it badly. Not talking about technical integration, but cultural / social integration. If one rubs X into your face he should at least reasonably be able to transfer the passion for it and care how it is applied. Commiting to a new X is an giant effort for small teams, if done right, but usually its just quickly added and then sticks there somehow. This is just one point of nonsense. Scrum and devops are good examples how things with good initial intent get corrupted. Hey I am already doing devops so why call it out if there won't be serious support from the company? Scrum is just pure cancer at this state. It literally didn't change since it inception. But back then scrum cut down infinite cycles to like quarterly. Now we are doing 2 week sprints with the same method and same overhead? Smart. Of course scrum is just for the tech people, so there are still 3 other layers of planning and a couple of meetings that you have to attend to.

Eventually there is no reflection on the things we do not great with.

vast··on GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances
Slightly off topic: how does cloud NAT scale. The defaults are way too low for request heavy projects and the regarding docs were kinda hard to understand for a non ops guy.
vast··on Terminating Service for 8Chan
You are simplifying. Google shopping for example doesn't list WWII products in germany. Without any exception. Without decision between right wing propaganda and historical teaching material it is an attempt to deny the holocaust. And that's as simple as it is.
vast··on The Ethics of Web Performance
I would argue if you make a well designed low end website h2 wouldn't make as much difference.
vast··on The Ethics of Web Performance
He actually says that devs try to do their best but the business models make it hard. I can very well resonate with that. With decent effort we could make out site respond in a tenth of the current time. But no one ever asks for it nor will give you the opportunity. Even performance centric companies like Google are now doing an insanely bad job. Business applications perform bad even on modern desktops. They will probably try to keep the user facing parts of the ad machine fast, but everything else is not what I expect from a company with such mindset. They of course never did anything to improve the state of ad tech.
vast··on Fsyncgate: Errors on fsync are unrecoverable (2018)
Duct tape ops?
vast··on Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
Lucene is the carry.
vast··on Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide
So parallelism after one initial slow load is the cure all? I also propose that front end will rediscover that parallelism is hard and isn't always the best fit.
vast··on Living without the modern browser
> "Graceful degradation". I frequently have the feeling this attitude is lost.

Lost? It is just ignored for the sake of cool SPAs and hottest new js stuff.

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