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whistlerbrk··on Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?
I really dislike how you continue to dismiss or question what happened to the OP while continuing to find excuses for this type of behaviour.
whistlerbrk··on Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge
Agree with this.

My children are so close to the ground they can observe things I just walk by. They are constantly pointing out to me things they find beautiful in their tiny details. Admittedly I've trained them to be highly observant but they've outdone me in a short time.

whistlerbrk··on I need to stop being boring
Think it depends on the age of the children, right? Do you parents have very young children? Things get better once they are 5-6
whistlerbrk··on Moral Competence
This reminds me of the concept of "karuna" in Bhuddism.

To me what the author is discussing is the difference between the direction translation of the word, often taken as "compassion" vs. the intention to seek truth and deeply act upon it. What Jay Garfield (Smith College) referred to as "sloppy sympathy" is what I think the author here is referring to as moral incompetence.

whistlerbrk··on Rubyists, we must do better
> changing whitelist / blacklist or master / slave isn't really helping to the cause.

These terms amongst hundreds of others build up a mental association between blackness and wrongness.

The word "black", just by itself - look a dictionary definition. In addition to the raw color is used to connote a sad event, anger, or just evil ("it was a black day", "full of anger or hatred", "very evil or wicked").

On the flipside white is used to connote purity and goodness. In the context of America we're talking about a country which favored bleached white foods to anything else for the same reason.

I just don't get how people can't see the harm that is accrued from not the single example but the hundreds collectively.

Also, for the record, I think changing the name of the project verges on absurd.

whistlerbrk··on Comma Two Devkit
This website is so self-obsessed it can't just tell you what the hell the product is.
whistlerbrk··on Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (2013)
They are referring to NY style pizza. Standard serving is 2 slices per person.
whistlerbrk··on Performance Matters
As a former EMT and someone who built their own software to create run reports, I'm a bit skeptical as to that being the only reason.

Paper can be edited, even after the point at which you given a carbon copy to a hospital, if you're friendly enough. This probably doesn't happen often or at all but there is a psychological safety there.

People make small mistakes all the time on the ambulance in the rush to get them to the ER. We live in an extremely litigious society.

whistlerbrk··on The Rise and Fall of French Cuisine
A great flat white, an Australian invention I understand, is shockingly good compared to a standard cappuccino. When done properly you wouldn't even question the need for sweetener because the milk becomes so decadent.
whistlerbrk··on Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?
Why... they just want to farm for ideas, understand your execution, use that knowledge to launch a competitor they have a stake in, drive out all the alpha from the business in so doing, and make an exit leaving someone else to hold the bag.
whistlerbrk··on Fuck The Vessel
I work at WTC and this is exactly how I feel about the area under the Oculus connecting the Brookfield Mall. It's like a scene out of Gattaca, a massive dizzyling underground mall/complex with no natural light filled with luxury shops that no one appears to actually shop at. Everyone walks through in a daze, seemingly impressed by the magnitude of the cavern but at the same I can't help to think they feel as equally empty and drained by it as me.

Developments like Hudson Yards seem to be cargo culturing culture. If we build a public arts space, offices, restaurants, shops, and a playground then surely people will arrive, right?! Feels very weird.

whistlerbrk··on Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code
Indentured Servitude?
whistlerbrk··on The Decline of Historical Thinking
Seems like a nice potential solution would be promoting dual majors in journalism and history so journalists could provide deep historical context for the events they report on
whistlerbrk··on My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
We had a nightmare story with Wag. My sister's dog was being walked by a new walker through Wag. The sitter brought our dog to a nearby fenced-in handball court and let him off leash, which he was not supposed to do. Her dog went to retrieve a ball that was stuck between the concrete padding and a chain link fence and in so doing severed several arteries in his paw.

The handball court looked, no joke, like a multiple murder scene. Dogs have 7 arteries iirc through their paws and so there was blood - everywhere.

I know this because I happened to have left work early and was eating dinner with my family nearby when my sister, away at work, gave me a frantic phone call that the walker called, freaking out, that her dog hurt himself and 911 refused to pick him up.

I ran to my car as far as I could, drove down to this park, wrapped up his paw, carried him into the car, and drove, breaking every light to the animal hospital. Along the way NYPD pulled me over and upon finding out what was going on, proceeded to escort us to the hospital, clearing the way (shout out to the 88th).

If I wasn't home, I'm not sure her dog would have lived. He needed several days in the hospital, blood transfusions and minor surgery. The walker could not have handled it poorer, he was hyperventiliating, completely freaking out, and couldn't get control of himself. I was nice to him, gave him water, calmed him down, but jeez he was a mess. No training, no proper incident response.

Don't use Wag.

whistlerbrk··on Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?
I miss a lot of it. You could build a vibrant community without bizops, marketing, partnerships, and a whole host of other people because you could generate meaningful traffic from search engines.
whistlerbrk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
Better Mortgage | Software Engineer, Data Engineer | New York | Full Time | Onsite (part time remote)

Help us hack a thirteen trillion dollar industry by building a product that will allow more people than the status quo to own a home and build wealth rather than rent for life. Our tech team is small, and you will be a big part of defining the technical direction and culture. We encourage proposals for projects off the beaten path, experimentation with different frameworks and libraries, and doing as you see fit to solve problems.

We also offer above-market compensation and equity, as well as full benefits. Part-time remote is great with us, although we are looking for candidate who can spend some significant fraction of your time at our office at the World Trade Center in NY.

Voted 10th Best Place to work in NYC by Crain's.

Apply here or email me for more information https://boards.greenhouse.io/better/jobs/60759

whistlerbrk··on Saddle chair
At home I use the Hag Capisco, it helps but it is no panacea
whistlerbrk··on Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
Yeah, nothing listed here has worked for me. The issue is I had two accounts with the same email address one with Facebook one w/o. Not sure how it happened but if I try to reset the password of my account with my email address I immediately receive a "welcome back to facebook" email.

So, they are keeping the OID information somewhere. I've asked, begged, pleaded, and demanded for them to fix this and I've gotten absolutely nowhere. It is infuriating.

whistlerbrk··on Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform
not necessarily into this serverless thing but that doesn't seem like a valid complaint, use a global connection pooler like pgbouncer
whistlerbrk··on El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce
Marie Sharp's is the best all around hot sauce I've ever tried, absolutely love this.
whistlerbrk··on A legend reborn: Microsoft brings back the iconic Classic IntelliMouse
I just bought my 2nd 4000 edition, what do you mean they don't make it? The super updated "surface" one is a bit too much, don't love the keys or the separated number pad so I didn't spring for it.
whistlerbrk··on Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
Why not both? It could make what you want easier to do down the road once the public sees they too can live without
whistlerbrk··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
Part of me wants to be offended by that but part of me knows every one of us is just a cog in a machine, some bigger than others but really... not that much bigger.
whistlerbrk··on Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
I've really had great success with eye: https://github.com/kostya/eye
whistlerbrk··on Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
While consulting I had several clients in the top 10k websites using Rails making millions and millions of dollars a year.

So, I guess I just fundamentally disagree on the 'big' portion of that statement, but also, I think apps are by their nature not long lived, so I think it is a false requirement of a web framework.

That said, I also have had work I've done in Rails still powering the same website almost 10 years on, cacm.acm.org

whistlerbrk··on React Native at Airbnb
I couldn't possibly agree more. The annoying minimalism is killing me.

It took me 5 minutes to find a map view the other day because they've buried it so much and floated their "experiences" stuff up top.

whistlerbrk··on Ask HN: “Expert Level” JavaScript questions?
Good lord OP don't rule yourself out before someone else does. Just apply. You need to apply to go on at least 4-5 interviews (and bomb some of them) before you get a hang of it anyway.
whistlerbrk··on Yam, cultivate and cook
Paprika on a yam? Yeah, yams are unbelievably sweet when exposed to direct fire, like candy sweet. But I'm talking about the Garnet and Japanese varieties, this might just be a less cultivated specie he found locally and just went with it.
whistlerbrk··on State of React Native 2018
I mean... It's a fast moving ecosystem and a coalition of the willing. You have to submit PRs too.

I'm not unsympathetic to your claim but context matters. This is an enthusiasm problem. Not a community one

whistlerbrk··on Blot – a blogging platform with no interface
PSA: You can run Wordpress headlessly, there are libraries in a few languages which consume its API to help you render how you want.

You can hate PHP but Wordpress is king for non-technical users.

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