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FranksTV··on Ask HN: Has learning mathematics made your thinking as a programmer any better?
Linear algebra is the one thing I wish I was better at. I almost want to go back to school just for that.
FranksTV··on IKEA issues cease and desist against indie developer
These kinds of things are usually about defending the trademark against future claims.

If they didn't send a cease and desist then that could be used as evidence that they don't conduct business in this area and so they can't claim protection.

You have to use a trademark to keep it, and of of the ways to use it is to enforce it in cases like this that are relatively inexpensive.

FranksTV··on Everything I wish I had known about raising a seed round
This is some "the rest of the owl" material for sure.
FranksTV··on Ask HN: What would it take to go from 0 to contributing to fusion research?
No specific fusion knowledge, but just general advice:

Don't assume that you can't contribute right now. Companies that work in fusion and they will need all the stuff that normal companies need. If you are a web developer, they likely have websites and will have web teams. If you are a UX designer they will likely have control systems that need to be designed.

If you're serious about this, I would seek out people in the industry and just talk to them about your interest and ask what kind of roles on their team would be a good match.

Being genuinely super passionate about the work of the company is a huge plus when you are interviewing. Don't undervalue your current skills and your enthusiasm.

FranksTV··on Tether will not freeze Tornado Cash addresses
SPIPOPD = Smashing Pumpkins Into Piles of Putrid Debris
FranksTV··on Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
Tell that to the Ukrainians.
FranksTV··on A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service
I have it on good information that BGP was the second gunman on the grassy knoll at the Kennedy Assassination.
FranksTV··on Today I Deleted Notion
Yeah they have version histories built in.
FranksTV··on Thermal Pad ‘Mod’ Makes M2 MacBook Air Faster Than 13″ M2 Pro
Low-temperature burns are a thing. If you are exposed to heat long enough, eventually it can get your skin hot enough to be burned. The same way you can slow-cooking meat.
FranksTV··on The Secret Service Texting Scandal Makes No Sense
Hillary Clinton hadn't received an order from congress to preserve evidence in an ongoing investigation.
FranksTV··on Meta and the security industry collaborate to secure the internet
"Foxes volunteer for guard duty at henhouse."
FranksTV··on How to progress as a distributed systems engineer?
I've been working my way through MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems on YouTube (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...)

It's a great survey of the basic principles and I've already found it useful in some projects I've been working on.

FranksTV··on Ask HN: What's your experience with working M1 and M2 Macs?
I have an 16" M1 Max -- am a senior dev working on projects in react native, rust and unity. Honestly haven't had any problems.

I love it -- super fast and quiet and the keyboard and build quality are great.

FranksTV··on The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
If your shirt is 90% one thing and 10% the other thing, I'm not sure the 90% is the stain.
FranksTV··on Ask HN: Where are all the computers from the 1980's and 1990's?
Compared to the global volume of garbage, it's pretty small.
FranksTV··on Scientists discovered a new molecule that kills even the deadliest cancer
We already have one of those. It's called bleach.

The hard part is not killing the stuff around the cancer.

FranksTV··on New Human Interface Guidelines
I mean the new iPad supports a trackpad and windowed displays, so I think we're already there.
FranksTV··on New Human Interface Guidelines
I'm guessing you're running Intel versions of apps, and the emulation us slowing things down.
FranksTV··on Some languages pay closer attention to family ties than others
Consider how your feelings about this may be shaped by the language you speak.
FranksTV··on Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution
The nines are just a way to say 1e-5 without having to use notation.
FranksTV··on Chipotle is now accepting payments in Bitcoin and other cryptos
Chipotle is basically accepting USD gift cards, which a company called Flexa will sell you in crypto.
FranksTV··on Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?
Well you're free to offer lower salaries and see how that works out.
FranksTV··on The “World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer” Is a Hoax with Staged Photos [pdf]
There needs to be a way to create downward pressure on the price of an equity.
FranksTV··on The balance has shifted away from SPAs
From a user experience standpoint there's a huge difference on slow connections.
FranksTV··on My NDA is expired. It's worse than you know, AMA
I love that the evidence of widespread misuse of company funds is someone booked their flights too late to a conference.

Also, the idea that employees of a game company don't play the game they work on for fun is pretty understandable.

Like it's their job. The last thing they're gonna want to do on their time off is play it.

FranksTV··on The pressure to censor all layers of the legacy Internet stack is intense
> the fact that writes cost gas

You realize that if free speech has a price, it's no longer free, right? Like it's only "free" if you can afford it.

FranksTV··on The pressure to censor all layers of the legacy Internet stack is intense
This tweet is hot garbage.
FranksTV··on Why is GIMP still so bad?
UX is incredibly complicated, and it is lacking in most open source projects.

It's needs designers who can tell developers what to build, and that level of specification just isn't present in most open-source which tends to be code-driven rather than design driven.

FranksTV··on Ask HN: What 'deeper technical skills' make up a strong engineer?
Being senior also usually comes with some measure of specialization.
FranksTV··on Ask HN: What 'deeper technical skills' make up a strong engineer?
Also:

Knowing when the cost of cleaning up convoluted and fragile code is higher than the cost of continuing to work with it, and when it's not worth the long term investment.

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