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I got a good investment vehicle for you. How would you like to purchase shares in the Brooklyn bridge? You could see returns in the form of tolls.

> ... tech companies have proved to be some of the most hostile actors in most American's lives. Perhaps edged out only by things such as actual violent crime

Not so fast. Violent crime has been declining for about 30 years. Tech has been ascendant in that time.

15 years ago, both Google and Microsoft were on perforce. (The latter through a fork with a different name.)

I also read another lesson from this. The performance review system was already broken in the pre-AI golden age the article describes. Lines of code written and individual impact should not have been the goal. Team cohesion, architectural cohesion, building things that make actual sense are what you want.

I have been flamed for saying this in public, and I do not know how it will be received by an HN crowd, but someone who enjoys being a meta employee is a red flag.

Either they are actively a narcissist, actively immoral, not intelligent enough to understand the vibe there, or they're actually unhappy and not being honest enough to tell you they hate it there. I have a hard time envisioning any other possibility. The place actively filters out morally coherent and intelligent people.

Yes I was there.

Visual Studio defaults to defining NDEBUG in release mode, and I think that default was pretty influential

An assert is not guaranteed to terminate the process. In C, the most common implementation choice is to completely omit the check if you're not building in debug mode.

Yeah I agree. I own one of their devices but wouldn't buy another after this news.

> Phase one (late 1970s to 2007): the founder as charismatic, mysterious byproduct

> Phase two (2007 to 2015): the founder as parable.

> Phase three (2015 to now): the tech industry as grift-adjacent.

This pops out at me for a few reasons.

1. The grift era started long before 2015.

2. The dotcom era (which falls in the absurdly large 1970s-2007 range) was pretty grifty.

3. Come to think of it, maybe the parable we were sold in the 2007 era was ... Wait for it... A grift?

It depends. If they have the foresight to know that alienating their existing install base is a bad thing, then maybe they will put in a shoestring budget to keep the lights on for the old stuff.

You mean the comments that came in after the one you replied to here?

The commenter asked a question and it was answered. I don't think your hostile reply was needed.

These aren't subsidiaries of each other. They're different companies with different ownership. So the name Fox is ambiguous.

Should we expect the Roku apps for non-Fox content to break? That was kind of the selling point of Roku, that it was relatively streaming platform agnostic, not tied to one of the big players.

Yeah I know. I'm pulling that out as an example.

It's also true that people in the psychedelic world talk about non-reproducible aspects of the trip quite a bit. "Set and setting" and so forth.

Ironically enough, the psychedelic field sort of defies some scientific analysis, so could be construed as "anti-science". I've seen some commentary that it's difficult to test. As an example, you can't really do a double blind study with a placebo because it's obvious to everybody who got the drug.

Yes, this is what I mean. They deny that Alfredo is Italian. But it's from Rome. It's just no longer popular with Romans.

Ironically Italians criticize Americans for non-authentic "Alfredo sauce" but that has its origins in Rome in roughly the same early 20th century time period.

Pizza is one of those things that is multi-polar, with different canons. New York pizza is not Neapolitan pizza for sure. Neither of those are the al taglio from Rome, i.e. even in the original country there's regionalism.

I was under the impression that this person is pretty heavily dependent on Claude.

And for example, it's a weird signal to me when somebody believes the reason X11 has baggage is because it does byte swapping for endianness. This statement alone taints the entire rationale for the project.

Outside the US, countries are doing a better job of electrifying. The US has deliberately retrograde policies right now.

20% is still a huge number. (Your comment also acknowledges this of course. That just popped out at me.)

The criticisms of STL and allocation are fair, though move constructors improved the shallow vs deep copy problem on resize.

Smart pointers are good. People were doing them outside the standard in the late 90s.

Lambdas are a good feature.

> 124 days to get AMD to add an s to a couple of HTTP URLs!

I disagree that they should only add HTTPS and call it done. They should also add some kind of signing check before running the payload.

If anything I'd say HTTPS is optional if they do that part.

This type of subscription model is a little less annoying, most "normal" people will sign up for the non-subscription rate, and frequent users are already frequent users, so they will be more OK with a subscription.

Speaking personally, I don't see enough movies or do enough ride shares to want to subscribe to AMC or Waymo, but Doordash would make sense. Maybe it's OK for me to pay a higher price for the ~1 time per year I use those other services.

Sounds like you only know the corporate or post-commercialized version, and not the original concept. The entire point of my comment.

Wsl2.0 is literally a Linux vm built into windows. I imagine some people are using that.

When I first read about the hackathon concept, it was a bunch of OpenBSD developers getting together to work on stuff like cryptography or drivers. I think it was from Facebook where I first heard it as some bullshit corporate event. The idea of a "winner" seems to misunderstand what should be a goal. It's not a competition. It's collaboration.

Aw shucks. You might turn out to need to do your own work. That would turn out so horrible for you.

Excuse me, are you holding up the British as some kind of pure, undisturbed ethnicity?

You mean the celts who were conquered by Romans who were conquered be Angles who were conquered by Normans? Who speak this bastard language we're using now, where most vocabulary is Latinate upon bones of Germanic?

This is like the old quote, "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"