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branperr··on Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M
Is there any good reason why preferred stock exists? It just seems like another tool to screw people over in favor of investors.
branperr··on Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?
I would say type signatures that don't really describe the state of the program. Especially when someone has objects with a bunch of optional fields that either shouldn't be optional or should be represented in a different way, like as a discriminant union.
branperr··on Functors: Identity, Composition, and fmap
Caesar cypher +7

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branperr··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
Nothings going to change until consequences for this behavior is established.
branperr··on How Cars Turned Into Giant Killers
I believe this is related

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

branperr··on The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
Sources on it being “climate denying”?
branperr··on Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt
The thing I’m confused about from the article is that, if I read it correctly, the temple was found a few miles from the coast. Did the Nike delta use to extend that far? Or what? That seems to be pretty far.
branperr··on A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle
Did the website only give you all the option to agree to their privacy policy, and not decline? If so that seems very disingenuous.
branperr··on Show HN: A NextJS boilerplate to automate all the boring stuff
Have you heard of this new db called dev/null? It’s super fast and web scale!
branperr··on Frequent and infrequent users of social media respond differently to rewards
There are definitely UI tricks used by pretty much everyone when applicable. For example, infinite scrolling is used to keep people’s attention. There are other dark patterns that exist as well
branperr··on Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
Same, all hail Google's new AI god (plz don't kill me)
branperr··on Coaching engineering managers to take on organizational problems
I don't think the class of problems talked about in here are necessarily the biggest problems. Rather, it's politically motivated decision-making. Not in the sense of insert your pet US politics issue, but rather about capturing influence within the organization to make themselves status-y. For example, Google managers over-inflating their team numbers to make their resume look better.
branperr··on OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog
Thanks! I loved playing this game growing up. I had heard later on that it was a technical achievement, but didn't realize they made their own dialect of Lisp.
branperr··on OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog
Can someone explain the significance of this to me? I'm not caught up on this topic.