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brickmort··on iHeartRadio owner files for bankruptcy
iHeartRadio is the company that nobody asked for, who attempts to shove their music down your throat with moderate success. The sooner it's gone, the better off the music industry will be.
brickmort··on When That Guy Died on My Show (2007)
I think I have a valid argument for this theory besides people mistaking this with Shaquille O'Neal's 'Kazaam'. In an episode of Nickelodeon's 'All That', Sinbad once played the father of Ishboo (played by Kenan Thompson) 'Sinboo'. And I recall his clothing being very similar to that of a Genie. Can enough people be mistakenly conflating their childhood memories of Sinboo and Kazaam and creating 'Shazaam'..?
brickmort··on Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
There is absolutely nothing blue-collar about Facebook.
brickmort··on Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most
Dr Peterson's recent discussion with Ben Shapiro is one of the best conversations I've heard in a long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRPDGEgaATU
brickmort··on Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most
I was thinking the same thing. His ideas aren't really what I would consider controversial, I'm actually baffled that it's labeled as such.
brickmort··on My Internet Mea Culpa: I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were
I very much dislike the whole mindset of "we" as this single, uniform society. There are 7.6 billion humans in the world today, we're not all going to agree with everything all the time, and to say that "we" are generally unhappy because of things that "we" deem unsuitable for public discourse is rather arrogant, myopic and naive.

I agree with the author's realization that we probably won't all be able to get along. I think it's a harsh truth that you can either choose to accept or spend a long time trying to fight, and I think much of Silicon Valley falls into the latter. Because of the huge reach and influence of the internet, Silicon Valley (and other areas of large influence) have a bad habit of developing a messiah complex where they see themselves as world ambassadors of peace and justice, striving for an egalitarian world free of 'hatred'. The problem is that the people that get pushed out of this utopia don't just vanish; you end up with people inside the utopia and people outside the utopia. You now have two different groups. So much for the idea of a world of unity and singularity.

brickmort··on Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?
"Is Facebook Bad?" By Facebook
brickmort··on Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
One of my favorite bands! from their wild early days to their mature and unique later albums, Janes Addiction truly embodies the spirit of Rock & Roll in a way that most bands can only hope to achieve.
brickmort··on Snopes asks community for donations
I've grown weary of websites posing as bastions of truth that will determine whether it's true or false. It's a fun concept when it covers things like subliminal messages in Disney movies, but when it starts becoming the go-to destination for un-answerable or hotly debated political issues, it gets ugly and I'd rather not support it.

The CEO of Snopes himself ended up in a scandal last year https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai.... Who can we trust to fact-check those claims? Who's fact-checking the fact-checkers?

brickmort··on The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak
My thoughts exactly. I don't like the idea of a culture where it's ok to think "you're saying things I don't like, so you should be banned from saying it completely". its unhealthy and causes more harm the more it's permitted.
brickmort··on Introducing Token
Watching how WeChat is used in China was very eye-opening: https://youtu.be/leFuF-zoVzA?t=546
brickmort··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
'Podcast Addict' (for Android) can speed podcasts up like this, up to 5x. Usually, I can comfortably bump the speed up to 1.25x-1.4x without any trouble. 2x for me ends up being too fast, but useful if you're skimming and not trying to absorb every second of the audio.
brickmort··on WebAssemply Hello World
same as it ever was
brickmort··on ‘I must fundamentally change and grow up’: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s apology
It's not Travis' responsibility to give that guy a steady income.
brickmort··on ‘I must fundamentally change and grow up’: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s apology
It looks like I'm in the minority here, but I honestly don't see what's so bad with how Kalanick reacted. The guy was giving him a hard time and he reacted accordingly, I even think he held back alot more than he could have. Kalanick's right, 'Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s‑‑‑.' There's alot of truth there. If a company changes their policy, and it affects your income, it's not the company's responsibility to fix that for you. either you find a competing company that can make you more money, or you have to find another way to get your income. In either case, it's your problem to handle. It reminds me of Amazon's recent changes to their affiliate program. There will be people that will maneuver around the policy changes and pull through, then there will be people that will remain stagnant, lose money and blame everyone but themselves.

Kalanick should have doubled down. "Yeah, I was mean, but the guy was a d*ck." Then again, I'm just an armchair analyst. I don't have a multi-billion dollar company to handle.

brickmort··on Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Big Financial Services Companies
I regularly visit /r/rust and am happy with how it's stayed away from politics. At one point, it almost brushed on it with Trump's travel ban affecting an event, but overall it's a nice "oasis" from the sea of politics.
brickmort··on Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG Icon Generator in 100% JavaScript/HTML5
fantastic! I love how simple and practical this is. nice work!
brickmort··on Newspaper subscription experiment
It didn't occur to the author that social media is the new journalism.
brickmort··on Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assembly language
This is one of my favorite posts from HN that I stumbled upon last year. Very intuitive and accessible, and worth the read.
brickmort··on Ask HN: What are your favorite thin websites (text only or limited images)?
There's something so satisfying about effective & practical minimalism like this.
brickmort··on Bluetooth 5 Now Available
In my experience, connecting a device with bluetooth has less than 50% chance of continued success. When it doesn't work it really doesn't work, and there's only so much you can do with most device interfaces. I avoid it whenever possible. Hopefully this new release will change that for future devices.
brickmort··on Slack client for Commodore 64
How would you recommend getting further acquainted with 6502 Assembly? After reading 'Easy 6502' (https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/), I'm not sure where to go after that. Awesome project, btw!
brickmort··on Peter Thiel and the Undecided Trump Voter
For instance, a recent article in The Advocate stated he was no longer a part of the LGBTQ community for supporting Trump: http://archive.is/kTlTL

Also, Facebook endured alot of external backlash for continuing to have him on the Board, so much that Facebook had to release a statement to address it: http://s13.postimg.org/ohe1sci6f/mmexport1476831885441.jpg

brickmort··on Peter Thiel and the Undecided Trump Voter
The mentality of "if your opinions don't align with mine, you should be silenced and banned" is the exact reason that I began moving away from the Left, despite still considering myself socially liberal. Speaking for myself, I hit a point where I realized that any slight questioning or dissent of the general ideology was returned with vehement backlash by the left.

I would consider most undecided voters to be sane, rational people with good consciences because I admit that both candidates have their warts and what it all boils down to is what would best for the country. With that said, the undecided voter knows better than to even think about publicly expressing that they might consider voting Trump, out of fear of having their property stolen or burned, reputation tarnished, etc.

The left has been hijacked by extreme left-wing groups taking the podium from classical liberals, and the party itself is imploding under the repeated revelations from Wikileaks and Project Veritas. It truly is an election that will go down in history.

brickmort··on Ask HN: What software engineering related podcasts are you listening to?
"New Rustacean" is great for anybody learning Rust. The episodes are very short (10-20 mins) and are surprisingly comprehensive, considering you're not looking at any code: http://www.newrustacean.com/
brickmort··on 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real
I thought so too at first, but it really becomes it's own story despite that fact, especially after the first season. The similarities are not unintentional. Sam Esmail doesn't hide the fact that the series is inspired by Fight Club.
brickmort··on The hard part of helping survivors recover comes months later
such is the content at vox.com
brickmort··on Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto Takes Apple’s Stage to Introduce Super Mario Run
It would have been nice to watch this live, but since I don't have an Apple device, my only option is to watch it on Microsoft Edge running on Windows 10. Nice job shutting out a huge portion of your audience, Apple.

Requirements: Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Streaming via Apple TV requires an Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation) with software 6.2 or later or an Apple TV (4th generation).

brickmort··on Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
I bet it doesn't even touch pied piper's.
brickmort··on Square Enix Graphics Designer Manabu Daishima Has Died
He worked on Secret of Mana at age 22 and Chrono Trigger at age 24. What amazing feats to have under your belt at such a young age.
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