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bye_amznon I've Just Liberated My Modules

Let it suffice to say that Linux distributions (and some closed OSes) try very hard to prevent package fragmentation. Experience has shown many times that excessive fragmentation leads to proliferation of unmaintained libraries.

bye_amznon Do We Still Need Prisons?

> Not sure why you got downvoted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion

bye_amznon Show HN: Python requirements for Humans

Node is quite bad - it encourages a proliferation of small libraries and remove the needs to move the versions forward. This, in turn, leads to a wasteland of old, unsecure, dependencies in the long them.

bye_amznon We only hire the trendiest

This might be very true for startups, unfortunately, but it's not true for Amazon/Google/Facebook and so on

bye_amznon We only hire the trendiest

Ex Amazon here. I've done a lot of interviews and I've never seen candidates being refused an on-site interview for having extensive Windows experience. Still, the hire rate would be really low. Most would have little knowledge of what exists outside of an IDE: OS internals, system design, networking.

bye_amznon The American Economy Is in a Funk, But Not for the Reasons We Think

> We are richer

Averages are very misleading.