chuckgreenman

Maybe, but does Team Foundation Server even exist anymore? What is the MS branded service that degrading GitHub is supposed to drive people to?

I would guess that AI has given me a 30% improvement in pace? I don't know, it would feel like riding a bike on level ground instead of downhill

Writing is a way of thinking for me. In a venue like HackerNews I can write something that I think I believe and someone will probably take the opposite viewpoint and tell me why I'm wrong.

Sometimes that helps me change my mind if I'm less able to defend what I think, sometimes it solidifies that I was right because the response isn't substantive.

Heroku's final chapter was being acquired, we are now entering the afterword. It was revolutionary when it was introduced and for a long while after that - but their mistake was getting sold to Salesforce, they can't even make a competent CRM, of course they can't innovate a developer experience platform.

In the last couple of months Google's results have improved for me, I'm no longer seeing stack overflow clones, there are fewer content farm results too.

Here's the actual case:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/17...

There is an attached PDF with the full decision, Pages 27, 28 on reference some related cases that informed the decision.

Even if it is, it doesn't matter. The US Court of Appeals created precedent that allows for the scraping and aggregation of publicly published information with that LinkedIn case.

No offense, but if you can't design and write a compelling landing page for your service that works you don't understand your product or customer enough to be in the line of business that you're in.

This is the race to the bottom kind of shit that is designed to help you crank out no/low effort content that search engines like but provide no value to an end user.

Rockstar developers can duct tape a bunch of bullshit together and make a good demo, and after 6 months when they get poached by another company you'll just have to hire actually competent people. They'll have to untangle the your geniuses opus of bullshit and rebuild it into something that works. It will take time and it will be expensive.

I'm not too bothered by people wanting to hire rockstars though because there will always be a market for people like me to come in and clean up the mess.

Isn't there a way to default back to a rendered image if MathJax isn't supported?

Oh geeze, he claims that regular dog food gives dogs cancer in one of those promo videos. Yikes.

Let's say there's a new can opener in the drawer [1], it's the same size and shape as a can opener but because it's not what you're used to you try to use it in the normal orientation and it doesn't work.

Even though the tool can open cans, rounds off the sharp edges and requires less grip force you reply with: a lot of OXO folks blame the user or social conditioning. It's BS.

Is that a reasonable response?

I'd argue that it isn't.

But to answer your question I use more precise language for what I'm looking for, specifying the city and state I want results from, specifying the type of thing that I want.

A lot of my searches are !bangs,

!godoc - for searching Go packages !gems - for searching ruby gems !sx - for getting only stack overflow results !w - for jumping to a Wikipedia article !gh - for searching github

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000079XW2?tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&...

I think I've figured out what is happening when people tell me that DuckDuckGo's results "aren't good enough".

What's really happening is that they've been trained to search a certain way to using Google and because DDG doesn't have all the historical data of your searches on their platform they can't fill in the gaps as well.

After a couple days using DDG I found the right vocabulary to get good local results and which bangs to use to get results from the sites that I want. It's a more effective tool if you learn how to use it.

Also, at 100 searches a day that's 6.25 searches per hour, if they're spread evenly over a 16 hour waking period. Who makes that many searches?!

Would you care to provide any evidence that a publication from the University of Rochester medical center, reviewed by an MD and two RNs is not credible?

> Regular Brain - Lease an Office

> Nebula Brain - Virtual Offices like Regus Offices

> Galaxy Brain - Coworking spaces

> Exploding Galaxy Brain - WeWork

> Super Exploding Galaxy Brain - OurWork a per second billed coworking/living space

Interesting to see the differences between Github and Gitlab's strategy in this arena.

Github appears to be going the aqui-hire route with Semmle, dependabot, pullpanda etc, where as I don't think Gitlab's made an acquisition for a year or two.

Most development time is going to be spent on reading code that's already written, so yes, they do matter. With the speeds mentioned it's not going to be appreciable until you hit a massive scale, which, let's face it, most of us aren't working with.

I'm a single-issue voter when it comes to cell phones - if it doesn't have a headphone jack, I won't be buying it.

I see the smart phone addiction problem as similar to the food addiction problem, you have to eat and if you want to have a good modern job you have to have a cell phone. Part of becoming an adult is learning about the temptations of life and how to manage them. Ultimately I think this is a disservice in the long term, by shielding their kids from technology they also shield them from the development of the self control muscle.

The great author/comedian John Hodgeman once said "it's their time to waste" in response to someone who wrote into his advice column about their teens seeming to waste their time as a teen. Unfortunately, goofing off and wasting time is a thing I think most people need to do for some segment of their lives until they become sick of it and decide to get in gear.

That point of view works in a perfect world, but there are some ideas that don't deserve a seat at the table.

Drinking bleach will not cure autism, but their are desperate parents out there ready to walk into that bear trap and opportunistic people are ready to spring it.

There's a time and place for that stuff though, if all of a sudden you start bringing up politics during your local Arduino project meetup you can't be surprised if they stop inviting you.

Hacker News sort of splits between technology and politics so drawing a line is a bit tricky.

> The risk, he said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes.”

There's a good reason not to use encryption schemes that have backdoors, they aren't safe and this pull quote betrays the fact that Barr knows that.

I'd be willing to wager that the government isn't going to use backdoor-able encryption because the risk of failure is too great. While not being critical to national security, safety in storing your medical, financial records and your conversations with other is mission critical to citizens. Hopefully folks on capital hill see that.

While I'm not familiar with this exact case I'd bet on it being covered by the computer fraud and abuse act. It gives law enforcement a lot of latitude to charge you for misuse of a computer system and has criminal penalties.

Programming is fun for 15 minutes out of each hour, the other 45 are pretty frustrating.

If only someone could have seen this coming, you know, outside of the thousands of people that saw this coming. This is just one of many reasons why mass surveillance is a terrible.

Neat, that's a good delimiter!

This is pretty interesting, I'm thinking about how edge cases will be handled. Consider a product like Airtable: at present I think most people would classify it as a consumer productivity tool. Firebase on the other end would be a platform as a service. Airtable is adding features that make it more of a platform as a service. I wonder where the line will be drawn for the new BSL.