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ddw··on If the Point of Capitalism Is to Escape Capitalism, Then Why Capitalism?
NASA?
ddw··on If the Point of Capitalism Is to Escape Capitalism, Then Why Capitalism?
And many people choose to be born into poverty with never a chance to succeed.
ddw··on Tell Me It’s Going to be OK
> The question is, do you think US Government on all levels is efficient enough to be trusted with even more jobs/resources to manage? And if it's not, what the people of us should actually do to make it happen?

Instead we're ruled by large, monopolistic corporations that have so much power they can avoid paying taxes, pay off almost any politician and basically set any policy that they want. I'll never understand why people are fine with our current system.

I think your comment is basically neoliberlism in a nutshell. Let the market decide, right?

ddw··on Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting
But there ARE actions taken to prevent accidents. Anti-texting campaigns, DUI enforcement, street planning efforts, safer cars, signage and reflective material on roads. These things have undoubtedly saved some lives.

But when it comes to guns we just throw up ours hands and say whaddya gonna do.

ddw··on Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers?
Right, so then the austerity kicks in. On some level the GOP knows this.
ddw··on Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers?
Aligns well with the GOP goal of taking us back to fuedalism
ddw··on Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers?
Maybe it's time for us to all start companies that cater to the rich. Get the crumbs wherever we can. /s
ddw··on Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers?
https://youtu.be/_6Dvv1uSmss

It's a sick joke

ddw··on Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers?
And it's a race to the bottom. If you aren't rich, eat shit.

For those that complain that high tax rates are holding CA and NY back - how do you explain all of the growth and innovation from these states for decades?

ddw··on Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers?
Boomers may feel some pain though when Medicare and social security are cut next. All signs point to the GOP suddenly crying about the deficit now.
ddw··on The great thaw of America’s north is coming
Because somehow it always comes back to this
ddw··on Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?
net/http and Gorilla Mux
ddw··on US Announces Withdrawal from TPP
Well I'm pretty sure that they are against it for different reasons. Government surveillance is something that a paranoid, insecure person like Trump is going to love.
ddw··on US Announces Withdrawal from TPP
Are you sure that Trump sees any problem at all with the government spying portion of TPP?
ddw··on US Announces Withdrawal from TPP
To me secrecy sort of makes sense because it's a negotiation.

You don't want to show your cards in a negotiation, right? So how could the President and Congress say to the American people "this is what we're going to offer and accept from China" and pretend that the Chinese aren't going to hear it too?

Secrecy is often a horrible idea but this is a really complicated issue.

ddw··on Ask HN: Do you believe the Russia hacking story?
Absolutely this. If he were transparent about his financial dealings we would know how much Russia really means to him.

My guess is Putin has compromised Trump and Trump as POTUS benefits Russia greatly.

ddw··on Ask HN: What do you think is the current best Go webframework and why?
While I agree with you and I tend to stay as lean as possible, it always perplexes me why people want a Django/RoR/Phoenix in Go.

These other frameworks are mature and battle tested enough in agreeable enough programming languages, why attempt to reinvent them in Go?

Go's strength and afaik original purpose for Google was for creating smaller services, not a web app monolith.

ddw··on Ask HN: Will we ever have affordable and attractive urban housing for all?
The answer is to rework city zoning laws to allow for more vertical building and less car parking requirements, but $$$, nimbyism and "I was here first" thinking gets in the way. Way more people want to live in cities than can afford it and it's a shame that cities aren't thinking about this enough.

It's a people problem, not a technology one - the elevator was already invented.

"The Rent Is Too Damn High" is a good, short book on this.

ddw··on Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016?
This looks great, thanks. I look forward to the future books that talk about technology from a geopolitical pov.
ddw··on Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016?
Seconded
ddw··on Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016?
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Incredibly well written, touching and also an insider look at a period of American music that I'm really interested in.

ddw··on John McAfee on Russian Hack of DNC
Because they are Republican-dominated and their guy won
ddw··on Trump Names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to Advisory Team – TheHill
Especially since he has time to meet with Kanye West
ddw··on I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy the internet
I deleted my FB account years ago and haven't regretted it.

Its true though that I have less (fake) friends now.

ddw··on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition
But emails though
ddw··on Taking PHP Seriously
They don't until things break, your app can't handle the amount of requests coming in, can't insert and fetch data in a reasonable amount of time, etc.

It's at this point that shit falls apart and the manager starts to care about these technical choices and all of the time and money that will be needed to be spent to rewrite.

Call it maintenance costs if you want but those costs are directly affected by the technology decisions you make.

ddw··on Taking PHP Seriously
This. Developer happiness matters.
ddw··on Taking PHP Seriously
But program managers and CTOs and other non-engineers at a company care about scalability, performance, technical debt and quality, right? Let's not pretend that these don't matter once you've gone past the "users actually care about our app" phase, because they do and they affect the bottom line of a company. And IMHO PHP falters in these regards.
ddw··on What are your rabbit holes on the internet? (For instance, HN one we all share)
About once a month I start watching Larry Bird clips on Youtube, which sends me down a rabbit hole of 80s and on NBA.
ddw··on Go best practices, six years in
Except you can not use GoConvey and still write a quality test suite.

Plus GoConvey wisely separated the UI visualizer from the BDD, we use the former and not the latter.

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