doyoulikeworms

"This writing looks computer-generated" as a compliment is kind of blowing my mind

this looks incredible, thank you for sharing!!

OOC, do you view Intel's projections as being too slow or just plain wrong (i.e., impossible)? I am not knowledgeable about this industry or the engineering behind it, just follow it casually, and I'm shocked to see 1.4nm on a slide.

Imagine believing that anyone, anywhere was ever "neutral".

I think that it's hard to determine people's desires from voting habits. Voting is kind of a game, wouldn't you say? It's got teams and everything, almost like a spectator sport.

When asked directly, though, progressive policies (or whatever word you want to use here to mean "anti-misery") are very popular!

You sound like an exceptional person!

I don't want to live in a society that requires everyone to be as exceptional as you are in order to live comfortably.

This is like describing socialism as being about authoritarian governments and centrally planned economies. Everybody misuses labels to their advantage.

Wow, I love this. It'll be stuck in my head for a long time, thank you.

I really love this thread!

I spent a few years doing indie game development, and one of this biggest lessons that stuck with me was how to think about a product as an experience. To me, game design was mostly that, but focused on making the experience fun, I guess. A huge amount of time and effort went into thinking about what the end user's experience would be like. By instinct, I tend to lean on thinking about the "player's" experience.

This is absolutely incredible!! Inspiring and awe inspiring. This is art and more. Thank you for sharing!

Hmm, what if we cut everything out except for the space race?

I definitely buy this. I've blogged about personal projects, and writing out plans for a project tends to take some wind out of its sails. It's motivating to share progress, though.

I just want the keyboard to last longer than a year without breaking.

Software engineering is broad and deep. If you want to explore, go explore. You may make less money, but you may make more. You may like something else less, but you may like it more. I think it’s up to you!

That said, I never stayed put very long in any particular programming job. Embedded systems were fun, but I was curious to learn about the cloud, so I went to Salesforce. YMMV

What does that even mean?

> but they are thriving, simply because the store feels like a proper high quality shoe store.

Shopping isn't just about the products themselves. It's also about the experience of shopping, wouldn't you say? If I had to choose between cheap + bad shopping experience and cheap + nice shopping experience, the latter would be a no-brainer!

I think it's more about age. It's fun to ask people a question like, "What was your golden age for gaming?" That said, I really miss LAN parties and static multiplayer game servers-- we've got the same "golden age" :)

It's the headline, and "secret research" sounds sexier than "internal research," at least to me.

> Kinesis Advantages and slapping touchpads in the middle

that sounds like an amazing product TBH-- does anything like that exist?

There's more to life than achievements. An experience, however unreal it may be, is valuable to the person experiencing it, regardless of whether or not anything is achieved outside of the experience itself. It's only escapism if it's a problem. My 2 cents.

It reminds me a lot of bumper stickers on cars or tattoos on skin

I didn't interpret the GP post to mean ego in a toxic way. I certainly put stickers on my laptop to express myself by sharing a bit of my interests and identity.

I mean, that's a pretty easy conversation to have, no? "Hey team, when I search for 'gorilla', black people come up instead. Here, look. That's a problem, right? So I'm going to file this JIRA..."

I think that this is an excellent insight.

Explicit leadership roles also inevitably result in situations like, "well, they were the best person we had at the time" whereby a very unsuitable leader is kept in power. The worst orgs I've participated in have suffered from this kind of problem.

People only fantasize about flat orgs when theirs is led poorly.

Woah, that's a really thoughtful feature. Is there somewhere I can find all of the, like, rules of HN similar to this one?

Woah, what do you use it for?

this is gorgeous!!

How do you feel about earplugs?

A pair of high quality earplugs can do wonders, though I only know this because I had a coworker that swore by them. I prefer in-ear headphones and music, personally.

Fair, but many developers are intimately aware of the shape of that kind of XML. Ever tried making sense of an XML document that tries to express something as complex as a web page, but without the requisite domain knowledge? It's painful.

Slightly less so as a JSON document, IMHO.

I really like this take. It's much more hopeful...