ethicalsmacker

Woa woa, I never said bitcoin. I would never bring it up on HN, that's a recipe for downvotes.

If only there were some kind of decentralized digital currency a person could use outside of big banks and credit cards..

Maybe I'm old.. but everytime I read Alloy I think of the old modeling language out of MIT to prove a program's correctness. Gives me PTSD thinking of grad school.

https://alloytools.org/

Or areas with weaker employees.

I doubt they axed an entire team for monetary reasons alone. They could have axed 1/10th the employees in the bay area and probably covered the entire India roster (financial cost wise).

First and foremost, realize it has nothing to do with _you_. It's a job and nothing more.

Focus on what you _can_ control. Mainly, your skill set, interview preparation and networking.

Take a couple days off and get in a good mindset. Spend time with our spouse, children, family, etc.

Then hit it hard-- get up to speed on your skills. Prepare for interviews like it's the Olympics. Network. Polish your resume. Polish your portfolio/public presence.

You were accepted at a YC company, there's no reason you can't work remotely elsewhere.

I really enjoy low level development... things like OS and compiler design. Emulation, simulation, etc. It's sad there's very little place for these "hobbies" anymore, other than that, a hobby.

Most never "earn their chops" in a traditional sense. These days, it would seem earning your chops is done by running create react app, cobbling together several dozen random javascript libraries and putting out a laughably designed website in a few days.

Got it.

“rich, handsome, successful”

Done.

I understand the purpose behind this, but you would be much better off leaving HN for 1-2 weeks when the next cool thing comes along.

Ah yes, the CEO is slumming it. I would be more impressed if he accepted cafe pay for one month instead.

Was it Eric Jones spamming again?!

If only Ruby had real concurrency and the memory didn't bloat like crazy.... you wouldn't need 90% of the hardware.

Not happy with it-- more so the hype around it. I am sure there are really tangible gains in what we can now do and a lot of avenues opening up, but I can't help but feel like the hype train is making it out to be the end-all for everything.

It's not always a static binary, if you use any os/config stdlib function calls or DNS look ups. In that case you need to specify CGO_ENABLED=0 to force static builds.

I have been doing single binary full website deploys for about ~16 months in production. That includes all html, css and js embedded. It has been wonderful.

This is a pretty funny "bug". Bring down those Nazi Kubernetes nodes. There's some humor in there somewhere... making a change to be inclusive results in Reddit going offline... mmmm.

I'm still waiting for people to rename "white paper".

Are you my wife?

"Hey mom, it's X. Sorry to leave this voice mail, I got in a bit of a car accident and lost my phone. I need to get back home, could you send $$$$ to ####?"

On the upside, I can now narrate my own life and thoughts as Morgan Freeman.

I appreciate sticking to your guns, but I would be terrified writing anything web facing in C or C++.

Furthermore, after looking at the WT documentation it seems horrific to construct frontends in... maybe not so bad for APIs though.

Not failed card attempts, but I noticed a big spike in failed reoccurring charges due to "bad card number" which is funny because these people have been using the same card for over a year.

This happened to me, almost identical. I was the first hire and an engineer. I worked for three years and some change before I was no longer a culture fit.

Never assume you are on the same level as the founders. There is no “family” and the “culture” is really a “cult”.

Never share your true thoughts or feelings. Tell them what they want to hear or whatever makes them feel in power and exert your true power elsewhere. Err, read the 48 Laws of Power and then apply it.

I didn’t burn that bridge but I burnt every one after it if I was crossed. I maintain a shit list of companies and people to take down in the future.

I have a website. I haven’t had any tangible benefits from it. I keep it mainly for SEO fodder if someone searches my name.

Alternatively, create a business that wraps Twitter's public data/API and sell access to your API starting at $99/month. A sort of.... API arbitrage?

That's correct-- secure password encrypts the ssh keys. Those keys then access the server, which has my pass vault, gpg keys, two factor recovery codes, etc.

Memorized.

If I don’t or can’t recall it then I’m dead or may as well be.

This is a complex problem. I considered this for many hours.

How does one securely restore their secure measures once their devices are lost?

Assume you lost your phone, laptop is also gone and your house burned down and your papers are gone with it.

I personally symmetrically encrypt my ssh keys and send them to my wife every six months or so. I also send them to a burner gmail account I use basic password auth with.

In a chaotic moment I can just ask my wife to download the file from her email and I can decrypt and ssh into my server where I store all files and important things encrypted.

I understand the project goals and everything but isn’t the primary weakness of it the same as every other laptop? If Apple decides to change something (which they will) or lock down the laptop more (which they will) then all of this work goes to nothing.

Isn’t there a better case to be made to strive towards open hardware and driving a community around common hardware and goals? Something like system76, the pine hardware, etc.

That's an option, but seems to be only slightly cheaper (at Linode at least). I am also unsure of the block storage speeds and reliability (for example, use as a data directory on a database).

Thanks-- at least they are not increasing the backup costs.

I could do with fewer cores, but the memory (and most importantly, the disk space) has been critical for me). When I compare alternatives, it seems pretty bleak.