herodoturtle

It's been years since I heard the term "Throwback Thursday", funny that reading it here felt like a throwback in its own right ^_^

I agree with you.

I'm sure the author means well, but it comes off as someone who lacks real-world experience sharing what they think is an ideal team structure when building apps.

That's just my opinion, but yeah, the article doesn't resonate with my experience at all, and I've been at this a while.

There is a link in the other comments that is intended to explain the context, but as someone who isn't familiar with the structure of threads / conversations in the Wikipedia editing community, I am honestly struggling to follow it.

Can someone here please help me understand what the issue is?

(I keep seeing stuff in that linked article about canvassing and "the left marching through institutions" but again I'm not following the overall argument / issue. Please forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something obvious.)

Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to comment here and for offering constructive support too.

> But I know a base jumper .. and he only does the jumps if he feels the fear and his kick is to overcome it and feel the adrenalin rush.

This sentence has beautifully crystallised the meaning of what it means to be an adrenalin junkie ^_^

“vibesludge”

^_^ hah what a great word, first time seeing it.

Another one I came across recently - “sloptimization”

How long before someone ports DOOM into a favicon? ^_^

(For the technical gurus here, would that even be possible?)

Could you please expand on this?

Aren’t prices sky rocketing precisely because of excess demand? And they’d collapse in turn if demand disappeared.

My understanding of economics is entry level so please forgive my ignorance. I’m just curious what you mean.

And I'm here wondering if there's a limit to HN's nested replies.

Kudos to you and your team for not burning through the rest. Hope you have better luck with your next project.

That TRON theme linked in the article is cool, thanks for sharing.

At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?

I suspect it has more to do with Germany’s industrial scale in the automotive space (as opposed to incentives or culture).

Great article (and phrase).

Thank you.

> Becoming aware of this concept has made it easier to navigate the world. And it's becoming easier and easier for me to simply stop a video and close a tab when I sense that it's just trying to give me a hit of dopamine.

I’ve just gone ahead and placed a little sticky note at the bottom of my monitor that says “dopamine fracking?”

Burninating the countryside.

Burninating the peasants.

Burninating all the peoples.

Let’s see Paul Allen’s calculator.

This is so beautifully written.

The internet needs more of this.

“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise!” - Ted Turner

Side note, for those of you that enjoy biographies, his autobiography “Call Me Ted” is a real page-turner (pun intended).

A highly inspirational story of entrepreneurship, which includes a raw and authentic account of his flaws.

A true legend.

Rest in peace Ted.

> Here's something random about "Neanderthal"

If you'll permit me to throw in some fun (and arguably related) trivia:

Niander Wallace is the main antagonist in Blade Runner 2049. He's a genius industrialist that manufacturers high-tech human "replicants" for profit, and in pursuit of his ultimate goal to "storm Eden and retake her". An yet the thing that holds him back is his inability to get his replicants to procreate.

Mauritius for one.

Interesting timing when one also considers that the Musk vs OpenAI trial is set to get underway.

https://www.dw.com/en/musk-vs-openai-trial-to-get-underway/a...

> His letter (at the top of Apple's web site) is moving

As an aside, I absolutely love the minimal elegance of that web page.

This was a neat design choice I remember it well.

And also that my “sound card works perfectly!”

There’s a pretty great penguin colony site seeing area in Cape Town called Boulders Beach for those of you that happen to visit and are keen to see them up close.

Also this article is just great.

In long term archival use cases this is less of an issue. Especially if it’s many exabytes we’re talking about, needing to be stored for decades.

But I 100% agree with your main point about possibility vs productionisation.

Indeed it is forced savings but with the benefit of covering your funeral expenditure if it is required suddenly and unexpectedly.

For context, it might cost you $5 per month, and give you funeral cover of $500.

As OP mentioned it is very common in South Africa, likely owed to the unpredictable life expectancy. All the large insurers offer it, it’s a massive market.

I’ve read elsewhere that the cut-away during booster separation was intentional given the high risk manoeuvre.

If something went wrong / explosion etc, then they wouldn’t want to broadcast it.

Something to that effect. I’m paraphrasing someone else.

I heard this in a Justin timberlake as Napster guy voice

This is such a cool way to build brand awareness - kudos to the author.

I'd never heard of dbpro.app until now - and this article is just so awesome.

Nice job!

Hacker news attracts all sorts of curious people, including luddites like myself! ^_^

Tried to open this page on my mobile, good grief the changing advert spam overload kills the reading experience.