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iamdaveon StockX Is a Stock Market for Nikes and Rolexes

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Getting to this point would have required reading past the headline.

iamdaveon Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup

Also, if you ever plan to be a founder yourself, working at a big company might not give you any useful experience at all.

Alternatively, from experience, while big company might not give you valuable experience it can give you some good people to have in your network. Even if its to ask your former company accountant for advice choosing a billing partner.

iamdaveon How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request

I haven't been able to check yet, but does anyone know if you are allowed to use this process to propose new laws or clarifications of laws more substantial than simple typo fixes?

"You" as in you, a citizen off the street proposing a new law? Unlikely. You could use it to form the basis for a ballot initiative, I would think?

iamdaveon Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image

But what goes inside a Dockerfile might be imperative, like running apt-get to install packages (i.e., running steps in order)

But...that too is done via the Dockerfile, via the RUN command to execute commands inside the container at run time. Or alternatively using the ENTRYPOINT command.

iamdaveon Show HN: Twiverse – Find Twitter users and get more followers

Ahh thank you for that bit of insight, I was wondering if you had gone through the additional trouble of maybe pulling images from each respective topic via hashtag and applied some sort of ML to decide what picture is displayed with what category.

Definitely nothing wrong with the approach you've taken though (and if nothing else, consider the above an idea if you do decide to rewrite that functionality) if it helped ship the product more quickly, like I said-it doesn't break functionality, just a passive observation that may help the user experience later down the line.

Cheers :)

iamdaveon Show HN: Twiverse – Find Twitter users and get more followers

I can easily see myself using this, going through twitter recently to prune and replace some of the accounts I follow.

One suggestion if I might? I noticed some of the imagery didn't seem to immediately 'grok' with their topics. For example "Sports" shows a photo of a bicycle propped against a wall in what looks like someone's flat, while "Arts" shows a photo of a basketball court, "Animation" showed a photography studio and the "Comedy" topic has a group shot of business suit types (albeit in a 'silly' pose).

It was a little odd, definitely nothing that breaks the platform but it may help 'discovery' to make images a bit less...ambiguous given the topic they're related to? I think sports and my mind goes to team sports and not necessarily riding a bike to work (the image looks like an average commuter bicycle versus a racing bike) so maybe that's on me to make the mental adjustment when assuming the connectedness of topics.

Otherwise, neat idea and service!

iamdaveon How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross

Phrased exactly like that? Probably not, but I do ask "so what's your story?" as an ice breaker quite often when meeting people, but I have heard it.

I'm a little astounded that so many find such an inquiry so abnormal.

iamdaveon The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities

how people got there is one thing, the main tools to "fix it" are fairly straightforward: give people housing

The solution sounds straightforward, the path to get there looks like a Gordian knot. How do you pay for it? How do you get that funding source to go along with your plans to pay for it? Etc.

iamdaveon Charter, Comcast don’t have First Amendment right to discriminate, court rules

you’re wrong to suspect he hasn’t seen it before

I welcome dvtrn to correct me on the matter, as I don't want to speak on their behalf out of line, but taken in context, it seems pretty obvious to me what he was doing was contrasting what someone imagines race relations being like to what he actually lived and experienced is as a black man in the south. No imagination needed on his part.

I think the benefit of the doubt there is earned.

iamdaveon Charter, Comcast don’t have First Amendment right to discriminate, court rules

For someone to say calling a black man "boy" is not racist is either willfully ignorant to an alarming degree or just plain insincere.

It's probably as another commenter alluded below: people are taking this weird position of "I haven't personally lived through it so it must be literally any other explanation" when someone who has direct experience with the type of behavior exhibited points to it happening, live and in living color and says "this is a problem for me as a member of this group".

I couldn't ever in a hundred years imagine telling a blind person who says "this is my experience as a blind person" they're wrong, or what they live through on a day to day basis isn't valid because I, a person with full vision experience it differently.

But here we are. Reading some of the comments in this thread has me cringing just as much as reading the claims alleged in the article [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495817

iamdaveon Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch

if a person is looking for sharpening, a strong partner is the best tool.

I kind of disagree with this notion, personal enrichment can come from all sorts of sources and places, and ins't reliant on having a significant other, but your point is taken for what it is.

iamdaveon Users complain that Apple is 'nickel and diming' them

I tried them out, just from a functional standpoint of using them as ostensibly wireless earbuds? They do a really good job, I get the appeal behind them from a very utilitarian point of view. Just one person's own opinion.

Wouldn't ever own a pair though. I am absolutely awful at not losing earbuds, so I exclusively wear over ear phones now. Much harder to lose.

iamdaveon Users complain that Apple is 'nickel and diming' them

I'll raise you. I once Bought a new set of headphones that came with miniUSB that plugs into a volume knob which itself plugs into my desktop via USB 2. It also came with a miniUSB to 3.5mm adapter.

Just this morning I was pulling them out of my backpack getting off the train and noticed for the first time (I've had these headphones a year) there's a discreet 3.5mm headphone jack.

You know what didn't come in the box? A 3.5mm headphone cable.

Which means if I want to plug this thing into an old iPod or my docking station at work, I'd need to bring a miniUSB cable and an adapter. Or just go buy my own 3.5mm cable.

Very interesting design choices if you ask me.

iamdaveon Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch

Or just do what I did: say "screw it" to the whole idea, get a dog and go fishing on the weekends.

iamdaveon Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch

I'm pretty jaded on the modernity of dating in general. OKC, Tinder, others haven't really helped that, and maybe it's generational or maybe it isn't--doesn't feel like many in my age group (27) are really that much interested in relationships of substance and trend more towards relationships because 'relationship'.

But again, jaded on dating in general, pretty darn content with everything else otherwise if I'm being honest (except the cat really does need to get a job and start pulling his weight around here).

iamdaveon Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

the Chicago area has over twice the population to draw employees from

Leave us alone, the blue line is still broken.

iamdaveon Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin

Do you have someone who resides above these coworkers or coworker who you can appeal to for support and guidance? I realize this may be a painful step to take but you can't nor should you allow your employer to see your lack of productivity and effectiveness on the team because you aren't getting the help needed from seasoned team members leaving you to suffer on an island.

iamdaveon Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin

Do I keep repeatedly asking? That's the right thing to do, but as a human, it's a hard thing to do.

Blunt answer: yes. Absolutely.

iamdaveon Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

But I sold a business for 6 figures last year that was parimarily automation scripts in PHP. Figure that one out.

I'd be keen to learn more, can I reach out? I'm not really looking for guidance or ideas to do the same, I just genuinely enjoy reading these kinds of stories-like a weird Reader's Digest sort of thing but for entrepreneurs.

iamdaveon We Removed jQuery

I'm starting to feel like I should expand this into a manifesto.

<sarc> Yes, let's give the clueless tech recruiters more ammunition to screen out otherwise qualified candidates after someone with a blog stumbles across your site and suddenly recruiters are doing machine learning-matching on resumes against "the manifesto" </sarc>

iamdaveon Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs?

They may also worry you don't want to put in the late nights and long hours they want due to perhaps family obligations

Unless there's something broken, a system down, or a critical issue that needs to be fixed yesterday, I got news for you: I ain't staying late either.

I'm 32 with a dog and a highly opinionated cat. Hire me, or don't. Plenty of other companies out there that respect work life balance and don't insist on the awful notion of "well you don't have anyone waiting on you to get home anyway, why do you care?" (of course I'm deliberately phrasing that awfully, but let's be honest with ourselves here).

iamdaveon GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool

That particular example, I'm not even sure if it's an issue of teams competing for the king of the messaging hill. And it's of particular interest to me as a developer who works in the messaging space.

It's not hard to get right, it's not difficult to get wrong either-everyone has their spin on messaging and that kind of choice is perfectly fine. We don't need one to rule them all, at least IMO.

But goodness gracious Google just seems to have NO clue what they're doing with messaging. Which is frustrating because in the sliver of time they got it right, they got it right (that time when Hangouts was actually kind of great, it was well integrated, and looked like Google was actually trying to make it better? Member those days?) and then-as expected-they stripped the car for parts and we ended up with two communications (Duo and Allo) platforms that really should have been one feature-rich solution.

iamdaveon SEC tightens the noose on ICO-funded startups

Practically any retail/spot forex exchange I thought?

iamdaveon To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

There are plenty of poisonous plants. This is not one of them, and that's a poor argument to make against the mounting evidence that people are finding valid medical and therapeutic relief from cannabis, and it's an even worse argument in the face of how cannabis has been historically used to paint early 20th century negroes as unhinged savages that terrorize and victimize white communities from being "addicted" to the devils lettuce. See also: "reefer madness"

THAT is my issue with that topic. Not just that it's a plant but the very way you've argued against it and the wholesale ignoring of how that prohibition was used to disenfranchise and disempower feeding into Ameria's current incarceration obsession because of a plant.

Alas we're straying from the central of the thread right now.

iamdaveon To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

Statistics have to come before anecdotes

Point conceded, even if the two examples I gave are two of the highest profile events in the last five years speaking on the topic of minority repression in America, they are symptoms of a larger disease. But point conceded.

I'll play along and gladly provide sources and statistics if you'd like, I seem to have made a faulty assumption that these issues I pointed to were speaking for themselves rather loudly and the volumes of data would be readily available to anyone inclined to look for them.

There's much more recency to this discussion than what happened in as you put it "the 1930s"

iamdaveon To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

There may not be formal government programs that presriptively sanction the murder and decimation of minority communities by the American constabulary but the law also historically has given merit to "disparate impact".

Furthermore Van Dyke's conviction came with mitigating factors that I will passionately argue create the conditions for disparate impact when black Americans are killed by state actors in the form of local police officers.

This IMO supersedes any argument that we lack government policy that sanctions police brutality and points to a direct need for police reform which is the root of a statement like "Black lives matter".

iamdaveon To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

How about the cages we put people in for having a certain plant in their glove compartments? No comparisons to Nazi-ism needed for that level of barbarism

iamdaveon To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

And we don't have guys out executing jews and other minorities while trashing their temples and churches.

How far off the mark would I be in guessing you're not a minority in America?

Jason Van Dyke, a Chicago police officer was just convicted of 2nd degree murder and sixteen counts of aggravated battery with a fire arm of a black man in a time when more and more black Americans feel scared for their lives simply being in the presence of a police officer (I happen to be one of them) and Dylan Roof was given the death penalty for killing nine black parishioners at a church in my hometown of Charleston South Carolina three years ago.

These are by no means the only examples I can give you.

iamdaveon Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China

This isn't a cold hard algorithm, and my dispassionate stance here doesn't mean I'm lacking empathy-given the specific context I've brought up: there is no decision tree here being pondered.

It's also not an endeavor to be correct about the matter.

This is an attempt to objectively understand what appears to be an interesting dichotomy in popular responses to who we allow to be the gatekeepers of disseminated information and opinion, and what (un)enumerated power we tacitly give them.