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iamjk··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
plot twist: they leave it up, collect telemetry to match and understand the data behind pirating vs. owned emulation, find it useful to open the platform, focus on services, and build their business to 10x on software almost exclusively

not probable, but that would be interesting to see

iamjk··on Go run
imo this is the biggest thing deno and bun have going for them. running typescript from the shell is so nice and easy
iamjk··on Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative
Finally a competitor to dbt. the world needs this!
iamjk··on Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?
Privacy, longevity, nutrition science, trust, deep space exploration.
iamjk··on Google Cloud Storage FUSE
I mean I get why everyone wants everything to be fuse-compatible but some things just aren't meant to be done.
iamjk··on Breaking up with Python
> Python’s standard library sucks

Maybe for production ready microservices, but I've always thought Python's std lib was pretty expansive.

iamjk··on Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy
I mean, is anyone really surprised by this? LLMs (as I understand them today) only predict the next token based on previous tokens, so there's no actual logical cohesion to what they produce.
iamjk··on Jetty: Access Control for Modern Data Teams
Hey everyone, Jk here. I cofounded Jetty Labs to build data tools. The tl;dr here is that data teams use a lot of tools and understanding how access is configured across the growing stack is complex and exhausting. Jetty is a tiny peek at our broader vision of simplifying data privacy and we'd love you to give it a try and offer any feedback on the product.
iamjk··on The evolution of the data engineer role
I won't be surprised if DE ends up just falling under the "software engineering" umbrella as the jobs grow closer together. With hybrid OLAP/OLTP databases becoming more popular, the skillset delta is definitely smaller than it used to be. Data Engineers are higher leverage assets to an organization than they ever have been before.
iamjk··on WhatsApp is more secure than iMessage: Mark Zuckerberg
There was an external audit in 2021 – https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/10/27/public-report-whats....
iamjk··on SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
Someone fix the grammar on that last statement!

"We're don't view ourselves in competition with Meta"

iamjk··on The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)
I love this book! There is a lot of abstraction today that most software workers benefit from, but I think there is a lot of value in understanding lower-level mechanisms.
iamjk··on Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
Isn't this... what everyone (that uses in-app browsers) does? I just assumed that's a big reason why one would use in-app over sending a person to their native environment, which is decidedly a better browsing experience.
iamjk··on Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
The concept seems cool and the price seems reasonable if the quality is high. But how does this translate to value for subscribers? It seems like the company is treating curation as the core value prop but I see it as more of a means to some end.
iamjk··on The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]
Their podcast, "On the Metal" provides more context at the work they're aiming to accomplish.
iamjk··on Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
> Computer Systems: A Programmer's Persepctive

Can vouch for this one. Provides a great overview of systems through the lens of algorithms they are built on.

iamjk··on Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
Shirer has a shorter book called The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler that was concise and clear. I look forward to reading this longer iteration on the same topic too.
iamjk··on Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
You'd think he would have found someone to design a nicer cover for him.
iamjk··on Another heavily-funded AR headset startup is shutting down
What's the company you work for?
iamjk··on Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
Props to you, putzdown, for bringing this up. The Bible is an often overlooked trove of wisdom
iamjk··on Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
Completely agree on this one. Almost every conversation I have over religion or politics brings to mind the lessons I learned from The Righteous Mind.
iamjk··on Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
Absolutely loved The Righteous Mind, it was one of my favorites this year as well. I just ordered his next one, The Coddling of the American Mind.
iamjk··on Ask HN: Is Google failing at UI/UX/design simplicity in its products?
Bring back inbox!
iamjk··on Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
+1 to Nerdwriter. Really quality content.
iamjk··on Ask HN: Is a computer science degree worth it or should I learn on my own?
A good accredited CE curriculum will require all of the CS fundamentals.
iamjk··on Google’s first all-hands after 2016 election [video]
The video won't load on Chrome for me, but it works on Safari. Is this Google's doing?
iamjk··on Katie's New Face
This is the most inspiring thing I've seen in a long time. Humanity is awesome.
iamjk··on Ask HN: What are the smartest people you know working on?
Amen to this!
iamjk··on Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant
I was just amazed that a google plus post got so high on hn.
iamjk··on Spotify Form F-1
And it now comes with Hulu for free! (At least in the US)
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