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Idiotic comment.

No. Nothing was found (nailed down, proven) here except that error bounds need to be improved.

This comment is ridiculous and not based in fact.

This is apparently not an uncommon reaction. It's usually called an ego death.

This is what I mean.

> I’m able to deploy applications leveraging distributed storage and getting tls secured endpoints without a single ssh session

Is it grammatically possible to use more buzzwords in a single sentence? Reading that made me want to vomit.

This is very fucked up. What you're doing is unethical and rather nightmarish. Hope you get shut down by COPPA.

How could you possibly know this?

You've just described my gastrointestinal system.

Quitting is also slightly unethical.

I think it's unlikely that 'super rich parents' in the 70s would even tolerate the borderline junk collection of this guy.

I would say this is a mostly true comment, but it assumes that the author (or their parents) paid for everything. Many people are willing to trade their time (and leisure) to scavenge parts like those in the author's post, and needn't be rich.

To be more accurate, you're not making a useful point. You're just complaining about the way you grew up.

> Bostromian mission-like motivation

I had no idea Boz had the patent on being very motivated. Color me surprised.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and you see it in duck territory, and there have been ducks traipsing around where you found it, it's probably a duck.

Speculating on the risks of treatment is premature when the cost is a few $k a year and the alternative is shitty quality of life.

Prove that long-term antibiotic treatment is harmful, and then prove that there exists a better treatment. Daraprim may be extremely toxic, and cost $750/pill, but people still take it.

Talk about anecdata. Some people simply don't react to bites; you could easily be one of them.

I had the exact same thing happen while weeding. Move my hands up, feel something move under my watch, lift it up - dog tick.

Correct.

And people outside Wall Street worship Jobs, using him as the yardstick for good tech leaders. What gives, I don't know.

dang, please delete the above comment.

Your mistake is thinking that Larry or Sergey or Mark or Evan knew what they were doing in the first place with their own companies.

The US and most of Europe had the same problems up until the early 20th century.

Now this... This is the pinnacle of software engineering blogs. Shitty grammar and masturbatory bragging, interspersed with unnecessary expletives and abbreviations, topped off with a weak blog engine and zero citations is exactly what I love to read. Aaron Swartz, I'm sure, would be proud.

Would love to see your formulation of it!

This is a 1% engineer? The guy who can't spell "prosper"?

I don't bow down to my laptop, but I respect what went into making it.

It's great to admire excellent engineers; aspiring to be as skilled as someone at a task can be very motivating. Worshipping them is another thing.

You're right about the inferiority complex - I know I'm a relatively bad SW engineer, but that's mostly related to how new it is to me. I expect and want to improve.

Hubris is defined as excessive pride or self-confidence. I would say that bragging that you're "probably a 1% engineer," and that you've been hired by three of the largest SW companies out there qualifies as hubris. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a 1% engineer would publicly boast about being one and then actually use the 'M$' in a non-farcical manner.

Shitting on 99% of the SWE population to make yourself look good, then shitting on yourself to make another person look even better doesn't really work. There's a reason humanCmp() is a little more complex than strCmp().

BTW, being hired by a large company doesn't mean you're all that. Plenty of idiots get hired by Oracle.

Not believable.

Americans often find themselves overwhelmed and put into moral distress by causeries, unfortunately.

Maybe it's just me, but the hubris in this comment seems a little excessive.

They aforementioned SWEs make themselves multimillionaires /and/ have great jobs /and/ get praised by their peers, yet now everyone else has to bow down to them... over claims they were great programmers in high school? Is an appeal to your own experience the best way to make yourself seem relevant here?

It's an incredible DB system, but it ain't the Second Coming. Calm down.

From the same author/artist: https://blog.mattbierner.com/theremin-x-proposal/

In the frame of reference of the photon, the moment it is created and the moment it is destroyed are one and the same.