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jaruleon TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'

Taiwanese culture to be fairly reserved

That's what you see. When you're out of earshot we refer to you by several infantilizing expressions that connote npcness.

jaruleon Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?

Because I follow my own advice, my privately schooled children never worry about this.

jaruleon Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?

You worry about your own problems, and they'll worry about theirs.

jaruleon Ask HN: How to Deal with IT Gatekeepers?

You're going to break shit. People don't get raises or recognition for having to clean up after you.

jaruleon Anime is eating the world

I watched it when I was younger

Yeah, it hits different when you start at 35.

jaruleon Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

This guy has no conception how government works. The Olympics is a sports franchise like any other, selling a brand name for advertising dollars.

jaruleon Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

You've got it backwards. If a FOSS dev needs money, he should stop being FOSS. Don't throw your jacket on a puddle and expect the girl to put out.

jaruleon I Like Makefiles

It's simple, readable, editable, composable

I'll eat crow if wrong, but I'm guessing I know more about GNU make than you do. It is none of the four things you claim. Also, people who say "on the tin" need a good ass-kicking.

jaruleon David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way

Is the presentation bird alive or dead? What is "fired" in this context? Is the presentation bird unrested? What does "rested" mean in this context? Why does the kitchen need to "butcher" the chicken that's "rested"? Doesn't that mean the rested chicken is still alive? What does "slowing" the other, presumably presentation, chicken mean?

jaruleon Why GitHub won

Why GitHub was started. To ease ass pain.

jaruleon Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs?

Delano recommends trans folks try different options and go with what works best for their body

Self-identified woman submits her dick pic.

AI: Massive tumor detected. Seek immediate medical help.

jaruleon Ask HN: Is Lisp the Linux of Languages?

No, as a functional language, the predicate unambiguously comes first.

jaruleon Ask HN: Is Lisp the Linux of Languages?

No, lisp is not the Linux of languages. Steve Yegge sums it up "Every single non-standard extension, everything not in the spec, is 'wrong' with Common Lisp. This includes any support for threads, filesystem access, processes and IPC, operating system interoperability, a GUI, Unicode, ..."

And to answer your last question, no, lisp cannot read like English since predicate precedes subject a la Yodaspeak.

jaruleon Ask HN: Is closed-source software inherently evil?

No, intellectual property is as evil as nuclear codes, Coke, or Disney. The free software zealots started out as normal guys looking to save a buck and only later came to justify their cheapness with some insane moral legerdemain.

jaruleon Zed AI

Pay-for closed-source is profitable for about a week. Then some asshole offers a shittier but free facsimile and community contributions render it good enough to kill the original.

jaruleon America Has Too Many Laws – An excess of restrictions has taken a real toll

He also quipped that the officials would have “multiplied at the same rate had there been no actual seamen at all.”

Was that an artificial insemination joke?

jaruleon Ask HN: How did you convince people to pay for your software

Our software is for marketing

If it's worth anything, use it to market your shit.

jaruleon Ask HN: How do you read and follow the discussions on big threads?

nnhackernew.el presents HN as a 90s era Usenet forum.

jaruleon Ask HN: How do you read and follow the discussions on big threads?

Skip anything with more than three sentences. Long-windedness needs to be punished.

jaruleon Zed on Linux Is Here

Build a big enough userbase for big tech to want to buy it. It's the only game left outside ads. Worked for WhatsApp, Instagram, Github, Kaggle, etc.

jaruleon Zed on Linux Is Here

You've dedicated your adult life to massaging ABIs and openly admit your "non-polished" solution is an idealistic holy grail, and yet you expect some text editor with a non-existent path to profitability to have hewn to your every private thought about Linux binary versatility, and that sir is bullshit.

jaruleon Ask HN: What open source business models have worked?

gitawonk.com's premise is hosting your repo but charges cloners $2 to get full commit history. We do for software what itunes did for music. Yeah, we all know you can get the song on youtube for free, but pay us a pittance and we'll make it more convenient.

jaruleon Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent

I've seen this guy on the Zed YouTube channel, and yeah, dude loves to talk for hours without saying anything useful.

jaruleon Ask HN: How to deal with vitrolic colleagues in workplace?

Man the eff up. He's 23.

jaruleon Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent

This is why you never want to sell to developers.

jaruleon Ask HN: How do you find open source projects to contribute?

google is your friend

jaruleon Ask HN: How do you deal with being more intelligent than the general population?

How do you deal with being more intelligent than the general population?

Let us handle that. You go on following our orders.