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krisdol··on Built-In Vim Autocomplete
It works surprisingly well for languages like JavaScript and rust as well.
krisdol··on iPad 9.7‑inch
Driver compatibility could be hell in windows as well if you're cursed with a "switchable" graphics option. My last lenovo could switch between on-board and dedicated graphics, but the latest video driver that lenovo provided was from the year before I even bought the laptop. If I used the card manufacturer's drivers, they'd usually work but killed the ability to switch to on-board graphics; but if I used Lenovo's drivers, games performed very badly due to how out of date they were.

Having one manufacturer and fewer models usually means longer and more consistent product support.

krisdol··on YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
It's the police in my sanctuary city that want the "sanctuary" status. Our police should be free to prioritize using their limited resources on pursuing important threats to the safety of our community, and illegal immigration is just not the threat that flyover methlab-country is convinced it is. Our immigrants fearing using public services, fearing reporting crime to the police, that stuff hurts our city.
krisdol··on YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
The whole ban is a hysterical overreaction, not the reporting on it.

Look, I'm all for better vetting of travelers to the US. But first, tell me what problems there are in the first place, and then tell me how you plan on fixing them. What's wrong with our current vetting process?

Banning travelers from countries carte-blanche "until we figure things out", with no identification of the original problem and no proposal for a fix, how is that something anyone can support? It is xenophobic, unreasonable, rooted in fiction, and in this case, it is a ban on muslims.

krisdol··on YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
Have you been in Quebec? Montreal is more like a central European city than anything in the US. I haven't been to Quebec City but I gather it's not much different.

It's also starkly different if you look at share of wealth. Class divisions are smaller in Canada, noticeably so.

krisdol··on State of Clojure 2016 – Results and Analysis
I went through the same pain points with GraphQL (to some extent I still do). I wound up writing a clojure wrapper around the Java GraphQL library, and that was a pretty easy endeavor, and got me farther along than the native library option. I keep telling myself to take time and open source it.

For the editor, I found a happiness with Atom + Proto REPL + Parinfer + Paredit (barely used). I wish I could get better integration with linting tools. I tried the vim approach for a while but Atom was way ahead in terms of REPL and Parinfer support. I'm not paying the cost to switch to emacs.

krisdol··on Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing
The same potential holds for cucumber test cases.
krisdol··on Silicon Valley billionaires are ‘prepping’ to survive in underground bunkers
> the prepper movement among tech-made billionaires is largely inspired by fear that artificial intelligence will one day displace so many jobs that there will be a revolt against those behind the technology.

Something something worker ownership of the means of production something something.

Seriously though, workers should be the first to benefit from automating their own jobs out of existence. It's been over a hundred years since marxists talked about what they perceived as the inherent contradictions of a capitalist system. Automation and the struggle for a livelihood in the face of falling wages and growing profits isn't new. Technology has changed but the fundamental conflicts remain unsolved. So while we can all debate here about the effectiveness of bunkers, we're glossing over the systemic problems that necessitate the capitalist class to hide in bunkers in the first place. At least we've moved on to the point where most recognize that there could be an existential problem accelerating toward us.

One thing I'm sure of, the class of YC 2035 will have great uber-for-bunker-security apps.

krisdol··on What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn
> Now, you have to come to the table with the $100K to exercise and probably another $200K to pay the tax man

But why shouldn't I just come to the table with $10k and taxes, exercise those shares, then use the profits to buy up the remaining shares?

krisdol··on Netflix Infinite Runner
Try using space bar
krisdol··on Wavelength, published by Asana
So you mean a self-hosted solution? What is inherently unsafe about it?
krisdol··on ThinkPad X1 Carbon
You're in a thread responding to someone (who I happen to agree with as well) that disagrees with you on "There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad". It's a bit a of a bold claim. I disagree with you on the keyboard and the navigation. The solid aluminum construction of the MBP is one of the best aspects of it, next to the display. I've dropped the thing probably 20 times without issue. I will admit, knowing how carbon feels on my bike, I'm curious about how it looks and feels on the X1. My 5 year old MBPr still gets 5 hours of battery life while the Thinkpad I had got 30 minutes when it reached the 4 year mark. Not in the valley, by the way, and I also prefer linux.
krisdol··on Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser
Except for when working on a train, plane, or coffeehouse.
krisdol··on Diamonds Suck (2006)
Take it from another perspective, this is more like a cofounder (or really, two cofounders) being so headstrong that he won't budge on his opinion for the good of the company.

If you explain clearly your viewpoints on diamonds, where those viewpoints are rooted, and the partner doesn't agree even after understanding your viewpoint, then you should consider compromising.

krisdol··on Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal
Clinton also stood against TPP.
krisdol··on Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal
But he's not aware of the whole story. Japan is paying us money (billions, I think) to keep those bases there. I assume the same goes with other countries. This isn't free protection.
krisdol··on LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn
Agreed. I've seen Senior be anywhere from Level 2 to Level 5 Software Engineer, depending on how the company assigns the wording.
krisdol··on Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
Ah yes, forget the Microsoft of 4 months ago. The Microsoft of today would never do that!
krisdol··on Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
If you don't find its API integrations useful, then why use slack over just about any other communication software?

For us, the API integrations are huge. Slack is our one-stop hub for finding out what's happening throughout the company with integrations for PM tools, Monitoring, Alerting, Deployments, Build Systems, Support Emails, AnswerHub, GitHub, etc.

And of course, giphys.

krisdol··on Ask HN: What laptop should I get instead of a Macbook Pro?
How's the linux support on it? Even if I got over the my frustrations with the windows desktop user-experience, not being unix-like is an absolute no-go for development.
krisdol··on Node.js v7.0.0
Callbacks and events are significantly faster than promises, and promises I think most see as a wrapper around callbacks, with convenience functions for running and waiting on multiple concurrent async functions.

If you want promises, just embrace promisify. I get a lot of this fear about error-first callbacks being only a "convention", but everything follows this convention in practice. Anything that can't be promisified because of that will likely have a pull request or a more popular fork that can.

I don't think node core libraries should be promise-based, and you can't expect the whole ecosystem to switch to promises if node core won't. At some point you have to jump to callback-style to live on node.

I also don't really understand what this post has to do with the release.

krisdol··on CPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP
No, hyperlinks failed us. It's all about single-page apps. Put all of your content and all of the content you would have linked to in your .txt. We need someone to build Reactxt.
krisdol··on DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit
Suddenly I feel the pain of having infrastructure-as-code hosted on github. Pagerduty was hosed too.
krisdol··on Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
You just described about half of the smart phone home screens.
krisdol··on Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
If developers were better about releasing quality, multi-platform software using their 1970s languages of choice, maybe we wouldn't have all moved to the browser.
krisdol··on Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
Yeah, because then I know to ignore the listing.

If I came from a place that paid $50k, I'd expect them to be able to give me a small bump but likely land me in the low-to-mid part of the range and I'd apply. If I came from 75k I'd expect higher end of the range, and I'd apply. That could be unreasonable depending on how they place different tiers of engineer on that range, but if it is then it's better to split out the jobs by title (Software Eng Jr./Sr/Staff/Principal). If I came from over 100k I'll pass because I don't think they can afford me regardless of title.

krisdol··on The real Soylent sickness
Well, I mean why would the Soylent FAQ say anything otherwise? Nutritionists disagree. It's not some hippie new age anti-industry opinion, it's a fact.

In fact, this is such a stupid oversimplification that any amount of critical thinking can debunk it. There is a lot more to food that the net nutrition intake you have at the end of the day. The actual, physical composition of the food determines how quickly you body digests it, which in turn affects your energy levels, appetite, and mood. Your body does not digest apple juice the same way as it does raw apples, even if both have the same exact ingredients. You won't feel the same after a smoothie as you will after the same ingredients delivered raw. One method of intake gives you a short, high burst of energy followed by steeper drop off, while the raw form provides gentler changes and is less likely to spike your blood sugar.

All of this interacts with your psychology, your metabolism, and your physical and mental energy.

This is like saying I can safely fast for 4 days once If I eat 6000 calories worth of [insert food/drink] today. You might survive for 4 days but good luck not tearing up your body and feeling like a ghost by then.

More-processed foods are not inherently "bad" or "unhealthy", but they are inherently worse and less healthy than less-processed foods (generally). They contribute to shorter periods of feeling satiated and longer low-energy periods. You will crave processed food more frequently and in greater quantities than raw food.

krisdol··on The real Soylent sickness
>I've never seen half dozen egg cartons or single sticks of butter sold in supermarkets, but my experience is somewhat limited.

Just want to counter so the parent poster knows that yes, it is very common to find single sticks of butter or half-dozen egg cartons in many grocery stores. I can't think of any that don't have these things.

krisdol··on Spotify and the Art of the Playlist
I used to archive each weeks playlist for later listening, and I think that started making weekly feed into itself. Still, even though I've encountered bumps like this along the way, it eventually self corrected and got better
krisdol··on YouTube Changes YouTube Heroes Video Stealthily
I think you mean "mass flag videos", and yes it still seems to be an easy avenue for abuse
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