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loremipsium··on XMPP, a comeback story
the technical challenge, or lack thereof, is not the reason why it's not done I suppose.
loremipsium··on Simple product management tricks
> Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

Sounds like hell. I am not a robot. And how am I going to do it. Take an hour before work to plan 48 10 Minute sessions for the day. What if something important comes up? Or take a 1 minute block every 10 minutes to figure out what to do for the next session? God forbid I have to take a call, take a p*ss, or my noodle pot boils over while I wfh.

loremipsium··on Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
ah yes. Because there is a direct and clear road ahead from requirement to implementation. Requirements don't change and if they do it doesn't have any impact on existing parts of the software. /s
loremipsium··on Europe floods: At least 120 dead and hundreds unaccounted for
The thing that was most disturbing was just how quickly the water rose. The Ahr, typically 10-15 ft wide and maybe about a feet deep, just enough to cool a beer crate during hot summer, went up to something like 23ft. I was joking with my mum on the phone late afternoon when they told me our camper got towed uphill as a precautionary measure. Not 2h later they had to be evacuated and the whole campsite was gone, as in does not exist anymore.
loremipsium··on Apache Heron: A realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine
hadoop, kafka, storm, spark, flink, samza, confluent This tastes an aweful lot like javascript framework hell
loremipsium··on Many Need for Speed Games Are Abiut to Be Erased by EA
NFS Most Wanted was absolute kino. One of the very few games I played through.
loremipsium··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
The salary discussion aside. That's what I have always been ad odds with OSS. Nobody is forcing you to put it up for free. Put a price tag on it an sell it. If it doesn't sell, lower the price. If it still doesn't sell, good. Stop trying to force adoption on software that cannot sustain itself.

Nobody ever heard oracle scrambling for cash.

loremipsium··on VW brand joins Audi in ending combustion engine development
first scrapping old but reliable cars with cash incentives to buy "clean" diesel. Then dieselgate pushing for gasoline powered cars and getting pennies on the dollar back. Now killing ICE alltogether. Not going to buy VW Group cars anytime soon.
loremipsium··on Show HN: I built a zero-cost, ad-free alternative to LinkedIn
I suppose this https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
loremipsium··on Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support
>If you see something objectionable on Twitter, report it. It will be addressed.

And as we all know twitter applies their community guidelines equally on all its users regardless of their political stance.

loremipsium··on 3D printing boats is becoming standard practice
There is an interesting paper on bouyancy optimization in 3d printing. You could define a waterline and orientation on any 3d shape and print it so that it stays afloat.
loremipsium··on Show HN: I created a platform to track retail traders' most popular moves
sweet hug of death? Website doesn't work for me
loremipsium··on Morgan Stanley to Shift About $120B of Assets to Germany
could you elaborate? I would have guessed that especially in finance hiring in major cities is just a matter of compensation.
loremipsium··on Facebook/Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm
so hooli wasn't google after all
loremipsium··on St Helena laws for inhabitants 1672
> Idleness leads to thinking, which tends to lead to people testing their cages.

I think it has more to do with the fact that you'd otherwise starve to death. There was no wholefoods to trade food stamps in. Also preindustrial probably any man hour had to be useful.

loremipsium··on Show HN: Jet – in-memory, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing
spark, storm, flink, beam, hazelcast... and then there are all the vendor locked choices confluent, kinesis, azure probably has something in that space to

The whole cloud computing space got me confused. I don't know what horse to bet on and don't have the time to get familiar with every new framework. Is this the new javascript world? If so I'd like to skip the next couple of years until we found our react equivalent.

edit: Not to be read as an invitation to discuss how react is not the de-facto standard of ui web frameworks

loremipsium··on Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
because it's what you need to get a food in the door.
loremipsium··on 20-year-old lost 700k on Robinhood options, takes life
In my understanding in buying options you can only lose the premium you pay upfront. Selling options however you can get burnt.