louzell

> where it didn't shine

Care to expand on this for the curious?

What does this mean for their partners like Stable? The only reason I used Stable was because it was part of the onboarding flow for Stripe Atlas. Is that considered a physical biz address?

FWIW my biz address doesn't have PO box in the address. It is re-used though (which I know because when I tried to register a DUNS number with Apple the first problem I ran into was another business was already registered at the same address)

Nope, not trying to trap anyone into a conversation they don't want to have. The purpose of the site is to match you with someone politically different. All marketing copy is forthright

It was a reference to the featured article. It does not have any good or evil connotations. The author suggested that, like light and dark matter coexisting without any knowledge of the other's presence, the author coexists with conservatives with certain views (creationists). Stats show that they are out there in huge numbers, but he has no first hand account.

Noted and good call, I'll take that out of the art.

> There are certain theories of dark matter where it barely interacts with the regular world at all, such that we could have a dark matter planet exactly co-incident with Earth and never know. Maybe dark matter people are walking all around us and through us, maybe my house is in the Times Square of a great dark matter city, maybe a few meters away from me a dark matter blogger is writing on his dark matter computer about how weird it would be if there was a light matter person he couldn’t see right next to him.

> This is sort of how I feel about conservatives.

Please excuse a touch of extremely relevant self-promo. I am building a site to address exactly this. I'm calling it RedMeetBlue, pairing folks from the light and dark matter worlds for one-on-one chats. Link in profile. If you are interested in this experiment, or want to participate, I'd love to hear from you.

Well that certainly piqued my interest. Found this too, though: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50631/did-abner...

One aspect of working in a big company is figuring out where all the bits of specialized knowledge live, and what the company-specific processes are for getting things done. One use case for an internal chatGPT is essentially a 100% available mentor inside the company.

Nice find!

I mean, businesses change? The founders didn't have a crystal ball to see how every decision would play out.

Reading through these comments, I'm reminded of a pop psychology book that I read that essentially said "never try to take someone away, no matter how small, it is perceived as a much larger loss than it is".

If Hashicorp had started with this new license in the first place, do we really think they wouldn't have had the business success that they've had? We'll never know, but my guess is that a license that says "competitors can't copy us" would seem totally reasonable to folks contributing, and irrelevant to customers that have a problem to solve. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, I want to understand this obviously passionate response.

(Since I've commented a couple times on this let me also say I'm not a hashicorp employee nor know anyone there)

I don't mind it. If a business is providing good software, and they have to make a license change to prevent someone from wholesale copying the work and selling it as a direct competitor, I'm for it! I'd rather have the sound business _in business_ and continuing to provide good software.

> This is why bankers earn more than nurses and teachers

I think it has more to do with the proximity to money. A banker is close to lots of money moving around, and in a position to craft some scheme to extract parts of it. This basically applies to all of finance. The closer you are, the more opportunities to extract large amounts. A nurse is far removed from the flow of money.

> No one is taking their self driving car to work and then lending it out to Uber

Sounds like a business opportunity

Why are you trying to dismiss this guy? I don't understand it. If you don't like the product or feel that $19 is too much money, then move along. God forbid someone tries to make a living by selling software.

I've personally struggled to test https locally [1], and I'm sure others have too. The next time I have the problem, though, I'll save myself the configuration and spend $19.

[1] https://www.louzell.com/notes/serve_https_on_localhost.html

> The point is that the entire model deployed by VCs is to profit by disrupting the marketplace with predatory pricing, and leave the losses to the suckers who buy into the IPO.

That certainly rings true. But, I also think it's true that all the information you need to assess a business is right there in the public filing. So, at least in theory, enough information is out there to let the VCs keep holding the bag. Right?

This has not been my experience at all. I was compelled to use Chrome at my last job (there was a bunch of internal tooling built around Chrome assumptions). I was there for almost five years, so I did a whole lot more than kicked the tires. My daily driver has remained FF, and I have not perceived any noticeable difference in perf because of it.

The body of the op.crypt test is pretty neat. He is clearly excited about the perf optimization:

  # this evaluates entirely at compile time!
  if (crypt('uh','oh') eq 'ohPnjpYtoi1NU') {print "ok 1\n";} else {print "not ok 1\n";}

  # this doesn't.
  $uh = 'uh';
  if (crypt($uh,'oh') eq 'ohPnjpYtoi1NU') {print "ok 2\n";} else {print "not ok 2\n";}

It's hard to argue against the power of separating content from presentation when we can see the results with our own eyes in a couple clicks on Zen Garden. I have a hard time seeing how the disparaging title of "architecture astronaut" is warranted by it.

opensnoop is also a good one that usually stays under the radar

It drives me nuts when systems are unnecessarily built with "magic DI" frameworks rather than initializer/constructor DI. Why is it so hard to pass a dep into the initializer? Make the initializer parameter a protocol/interface and you can pass a mock in at testing. And you can also grep the whole codebase for callers and find the exact concrete type passed in at runtime.

I watched Office Space for the first time in like 20 years this week. Some of the stuff I never noticed as a teenager cracked me up. My favorite was a whiteboard in the back of the meeting with the Bobs with "Planning to Plan" scrawled on it. That hit home so hard.

> It seems to me that a lot of desk jobs that feel like bullshit to the employee are really part of the nervous tissue of the organization, and the value they provide to the organization is still larger than the employee's salary

I'm not so sure that would actually count as a bullshit job in Graeber's eyes. He works towards a definition of a bullshit job over multiple pages. Here is a bit, I think, that would rule out the job above:

> This allows us to refine our definition. Bullshit jobs are not just jobs that are useless or pernicious; typically, there has to be some degree of pretense and fraud involved as well. The jobholder must feel obliged to pretend that there is, in fact, a good reason why her job exists, even if, privately, she finds such claims ridiculous. There has to be some kind of gap between pretense and reality. (This makes sense etymologically: “bullshitting” is, after all, a form of dishonesty.)

I read Bullshit Jobs and enjoyed it, yet it kinda nagged at me that I was missing the subtleness of the argument. I'm glad to see here that it hasn't crystalized for many others, too.

Go Kay Dean! Yelp should hire her and give her a team. It's a win-win. She is clearly passionate about the problem, and effective. Yelp gains added trust of their bread and butter, the review system.

There is a #design-feedback channel in the "Friends of Figma" Discord. You could give that a shot: https://discord.com/invite/figma