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maccolgan··on Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
Do you think the police would act proactively in a protest like that?
maccolgan··on My worst tech interview experience
>If you waste my time by telling me up front you're going to ask your own questions back at me

I don't see why a 20 YOE candidate with predictable capability has no right to also likewise determine how experienced, qualified or intelligent team members on the interviewing side are...

maccolgan··on Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company
Market cap is monopoly money, it doesn't mean anything.
maccolgan··on Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
I see you have missed the 5th Amendment rationale memo.

>That's a law enforcement role in most of the rest of the western world.

Might want to take a step back and realize what they were protesting.

maccolgan··on Instagram Is Facebook Now
>We, as in the IT industry, need to come up with a culture or methodology of 'declaring a product complete' whereby all product managers are gracefully allowed to move on and a product is put into a state of stasis, where bugfixes and the occasional relevant feature is built. If a product was not designed to show intelligent recommendations, use gamification or become a notification dashboard then that should be bared from ever appearing in its Backlog.

This is impossible for other reasons. When you are feature-developing a product, you will hire tons of employees, and then what do you with them when you are done with the feature development? Fire them? Lay off? When has that ever happened? Bugfixing, even if complicated takes less people than peak scale high growth development and nobody wants to maintain old cruft or refactor anyway. (cough HR cough). I'm willing to bet no company has ever downsized after feature development finished, they either go insolvent after they bolt on the kitchen sink or become IBM.

The real solution seems to be hiring a good, but sustainable sized team that you can maintain perpetually, but that never happens because your competitors will outgrow you if you do that. (Especially salespeople) We don't live in an economy of rational growth, because you'd be living on the streets if you tried to do that.

(Also remember if I'm not wrong GM makes most of its money from financing, it's not a problem unique to the computer software/hardware industry)

maccolgan··on Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
So what do you do when your car is on fire but there's also nude photos in the back seat? Asking genuinely, don't know what would be the best thing to do...
maccolgan··on US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse
My comment was sarcastic lol, considering they are almost never fired despite underperforming. (I'd like to be immune to productivity requuirements and leech off society, only ironically)
maccolgan··on Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)
How is state ownership of the means of production embedded in the core Internet protocols?
maccolgan··on Web3 is not Decentralisation – it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge
>Blockchains are essentially nested application/data layer federation protocols.

They are trustless, that's the biggest advantage.

maccolgan··on AWS Private 5G
I would assume that'd be so nickle and dimed by CISPs (probably trying to milk the enterprise cow) that nobody either knows or cares about that.
maccolgan··on US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse
>state teachers' unions

I'd say yes to that.

maccolgan··on Solidjs – JavaScript UI Library
Congratulations, now every browser (oh wait, there's only 1 real browser) will implement it slightly differently and you'll use a library once again to reconcile all of them. (Also old browsers, browsers implementing the non-final version of the spec)
maccolgan··on Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
The day Firefox disables my one-line UI is the day I leave Firefox permanently, containers are cool and all but I'll live with it.
maccolgan··on WebGL Water
All internet "forums" have a human sitting at the other end, why do you feel the need to mention there's a human sitting on the other end? GP wasn't really "spewing negativity", just discouraging a certain culture of discussion that is genuinely bad (and uncommon) for HN.
maccolgan··on EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
Wait until you realize unions sometimes are legalized cartels of employees.
maccolgan··on IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
Airtel certainly does in some places.
maccolgan··on IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
Yes, JioFibre now (?) offers fully functional IPv6 all across the board, even in the most rural of places.
maccolgan··on Flatpak Is Not the Future
Dynamic linking is a creation of the devil.
maccolgan··on SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
Why don't you just use a locally hosted alternative YT client (web or otherwise) like FreeTube, Piped or Piped-Material?
maccolgan··on GoDaddy Security Breach
It's about the database and SFTP usernames and passwords, how can you hash them?
maccolgan··on Science upside for Starship
>Tesla owner that owns stock in Shell and votes conservative is much more problematic then a non-voting F-150 owner that works paycheck to paycheck.

>rich conservative voter that emits more greenhouse gas than the F-150 ever can ever hope

Wow

maccolgan··on Rust Moderation Team Resigns
Richard Stallman was accused of ""sexual misconduct"" ?
maccolgan··on Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose
Cryptocurrency as a investment is the worst thing possible, DeFi is the exact opposite of that.
maccolgan··on Why NFTs are bad: the long version
That's the use for it though. If Valve hypothetically minted NFTs for each unique individual CSGO skin variation, it'd be valued and would create a secondary market free of Valve's constant rent seeking. I see that as a very legitimate use of the technology.
maccolgan··on The IPv4 Cleanup Project
DHCPv6 isn't mandatory to use IPv6, and SLAAC works fine in those cases (and neither are mandatory actually, can't be). This isn't related to IPv6 overall.
maccolgan··on Notes on Web3
How would you gain access to the account itself just by knowing the account number?
maccolgan··on Notes on Web3
This is invalid for the same reason why none replies with "what about the rubber hose" to any cipher selection process.
maccolgan··on Notes on Web3
Who determines the limits? What if the determiner of the limits disagree with you? It's all fun and sexy to make limits until you are systematically excluded.
maccolgan··on Notes on Web3
Are you completely unaware of how the blockchain is validated and the cryptography underlying it?
maccolgan··on Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink
I hope you noticed it's from Salon.
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