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Lots of little, simple functions, composed... You can still use the threading at a higher function, but instead of doing the actual work at each step in the pipeline, you call a well-named function which does what that step was doing. Yes, it may feel redundant, but it absolutely improves human comprehension because it reads like clear human instructions.

Tests become much simpler too.

The only two challenges I face with this approach is 1 - naming things, and 2 - organizing. The function names tend to become quite long, since they ideally describe what the function does.

I haven't done this lately, now that the AI tools have become pretty great; I can imagine that an AI tool would be an excellent knowledge base for these many functions, and it would probably be very successful in providing additions or modifications given the clean, clear function names and brief contents.

US tech is built on the "go fast, break things" mentality. Companies with huge backers routinely fail at security, and some of them actually spend money to suppress those who expose the companies' poor privacy/security practices.

If anything, college kids could at least reasonably claim ignorance, whereas a lot of HN folks here work for companies who do far worse and get away with it.

Some companies, some unicorns, knowingly and wilfully break laws to get ahead. But they're big, and people are getting rich working for them, so we don't crucify them.

It's hard to tell these days what is real.

Linkedin shows 2024 founded, and 2-10 employees. And that same Linkedin page has a post which directly links to this blurb: https://www.readfeedme.com/p/three-college-seniors-solved-th...

The date of this article is May 2025, and it references an interview with the founders.

https://georgetownvoice.com/2025/04/06/georgetown-students-c...

Since a phone can show portrait or landscape videos in fullscreen (just hold the phone vertically or horizontally), it makes sense to shoot in whatever orientation fits the content or situation best.

The real problem is that computer monitors don’t easily offer orientation switching :)

But hey, I suppose sometimes we just deem projects too big and messy to comprehend, so we just toss it all and start over. It rarely turns out as nice or easy as we thought it would be.

You've just explained "race to the bottom". We've had enough of this race, and it has left us with so many poor services and products.

The FAQ link goes nowhere (afaik there is no FAQ), the page language selector is buggy - it randomly shows me other languages and is stubborn to accept when I switch back to English. Also, my first attempt to reach the main page was a 502 error.

Also, I don't see anywhere that tells me who makes this editor.

I'm supposed to trust some unknown group of people and install their software?

70% of the many recruiter messages I receive are like this. This began 20 years ago and has gotten increasingly worse.

It has nothing to do with your topic.

Once their paywall pops up, I cannot do anything with the app except swipe left to go back. The Firefox menu is inaccessible as are any other features of the browser.

This is the most hostile UI I have seen in years; and I will quickly learn to never click any CNN link.

If the harder worker becomes dissatisfied sooner and leaves the position sooner than the worker putting in fewer hours, that increased employee turnover will result in lower company productivity and higher overhead.

The net result may be far worse.

The graph on this page illustrates how consumer credit card interest rates have skyrocketed, and how obscenely high it is relative to the Prime rate. https://wallethub.com/edu/cc/historical-credit-card-interest...

I seem to recall that some years back the credit card interest rates were capped at a much lower rate than they are now.

Where this would lead us shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. And at a general level, many current systems in the US are on a clearly unsustainable trajectory. However this collapses, it's going to be really messy.

It’s the same cavalier attitude taken by startups that treat user data and privacy as something to worry about later, someday.

“move fast and break things” …

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I suspect that the actual damages would be (much) lower, as some of the people using this service would not or could not have paid for the official source. This is the same fallacy or intentional misrepresentation that the music industry used in the Napster days.

As we know, if the pricing is reasonable for the market, and more importantly the content is actually _available!_ in that market, people will pay to stream it.

A lot of the time, the content is unavailable in many markets; so users will have to choose between illegal or nothing. If the content is available to stream legally, and its price is too high for the region, then people wouldn't have paid for it no matter what. Thus, the revenue was not lost; the market was simply never captured.

I do wonder about the manufacturing and supply chain, and how environmentally (and worker) friendly it is given the extremely low price.

If people would consider their actions in the context of, “what I do, others will do”, then they would realize that many actions they deem as insignificant or harmless (throwing a small piece of trash on the sidewalk, taking two items from the “take 1 free” basket, etc. cause real problems when everyone does it.

It may seem insignificant to the individual, but in principle if they do it, others are also doing it, and it has a large scale impact. This applies in the positive direction too, such as when people perform random acts of kindness (which encourages others to do the same).

Climate, political, and economic disasters seem more frequent each decade, and it would be a shame to starve or melt/freeze ourselves just because our delivery systems failed us.

And as a Texan, it blows my mind that so many people reject local solar options. When the grid is having rolling blackouts, wouldn’t it be nice to still have power?

Same is actually true with the dry cleaners. Maybe there’s one on the back of your block that’s the same distance from your door as the one you go to, but you never walked around to that side before. As far as you know, you are already using the closest one.

To f with nature and believe the full impact is understood in advance is human hubris.