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mimogon U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Its not two realities. Its one population chunk living in reality and one chunk living in a misinformation fueled delusion. Special interests have managed to weaponize social media and misinformation. It started with allowing blatant lying and partisan propoganda to be framed as impartial news because deliberate mass misinformation is apparently free speech. Now the cat is out of the bag and the only way back is strong regulation of social and news media.

mimogon What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep

mimogon The bunny theory of code

You are violating DRY principle. Copied code, with minor variation, spread out through a codebase is, seriously, the root of all evil.

mimogon Ask HN: How long do SE's on average stay at a startup before moving on?

I don't know specifically about the Bay Area, but everywhere else in the world having a bunch of short stints on your CV would be a bad thing. It also doesn't take many 5 - 15% pay bumps before you have maxed out what anyone is willing to pay you given your bleak CV.

mimogon What is the best way to live in the Bay Area[San Francisco] on 100k?

Do 21 year old people at the start of their career really take home $100K in SF? Thats crazy. How much would a 30 year old with a masters in CS get?

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

So a comment containing an explicit referral to the guidelines is not considered moaning, but a comment implicitly referring to the guidelines is?

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

So moaning about a comment is okay, but moaning about a submission is not okay ever. Got it.

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

You seem to struggle with the fact that your personal interests and the HN submission guidelines diverge. Even though the story of a Hotel manager levying unlawful charges against his guests seems to pique your intellectual curiosity immensely, it still doesn't mean that it adheres to the submission guidelines. More specifically this part of it: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"

Also, your use of a double negative in the sentence "It's not a story that doesn't have connections to how some businesses perceive the internet, internet 'mob' justice, antiquated laws, free speech and such, right?" makes it far less sarcastic than you probably intended it to be.

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

Would the proper response then not be to flag my comment rather than making a comment about it not adhering to the guidelines?

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

>> Which amount to "whatever piques one's intellectual curiocity" and "whatever good hackers like"

It only amounts to that if you completely disregard this part: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

This part apparently: "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

But forgive me, I am, unlike you, not the type of person who finds a story about a Hotel manager behaving badly particularly intellectually gratifying.

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

You are thinking of reddit. HN has submission guidelines.

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

How does that make the submission appropriate?

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

>> Trip Advisor is a tech startup

So a nearly 15 year old company with a billion dollar revenue still qualifies as a startup?

>> The situation couldn't have occurred without a service like them

Freedom of speech infractions have occurred for way longer than online services have existed.

So if someone tweets something stupid/political it should be posted on hackernews as well, simply because tweeting wasn't possible prior to twitter? Or what if someone reacts badly to something on tumblr, is that relevant for hn'ers as well in case they are trying to innovate in the micro-blogging space?

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

According to the HackerNews guidelines this story would IMHO be in the 'Off-topic' category for submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mimogon Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

Why is this on hackernews?

mimogon My $300 Home Cloud Server

Just buy a Synology NAS and be done with it.

mimogon Ragnarok MMO open-source HTML5 client

Demo doesn't work. Not super impressed.

mimogon Banned for Life

Good. I wish all the people developing crappy and useless apps, flooding the place, would get banned. You publish 10 different apps where the only thing that changes is the youtube channel, and claim you were beta testing? I hope Apple and Microsoft ban you as well.

mimogon Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?

34 years old and has been at Microsoft for 15 years? That seems a little strange

mimogon Ask HN: Maximum length within a control structure

According to Robert C. Martins book "Clean Code", and the SLAP principle, the maximum length of a method (yes, an entire method) is around 20 - 50 lines of code. If it gets longer than that, odds are that it is doing more than one thing and is operating on different levels of abstraction, and should be broken up into smaller methods. I would also say that I have rarely seen (if ever) well-written, easy to comprehend and maintain code where the control structures and methods contain hundreds of lines of code.

mimogon The Java Persistence Ghetto (and how jOOQ might change that)

Hibernate is free. jOOQ not so much. Hibernate can work with noSQL databases, jOOQ not so much. Also, there are alternatives to jOOQ such as QueryDSL (free btw).

mimogon The New Haskell Homepage

I like how it says "Rock-Solid Ecosystem", yet I have had the exact opposite experience trying to install even the most basic things with Cabal. I still can't get the Sublime text haskell plugin to work due to a dependency that fails to compile.

mimogon Google Intern Salary Reaches $6,000 A Month, Plus Free Food And Gym

This doesn't seem surprising, given the cost (I assume) of living in SF.

mimogon Ask HN: How can I do an offline Demo of a web service?

How about having your client cache the results? I am working on a project that uses an external customer database service, and in order to speed up the service i cache the lookups/REST responses in a 5 min retention speedup cache and an eternal failover cache that allows us to continue to function if the external service goes offline. I use Ehcache.

mimogon Performance comparison of Functional C++ 11, Java 8, JavaScript and Wolfram

It tells us that nimrod is pretty fast.

mimogon Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired

This seems like quite the overreaction. Why wouldn't an apology suffice?

mimogon Omaha: Software installer and auto-updater for Windows

Secunia PSI is an alternative that is great at keeping installed software updated. It's free and keeps most software up to date without any hassle.

mimogon A micro compiler in Ocaml

In my experience lexers and parser generators are used extensively by hobbyists. Tools such as Antlr, Boost.Spirit and Xtext come to mind.