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mscarborough··on Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
If leadership cannot take advantage of, let alone adjust to remote work in 2024, they're not good leaders.
mscarborough··on FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall
That's the biggest thing!
mscarborough··on We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX
Making the subprime loans in the first place doesn't necessitate packing them into opaque financial instruments and going bananas with the wildly over-leveraged profit-seeking.

Financial firms has been making tons of money during decades of increasing wealth inequality. Sure, let's talk about these congressional acts, but not going to put a lot of blame on relatively small programs that required these firms to throw back some scraps.

mscarborough··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
Reposting your comment doesn't make it any more true.
mscarborough··on Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
Interested to hear what the paying business customers who migrated away from Heroku think about their new home and the process to move to Fly/Render/Digital Ocean/whatever?
mscarborough··on Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths
Not surprising coming from South Carolina law enforcement, but these are THC gummies with clear packaging (that have a warning label and state "Cannabis Product").

Are we really to believe criminal is going to unpackage and give out to unsuspecting children, just to get them hooked on the marijuanas? Instead of selling them?

mscarborough··on Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
Let the guilt go. Coming from a person in recovery who's lucky to have gotten out of that hole, just know there's not really anything you could have done if your father wasn't interested in seeking help. No amount of being there or showing understanding or talking sense to him matters. Good on you for not losing your 20s and beyond to that endless pit.
mscarborough··on Issues with upstream DNS provider
And no update after 2 hours. How/why did Salesforce run this platform into the ground?
mscarborough··on Solend seized $170M of user funds
> and is no different to the DAO hack for Ethereum.

yikes!

the system has had material downtime 7 times in the last year. how is that OK?

mscarborough··on Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
If animal and insect death from cropping is a big concern, then what does it mean to feed other animals many more crops, then kill them as well?
mscarborough··on Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
Your cert is triggering SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN.
mscarborough··on How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
It's definitely a balancing act, calculating the ROI for improving security vs implementing more immediate customer-focused work.

This common problem is what led to rise of the MSSPs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_security_service

mscarborough··on Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
Directly below the supposedly juicy "I don't think this is worth it" comment is a merged PR linked to this issue.

In that PR they changed the render loop rather than implement the "not worth it" suggested solution. At no point was it marked as WONTFIX.

mscarborough··on Facebook bans Trump for 24 hours
All the horses left the ranch some years back, but if I close one of the stable doors maybe everyone will see what a great job I've been doing.
mscarborough··on Galaxy Quest
That is a very long article over-dramatizing a fantasy scenario that will 100% not happen in their lifetime. These folks sure glommed onto something that allows them to talk about themselves a lot.

If Mars One wasn't just a short-term money grab, they wouldn't be too concerned with collecting 75% of interview fees. That is so bush league that to imagine your whole life is going to be shaped by this organization is pretty delusional.

mscarborough··on The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
You're right, no smuggling. I'm not sure that suing the guy isn't a bad idea...if you're a brand that doesn't franchise and controls experience, why let international stories out about how some peeps are just "gray-area-ing" your products and name, and getting away with it? In the article it even said the guy was looking for places to open up a new store.

Trader Joe's not wanting to open up in Canada doesn't validate anything about what he's doing. Perhaps TD has a longer-term strategy, that doesn't involve anyone who can live near the Canadian border selling their stuff at a marked-up price.

We're not talking about importing fruits and vegetables to save money for people at "the Safeway across the street," which the author didn't bother to justify. How anyone would go to this length to sell chocolate-covered almonds, or peppermint cookies, and pretend that selling more snacks is just doing everyone a political/ethical justice is beyond me.

mscarborough··on The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
FTA: Hallatt says he still has a lot of respect for Trader Joe’s, and “what they’re trying to do with food.” He still says he’s running the store out of love for the label, and, he says, finding Coulombe’s quote is one of the things that made him persevere through the lawsuit.

Dude, you're doing it for the money. And if a lawyer's quote got you to keep going in a lawsuit, you're definitely doing it for the money.

Sorry, this entire article is parroting a very well-constructed (but seemingly BS) storyline. "he still goes to the border", "waits in a white unmarked van", "he envies cabbies salaries", etc.

His ultimate goal is to bring Trader Joe's to Canada? Just doing it to advertise for the Trader Joe's label?

Sorry man, you found the grey area you wanted to (self-admittedly within a few minutes) and then kept going.

mscarborough··on Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)
What is the relation between homosexuals and pedophiles?
mscarborough··on Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
To avoid backdoors in the chip design.
mscarborough··on “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”
Worse than being simply annoying and deceptive (since there are plenty of ways to get around it if you care), it's also literally useless.

For example, I just went into Incognito on another machine out of curiosity. I unclicked 'I am 13 or older' and then clicked on random grayed-out whitespace, and it showed the full article. Unless they kept my home IP from previous requests, but at that point, why bother with the age gate? Lawyers?

Not sure how anyone can defend this deceptive UX bullshit.

mscarborough··on Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion
Well of course it's all useless companies, but then how could we suck Graham's and stupid fuck Andreesen's dicks?
mscarborough··on Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We've had taxis and black cars for decades, it's nothing new. What happens when every existing taxi company has an app? Because that's what's happening.

Then what we have is Uber/Lyft/whatever trying to avoid any regulation, while everyone else with the same thing are actually doing it. So disruptive!

mscarborough··on New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac
It's not that necessary. Sure, I use macbooks now because they're kinda great hardware. When my parents were looking for a new all-in-one, they could get all this for about half the cost with a Windows PC that they already knew how to navigate around.
mscarborough··on VersionPress – Version Control Plugin for WordPress
So you're in the top 0.001% of WP devs because you use git? OK, sure.
mscarborough··on Window into Airbnb’s hidden impact on SF
That's a whole lot of disruption! Really shaking up those old-school mentalities!
mscarborough··on Vessyl, the smart cup that knows exactly what you're drinking
No, it seems pretty basic. If you had sat through the video it would still be 'magic'.

But hey, you can get it for $99 right now instead of $199 later!

mscarborough··on What are the advantages of the Hurd over Linux/BSD? (2013)
> These were just examples, Linux is trying to catch up in ugly ways indeed ... In the Hurd, it's that way from the ground and there is no limitation like having to be root or ask for root to add magic lines, etc.

Catching up to what? A 24 year old kernel with no userbase and uses IRC logs as the majority of documentation? Is Hurd useful as anything other than a research project? I would be interested to see what people here who have used Hurd have to say.

mscarborough··on Why I Don’t Do CrossFit
Deadlifts and compound lifts in general should not be done for speed. If your CF were telling you that is good, then very certainly they were not teaching good form. Form isn't just how you lift, but can you maintain that form through the exercise?

I did CF for a while but stopped. After a few friends got hurt and another friend told me straight out "this is stupid", I realized how halfass thrown-together the workouts are. That "100 pullups" video recently really put it into perspective.

mscarborough··on Game of Thrones author George RR Martin: 'Why I still use DOS'
Or, why write books when you can just dick around and pretend to be an 'author'?
mscarborough··on Tell HN: Call your mom
It was a 'clever' snarky post equating 'not seeing programming' on HN vs 'not seeing "call your mother"' on HN, which we can reasonably expect to not see.

In the rush to be clever, we got a really snarky post from someone who has no knowledge of the parent comment's context.

Not everyone has a great relationship with their parents, that doesn't make it the child's fault like super-counselor above likes to think.

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