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mychael··on Warp – self-contained, single binary applications
What problem does this solve? How does it differ from Docker?
mychael··on 2080 Ti TensorFlow GPU Benchmarks
Depends where you're from I guess. For example, a BMW 328i in Los Angeles is like a Honda Accord in other cities.
mychael··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
I disagree. You can live like a king in many parts of Brooklyn for cheap compared to the Bay Area.
mychael··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Brooklyn
mychael··on Show HN: Res(ts): Auto-Generate TypeScript Models for Django Projects
I would reconsider how you're describing this project. "Models" in the frontend world imply a data model like in Backbone in Angular.

As far as I can tell Typescript itself doesn't have a concept of a "Model". Which makes sense because its not a web framework - its a programing language

https://www.google.com/search?q=Model+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.type...

mychael··on 2080 RTX performance on Tensorflow with CUDA 10
How does that warning surface? From the underlying operating system?
mychael··on 2080 RTX performance on Tensorflow with CUDA 10
Does anyone know why they are using Xeon processors instead of the AMD Threadripper? Is it the support for ECC memory? If so, why is it that so important?

Example: https://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/peak/tower_single/customize...

mychael··on Ask HN: How to find a co-founder?
I also have the same question, but I'm specifically interested in a non-technical co-founder. Someone smart who has innate business acumen and is a shameless salesperson.
mychael··on Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks
Thank you for writing this. We've reached peak Kubernetes fanboyism.
mychael··on Launch HN: Station (YC W18) – One place for all your web apps
I've always disliked intense cynicism in Show HN and Launch HN, but...

It's a web browser, but instead of being open source (Chromium) or a non-profit (Mozilla Foundation), it's run completely by a single for-profit company. Seems pretty backwards to me, but maybe I'm missing something?

mychael··on Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
This is so misguided. GDPR is a disaster and only entrenches large companies.
mychael··on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
Fastmail and ProtonMail
mychael··on Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?
- Taught me a lot.

- Treated me like an equal.

- Offered me a ton of new opportunities which resulted in lots of salary bumps.

mychael··on Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
Thank you for speaking up Brian Amerige. We need more people like you.
mychael··on Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
> If Mr. Amerige is a fan of Rand, perhaps he should consider ...

That makes no sense. It would be against the company's interest to do that for many reasons.

mychael··on Eventbrite S-1
Congrats Eventbrite team. You guys earned it!
mychael··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
This site takes 45 seconds to load.
mychael··on Code review review is the manager’s job
> meta review

Is "meta review" really a value add for software companies? Is this advice for Managers of peace-time companies who can't find anything more valuable to do with their time?

mychael··on Code review review is the manager’s job
Please ignore the advice in that article. It's hinged on the false idea that a manager always knows best.

Imagine for a second that the manager is wrong in his/her judgement. Now the developer has to choose between arguing with the manager and risk being viewed as insubordinate or just going along with the feedback and letting the software suffer the consequences.

mychael··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Who are the founders? Investors? I'm not able to find a single person who works there on LinkedIn either. On the surface it looks like you're harvesting leads for talent/recruiting.
mychael··on Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?
> Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?

Why assume everyone here keeps a knowledge base? I personally don't.

mychael··on Ask HN: How to be found as a technology co-founder?
Real life is not a set intersection problem. You need to put yourself out there.
mychael··on Advice
As a Stripe Customer: Less life advice, more focus on making Stripe a better, easier to use product.
mychael··on FWD:Everyone
It blows my mind that people are having "Group Chat" conversations like that via Email. Have they never heard of WhatsApp?
mychael··on I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money
OMG, a site doesn’t comply with GDPR? Call the internet police! /s
mychael··on React Native at Airbnb
Your Flux/Redux point is a distinction without a difference. The names are bad, wherever they came from.
mychael··on React Native at Airbnb
A big contributor to the difficult learning curve in Redux is the very poor naming of things. It's off the charts unintuitive, especially if you're an experienced programmer.

I imagine their thought process went like this:

Types: People like strongly typed languages, maybe if we call our events "types", they will like Redux more?

Reducers: Switch statements are so boring and uncool. Lets call this "reducer" instead of "events switch statement".

Store: Lets call the state tree "store". The term "State tree" is too explicit and a core principle of Redux is misdirection.

Actions: Mere mortals will associate the term "action" with functions and procedures, but Redux is not for mortals. "Action" will be our term for payload.

mychael··on React Native at Airbnb
Airbnb has managed to over-engineer a Medium blog post.
mychael··on React Native at Airbnb
Truer words have never been spoken on Hacker News.
mychael··on State of React Native 2018
Its very unfortunate that that there is not built-in library for navigation in RN or Expo. React Navigation is a capable tool, but the API is very awkward and convoluted, even for doing very basic things like opening modals.
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