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taveras··on The end of founder worship, and a reset of toxic startup values
This is “how it works” because founders are better rewarded when quick growth happens over a short time window.

Perhaps that incentive is the problem?

taveras··on Git log is not a changelog
I find that many programmers are hyper-focused on writing automation for things that feel like a chore. This thinking has its purpose, but it’s almost an addiction.

For these folks, putting deliberate effort into change logs, release notes, and documentation feels wasteful.

My hunch is that this is due to a missing feedback loop: we are unlikely to get feedback about documentation, and more likely to get feedback on our project’s code.

My own writing improved after a past project had a strong feedback loop with my documentation’s intended audience. This has been so damn rare in my career, that it’s never surprising when I meet programmers who are uncomfortable with technical writing.

taveras··on U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
If folks are curious about how schools are ranked, I highly encourage you to listen to the following podcast:

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/lord-of-...

taveras··on Show HN: Employees.fyi – Easily compare U.S. workforce demographic data
It seems that you consider employers keeping track of employee race, ethnicity, and gender data discriminatory.

Employers are required to provide this data to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: the federal agency charged with enforcing federal law which makes workspace discrimination illegal.

This agency came to exist through the legendary Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was supported by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, along with Presidents JFK and LBJ.

You'd be forgiven for not understanding American politics.

But any American would be foolish to consider that race and ethnicity do not play a role in how our society is structured after over 200 years of slavery and nearly 100 years of Jim Crow.

Racism has been a poison built into the structure of our country's institutions, and being race conscious is a part of the cure.

taveras··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
Regardless on if you enter it in this web form, Equifax has already lost your SSN in a data breach.
taveras··on NAPI-RS v2
This looks great. I'm assuming the name is based on the original name of Node-API in Node.js. [1]

Could anyone compare it to Neon? [2]

[1] https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html#node-api

[2] https://neon-bindings.com

taveras··on We're two middle school teachers learning and teaching Python [audio]
Being originally from Broward County, it was great to see this!

I wish these kind of programs weren’t limited to private schools - my own high school (https://www.browardschools.com/dillardhigh) had a great technology program.

While it helped build my career, it struggled to get investment and was the only public school in the county with these courses. I would have expected for it to be replicated.

taveras··on Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13
I spent a large bit of my youth on SS13 and BYOND. I owe my development career to the latter.

Thanks Dantom and Lummox JR!

taveras··on You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
If you are interested in calendar reform and enjoy world history, the French Revolutionary calendar is fascinating to read about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

taveras··on Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
Exactly this. As a feature, social media platforms should automatically look up the canonical URL for a linked page.
taveras··on Nissan Figaro – Retro-inspired convertible from Japan [video]
Related: This car was driven for Melissa Villaseñor's episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDg4cDMw_E4

[2] https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-1991-nissan-figaro-...

taveras··on Google confirms microformats are still a supported metadata format for content
Agreed. This post should be 100% be titled as supported instead of recommended.

I recall that John Mueller recommended[1] JSON-LD over the other options during a Google Webmasters office hours session.

Many of Google Search's Structured Data features[2] primarily have JSON-LD examples.

[1]: https://youtu.be/gS4_JH-QqSg?t=2085

[2]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/search-gall...

taveras··on The Emu War
For those who like to laugh about this, one of my favorite subreddits is https://www.reddit.com/r/Emuwarflashbacks/
taveras··on MegaZeux: Game creation system released in 1994 and still being developed today
BYOND holds a special place in my heart. It introduced me to software engineering and the client-server model!
taveras··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
I am impressed with the work your team is doing!
taveras··on Ask HN: Does SEO still work in 2018?
I firmly believe that one cannot be a webmaster and ignore how search engines work.
taveras··on Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO
If you feel it is web spam, I would report them to the search engines.

For Google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport

And you can submit feedback to Bing on a search results page -- be detailed!

It may not be fast, but it helps them.

taveras··on DangerJS: The open source maintainers best friend
I've been keeping an eye this project ever since I saw development begin for the JavaScript version.

It looks great!

taveras··on Getting Started with Swift on Android
This is exciting! I can only wonder if Oracle has been enough trouble to pester Google into using a language such as Swift.
taveras··on Inventor Dean Kamen’s Big Ideas
Kamen is a legend in my eyes. Taking part of FIRST steered several classmates and I to become engineers. Electrical, mechanical, and software!
taveras··on Modular CSS for Web Components ‒ the VCL Is Here
yep, and there's also this: https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCL
taveras··on Ember Fastboot
I saw Tom give a great presentation on FastBoot back in January. for those interested, here is the checklist for getting to 1.0:

https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot/issues/98

taveras··on Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
account deleted! later, AngelList
taveras··on Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS
wow, this is stellar!
taveras··on Show HN: JavaScript port of Scientist library for refactoring critical paths
Subtle differences from Trello's Scientist port: https://github.com/trello/scientist
taveras··on Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers?
I've always felt a little strange about TEMPEST:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

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