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tolkienfanaticon Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?

Companies over hired (and remotely) when money was free, and now it isn't. The end.

tolkienfanaticon Navy in Middle-Earth

Link?

tolkienfanaticon Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?

https://join.build/

tolkienfanaticon Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)

The answer is yes.

tolkienfanaticon Ask HN: How do you work with Dependabot?

For people complaining that Dependabot is too noisy, it is easy to configure it to only open PRs for major versions.

I am a big fan of Dependabot, but maximizing its effective is highly dependent on the culture of the team/codebase.

tolkienfanaticon Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve

Very shocking that encouraging employees' endless SJW crusades winds up being unproductive.

tolkienfanaticon Understanding Jane Street

Boy am I glad I never have to take 3110 again.

tolkienfanaticon Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together

My previous company almost exclusively hired designers from agency backgrounds - it was a huge problem.

tolkienfanaticon Why Aren’t America’s Shipping Ports Automated?

Imagine my surprise when the answer is "unions"

tolkienfanaticon Splunk CEO tells tech sector to hire more women

He even uses the word "discriminate", and yet behavior like this is encouraged and celebrated.

tolkienfanaticon Metal Captcha

The most br00tal captcha service out there

tolkienfanaticon Baltimore Residents Begin Clearing Debris After Night of Riots

I think it was meant to be a complaint about the political party that consistently keeps certain demographics beholden to them with policies that are made in the guise of "helping".

tolkienfanaticon No Longer an Inspiration

I'm pretty sure people are voting on this BECAUSE it is sarcastic

tolkienfanaticon Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?

Palantir does tons of government and military work.

tolkienfanaticon “I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but I might be wrong.”

Wikipedia has shown itself to be firmly in the SJW/Quinn/Sarkeesian/Wu camp. So I'm not sure what he is upset about.

tolkienfanaticon What it was like to co-found Model View Culture

No comments on this? It was the best thing I've read all day

tolkienfanaticon ChangeTip must die

Had EGS as my Systems prof at Cornell.

Can confirm that he doesn't hate everything and is actually a really cool guy :)

tolkienfanaticon Teaching OCaml

Ah, CS 3110. The bane of every Cornell Comp Sci majors existence.

tolkienfanaticon Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks

Does not recognize Big Bird. I proclaim this to be a failure.