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trose··on Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
yep, if you owe someone a little money they have control. If you owe someone a lot of money, you have control. The whales use SaaS companies to develop things they dont want in house and demand features because they know they're one of the biggest customers.
trose··on Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
yeah this is some nonsense. I'm at a highly successful startup serving 40,000 requests per minute on a rails app. We're starting to split out into services but that's purely from an organizational standpoint as it's becoming unwieldy for 60 developers to all work in the same code base.
trose··on The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official
That's exactly what the ISPs want though. If we try to tackle all of these loopholes then they get to draw this out in a thousand different court cases which they can easily afford.

OR how about we attack them directly because it's obvious that they have malicious intentions.

trose··on Microsoft acquires Github
Microsoft makes all of it's money from PC sales and software licensing.

Meanwhile, they basically invented the "buy your competitor and tank their business" strategy. That's probably what this person is referring to.

trose··on Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system
care to explain this a little further? Genuinely curious what these deficiencies are and who they benefit.
trose··on Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script
are we getting russian trolls in HN as well? I thought we were here to have intelligent discussions. Not political nonsense about "mainstream media"
trose··on After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
Hydrazine
trose··on EA removes Battlefront 2 refund option as gamers mass-cancel pre-orders
And yet folks will keep falling for the CGI trailers and marketing hype EA churns out for every game. The only solution is to wholesale stop supporting ANY game EA produces.
trose··on Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’
Interesting idea. In Denver, they're partnering with our regional transportation district to evaluate a hyperloop system here. Unfortunately RTD has been completely incompetent with existing rail programs to date so there isn't much confidence in their ability to pull this off. Could potentially be designed to fail.
trose··on Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
what about a screw feed?
trose··on Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
The article isn't talking about human habitation. It says that we collected evidence that may suggest that there are hydrothermal vents below the surface which may be able to support microbial life like Earth's hydrothermal vents.
trose··on SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video]
Slightly different but yeah. The falcon has a single pre-orbit stage. The heavy has two pre-orbit stages. So it'll end up being three falcon engines stitched together with decouplers. Part of the way to orbit, the outside two decouple and return the to launch pad. Some time after that, the center engine decouples and lands on a barge. None of those will be going at orbit velocity though.
trose··on LinkedIn’s new UI proves it doesn’t know it’s value to users
META: This blog post is super low effort. Basically just reiterating some really basic UI principles and complaining. I think we can do better on HN
trose··on [dead]
Better stream with flash requirement

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/20/520765159/...

trose··on A textbook case in workplace discrimination
this isn't equivalent. In your scenario the single employee is choosing to take advantage of the company's hospitality and I think their manager would be right to either deny that or speak to them afterwards.
trose··on SpaceX receives FAA approval for return to flight [pdf]
Great news! Anyone know when we can expect the next launch? I heard they're going to test the falcon heavy this year.
trose··on Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery

2.3 million downloads in the last month and 4883 dependencies... what do you think?

trose··on Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?
yes, Angular requires jquery for selectors. React I'm pretty sure doesn't.
trose··on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views Schiaparelli landing site
The rovers we sent cost us about $400 million each. And one failed.

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

trose··on Paper Planes
it's not that silly. We're mostly all developers so its easy to forget but most people dont have desktop computers nowadays. Mobile is the primary experience for many people.
trose··on How to Adapt to Prison
Welcome to hacker news. Creating an account puts you up to 130 IQ minimum.
trose··on How Nextdoor reduced racist posts
OMG Arvada is pretty bad too. We had some hispanic kids causing trouble in the park and people were trying to organize on NextDoor to go confront them with baseball bats. We're talking about 13 year olds here... It's definitely been used as a safehaven for paranoid old white people.
trose··on After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable
I imagine the explosive material complicates things immensely. I'm not an expert on strip mines but it seems like they just dig up and grind everything indiscriminately and process it later. This would obviously be a bad strategy when explosives are involved.
trose··on Philae Lander: “It’s time for me to say goodbye”
They definitely got it back online. It ended up getting enough sun to heat back up and get it's batteries juiced.
trose··on Mars may be emerging from an ice age, according to a new study
The atmosphere also contains high levels of sulfuric acid which would be a bit of a concern. It's definitely a route worth exploring. It just comes with it's own set of crazy concerns.
trose··on The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
Stop ruining our fun! Seriously though, there seems to be some portion of the programming community that like to shit on people for enjoying exercise and caring about how they look. Doesn't bother me a whole lot. I know I'll always get opportunities to beat those people in an interview if I am just better dressed and more sociable.
trose··on New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutting Coal
Yes, it's very difficult to move electricity far distances. I believe it has to do with the natural resistance of copper. While its quite low, it's not zero and it adds up over hundreds of miles of copper. IANAE so anyone feel free to correct me on that
trose··on Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
Do you have reasoning behind that or do you just enjoy grandstanding with pedantic statements?
trose··on Coffee Drip Printer
Always good to see my Alma Mater on here. Cool project!
trose··on Europe’s top court mulls legality of hyperlinks
I can't wait for the day when our legislative bodies actually understand how the technology around them works. Maybe then we can avoid idiotic discussions like the ones surely going on in this courtroom right now.
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