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I'm sorry, but I have to ask, if you don't care what we all think, why do you bother talking to us at all?

There was a time when Youtube view and subscriber count was similar. Now there is a cadre of Youtube professionals whos careers live and die by these numbers. Also, neither I nor a…

Tech folks always say communicating with huge corporations is similar to communicating with a psychopath, but communicating online in general has this feeling. You're not talking t…

If you're going to bestow the gray text of shame, you should have to provide an explanation why such that noobs, such as myself, can better understand HN zeitgeist. If it's due to …

Funny how this is taking on a family dynamic: Baby-Boomers: Eldest child, assertive and confident, though takes for granted the opportunities it's been provided by being the eldest…

That's a problem with all open source software though. Heartbleed comes to mind. This problem may be compounded a bit by the fact that npm has such a low barrier to entry due to it…

It's interesting to me that everyone uses that isArrayish module example as though it represented the downfall of civilization when to me, yes maybe it represents the downfall of c…

> Yes, everyone could learn mathematics. Just like everyone could get rich and go into space. Ah the false analogy[1], we meet again. You don't really believe this do you? I mean y…

I know you wrote this with tongue firmly planted in cheek, but I agree this list has nothing to do with the people involved. It seems possible that if pg wrote a piece on maximizin…

Not sure what you mean "rerun all the tree", if you change a a state variable that is added as a prop in another component it has to rerun refresh on those components, but only tho…

This has been happening a lot with words, Negro to African American, Indian to Native American, moron, idiot, and retard were all once medical terms, now replaced by mentally chall…

I think it's pretty good :D. I know the apprehension of releasing creative works on the internet as you never know how they will be received. Thanks for putting yourself out there.…

I think you're likely underestimating the resources it takes to make robotics work. They get better all the time, but they do so by a lot of blood sweat and tears. We haven't even …

I agree the backend can't be truly generic, there will always need to be config. But the config which provides the customizations could be made arbitrarily more simple. The backend…

I don't think custom backends are going away either, I do think it will become way less prevalent then it is today though, similarly how all programs used to do manual memory manag…

Probably that otherwise normal people just don't make it into the stories because they're not as memorable. Though often you'll hear of people otherwise healthy who are down on the…

There's a reason those laws exist. Mental health is still a taboo topic and as soon as anyone knows there's an issue the reflex is for everything to go into lockdown. This comes up…

It's probably a mistake to assume that just because it's the way we do it that it has to be the way machines do it. Although that's usually the initial assumption. In the early day…