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Everyone has a price tag, silly to pretend otherwise.

There's a certain old-guard zealotry that's a common thread on HN, amplified by the echo chamber. Can't wait until it dies off.

So like, what is the counterargument? Google keeps projects alive that drain resources for longer? I guess I don't understand what people want here.

I think of it in terms of energy gaining/draining, but I meant more from the "big 5" test perspective, as well as the other groups of personality tests you can take like DISC and M…

I tend to be a bit skeptical when studies are based on extroversion and introversion, if only because I can test on all parts of the spectrum depending on my mood. I think people s…

You could tell your coworker (or your direct report if we're taking this analogy seriously) to clean up his work area. A child's room isn't a completely private space, and it's whe…

Okay but you're flying into DCA, not BWI or IAD, and from there it's a ~15 minute metro into the heart of the city. Agree with you on the other points, though.

Hey, it might be a bug that a "real" user could encounter, if you need any kind of motivation to actually look into it!

Bringing the database back up with a fix does improve your customer experience, however!

The example of the child being asked to clean his room reminds me a great deal of a bad engineer being asked to clean up his code.

A) I've been on HN for 10 years, I'm not "coming from" or "struggling to adjust" anywhere and B) I didn't mean "other message boards" I meant literally every other community I belo…

Advice is good, I don't want to seem like I'm critical of the post or anything, I just thought it's worth pointing out the differences in goals of the folks who tend to give the mo…

It seems like startup advice is based on the repeatable observations that people who've worked with a lot of startups have discovered. That means there are a bunch of situations th…

It's not a personal attack, it's my opinion. I've worked with people who think that way, and I'd prefer if they didn't exist in the industry. How would you prefer I shape that comm…

You've completely misunderstood my goals in talking to you. This is a public forum, and I'm making a case for why I think the people who read what I write should believe what I'm a…

I've found exactly the opposite. He blatantly lies about situations, gas lights at every opportunity, refuses to himself follow the HN guidelines; his behavior is completely the op…

Dang doesn't understand any of what you said, and makes zero attempt at improving, neither himself nor the site at large. I am certainly not guiltless, but consider the fact that I…

I think faking growth until you achieve actual growth is the time-honored tradition of social media websites, and can flip a failure into a success by getting people to feel that, …

Definitely, which is why doing it just to get small blocks of code won't work. It has to be part of the entire design, and sliced at real, logically separate spacings. It's hard! B…

People don't like hearing dissent, or people who disagree with them. My tone is a reaction to the hostility I'm experiencing as a result of that friction. Most forums have some kin…

> HN is regularly being updated and improved. No it's not, nor is it growing anywhere near what you guess it's growing at. I'd guess it's stagnant or even dying a bit in 2019.

I usually post from diminoten, but moved to this account to try and figure out why I was getting downvoted instantly nearly every time I commented, and why I was losing the same ka…

You know moderation is at an IP level, we've had multiple discussions about it, and I'm clearly still getting hit with the rate limit, so when you say "to work around restrictions"…

I'm not doing anything like that, but please, pretend that I am, seems like your go-to move here anyway.

Of course there are trade offs, of course we live in imperfect situations where we have to deal with shit that isn't ideal, but sitting around pretending like everything is alright…