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I agree (although I do find ad breaks in text to undermine the content more than visual mediums, for whatever reason). But RSS made tracking very hard. And while I know that's your…

For what it's worth, and there's lots of reasons this hasn't and won't happen, I think micropayments are the solution here. But until that happens, ads fill a middle ground: users …

Okay bear with me here. We blame the RSS aggregators for the death, which is very fair. But I don't know if blog writers ever supported RSS, either. With RSS, your words are read, …

Not necessarily! Linux is incredibly complex. AWS is incredibly complex. Next is incredibly complex. GitHub is incredibly complex. We need simple tools and we need complex tools. I…

That's the hard part about tools like this. They're too simple to be used for anything important, and as soon as the creator follows that path you end up in a situation where it's …

Definitely short and informal. You should have a legitimate reason to email (like, tell the person genuinely why you respect them or what about them you like), and a clear ask if t…

I met Zach wayyy back in 2016 via a code email to him! (hey Zach!)

I would very much agree with this. If you’re at an offsite and it goes that badly, things probably weren’t solid to begin with.

I think “retreat” is used pretty colloquially and doesn’t imply pseudo-therapy.

I feel like our offsites, especially in a post-COVID remote world, tend to improve communication and productivity. People get to know their coworkers, and feel much more comfortabl…

There's a Chrome Extension he made based on this: https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer I used it for a bit until I realized... I probably didn't want a third par…

I don't think I am. If I say "fix X issue," and it does it in a way I think is overstepping a boundary I wasn't expecting, I don't think it's fair to categorize it as a negative un…

Did you explicitly set them and enforce them, though?

I'm down for disliking AI, but I don't know if "overeagerness" is exactly an AI not doing what you want. Even by the sites own definition ("where your agents do what you want to th…

Hey! I wrote this as the first part in a series, so it doesn't get too much into the code... that's up next. But if you have any specific things you want to hear about (the code, t…

Trump has an 87% approval rating amongst Republicans as of the last poll I can find. While Trump is a megalomanic and does whatever he wants, he has the mandate of the Republican p…

Wow, Om was one of my first bosses. It’s hard to separate my memory of him from the era; he defined it. I have such nostalgia for both. He loved tech and startups… not buzzy tabloi…

Well, the 100 Wordles is just "Solve one Wordle" in a for-loop. If you're an even somewhat decent engineer, it takes under 10 minutes to get it working (inefficiently). Then we enc…

This isn't groundbreaking science, sure, but it is a great way to get people interested in a topic. After all, it wouldn't be on Hacker News if the word Wordle wasn't in it. I'm a …

Homelessness won't be ended with just money, it'll be solved with (or caused by) politics and policies. But the reason it's a "fallacy" is AOC could donate 100% of her current sala…

No, her argument is not that people have too much money, it's that the system allows for it. She's dedicating her biggest resource, her time, to fixing this. There's a greater weal…

AOC once summed up her political position as "I believe that in a modern, moral and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live," and I would consider that dir…

I think there's a bit of nuance here. AOC is directionally correct, but of course there's exceptions. I do think Taylor Swift and JK Rowling "earned" a billion dollars. I don't thi…