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I am a simple man I see -2k lines of code, I upvote I've told this story to every client who tried schemes to benchmark productivity by some single-axis metric. The fact that it wa…

Yeah we're opening an engineering office in NYC, TBD whether it's Manhattan or across the river, likely depends on the location of the next few hires.

GovPilot | Senior + Staff Software Engineer | Python NYC Onsite | C# NYC + remote I'm CTO of a bootstrapped civic tech provider powering hundreds of local and county governments ac…

This was my first thought as well. I wonder if he hired someone to build it and is paying some kind of monthly maintenance fee. Anyone here could contact this guy and offer to put …

GovPilot | Senior + Staff Software Engineer | NYC Onsite | C# Python Elixir I'm CTO of a bootstrapped civic tech provider powering hundreds of local and county governments across t…

Joe Eskenazi, the author of this piece, is a solid journalist who helps run the tiny donation-funded Mission Local. They've done incredible reporting on corruption in the SF city g…

Is there a new variant of click/install fraud using T-Mobile? Some of my clients, largely startups, are seeing over 50% of US users on T-Mobile numbers at a time when T-Mobile's ma…

I actually registered a bet regarding his eventual conviction: https://longbets.org/922/ I was bothered by the level of rhetoric from high-profile people in technology predicting t…

It's charmingly on-theme for the title of this HN post to be a Youtube-style clickbait, but we should probably edit it to something more informative.

You may enjoy HN darling(?) Pinboard's 2013 talk on Thoreau and his phoniness: ( https://idlewords.com/talks/thoreau_2.0.htm )

It's an incredible essay for anyone who feels stifled by the society they're living in, the organizations they're a part of; anyone who wants to create and to do something original…

Congrats on the launch, Stefan. That is a heck of a nice wrap on that tractor. Best of luck!

As a longtime freelancer and agency founder: misaligned incentives are not the same thing as dishonesty. Honestly pursuing your own incentives, and being open about what those ince…

Has anyone compared memory usage of these launchers? I can report albert consumes a constant ~600MiB on my machine, which seems high for a list of filenames and application names.

Parag apparently lost his patience with superficial and misleading claims about Twitter spam (like this analysis) and posted about it today. You can see it here ( https://twitter.c…

It's worth appreciating how fluent all of these people are with their craft to create something of this quality on that timeline. The director got the script on Wednesday! Look at …

Is it a bit of extra complexity? Yes. Does it cause friction for new devs? No - I can't think of any mainstream Elixir use cases that require Erlang libraries, with the exception o…

The incident this piece revolves around seems strange. I can't find the avalanche report to confirm this, since only fatal accidents seem to be publicly available [1] (all reported…

Wait, why and how? Did I miss this?

Another example, similar to the open source world, of a volunteer's passion project becoming a critical infrastructure component that people rely on.

Sixty years on, the most interesting thing about the case is enthusiasts' refusal to consider the most plausible explanation because it doesn't deliver the same satisfaction as les…

I've been watching Urbit for a while, the grand vision is just so cool. But it never seemed to have any immediate utility, even for the most DIY hacker type. They're combining the …