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Ah OK, I suspected maybe because my score is negative. Thanks for letting me know.

How can you see my comment? What do you mean dead? This better not be a death threat.

Exactly. People can't wrap their minds around the fact that their own country is constantly peddling propaganda. I noticed this after I started travelling around the world working …

As an open source developer who enjoys coding, a lot of these thoughts resonate strongly with me but this article is overly pessimistic. It's OK to be pessimistic but that doesn't …

I'm sure he is a very smart guy and he did a good job but the past 10 years of the economy have been essentially 100% about luck/timing. Most of these large corporations have becom…

True, a lot of writing is just reacting - An emotional response. It's a big mistake to assume that everyone is driven by logic and reason when, in fact, the majority of people's co…

That's why I enjoy commenting on HN. It lets me refine ideas that are in my head in more detail. I don't think in words, I think in terms of visuals, structures and logic so it req…

The complaints resonate strongly with an article I wrote in 2018 when I tried to make a case for the value of cryptocurrencies: https://medium.com/hackernoon/in-the-context-of-ever…

I knew that this pandemic would lead to a revolution sooner or later. Nobody believed me.

The most important characteristics are: - Components have clear separation of concerns and well encapsulated state. (Should be easy to explain what a component does to a non-techni…

I think unions make sense for any organization that has a or near-monopoly. I'm surprised that they are not more common among big tech corporations.

Many governments have already lost the trust of their people. Some countries are about to get brain-drained. They will be left full of fiat money, full of psychopaths, no brains, n…

I thought Gitter had already been acquired by GitLab?

I was thinking more about the Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive'.

Sometimes I feel like VCs, investors and corporate employers have some kind of control panel where they can look up individuals. It happened to me several times that I had great co…

In my career (which spans 15 years at over a dozen companies), I've built many complex front ends, complex backends with different database systems, a popular open source pub/sub s…

I recommend reading up on monetary policy and the Federal reserve (and watch videos) and you will understand what I mean and how it fits into Annand's description of the world (it …

So true. I guess it's a way for giant mega-corporate monopolies to make themselves seem smaller and less monopolistic than they actually are.

Normally giving away money to charities is great but in our artificial government-controlled economic environment, it just harms capitalism. I'm tired of this artificial top-down w…

Sometimes this will be the best approach possible but adhering with this principle too strongly can overcomplicate the general design/architecture - It can give developers a green …

But still, I think it does not fully solve the architectural issue or encourage good architecture (though it can certainly help reduce bugs)... In this case you may end up with lot…

Type hype is real. It almost seems like job-creation propaganda at this stage. When I judge things, I look at practical outcomes; and the fact is that I produce better software wit…

I agree. I think the downside of static typing is that it encourages developers to pass around complex types between functions instead of simple types and I think this is a mistake…