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Well, there's more information out and it seems pretty.. damning. I wasn't convinced by "power grab", but "economic pressure from our sole remaining major sponsor" is _way_ more be…

Well.. "legal liability" is kind of complex topic. Usually what really matters isn't "what the courts will actually determine if such a case is brought" it's "how much will it cost…

I think you're right, but I suspect the root here is one of legal liability - if rubycentral is operating as a nonprofit that hosts _a recurring attack vector on other companies_, …

I used the models with a good workflow, but found them less than helpful. But I think that if I worked in a less expressive language I'd be very enthusiastic.

Aye. It's not the smartphone that's the problem, it's the async notifications pulling you into social media traps. I dropped those apps about 8 years ago, but started to do most of…

DRY is _not a best practice_. Repetition is a "code smell" - it often suggests a missing abstraction that would allow for code reuse (what sort of abstraction depends on the langua…

These types of posts are .. well thought-out, and usually posted by someone with relevant education. But they are not reviewed documents or journal articles, and you can _tell_ whe…

First ran into this on persistent servers, where the deployed instance knew branch names github had long forgotten about.. Someone pushed a branch named "bugfix", and `git fetch` s…

Indeed, if I were running that site, I would now implement the ability to turn on intentional non-randomness for _specific people_, and begin embedding messages in the sequences of…

While I don't really _disagree_ with any of this, I want to raise a point from the other direction - it's possible (and for some of us, absolutely necessary) to build software such…

I gained the most from gobase.org, just clicking through professional games. The tool you can review/replay games with lets you try to guess the next move - just let them play the …

It's an awkward space - requiring us to pay them to put our profiles there is the main way to keep the content valuable/accurate.. but while that's fairly typical for hirers, it'd …

I don't disagree with you a bit! Science should be doubted in the correct ways, and for appropriate reasons, that's one of the main things I come to HN comments for. My issue with …

Oh I have no problem with doubting the study (I definitely doubt its conclusions myself, since I don't think "screen time" is a meaningfully monolithic concept to study in the firs…

If you'd like to analyze their approaches to call the study 'dubious', I won't argue with you (it is; they are not strong ones). But making that assertion solely on the position th…

And of course, talking about all of this as if 'screen time' is all the same is _insane_. Anyone that thinks watching youtubers screech at each other for hours is equivalent (for t…

When science doesn't match your personal observations, that doesn't make the science wrong. It also doesn't make your personal observations wrong - it usually (in my experience) me…

If on average 100% of cases involve a company that is paying for an arbitration lawyer and even 80% of cases involve an individual that is paying for an arbitration lawyer (which I…

Most likely they're referring to the ability for a contract to include terms that remove your right to legal recourse.

> Operationalize transparency to build alignment Hold up there, I can't drink that fast.

I'm sure there's a substantial population that this redesign was successful for, but it's nobody I've talked to. I can no longer tell which of my slacks has pending messages at a g…

Eh, I think a lot more of it is caused by optimism than RDD - people who haven't _tried to do it_ look at the mess they've got, and they can see that if it were divided into domain…

I don't think I'm overlooking any major ones, but we are probably working in quite different types of systems - I'm not aware of any type of static verification I'd use in a rails …