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I’m really not a fan of the therapy speak and everyone trying to diagnose everyone. Historically, this kinda medicalization of everyone you disagree with has not led to good things…

Emphasis on global blocks. Meaning everywhere in the world.

I read the tweet twice and I don’t see any mention of free speech. What he’s describing, when you look past the rhetoric, sounds ridiculous: a single medium sized country is demand…

Something about the way the author expresses himself (big words, “I am so smart”, flowery filler) makes me unsurprised he finds it hard to have satisfying conversations with people…

Two things: 1. I basically agree with everything you say, I only think the limit should be ~50-100% higher. Not 10x, but 1.5-2x. 2. For some reason, concise writing is the hardest …

No, I think a reasonable limit is around 100 with the mode being around 80. 50 is not a reasonable limit for a commit message in English.

Yeah, I specifically think 50 is too short. I am a big fan of brevity, but I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 100. Consider that all of these messages exceed the 50-charact…

I've worked with 5 different SCMs and I'm convinced that the reason why git repos often have such poor commit messages is because of the git commit style guide. So much of it only …

It surprises me how many people working as software engineers absolutely despise programming. Consider that if you must “grind” through leetcode questions, maybe you will be unhapp…

My friend, it renders at 15 fps on a literal supercomputer. It takes 30 seconds to load. The time between clicking a button and something happening is measured in seconds. It may b…

Abstraction for its own sake, especially with js frameworks, doesn't make anything more readable or maintainable. React apps are some of the most spaghetti style software I've ever…

The problem with React apologetics is that you need to only take a cursory look at literally every production app written in React to see it's terrible and must be abandoned in the…

1. Your argument is about the grammar of a sentence about black holes on Wikipedia? This isn’t some kind of gotcha. 2. I missed the dwarf part, but think about what you’re arguing:…

I’m admittedly a few years out of date in this, but weren’t those already kinda ruled out? I’ve never met anyone who took MOND seriously - it looks like it’s a pet project of a sma…

Berlin’s tech industry is to Zurich and London as Berlin’s art scene is to New York or Paris. And yes, Switzerland, but especially Zurich, is on another level compared to the rest …

I’ve done hiring in tech, and the availability of broad spectrum talent in Europe really only exists in London and Zurich. There are hubs for different fields, but only those two p…

Definitionally, yes. It’s inert but lenses light around it. The paper is more about the technical achievement of detecting it, IIUC. It’s not the first dark matter inference we’ve …

(I’m an astrophysics undergrad.) Black holes aren’t composed of anything, they’re just defined by their charge, spin and mass equivalent. Dust clouds have those mass ranges. It’s n…

Name one other place on the continent that has: 1) At least token engineering presence by every major tech company 2) Tech-savvy VC, legal, audit and tax services you can get on a …

Zurich and its environs are basically the Bay Area of Europe. Probably explains the huge concentration of HN users.

That’s a good point. I remember that in the earlier days of Go, there was a lot more optimism about the compiler’s future ability to statically decide more about the program than i…

I've taught programming to some people who had no previous experience with it, and I can tell you that the list of concepts you have to learn at once is basically as long for Pytho…

Yes, but there’s nuance. We each assume a version of events and nobody really knows. In my experience, big tech companies attract a certain type of person (among others) who will n…

I have never said and rarely thought this before, but I really hope the person who came up with / approved this idea got fired for it. It’s rare that you see something so unbelieva…

Any evidence you'd care to offer, or are you just being racist on the internet?