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They could just get warrants for surveillance, like they used to in olden times. As distasteful as secret courts are, even they might be workable if everything becomes open after a…

I don't know how to read your comment. I, for one, do believe that surgical procedures should be designed for the average surgeon. You want the procedures to be built around supers…

Expectations are really important. I tend towards higher level languages (Python, JavaScript, toyed with Haskell), but I can empathize with the author's frustration of using a tool…

I like this use case. I've had the misfortune of trying to cross compile Python for ARM. It's very difficult, because the build process runs the freshly compiled python executable.…

I agree, there are problems all around. I was responsible for getting docker adopted on a fairly small (but a number of moving parts) software project. It has been somewhat painful…

Agreed. I was referring to the rocket/systemd remarks. There were some pretty big docker hate going on when rocket's announcement was posted here on HN. Most of that hate was becau…

There are a lot of problems to solve, and docker by itself only gets you part of the way. Orchestrating docker containers is the interesting problem, not so much Docker in itself (…

Thanks for putting the price tag in perspective. It's still wrong no matter what the price tag is. It isn't just wrong, it is a symptom of a broken system. It's a very simple and e…

I'm really sorry to hear about your struggles. One wonderful thing about software development, is that credentials and pedigree are not required. If you can make software, you can …

Are there any online sources for this? I'm looking through google news, but everyone is focused on what information was leaked...

I don't see the venom. I see someone who is taking a lot of flak from internet experts and probably too eager to satisfy them, when such a thing is impossible. What is Solomon supp…

Oftentimes, foreign citizens working in the US are not able to freely participate in the job market. If they can't freely move from job to job (as US workers can), then they will b…

Different tools for different jobs. Being able to develop code quickly is a huge win that Python delivers. Sometimes that makes Python the right tool, e.g. Youtube. Other times slo…

"If you are a good, loyal citizen, true to the ideas of the founding fathers and possessed of respect for the rule of law, there is no reason to be anonymous." You are incredibly o…

Assuming he isn't desperate for a job, isn't it better for him to be himself? Then at his job, he could be confident being himself. I read the 'Go Fuck Yourself' post and became mo…

It's easy to be a critic. Dropbox is a prime example of this effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

The formatting on your comment is messed up, hopefully this helps: I should have added that I'm a .NET developer who's recently returned working with in an open source shop. The pr…

You make a very fair argument. The real question is, how do we decide what is fair for each of us to pay? Companies playing legal games around taxes is exactly the behavior that th…

If you have any tips on how I can avoid paying taxes, please share them. Is tax avoidance supposed to be wrong? Should I feel guilty about my own personal tax avoidance?

I've been playing around with docker, so I will lend my two cents. If kvm gold images work for you, then by all means use them! What I like about docker: The layered filesystem [0]…

they did: python -m pdb my_code.py

This is a great idea, although repr() would probably be better than str(). I've spent a lot of time debugging Python over the years. This honestly never occured to me until you men…

The escalation from written warning to banned for life is a huge leap to make in one step. A month long suspension would get the point across.

I'm not sure I follow. I see the constraint of the first system as the natural fear of failure that comes from doing something new. It is an implicit constraint. The second system …

Fred Brooks has some gems. I'm especially fond of the Second System Effect [0] [0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SecondSystemEffect