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tyrankh

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About tyrankh

Software Engineer at Google.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #24497149

    https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/ new redirects to https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/ , which seems like an unnecessary hacky way to get your SEO up. Separately: i…

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    Comment #24124059

    > They were doing fine until Chrome ate up all the market share. Like, 10+ years ago...? > Google is destroying Mozilla. Their monopoly is making the web worse. What in the heck ar…

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    Comment #24123973

    You're changing tenses from "was" to "is". Yes, firefox is good today. But, back in the day when people had to think hard about which browser to use, it wasn't as good. ALSO, it's …

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    Comment #24084211

    +1, it felt a lot like angry venting suited to a reddit thread more than an article posted on HN.

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    Comment #24083005

    Headline is a bit inflammatory, no? Headline: "Google and Facebook are lying about privacy!" Content: "Ok, _technically_ they weren't lying"

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    Comment #24041234

    > Hong Hong typo?

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    Comment #23032976

    > Go is not the tool of choice for experienced professional programmers wut

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    Comment #22931463

    > Problems Such as? :)

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    Comment #22931458

    re: Setting up internal go documentation server - the godoc package has great instructions for doing so! https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc

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    Comment #22443941

    I think this post summarizes to, - I don't like the file-related packages - What's up with this random 7 star library having a lot of transitive dependencies - Rust for life - In s…

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    Comment #22409500

    This is absolutely untrue. A referral doesn't hold much weight at all.

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    Comment #22409474

    This is ludicrously false and not at _all_ why Google hires people. They hire people because - big surprise - there are projects that need staffing. "At this stage, if Google hires…

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    Comment #20034715

    Not sure if sarcasm...?

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    Comment #17122130

    > Maybe that's what vgo needs, a way to specify a conflict bound This is a valid idea; you should make a proposal or issue for it. Alternatively, it seems like something that would…

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    Comment #17121779

    Preface: vgo _specifically_ calls out the fact that maintainers of libraries have to be backwards-compatible within a major version, and that the onus is on users to put their trus…

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    Comment #17062131

    Couple of quick notes from my phone, as a googler gopher: - IIRC package management was historically left to the community to solve for, rather than the go maintainers mandating ho…

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    Comment #17060386

    Contrary opinion; I hate video and greatly appreciate the use of text and picture. It loads faster, I can skim easier, I can offline consume it, and I can consume it without headph…

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    Comment #17024168

    > It is. It removes the color and nuance from typed communication. There's a lot of metadata in typos. Oh puh-lease. Are you seriously trying to argue that TYPOS are the anchor upo…

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    Comment #17024136

    Not backwards compatible. :) (I mean that as both a joke and a real comment - you could never force every restaurent in the world to learn REST, but you sure can call a bunch of th…

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    Comment #17024090

    > I am far more afraid of technology we can't control that works for an ad company, not for us, than moving technology forward a little bit slower. I'm not sure what you're arguing…

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    Comment #17023932

    Would it be a better page if it added footnotes to all adjectives "* For some definition of easy|some-adjective." :P All joking aside, it's just a click bait title - that's how the…

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    Comment #17023861

    > I love technology. But I don't like what I see anymore. It's scary now. Welcome to almost every century in human history heh.

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    Comment #17023819

    Yeah, that was pretty much jaw dropping. I'm excited to see it in action.

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    Comment #17023427

    > What I can see is a bunch of ways to avoid human contact including no longer calling people like a real human or not even choosing my own words in an email. Auto-complete is hard…

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    Comment #16981596

    When I worked at Panasonic we did this exact thing. It's remarkably easy for the cost savings.