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Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by xeromal »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #121
acheron wrote: post #92

"Javascript Delenda Est", by zeveb, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 : > Can we please try to stop talking about this specific language ecosystem as an awful deplorable hell hole or whatever? Back in the second century BC, Cato the Elder ended his speeches with the phrase 'Carthago delenda est,' which is to say, 'Carthage must be destroyed.' It didn't matter what the ostensible topic of the speech was: a…

Why did Cato hate Carthage so much?

Hannibal came from Carthage and Hannibal was Rome's public enemy number 1. Really though, it's always been about the Mediterranean. Whoever owed that owned the "global" economy at the time. Carthage threatened that.

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by fragmede »

alex7o wrote: post #77
agumonkey wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> conclusion arrived to from a problem is not always the right one Very true. I'm also very reflective about my own thinking process. Why I don't like money is that it's too relativistic. I can get money by doing something useless that someone believes has value. For instance neighbors pay me to do the most simplest tasks on their computers. To me this has no value, I now accept the money because I'm a bit angry as t…

Yes but the only known tried alternative, communism didn't work out very well.

The Nordic model, while not totally free of problems, seems to be doing quite well, as does other models of, say, healthcare under systems which are less profit motivated.

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by preordained »

smolder wrote: post #87
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #81

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> Money at best buys you peace of mind money is the #1 stress factor in relationships and also just in general. having enough money goes a long way to eliminating whole classes of stress, mood, and other mental health problems. you don't have to be rich to be happy, but generally you do need to have enough money to live a satisfying life that you're not constantly struggling against.

People who can improve their income in a way that doesn't cause them stress, mood, mental and physical health problems are part of a well-insulated minority.

Yah, I'm just gonna go to my boss and say "more monies plz" or I'm going to go scour the market and try to trade up. I suppose if I just look at the number and ignore everything else the latter might be doable...but I do want a personal fit and some kind of stability. I suppose if I'm willing to pack my bags and start over every year or so I can keep this going and mitigate the effect of working places I hate for the sake of a big number.

Oh yah, and I have no high profile github stuff, nor am I a whiteboard wizard. I guess I should just "git gud" though, which I'm sure is a negligible stress investment with a guaranteed pay off?

/s Truly, I'm not allergic to the subject, but the cavalier attitude kills me sometimes. So much "What's the problem, peasants?"

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by compiler-guy »

penagwin wrote: post #104
code_duck wrote: post #66

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I feel like there are more brief and superfluous comments than there are used to be, but just as many or more lengthy and substantial comments.

Your comment gave me an interesting idea. What would happen if we imposed a minimum char-limit for say, hacker news comments? On one hand I'd expect more descriptive responses, fewer comments that are a short "Your wrong but I won't tell you why", etc. Comments just spamming letters would be fairly easy to detect. On the other hand what would this minimum char/word length be? Even your comment is fairly short, but it…

Then you end up with comments like you find on leasehackr.com, which has a twenty character minimum: “Agreed. 202020202020”

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by tomp »

ryanmarsh wrote: post #112
balabaster wrote: post #98

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Nor can you say it without quantifying the structure of your earnings... Where are you based, city/country? What kind of clients do you entertain? Also what industry/niche does your consulting empire cover? I assume you're an incorporated consultant and the rate of $3K per day is gross revenue and not net income(?) Certainly this is achievable, but people need to understand exact comparables so they're not comparing…

Ok, replying to you and next up line. I do consulting, the kind I do is irrelevant because there are others with high bill rates too (I know of some iOS devs that make $2,500/day). I have friends who are Java devs making $250/hr. They're not dummies but they aren't exactly Linus Torvalds or Chris Lattner either. Since you asked, I advise companies on how to implement certain development practices, things like DevOps,…

A vary favourite-worthy comment in a thread about favourite-worthy comments. So meta, it pleases my geeky mind. Kudos!

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by memco »

minecrafter6561 wrote: post #109
memco wrote: post #15

This is the only comment I have bookmarked in my years of lurking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18964418 > The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior (in whose honor I had a day off of work today) never once called for 'tolerance', the boycotts and sit-ins were not a demand for tolerance - they were a demand for integration. To tolerate is to "otherise" - you are _allowed_ to continue being as your are, bu…

I heard Zizek say basically that exact same thing, it’s a common point he makes in certain talks. https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.com/good-thinking-is-g...

Thanks so much for the link! I think this is a powerful idea and look forward to studying it more.

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by earenndil »

paulgb wrote: post #61
pvaldes wrote: post #39

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There are a lot of redundancy in themes, but I didn't notice a decreasing in quality of the discussion. The good now days are perfect to me.

It really is amazing, I've been here nearly 12 years now and the quality of discussion hasn't devolved. If anything, it was a bit more cynical/negative ten years ago than it is now.

Huh. I've only been here a couple of years, and I feel the quality of discussion is already starting to worsen. (However, it's still better than most other things—see https://danluu.com/hn-comments/)

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by fghtr »

testcase_delta wrote: post #107
e12e wrote: post #67

I have quite a few. The most recent favorite is this one, which actually features verbatim quotes - and highlites the level of editorialisation in the (us) news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19405173 " js2 37 days ago | parent | un-favorite | on: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hac... Fox News: "Young Beto O'Rourke wrote 'murder fantasy' about running over children, was part of famed hacking gr…

I would love a website that contrasted editorializing of the day's news and rated them. Is this something machine learning could accomplish? Sentiment analysis, perhaps?

https://www.wikitribune.com/article/13988/

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806500

Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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Post by hobofan »

johnchristopher wrote: post #52
AWebOfBrown wrote: post #21

A quote about salary, that I bookmarked as I could see myself making the same mistake: "Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable. Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and…

Just an anecdote: I sometime drop to friends and acquaintances that salary is one of the last taboo in our modern western society but it's a really strong one. Either it ends there with a joke comment or it sparks a conversation about an individual's worth in society and among friends.

I'm wondering if that's a "previous generation" thing that's slowly going away, or if I'm just living in a bubble. I know (or have known and forgotten) the salary of most people in my extended peer group (25-30 year olds mostly). If the topic we are talking about is jobs, or a new job someone got, the person usually either flat out says it, or someone in the group will ask with little hesitation.
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