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Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by alecco »

batrat wrote: post #76

Almost 12 years of HN. I'm still a lurker, I'm sorry I don't contribute more, but I don't have much time and reading HN with a coffee in the morning is the best thing I can do. Thx everyone involved <3

Better than contribution, consider visiting /newest and upvote|flag things there. There're a lot of good articles lost in the haystack. Even if it's once in a while it's very good for the community.

In the old days of reddit, when it was almost lost as a community, that was called the Knights of New. A selfless system sadly ignored/killed by reddit admins and mods.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

dang wrote: post #170
cactusplant7374 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would do that. You're so unethical. Remember when you covered up uBiome? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?query=ubiome

Of course we didn't: YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899352 - April 2022 (173 comments) SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531087 - March 2021 (380 comments) UBiome Offices Searched by FBI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19760449 - April 2019 (56 comments) Many more: https…

You removed it from the directory. Not very honest, is it?

Also, how is criticizing Aaron Swartz off topic? The other commenter brought it up. No one made him commit suicide but HN has a boner for this guy like he's a victim.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by kbelder »

ryandv wrote: post #36

Been lurking since 2011 or so. Dare I say that the average level of discourse has finally fallen to a level where I feel comfortable participating after over ten years of just reading. That being said HN was and continues to be one of the most valuable resources for geeks on the net.

A new online law: Every community eventually degrades to the point I will feel like I fit in ;)

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by slantaclaus »

batrat wrote: post #76

Almost 12 years of HN. I'm still a lurker, I'm sorry I don't contribute more, but I don't have much time and reading HN with a coffee in the morning is the best thing I can do. Thx everyone involved <3

Commenting on hacker news is kind of like commenting on /r/askhistorians or asking a question on stackoverflow, it’s a tough crowd, I don’t blame you!

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by dredmorbius »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #202
dang wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course we didn't: YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899352 - April 2022 (173 comments) SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531087 - March 2021 (380 comments) UBiome Offices Searched by FBI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19760449 - April 2019 (56 comments) Many more: https…

You removed it from the directory. Not very honest, is it? Also, how is criticizing Aaron Swartz off topic? The other commenter brought it up. No one made him commit suicide but HN has a boner for this guy like he's a victim.

The YC directory is a YC feature, not an HN one. I'm pretty certain HN mods (dang, tomhow) have no direct influence over that, though they might care how inclusion/exclusion of investment embarrassments reflects on HN itself.

HN itself clearly hasn't shied away from critical coverage of that venture.

Your other argument shows a distinct lack of empathy and a certain disregard for facts of the matter.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by abustamam »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #197
colechristensen wrote: post #148

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Nerds! (but seriously, I'm interested it's just everything I've seen before had the strong scent of "we're doing this nonsense because we believe we're supposed to but don't understand why")

It's useful to have a common language for diagrams (actors, storage, etc) It's not useful for more than very abstract concepts though. If you're UMLing your entire Java app before you add another class/method/function, you're doing it wrong.

Yeah we don't go that overkill, we really just diagram surface area (how does the backend communicate with the frontend and through which apis and when, and when should the front end expect a socket message, etc)

As a method of communication between projects, it works wonderfully

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by abustamam »

colechristensen wrote: post #148
abustamam wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The startup I work for is pretty flat. There's the chief product officer who is actually pretty technical, the chief technical officer, and engineers basically. We use UMLs and flow charts in miro to diagram things from both a high level (for product to understand) to intricate details. It works great!

Nerds! (but seriously, I'm interested it's just everything I've seen before had the strong scent of "we're doing this nonsense because we believe we're supposed to but don't understand why")

Fortunately I've never worked for an org that did "stuff" for the sake of doing stuff, or at least I never lasted long with those orgs. In order to be lean and efficient we need to cut out all the stuff that doesn't serve the purpose of building product.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by VirusNewbie »

vinc wrote: post #184

15 years also for me, mostly lurking from a remote location in France, reading some discussions every single day and continuously learning new things. This community had so much impact on my professional life as a full stack software engineer! I discovered the world around Ruby on Rails, then the modern JavaScript ecosystem (and CoffeeScript followed later by TypeScript), burned out, focused on Ruby, added Rust to my…

Just wanted to say, I enjoyed reading about your story, wishing you well from all the way in California. This place is pretty great that it brings so many of us together from different backgrounds but share a love for tech, learning, and more.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by Akhil34 »

Happy Thanksgiving! I’ve been reading HN for a while but only recently started participating. It’s rare to find a corner of the internet that has maintained this level of thoughtful discourse for so long. Huge thanks to the mods for their hard work.
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