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New comment by _4ziu in "Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube"

_4ziu — Mon, 18 May 2020 17:00:42 +0000

I simply said they were not the same. You and another commenter have incorrectly inferred that I was talking about their victims. Says a lot more about you than it does about me.

New comment by _4ziu in "Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube"

_4ziu — Mon, 18 May 2020 16:41:52 +0000

Good luck with that. Their services are essential to my life and I don't think they're doing this dramatic draconian version of censorship everyone thinks. Never seen this kind of hate from the HN crowd towards amazon or apple's manufacturers and warehouse workers working in deplorable conditions, which is far and away the worst thing a company could be doing. Not whatever this is.

New comment by _4ziu in "Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube"

_4ziu — Mon, 18 May 2020 16:38:52 +0000

The CCP is not the same as nazis. This is silly.

New comment by _4ziu in "Georgism"

_4ziu — Sun, 17 May 2020 22:04:42 +0000

It is because the rich and powerful own the land that georgism is hard to push through. You could implement georgist laws simply, but the rich and powerful have connections that you don't and politics will always favour them, so you won't get any of that policy to hold. This isn't georgism's fault in particular, but the fault of just about any tax scheme.

New comment by _4ziu in "92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people"

_4ziu — Thu, 14 May 2020 12:07:42 +0000

I'm still active on a forum for those types of games. They're still probably about as active as they've ever been. It's obvious why it would never work on a large scale though. Each post got the user profile next to it, their signature, and a lot of space.

New comment by _4ziu in "Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal"

_4ziu — Fri, 08 May 2020 05:21:53 +0000

Actually, now that i'm re-reading this, it's a disaster. She claims to write this to help newcomers, yet everything is so cryptic.

`it kicks off a "serviceworker" thread to handle it.`

It doesn't even tell me how I should do this. I don't know what 'serviceworker' code looks like. I don't know what 'kicking off' means.

This post reads like it was made for maybe 3 or 4 people in the world who truly 'get it' and if you aren't in that elite club you're a terrible engineer, apparently. There's not even a lick of example code to get an idea of what is going on. Engineering is a big word that shouldn't be used in this blog post.

New comment by _4ziu in "Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal"

_4ziu — Fri, 08 May 2020 05:02:07 +0000

Very well put. It's also a matter of use cases. These people seemingly implement servers for big companies. I just make shitty websites. We aren't their target audience yet it comes off as 'this is what everyone should be doing'.

New comment by _4ziu in "OpenTTD 1.10"

_4ziu — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:42:34 +0000

One of the best game soundtracks in the world

New comment by _4ziu in "The dystopian world of software engineering interviews"

_4ziu — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 01:09:09 +0000

I don't know what kind of selective bargaining power you guys have, but i would kill just to get my foot in the door of a FAANG.

New comment by _4ziu in "In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky"

_4ziu — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:17:19 +0000

It preys directly on human psychology by creating myths about how life used to be great and invoking nostalgia and frustration in broken people who just need guidance. No one who likes fascism sees it the way normal people do, because it's designed to trick people and weed its way into collective society and psyche.

This is why we must make a continuous effort to stomp it before it spreads and never listen to people who call us silly for saying Modi is a fascist just because he isn't Hitler's level yet.

New comment by _4ziu in "People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige"

_4ziu — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:01:50 +0000

But it does other people good after i die, and i care about other people even after i die.

New comment by _4ziu in "People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige"

_4ziu — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:56:01 +0000

Frankly, a stupid quote.

"What good is praise except to make your lifestyle a little more comfortable"

That sounds pretty darn good to me.

And the fact that your memory and work can be passed down and influence a theoretically infinite number of people.

New comment by _4ziu in "Banksy's Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law"

_4ziu — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:23:22 +0000

How is banksy going to protect their work if they cannot even prove they made it? I don't even believe all the 'banksy' originals over the years came from one person, it's more likely a group.

Honestly it's frustrating to watch an anonymous entity decorate the city while still expecting people not to use their work. The way banksy has established themself as a figure would indicate they want the art to be free and open for all to use. You cannot have your cake and eat it too, which is to say you cannot be anonymous and trademark your artwork.

New comment by _4ziu in "Why don’t we have good code editors?"

_4ziu — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:22:06 +0000

> Terminal editors don't suck. They require learning and discipline, something that some might argue is becoming a lost art in this field. In the days of "gluing modules together", maybe vim isn't for you, but it's for me and this fluff piece contributed nothing.

I mean, I use vim too. Any project that is sufficiently large benefits greatly from a file handler, there is nothing to be proud about for remembering each and every subfile. Why not just put it right there in view? You can't possibly argue it somehow rots the brain; i mean we aren't even talking about writing code here, it's just accessing files.

New comment by _4ziu in "What do executives do, anyway?"

_4ziu — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 23:08:43 +0000

It's a shame more HN people don't understand this. You can be pro-business and still recognise the injustice of executive salary.

New comment by _4ziu in "Ask HN: Looking back, what have you wasted lots of time on?"

_4ziu — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:59:30 +0000

I quit the site for about a month, came back because it really is a great idea generator.

New comment by _4ziu in "Ask HN: Looking back, what have you wasted lots of time on?"

_4ziu — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:58:05 +0000

Math really opens you up to new ideas and changes your way of thinking, but you're right it's a serious life long investment, not just a little tool you can pick up on the side.

New comment by _4ziu in "Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future"

_4ziu — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:58:31 +0000

He also said that most of the issues with writing kernels have nothing to do with choice of programming language, but instead hardware compatibility. Neither Rust nor anything else could help this.

New comment by _4ziu in "Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again"

_4ziu — Mon, 20 May 2019 18:23:56 +0000

This completely fails to capture the nuance in the differences between IRC and modern chat apps, as well as failing to understand an entire userbase and its needs. I know this because i'm a part of the userbase of both slack and IRC.

New comment by _4ziu in "Improving support for adult content on Mastodon"

_4ziu — Sun, 05 May 2019 20:21:17 +0000

I really like the idea of Mastodon, but i can't shake this feeling that their name is kind of awful. I get that they're not trying to be exactly like twitter but by comparison, twitter is a much bubblier and friendlier word.