Hacker News: anth_anm

New comment by anth_anm in "Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client"

anth_anm — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:34:22 +0000

For a second I thought you meant the 2013 Macbook Pro and I was wondering what the hell you were talking about.

New comment by anth_anm in "Rich Felker of musl libc comments on Google's LLVM libc proposal"

anth_anm — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:31:17 +0000

You can keep posting the guidelines all you want. I don't bother trying because I know that you will just pop up with the word "unsubstantive" for anything you don't happen to personally think is good.

New comment by anth_anm in "Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client"

anth_anm — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:30:06 +0000

Hopefully this lets Apple move back to making great devices that look great, instead of devices with seriously compromised performance in exchange for being very slightly more thin.

New comment by anth_anm in "Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side"

anth_anm — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:00:20 +0000

> source: I ran Facebook’s ads backend for years

Why would anyone ever trust a goddamn thing you have to say about their data?

Unless they pay your salary and are asking you to give your expertise on hoarding and abusing user data, obviously.

New comment by anth_anm in "Why U.S. Cities Aren’t Using More Electric Buses"

anth_anm — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:35:54 +0000

Vancouver has used buses that can get overhead power for a long time.

New comment by anth_anm in "How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit"

anth_anm — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:36:10 +0000

If it wasn't an exaggeration then I would think they apologize for the inconvenience and pay the guy back. 0.01% would mean 1 in 10000 have an issue.

New comment by anth_anm in "How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit"

anth_anm — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:33:06 +0000

I'd be absolutely shocked if they don't have a mandatory arbitration clause.

New comment by anth_anm in "Sidewalk Labs’ Plan for Toronto"

anth_anm — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:13:42 +0000

> Governments don't give up control without bloodshed.

You say that like it's a bad thing?

New comment by anth_anm in "Sidewalk Labs’ Plan for Toronto"

anth_anm — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:12:06 +0000

none of those require google to be around.

Far as I'm concerned, if this happens it becomes the duty of every person to destroy these sensors and destroy the ability to deploy new ones.

New comment by anth_anm in "Sidewalk Labs’ Plan for Toronto"

anth_anm — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:08:24 +0000

Facebook gets to control money, Google gets to control cities.

Seems fair and totally reasonable.

New comment by anth_anm in "Learning to Build Distributed Systems"

anth_anm — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:05:53 +0000

Another article about how hard it is doesn't mention the hardest part of all.

Getting to a place where you will ever get a chance to work on this stuff.

I tried joining a team working on it. Figured I wouldn't get to do a lot, but it was a foot in the door sort of situation.

By the time I quit I had managed 7 months without doing a thing, and 3 more where I wasn't even trying anymore.

Meanwhile the guys who built the thing all got pulled to work on the next big thing. Maybe they were just amazing engineers.

Maybe getting hired out of college and putting right onto a massive distributed systems project is the only fucking way to ever get your foot in the door.

I'm not gonna let this article ruin my day. It's pointless. I can think about how colossally fucked my career is on monday.

New comment by anth_anm in "How Virginia Won Amazon's HQ2"

anth_anm — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:54:31 +0000

Unsubstantive == dang don't like it.

Worst moderator I've ever seen. Seriously, you are just atrocious.

New comment by anth_anm in "How Virginia Won Amazon's HQ2"

anth_anm — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:50:14 +0000

Being able to sleep properly is a health issue. I've had jackhammers outside my window at 6 am. It sucks.

New comment by anth_anm in "How Virginia Won Amazon's HQ2"

anth_anm — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:49:11 +0000

Must suck for anyone who was trying to get to work while he was shutting down transportation for weeks.

> He's brought the hammer down on the WMATA union

Ahh, that hero crushing the working class.

New comment by anth_anm in "How Virginia Won Amazon's HQ2"

anth_anm — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:46:35 +0000

By being close to DC and thus having easy access to government.

Do people really think Amazon really left it up to chance? Then that chance just somehow worked out to right next to DC and the biggest talent hub on the East Coast.

Sure, I'll buy that to go with my new bridge.

New comment by anth_anm in "Gab will become a Mastodon fork"

anth_anm — Thu, 30 May 2019 23:03:42 +0000

> that is causing those who've been disadvantaged the same privileges that white males have enjoyed alone for much of recent human history

No. Black people can't own slaves. They aren't going to get to profit off centuries of colonial oppression. They aren't going to get to be the only enfranchised people in the country.

They won't even get to enjoy the comfortable middle class lifestyle that persisted until the late 20th century.

New comment by anth_anm in "Gab will become a Mastodon fork"

anth_anm — Thu, 30 May 2019 22:55:57 +0000

You can still get away with that if you just dress it up a little.

New comment by anth_anm in "Lyft's IPO Is Making the Same Circle of Men Rich, Again"

anth_anm — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 06:00:29 +0000

Right sorry, I forget that you’re a humorless douchebag who considers anthing that crosses the line into sarcasm to be unacceptable.

Worst moderator I’ve ever seen. Honestly, just god awful.

New comment by anth_anm in "Lyft's IPO Is Making the Same Circle of Men Rich, Again"

anth_anm — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:05:35 +0000

> The government can easily solve that through taxation if it so chooses.

Except the billionaires pay millions to ensure that doesn't happen. The system is corrupt by design.

New comment by anth_anm in "Lyft's IPO Is Making the Same Circle of Men Rich, Again"

anth_anm — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:03:32 +0000

And yet those who risk the least walk away with the most.

Because they gambled well.