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New comment by boltefnovor in ""Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs"

boltefnovor — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:41:45 +0000

If the employer offers terms you don’t like then don’t work for them.

If you feel inclined you can say “I’m taking a job with an employer who doesn’t pay based on location”.

But there’s really no reason to do the employer the service of telling them.

New comment by boltefnovor in "We need less powerful languages (2015)"

boltefnovor — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:22:14 +0000

Slightly off topic but collaborative programming seems to be a big unsolved and ignored problem in programming.

A recent HN discussion on microservices had people saying (paraphrasing) “it’s the only way we can collaboratively build software”.

Programming languages currently seem to be built for programming as a solitary activity. Seems to me that programming languages could be designed with the aim of solving the large scale collaboration problem.

New comment by boltefnovor in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

boltefnovor — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:00:13 +0000

Out come all the people who think this sort of thing is planned by Apple.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Ask HN: What Happened to WASM?"

boltefnovor — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 11:10:15 +0000

From the lack of comments maybe no one has any idea about WASM, which explains a lot.

Ask HN: What Happened to WASM?

boltefnovor — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 10:23:01 +0000

I looked around to find the state of the art in WASM demos and they’re around 2-3 years old.

There doesn’t seem to be much development activity or obvious well known WASM projects. People don’t seem to be talking much about how they’re building stuff with WASM.

I thought there might be UI/graphics for building applications. Couldn’t see much.

WASM seems to have gone nowhere.

Why?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024666

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by boltefnovor in "Cdecl – C gibberish ↔ English"

boltefnovor — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 09:31:02 +0000

Genius.

This should be built into IDEs.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Build a Tiny Product First"

boltefnovor — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 08:26:55 +0000

This post implies relationship between 37 Signals success and the ebook.

But really their success was all about Ruby On Rails and the community and publicity and audience that brought.

So I’m not sure quite what to make of this post.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)"

boltefnovor — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 07:44:36 +0000

Android needed google to grow, YouTube didn’t.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)"

boltefnovor — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 07:33:51 +0000

I often think about how YouTube was the bargain of the century.

YouTube would be one if the biggest companies ever if it had remained independent.

New comment by boltefnovor in "New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression"

boltefnovor — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 07:16:20 +0000

A study of 24 participants seems pretty flimsy.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes"

boltefnovor — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:47:23 +0000

You are correct and I agree with you. I have not worked in big projects, only small, so that’s where my beliefs come from.

I feel the problem is a software problem that should be solved by better development tools/languages rather than throwing up hands and pushing the problem into the operations domain.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes"

boltefnovor — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:41:33 +0000

My manager at work is a big believer in microservices.

I never reveal my true thoughts because I don’t think he would understand the heresy of the unbeliever.

Never tell anyone to their face that you don’t believe their god is real.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes"

boltefnovor — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:25:01 +0000

I prefer lower devops complexity and higher software application complexity. Any day.

Microservices is higher devops complexity in exchange for lower software application complexity. A really terrible deal IMO.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC"

boltefnovor — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:12:36 +0000

Is affordability the goal?

I thought inspiration was.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC"

boltefnovor — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:09:08 +0000

Demanding facts and methodology eh? You don’t seem to understand benchmarks.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC"

boltefnovor — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:04:22 +0000

I like the general idea but frankly this is underwhelming.

Where’s the sense of fun?

Given the origin of the raspberry pi being the old BBC and other home computers it would have been fun to have a solid computer with a full size keyboard reminiscent of the old 8 bit machines like the Acorn or the BBC micro.

The is just a keyboard. And really a missed opportunity to be something unique and fun and exciting.

This is kinda neat but nothing special. I’m not involuntarily reaching for my wallet.

New comment by boltefnovor in "I No Longer Tell My Friends about Anki/SuperMemo"

boltefnovor — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 07:54:07 +0000

The older I get, the less I care about influencing other people in any way.

New comment by boltefnovor in "When will web browsers be complete?"

boltefnovor — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:35:12 +0000

Internet Explorer is finished.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Next.js 10"

boltefnovor — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:06:15 +0000

I’m not a fan of these frameworks. They add another giant layer of stuff to learn and understand.

I’d rather just program react and the browser instead of hoping some framework will do it all for me.

New comment by boltefnovor in "Important Open Source projects should not use GitHub"

boltefnovor — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 06:16:03 +0000

No real reasons given.

Just an old-school anti Microsoft rant.

Hohum.