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New comment by brockers in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

brockers — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:36:42 +0000

Honest question. I love some of the additional capabilities and specifically the dependency commits, virtual branches, and JSON output...

BUT why not just work with the git community to add this functionality? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing that needs to "replace" git, as opposed to "improve" git?

New comment by brockers in "Banned in California"

brockers — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:45:37 +0000

ad hominem? Please explain what makes the regulatory burdens onerous instead of impossible.

New comment by brockers in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

brockers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:38:38 +0000

It might be just my perception, but it seems like every single time anthropologist make statements to the effect that complex human development didn't start until XX they are proven wrong. It wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't for the fact that those "estimates" are generally used as proof to dismiss alternative timelines for human progression. I'm certainly not trying to say the planet had Atlantis with flying cars 300,000 years ago; but it certainly seems plausible that there were large/complex societies beginning long before the advent of our current written history... an idea that is regularly dismissed as foolish.

New comment by brockers in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

brockers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:07:59 +0000

Remote attestation requires a great deal of trust... I know this comment is likely to be down-voted, but I can't think of a Lennart Poettering project that didn't try to extend, centralize, and conglomerate Linux with disastrous results in the short term; and less innovation, flexibility, and functionality in the long term. Trading the strength of Unix systems for goal of making them more "Microsoft" like.

Remote attestation requires a great deal of trust, and I simply don't have it when it comes to this leadership team.

New comment by brockers in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

brockers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:19:37 +0000

It seems to be, for most users who switch, that the driver is if they are primarily a consumer or creator. Unix systems have always been a preferred platform for some creators, but this effect seems to be multiplying as the focus for Windows become less and less creator friendly. Yeah, if you are a gamer and watch YouTube videos, then your path to least resistance is Windows; but if you are a software developer, web developer, music editor, video editor, et al... the ability to control, easily automate, and flexibility of your environment (not to mention the reduced system resources) become a huge advantage. There are reasons why MOST creators are moving away from Windows... and most consumers are becoming more and more comfortable with tablets and Chromebooks.

New comment by brockers in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

brockers — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:22:00 +0000

There is some strange irony in this. Apple initially used the khtml code-base to build Safari but it quickly became impossible to back-port the changes from the Safari branch of khtml back into Konqueror. Now, 20 years later, someone has made an open source version of Safari.

New comment by brockers in "Apple VP discourages retail workers from joining a union in leaked video"

brockers — Wed, 25 May 2022 19:24:38 +0000

The vote will definitely demonstrate how seriously the employees are considering unionization but, in my experience, there are a certain sub-set of people that constantly push for unionization, regardless of the companies commitment to employees.

New comment by brockers in "Apple VP discourages retail workers from joining a union in leaked video"

brockers — Wed, 25 May 2022 17:07:34 +0000

There is a cost associated with collective bargaining as well as benefits. While most of these costs (though not all) are carried by the employer to the benefit of the employee; I don't think dismissing these concerns by calling them "common anti-union talking points" improves the honest discussion that should be had by people considering collective bargaining.

Ask HN: Books and Resources for CTOs growing pass the startup phase

brockers — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:01:09 +0000

I'm in the fortunate position to be at a company that is quickly growing from small/startup size to mid/large size. Unfortunately I've seen too many "startup" CTOs that have difficulty making the transition successfully with the result that they either fail their company or are replaced.

Does anyone have suggestions, books, mentoring programs, or advice they could pass along. I love this company and the team we have built and want to give us the best possible chance for success.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895674

Points: 1

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New comment by brockers in "Myth of the Brown Recluse"

brockers — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:20:02 +0000

There are literally two in my office right now under my bookshelf. If you have them, you don't find one of these, you find dozens.

New comment by brockers in "Javascript: call functions without using parentheses"

brockers — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:02:40 +0000

Can someone tell me what possible value this has?

New comment by brockers in "US Congress passes bill to help advanced nuclear power"

brockers — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:33:21 +0000

Fine particle pollution is entirely different from CO2 emission and would not be included as part of any carbon tax I've seen.

New comment by brockers in "Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL"

brockers — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:54:17 +0000

No this is simply bad implementation. As has already been mention, for internet services that also have websites for those services the www. subdomain makes total sense.

> How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ?

In the above case pool.ntp.org is a decades old time service, while www.pool.ntp.org is a website describing the service.

New comment by brockers in "Ask HN: Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regretted it?"

brockers — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:41:28 +0000

I have to second this. CouchDB has a much better native interface than Mongo (pure HTTP/REST JSON) and automatic syncying.

Honestly, most of the time I think the real problem is developers not being able to cognitively handle changing from a SQL style declarative syntax to a functional map/reduce style syntax. It takes higher-order thinking, but the results are dramatically better.

New comment by brockers in "We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016)"

brockers — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:48:26 +0000

Thank you. I always getting a little angry at these "We should..." posts that are posted by a modern philosophe who has some idealized way of seeing the world and is more than happy to limit other peoples choices to maximize that vision.

New comment by brockers in "Don't sudo pip"

brockers — Thu, 17 May 2018 14:20:05 +0000

Or grunt, npm, gem, etc... etc... etc...

I don't know about brew and the MacOS ecosystem.

New comment by brockers in "New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption"

brockers — Thu, 17 May 2018 14:14:00 +0000

Why the obsession about energy consumption from mining bitcoin? It is because many people still consider it imaginary or non-productive? It is because, unlike many other markets, it is fairly straightforward to find upper and lower bounds for consumption?

New comment by brockers in "Limiting breakage with a software deployment checklist"

brockers — Mon, 07 May 2018 13:42:47 +0000

I know Dev shops don't like processes and forms, but that "checklist" is exactly that. It simply shows that processes and procedures are tools that are useful if that use can be limited.

New comment by brockers in "[dead]"

brockers — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:28:16 +0000

As several people have already pointed out, there is almost no argument that can be made against giving it to him that isn't invalidated by Obama receiving it. That is the problem with turning everything into a statement of political ideology; the thing looses it's value. Instead of centering our identities around ideas, we have started centering them around people and parties.

People forget, but there was a time people would be members of the NRA and the ACLU. Where a person could support gay rights, and support religious objections...

We have reached the point we're, in politics, we don't care how we occomplish our goals; only that we get what we want from the system.

New comment by brockers in "Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?"

brockers — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 19:54:02 +0000

Same here, out entire dev shop is X1 Carbons on Linux.