Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42536919

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Even if most people will have no problem with them, I’d say that knowing how a company handles edge cases like this is much more valuable than knowing how the handle things when everything is fine.

A couple years ago they migrated me to a more expensive plan with no notice, I had to catch the price difference on an invoice. I wasn’t happy but it’s a lot of work to transfer domains.

Recently I discovered they introduced a plan that fit my usage and cost 50% less, but (would you believe it) they didn’t bother quietly migrating me to that plan…

These guys can’t be trusted.

Groupcache has a similar goal of limiting the number of fetches required to fill a cache key to one—regardless of the number of concurrent requests for that key—but it doesn't try to speculatively fetch data, it just coordinates fetching so that all the routines attempting to query the same key make one fetch between them and share the same result.

https://github.com/golang/groupcache?tab=readme-ov-file#load...

On Apple platforms, at least, all the crustaceans mentioned are red and therefore look very much cooked.

Perhaps that's a component, but one really doesn't need to think about it too hard to identify better explanations for why this particular energy source is held to unusually high regulatory standards.

I don't have an opinion as to whether other large-scale sources of energy should be held to similar standards, but to suggest that solar energy's failure modes are comparable to nuclear energy seems intentionally misleading.

At the same time it’s been pretty frustrating to use an editor that is spending so much time building AI integrations, REPLs, and so fourth when basic things like cut and paste and common Vim motions still have so many bugs.

I’d love to see them prioritize getting the basics solid first.

I live in New York, but I rarely go to hotel bars here because, while frequently comfortable, they are outrageously expensive. On my most recent visit this spring I paid $24 for a single very mediocre cocktail.

Only retaliation for a protected activity is illegal. Is interfering with or undermining the company's business prospects in service of a political opinion a protected activity? I don't know, but it would not surprise me if it were not.

To be entirely honest, I'm not sure I think it should be. I can certainly imagine a lot of scenarios where I would not approve of people motivated by certain political opinions actively working against the interests of the company that employed me.

One small criticism: In my opinion, no web-based writing app is useful unless the tab key inserts a tab. The default behavior of most browsers to move focus to the next field is tremendously infuriating in this context. Unfortunately, that's what happens here, at least for Firefox.

(Related: key combinations that normally perform cursor movements but which are often used by browser for navigation.)

It's got a ways to go before it generates output that looks as good as Stripe's documentation, but it makes it dead simple to create API documentation that's guaranteed to be in sync with your service, because it was generated by your tests when they ran.

https://github.com/instaunit/instaunit

It doesn’t affect the package name (unless you choose to), only the import path. So it eliminates any ambiguity about the interface you intend to use and it only affects import statements. Personally I think that’s a good balance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p561

I would suggest that if you truly believe standups are some deeply destructive tool of mismanagement you probably have much bigger problems with your company or role that you're projecting on to this rather innocuous meeting.