Hacker News: darkhorse22

New comment by darkhorse22 in "In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes"

darkhorse22 — Mon, 31 May 2021 06:31:37 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph

New comment by darkhorse22 in "In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes"

darkhorse22 — Mon, 31 May 2021 06:21:04 +0000

HN logs IPs.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes"

darkhorse22 — Mon, 31 May 2021 04:17:16 +0000

What does "Bernie bro" add to this?

New comment by darkhorse22 in "The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides"

darkhorse22 — Mon, 31 May 2021 03:45:51 +0000

NYT's GDPR compliance UI is hilariously user-hostile. You can't even opt out. There's no chance this is accidental.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado"

darkhorse22 — Mon, 31 May 2021 02:22:06 +0000

> In response to a Colorado state law that requires employers post salary ranges in job postings, companies are simply refusing to consider applicants from the state.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer"

darkhorse22 — Sun, 30 May 2021 05:42:30 +0000

I laughed in Cyrillic at the accidental Cyrillic ("к").

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer"

darkhorse22 — Sat, 29 May 2021 22:10:51 +0000

> 100к users ~10 000 $, and so on.

хахаха...

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?"

darkhorse22 — Sat, 29 May 2021 20:21:34 +0000

> Houdini was immediately suspicious. The message was written in English and his mother only spoke German. At the top of each page was a cross. His mother was the wife of a rabbi and devoutly Jewish. There is no way she would have drawn a cross. Finally, the day of the séance was her birthday. Why didn’t she mention this?

New comment by darkhorse22 in "ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login"

darkhorse22 — Sat, 29 May 2021 19:03:23 +0000

The mindset is basically: Programming is hard so we're going to block as many non-paying customers as possible to limit the blast radius when we inevitably fuck up. And inconvenience those paying users too, because we can't figure out how to mitigate DoS attacks at the edge. And then we'll give a talk at a Next.js conference or something.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Future of work will be 5-hour days, 4-day workweek, flexible staggered schedules"

darkhorse22 — Sat, 29 May 2021 15:42:37 +0000

If you're good enough you can pretty much dictate your working conditions. But it's bad advice for most people. I've seen plenty of mediocre devs take this kind of advice, and it's sad/embarrassing to see. Anyone who's decent figures out that they can cut corners at their first job. 90% of the devs I've worked with (conservatively) should never cut corners and should've been putting in more hours to become adequate. Most feel-good self-help advice like this is worse than useless, it's harmful to anybody who finds it novel.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "A look behind the “White Men as Full Diversity Partners” re-education program"

darkhorse22 — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:09:07 +0000

When I start answering these hard questions about my ethnicity, one result is strong sense of white pride. It's hard to tell if that's the desired outcome or not; I'm skeptical of the sincerity of these people looking for "allies" through insults.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month"

darkhorse22 — Thu, 27 May 2021 05:06:15 +0000

You had to apply and be accepted to the university, and their confidence that you won't turn your apartment into a crack den is factored into the monthly rent.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Ask HN: Is it better to generalise or specialise as a developer?"

darkhorse22 — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:42:08 +0000

you're crazy, I love you, but you're crazy

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Ask HN: Is it better to generalise or specialise as a developer?"

darkhorse22 — Wed, 26 May 2021 05:28:26 +0000

wut

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side"

darkhorse22 — Wed, 26 May 2021 01:38:45 +0000

This seems like a flame. Anyway, strategically speaking, US COVID-19 deaths had little impact on the country's fighting strength. So they're not really comparable to North Vietnam's war losses.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush"

darkhorse22 — Wed, 26 May 2021 00:47:27 +0000

The hand wringing about batteries blows my mind, it's like everybody forgot about Shell Nigeria. Anyone should be able to see that this has nothing to do with technology or rare earth metals, it's simply a pattern of exploitation.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "Tesla Rescinds Job Offer"

darkhorse22 — Tue, 25 May 2021 23:54:40 +0000

> good refs (necessary for future employment)

Unnecessary if you have chops. Interviewing a candidate's references is a sucker move anyway.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled"

darkhorse22 — Tue, 25 May 2021 15:52:40 +0000

I sort of doubt that you've spent much time in the most problematic parts of DC/Philly/Baltimore. Their peers are Chicago, New Orleans, and St. Louis. Not remotely SF.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "[dead]"

darkhorse22 — Tue, 25 May 2021 10:10:06 +0000

Read the contribution log, it's another "community leader" who barely writes code, who cares. Somebody wants attention.

New comment by darkhorse22 in "I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled"

darkhorse22 — Tue, 25 May 2021 06:24:49 +0000

Strong disagree, in fact I'd say that apart from Bayview, all of SF is safe, there's just lots of property crime, which I'll grant is shitty. North of 110th St? All of Manhattan's been safe for some time now. 110th St isn't even a little iffy. There are parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx that are no-go zones that have no comparison in SF. If you want screwed up, you have to go to Oakland (and boy is it... Oaktown does it all).