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New comment by dickbasedregex in "Stripe's take on software engineer efficiency made me angry"

dickbasedregex — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:08:55 +0000

Yeah but there’s money to be had from people who will buy into that idea. People don’t like complex answers.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Treating violence as a public health problem has produced great results"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:14:11 +0000

As an American that's always been my feeling. Bullies and petty people seem to be drawn to police work in the US for that "authority."

An idiot with authority is a bad time for everyone.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Treating violence as a public health problem has produced great results"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:12:16 +0000

The vast, vast majority of police officer aren't shooting blacks under super fishy circumstances but it still happens.

You tell me how many dogs, blacks, children, wtf-ever. is required before it's OK to 1) Earnestly hold police and the system accountable and 2) To have a healthy wariness, if not outright distrust, of cops and LEOs in general.

Seems to me like we've passed those thresholds and then-some a while ago.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "PowerShell and Markdown"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:12:57 +0000

But terminals 11 years ago were already more advanced. So, yeah, I'd echo the "wtf took so long?"

All the resources in the world but absolutely glacial progress.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume"

dickbasedregex — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:19:08 +0000

>Google asleep at the wheel again.

Again? They've been comatose for years. Look how they keep screwing up w/Youtube.

Everything is an algorithm problem to them and when something goes wrong it's always "oops, crazy technology blah blah algorithms". Which is 100% a cop out. Google has been resting on its laurels for a while now. Like Steam, they've shirked all responsibility for their service/platform. Must be nice to do f-all and still print money...

New comment by dickbasedregex in "As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume"

dickbasedregex — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:10:17 +0000

Why shouldn't everyone else pronounce and spell things however they feel is nicest?

Because chaos.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume"

dickbasedregex — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:07:58 +0000

"...or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Treating violence as a public health problem has produced great results"

dickbasedregex — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:59:41 +0000

Lucky you.

Even with family as law enforcement, I've never trusted police. As a vet I'm disgusted by their lack of training and quickness to shoot first and ask questions later. Last I checked the average is 32 dogs shot by US cops a day. I don't even need to delve into the refusal to wear body cams, race issues, etc. etc. American police have not given Americans any reason to assume they are ever on the same side.

Eighteen year old infantrymen, who have an infinitely greater chance of danger, have more resolve and professionalism than American cops. I'd trust that 18 year old ground pounder over a cop any day over any thing.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Ask HN: Locked out of Google services with no recourse or explanation"

dickbasedregex — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 05:14:40 +0000

Fastmail is good. Docs is still hard to beat.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "YouTube introduces channel memberships, merchandise and premieres"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:19:03 +0000

They could just stop blaming their inaction on awry algorithms. It's frankly pathetic. Then, maybe stop building features no one asked for and instead fix the broken notification system? Lastly, stop lying to their creators and and hiding behind completely vague legalese.

I've been a HEAVY youtube user since around 06/07 and I'd still love to see them knocked off their perch.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Twitter ‘smytes’ customers"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:44:04 +0000

Yup. They started the "rails don't scale" narrative.

Something something, a good craftsman doesn't blame his tools.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Twitter ‘smytes’ customers"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:39:14 +0000

Does anyone think they companies that just got the shaft have legal recourse?

If nothing than just getting a pound of flesh from twitter.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Twitter ‘smytes’ customers"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:34:09 +0000

After hearing so many stories like this for so many years, any time a company acquires another, it usually seems advisable to jump ship from the acquired to other vendors before things start going south.

PR will come up with all sorts of reasons said acquisition will benefit both company's customers but I've yet to see it.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Apple’s Next Laptops Could Be More iPhone Than Mac"

dickbasedregex — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:57:29 +0000

I've been figuring for a couple years now I'd have to abandon macs once my air dies. Apple seems bound and determined to shun developers and instead sell facebook machines.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "US Expected to Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 18:15:18 +0000

We're working on it.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 25 May 2018 23:31:31 +0000

I could see that. I've heard the tools in that space are terrible. That related to your day job industry?

python-based version for tabular data processing & management, ecom oriented mostly (so basically op's product), myself.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming"

dickbasedregex — Thu, 24 May 2018 23:23:47 +0000

I've been brainstorming a shallow, poor-man's poor man version of this. I couldn't hope to compete. This looks incredible. Kudos!

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:57:42 +0000

Maybe I'm just crotchety now and/or beyond front-end fatigue but I keep thinking, "you don't need all that!"

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better"

dickbasedregex — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:28:38 +0000

Every 2-3 years this gets suggested again. Somebody builds something to "compile" their pet language x to JS. At the same time 3 new JS libraries or frameworks come out to abstract an abstraction. I've been writing JS since '94 and I'm sorry but at this point all I can muster is an eye roll.

New comment by dickbasedregex in "Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches"

dickbasedregex — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:15:48 +0000

Brutal fines needed.

If you can't keep data secure you don't need to be in business.