<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: douglee650</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=douglee650</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:43:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=douglee650" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aren't special and general relativity the grand leviathans of intellectual achievement? Pure thought unlocking the nature of existence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:49:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738594</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "How to get better at guitar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TLDR: practice. If you have sufficient natural talent xor will, you will eventually go past the canon of available material and begin to transcribe your own. Then there are those who move to creation, either immediately or somewhere in the path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:25:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681551</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Feels sloppy (is sloppy) but I think the idea is to prioritize OS unification for hardware reasons, and UX across product suite — devices can share data, apps, screens, everything.</p>
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<p>I wonder if tube harmonics modeled by solid state settings has shaped music. Of course it has; music from that era is instrument-oriented.<p>The discovery of feedback tones and the resulting incorporation in the musical experience — a three hour warm bank of tubes turned up to the limit with a maxxed out savant unlocking new realms of sound.</p>
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<p>Isn't it more of a style decision where if your team rebases, and practices clean code discipline, and excellence is a habit rather than an enforcement — the signals visibly emit in `status`.<p>Most committers don't really understand remotes, much less rebasing.</p>
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<p>The second half of the post essentially describes low/high context social dynamics.<p>Outside of linguistucs, I've seen it applied as a concept of social group inclusion and mobility. Eg. America is a low context society — if you mess up you can move across town. Other cultures that are high context, your family will be shunned for generations with no hope of success.</p>
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<p>Wonders if author has studied low vs high context societies</p>
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<p>Men, asymptotic to 100% factors, women absolute 100% factors.<p>Wondering if this is point author is trying to make?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:09:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062341</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "Markdown is holding you back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You lost me at, "XML is not that bad if you are already doing <x>". Verbosity is insane, attribute vs element freedom induces crowd madness. But I do love the data-visiting parts, why can't they somehow get that into Markdown.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:58:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024027</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Crabs in a bucket is probably the bandit left triangle, people competing by dragging others down.<p>Flaizers are the lower left quadrant, what original author refers to as "stupid" — causing harm to themselves and others with no benefit for any parties.<p>Yeah I know stop trying to make fetch a thing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:49:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838016</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "What the hell have you built"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Why is Redis talking to MongoDB?"<p>lol, In the diagram, Redis is not even talking with MongoDB</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:25:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833594</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I finally made the switch to vim when I was working on a really large frontend template that consisted of the same massive repeated block where a small portion of each was different based on a condition.<p>There was a lot of search and replace, and emacs started dogging it really hard on like the 10th condition block.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:23:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833575</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha, I have independently arrived at this theory, with far less structure and elegance.<p>Flaize = flail + lose. You're flailing and you're losing (and taking other people down with you).<p>"The world is full of flaizers, non-stop flaizing," encompasses laws 1 and 3.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:19:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833552</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn’t emacs slow down on really long files? I mean like 8,000 lines</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:28:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832834</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a well made, elaborate infomercial with a science hook.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:17:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832778</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "Facts about throwing good parties"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't take it personally; not inviting them after a few times is enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:20:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798669</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then, finally you reach the last layer: a 4" x 6" notepad and pen that are always kept at your desk</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:21:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865158</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of it _is_ the stress. That's the environment you'd be coding in, so makes sense to test for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:49:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758583</link><dc:creator>douglee650</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758583</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by douglee650 in "Webflow Down for >31 Hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's painful to use, but lets non-technical clients edit copy and create content in a safe environment. There's a runtime CMS types creator and a WYSIWYG html editor with facility for code blocks from global to inline scopes. Also comes with batteries included deploy. It's basically a one or two levels higher Squarespace/Wix</p>
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<p>Forked</p>
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