Hacker News: dreyfiz

New comment by dreyfiz in "Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company"

dreyfiz — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:29:02 +0000

GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself.

All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts.

My relationship with GitHub significantly predated my dalliance with this one employer years ago. I trusted GitHub. My GitHub account was a formative part of my identity. I still can’t believe it and I still can’t forgive them. I lost some of my sparkle that day.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Paul Klee's personal notebooks on his Bauhaus teachings (2016)"

dreyfiz — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:34:46 +0000

So?

New comment by dreyfiz in "Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events"

dreyfiz — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 23:53:31 +0000

Impressive! I've been using Fluentd a lot, will look at this.

p.s. Search for "complaince" and fix the typo :-)

New comment by dreyfiz in "Quora User Data Compromised"

dreyfiz — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:17:56 +0000

It's impossible for me to be as anonymous as I like on Quora, because they require a government ID with the name I want to use. Which isn't even that weird! It's my legal last name, plus my childhood nickname for a first name.

Your name just didn't provoke their Real Name Gestapo.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Quora User Data Compromised"

dreyfiz — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:14:17 +0000

Yes. Within hours of registering my account, Quora emailed to let me know that my name sounds fake and that I have to prove my identity with government ID, or I can't use Quora on an equal basis with other users. It really burns me!

I think part of their reasoning is "hey, we have prominent users! Let's make sure everyone knows it!" But Ask MetaFilter has famous users. They are in no way diminished by my pseudonymity.

Plus I know how to change my name. I can spend $100 at the courthouse, and get an ID that would force Quora to let me use my preferred name. My point is, Quora doesn't get to be the impetus for my legal name change. I don't need Quora's permission to call myself what I prefer to be called.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Quora User Data Compromised"

dreyfiz — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 03:09:58 +0000

That's a false dichotomy.

Ask MetaFilter is a much better Yahoo Answers, but I can be pseudonymous there. Also, my pseudonym is much closer to a real identity than what's on my driver's license.

I don't have any real reason to fear sharing my "real name" with Quora. I'm lucky. But I'm not the only person in the world. Good thing I'm not trans or a religious dissident. Good thing the only thing stopping me from contributing to Quora is my ornery nature. I would hate to for the world to miss out on my Quora contributions for a good reason.

Good thing Quora doesn't have my "real name" is all I'm saying. I have an interest in privacy, even though I use the same pseudonym as my identity on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And Ask MetaFilter. And so many other places. I shouldn't have to beg to use my preferred name on Quora's bulletin board, regardless of my reasons. It's none of their business.

There's nothing about a "real names" policy that automatically turns a shitposter into a quality contributor. There are plenty of reasons not to wear a target on your back and self-doxx. Today's misadventure is one very good reason.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Quora User Data Compromised"

dreyfiz — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:12:26 +0000

I'm experiencing a sense of schadenfruede because I'm embittered by Quora's arrogant "real names" policy. They won't "let me" contribute.

Nothing insightful. I'm just here to kick them while they're down.

New comment by dreyfiz in "F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes"

dreyfiz — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:21:22 +0000

Being looked at by whom?

New comment by dreyfiz in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

dreyfiz — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 03:06:29 +0000

What the expletive! (Awesome, really didn’t see it coming though!)

New comment by dreyfiz in "CNCF to Host Cloud Native Buildpacks in the Sandbox"

dreyfiz — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:54:41 +0000

Yeah, do you have a composer.json in the root of your repo? Buildpack will detect a PHP app...

New comment by dreyfiz in "Spencer Perceval, The Forgotten Prime Minister"

dreyfiz — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 22:58:06 +0000

I loved this, thank you. I never knew how the abolitionists managed to pass the slave trade act until now.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot"

dreyfiz — Sat, 12 May 2018 23:28:42 +0000

That's just like Perl to have a literary name like Perl::Critic :-)

New comment by dreyfiz in "Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot"

dreyfiz — Sat, 12 May 2018 16:25:05 +0000

Nitpicking: if you're keeping the name, pick a canonical way to spell it and "enforce" that everywhere :-)

Repo name: Git-Enforcer

Logo at top of readme: git ENFORCER

call-to-action button: "Install Git Enforcer Free"

shields.io version badge: "GitEnforcer"

Which one is it? Pick one to be known by!

New comment by dreyfiz in "Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot"

dreyfiz — Sat, 12 May 2018 16:02:42 +0000

I do like the idea overall. So, let me tell you why I instantly hated it and closed the tab.

Your Show HN headline did a great job, I was excited to see what a github repo quality bot does!

This is a personal preference, but I find the name "Git Enforcer", the police officer emoji, and the git logo with a police hat on it completely off-putting. Not the atmosphere I would want to foster when I'm trying to use persuasion to get colleagues to adopt good practices. In my world, police are authoritarian bullies who demand instant compliance without negotiation, or else they'll brutalize you.

It's humbler and more inviting for a bot to come across as an assistant. "Git Enforcer" comes across as something a clueless boss imposes. I think all the wrong-footed design cues come from the name "git enforcer".

Basically your bot is a linter for collaboration behaviors. It can't actually enforce anything, all it can do is nag. Actually, if the name was GitNag and the icon was a horse, I would find your bot charming.

Speaking of linters, lately I've been using [Black](https://github.com/ambv/black) for my Python. Its self-description in that Readme sold me on it instantly.

I wish you well with this! It is a cool idea.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning"

dreyfiz — Fri, 04 May 2018 05:38:08 +0000

The idea that bonobos and chimpanzees can speak the same language is absolutely thrilling. Even though bonobos are chimps, I always saw the two species as very distinct; this discovery really resets my worldview on multiple levels.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Semantic UI"

dreyfiz — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:40:40 +0000

A custom build with only the components you're using cuts the CSS size dramatically. You also get to specify your supported browsers, which can cut down the size as well. Finally, you don't have to use their javascript, and not every component requires it.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Richard Dawkins: Did Ahmed intend to get arrested for his clock?"

dreyfiz — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:40:09 +0000

Sorry for the tone of my replies, seivan, you're probably a perfectly nice person who I would get along with just great in real life. Dawkins creeping around picking on a 14 year old boy and unable to stop himself from saying the stupidest and meanest thing possible at every opportunity is really getting to me, especially because I once admired him. It feels ugly to watch him self-destruct.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Richard Dawkins: Did Ahmed intend to get arrested for his clock?"

dreyfiz — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:32:46 +0000

Recognize anyone you know? http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians...

New comment by dreyfiz in "Richard Dawkins: Did Ahmed intend to get arrested for his clock?"

dreyfiz — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:31:21 +0000

Oh, so you're new, and you worship authoritarian dictators.

New comment by dreyfiz in "Richard Dawkins: Did Ahmed intend to get arrested for his clock?"

dreyfiz — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 07:50:58 +0000

In a world that wasn't fucking awful, Dawkins would be Ahmed's idol, instead of his creepy public persecutor. I guess that's what happens when you spend a few decades on a pedestal, drinking your own kool-aid.