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New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Ask HN: Are there some bad actors in Who is hiring?"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:51:57 +0000

Thanks for questioning my motives because of your pre-existing biases. But no, I'm actually disgusted with the state of this industry. But from this point on, feel free to wonder as you please.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Ask HN: Are there some bad actors in Who is hiring?"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:46:04 +0000

When will we have sympathy for the people who have mortgages and families instead of the massive companies with millions or billions of dollars?

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Ask HN: Are there some bad actors in Who is hiring?"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:45:06 +0000

Not that I'm not also bitter and jaded, but what made you think a VC-funded pg forum was going to be at all fair and open with stuff like this?

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Ask HN: Are there some bad actors in Who is hiring?"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:43:56 +0000

Sucks. Sure do wish we had some sort of collective bargaining power to prevent this. Oh, but that one guy over there is really good at Leetcode, so never mind, every man for himself.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:11:34 +0000

Yes? Block, move on. It's the internet, you aren't forced to interact with anyone. If you are, get a better source code hosting platform.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:10:24 +0000

Giving out advice for concrete steps someone can take to prevent a problem isn't victim blaming. Unless we're all content with people just sitting and whining all the time instead of actually doing anything to help themselves. And let's be real, we're talking about open source contributions, not getting mugged for wearing the wrong clothing here.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:08:04 +0000

It's important to note that rudeness is somewhat up for interpretation. Rejecting a patch because it's full of bugs might be considered rude to some people, but not to me. There are definitely times where Drew rubs me the wrong way, but I know he's good at what he does, and I know he's just as fed up as I am about the nonsense. He doesn't suffer fools, and that can seem rude and mean if, well, you're a fool. (To be clear, he's been totally out of line before, but I know he's been working hard to change that, and I think he's been successful.)

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:57:43 +0000

Boomer hat: it's just toxic positivity, and the frustrating trend lately of assuming that everyone is equally skilled when writing software. Everyone's input is valid, or else you're just being negative and overly critical.

I'm not saying everyone need to be Linus Torvalds circa 2012, but I do think more people need to be a bit less precious and sensitive, especially when receiving direct communication about their abilities.

You don't need ego-boosting yes men, you just need to work with more experienced folks, and that's okay. But the problem is that there is an army of people online who will take offense to that, and I don't know what the solution is. Best of luck.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters"

forgotmyinfo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:10:07 +0000

Oh, come on now. You don't have to enjoy Toni Morrison, but to discount her absolute success because she isn't your preference is more than a little ridiculous.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Union households tend to have $100k more in wealth than nonunion families"

forgotmyinfo — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:24:48 +0000

Ah yes, as everyone knows, "having a trillion dollars" is famously no match for "being able to code".

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Technologist vs. spy: the xz backdoor debate"

forgotmyinfo — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:21:08 +0000

We can't even support actual critical physical infrastructure anymore, like roads, bridges, and the power grid. And that stuff has very obvious immediate consequences when it breaks. Try explaining to your local octogenarian senator what xz is and why OpenSSH shouldn't just be funded by whatever spare change we find in the couch cushions.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch"

forgotmyinfo — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:18:06 +0000

There are a million bots scanning all of IPv4 space every minute looking for automated exploits. You don't need someone dedicated looking to get into trouble.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch"

forgotmyinfo — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:17:14 +0000

Please don't listen to this advice, this is precisely how services get pwned.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch"

forgotmyinfo — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:16:19 +0000

Get someone else to manage it for you while you learn. Security is an emergent property of every part of the stack, not a separate thing you can do after the fact. Get a handle on the fundamentals, too: fundamentals of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, etc.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124"

forgotmyinfo — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:49:33 +0000

Not sure what I'm doing, but whatever I'm using with uBlock Origin lets me click the media element to load it.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL"

forgotmyinfo — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:18:24 +0000

Huh, I didn't realize database performance correlates so strongly with stock price. Are there Prometheus metrics for this?

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL"

forgotmyinfo — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:06:25 +0000

What did relational databases need from all the document DBs du jour? Broken transactions? Lack of ACID guarantees? Devil-may-care schemas?

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL"

forgotmyinfo — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:52:04 +0000

That happened to esr, too, although he derailed right after 9/11, and it's been downhill ever since.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL"

forgotmyinfo — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:51:01 +0000

Well yeah, solving problems and thinking critically and learning are hard and boring. "Uncle Bob" gives you handy alhorisms you can spam on your next pull request and then feel like you've done something.

New comment by forgotmyinfo in "The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL"

forgotmyinfo — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:49:57 +0000

That's as ridiculous as saying "integer division will be useless in 20 years". Sometimes relational databases really are the optimal solution to certain problems. I really wish CS had better authority figures, although we shouldn't need them in the first place.