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New comment by imajoredinecon in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

imajoredinecon — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:20:56 +0000

Taxes are supposed to pay for public services. An efficient visa system is a public service. If you pay tons of taxes but don’t get a public service that’s personally very important to you, it’s natural to feel let down

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"

imajoredinecon — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:17:13 +0000

3 just seems arbitrary in practice though. In my job we share code when it makes sense and don’t when it doesn’t, and that serves us just fine

New comment by imajoredinecon in "The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town"

imajoredinecon — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:09:14 +0000

Neat read on the whole, but was fun to see how huge the author believes Estonia is:

> When Estonia, for example, became independent of the Soviet Union, some 245 million square miles of collectivist farmlands were simply abandoned.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "San Remo Pasta Measurer"

imajoredinecon — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:26:38 +0000

That website has some other more out-there stuff on it. (I love the tone because it’s impossible to tell how tongue-in-cheek it is)

Coffee and wine glass https://www.toxel.com/tech/2019/10/10/coffee-and-wine-glass/

Sofa made of pillows https://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2024/11/12/sofa-made-of-pi...

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

imajoredinecon — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:19:10 +0000

My version of that is to just use a (high-end) Chromebook. The OS never gets in the way, can’t remember the last time I had to change a system setting or manually upgrade anything

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time"

imajoredinecon — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:31:49 +0000

Ironically the UX on Reuters and AP wasn’t hugely worse than the blogspam: * the text of the blogspam is pretty faithful to the AP article * Reuters had a fullscreen paywall * the AP had a floating video ad and an interstitial you have to click to get below the fold

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)"

imajoredinecon — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:59:15 +0000

If I’m understanding right, he has a side hustle as a public speaker. So the website is an ad for him.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Quicksort explained IKEA-style"

imajoredinecon — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:44:17 +0000

I agree it does a pretty good job of communicating that. I think the other commenters are pointing out that doesn’t show how to efficiently get all the smaller items left of the partition and larger ones to the right. While that’s probably second nature to most people who’ve taken an algorithms class or done a decent amount of programming, I guess it’s up for interpretation how obvious it would be to the “intended audience” of the ikea manual

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

imajoredinecon — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:23:01 +0000

It’s a class/geographical thing. In my early childhood in a fancy suburb of a big city, my parents and people in their social circle used mixes 0% of the time, but when we moved to a smaller town it was way more common.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "996"

imajoredinecon — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:24:41 +0000

When you’re too busy to spend the money you make, the observable effect of a pay raise is mostly the number in the account going up faster

New comment by imajoredinecon in "996"

imajoredinecon — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:16:49 +0000

Agreed. I work at a highly successful small company with a reputation for being grindy, and what that looks like in reality is probably 55 hours a week of largely focused productive work: typical core hours are 9-6:45ish, and you work longer a day or two a week and put in the odd evening or weekend hour. It’s hard to imagine working 9-9 every day

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Not paying with cash"

imajoredinecon — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:26:04 +0000

If it's 3% + $0.30, that can easily be 5-7% for smaller transactions, which are the ones where I most often get asked to pay cash.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

imajoredinecon — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:13:45 +0000

Thanks for the correction- I did some math and my marginal rate is something like 46%, which, while it’s indeed not over 50%, still is pretty discouraging when weighing whether it’s worth putting in enough effort to get another raise.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

imajoredinecon — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:05:35 +0000

Counterpoint: I’m in the US and my effective income tax rate is in the mid-40s, with my marginal rate over 50%. And I’m not in one of the few states with the highest state income taxes.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage"

imajoredinecon — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:13:29 +0000

Google turned up this Harper’s feature which is pretty good: https://courses.washington.edu/psy315/pdf/HarpersMagazine_Lu...

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

imajoredinecon — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:32:28 +0000

For what it’s worth, this seems like the fatal flaw in the OP to me. If you need input on whether something is good to do, it’s very easy for someone to reply “yes” or “sounds good,” so just ask for input. If you don’t need input, just send an FYI instead of the weird asymmetric asking-for-objections-but-not-approval.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

imajoredinecon — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:27:08 +0000

It’s really about (a) the wording (b) the level of risk.

For something that isn’t risky, I trust my reports to make reasonable decisions and wouldn’t benefit from the “I’m going to do this tomorrow unless you say no” approach. Instead, they can just tell me they’re doing it (or let me know after the fact, or add/FYI me on the code review, or not even mention it, depending on what it is).

For a decision that is more important/higher risk, they should get affirmative agreement rather than just hoping that I see the ultimatum and silently approve.

That’s why I’m with the GP that the ultimatum-with-deadline doesn’t seem like the best choice in any situation.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities"

imajoredinecon — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:39:05 +0000

For what it’s worth, I just took the parent comment’s wording as metaphor.

New comment by imajoredinecon in "Books I Loved Reading in 2024"

imajoredinecon — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:09:03 +0000

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

So funny that my face was basically fixed in a smile the entire time reading.

The Jujutsu version control system

imajoredinecon — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:29:23 +0000

Article URL: https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2024/12/jujutsu.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42488112

Points: 140

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