Hacker News: jamesmiller5

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

jamesmiller5 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:18:26 +0000

> Yes, by definition, you do. It is not illegal to slander anyone.

By the legal definition of slander, your statement is false.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

jamesmiller5 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:58:23 +0000

But Jones did profit from the traffic and thus ad revenue that controversy stirred up, this case is about that* not about Jones right to have an opinion, but how Jones weilded it at the expense of others, no less*.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

jamesmiller5 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:14:26 +0000

What you really have to ask is will this community be less inclusive because English isn't your first language, I'd say "no" and I hope most would agree.

> Your arguments will come of as stronger to the reader.

That is persuasian, not authenticity, to the OP's point.

Typed without a spellchecker :).

Chaotic 4 days led to man's suicide, says lawsuit against Google

jamesmiller5 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/suicide-lawsuit-google-ai-21955695.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261317

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "They Know More Than I Do"

jamesmiller5 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:04:56 +0000

> ...but they don't know how good their own people are.

Trust. Easily lost, hard to win and all that. If you don't actually trust those you manage you're not really operating at your best, let alone bringing out the best of your team.

It's a humbling experience tbh, requires putting your faith of success in other people, which in my experience is harder to teach (and is often learned through tough failures) than any kind of computer skills.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

jamesmiller5 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:37:53 +0000

I'm more than happy I read your comment body and its good/well natured tone before your name XD .

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'"

jamesmiller5 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:02:02 +0000

They meant Oil(s) as in fixing bugs in the bash compatible replacement that they author for the OP's 'is-oil' check.

Big Ball of Mud (1999)

jamesmiller5 — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:31:06 +0000

Article URL: http://laputan.org/mud/mud.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277358

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Airbnb Project Lighthouse Methodology [pdf]

jamesmiller5 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:36:56 +0000

Article URL: https://news.airbnb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/06/Project-Lighthouse-Airbnb-2020-06-12.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23705540

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'"

jamesmiller5 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 04:32:52 +0000

One of the students in my middle school put it into beautiful terms. One day, they say "You know, the TV in your forehead?" as they put 3/4 a square with their fingers onto their brow (like a "C" shape) I still get chills thinking of the phrase sometimes, it just was so understandable and approachable for us 6th graders.

(Edit: word choice)

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Life and society are increasingly governed by numbers"

jamesmiller5 — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:21:01 +0000

> But maybe it just looks that way because it's difficult or impossible to really perceive the full extent of how living in a non-DLT world is affecting our behavior.

We don't live in a 'non-DLT world though, DLT exists in this world right?

Sorry I agreed with your previous comment and then the mention of DLT lost me so I'm trying to understand the context I'm missing.

(Edit: spelling)

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure"

jamesmiller5 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:13:42 +0000

I think this video highlights as a leader being the 'bad guy' in a meeting because they are demanding excellence to a specific vision/goal and their subordinate's output isn't meeting their expectations.

There are no personal attacks, just critiques on the thought process, output and plan (or lack of planning), all of that is fair game. The dev(?) even admits at ~25:40 that they should be taking notes and fixing what is pointed out.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Why I hate the weekends (2017)"

jamesmiller5 — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:24:48 +0000

> I wouldn't be surprised if I died alone.

Everyone eventually dies alone, but do not let that sadden you. A full life is measured in the depths of sorrow from that truth, not in avoiding it.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work"

jamesmiller5 — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:16:21 +0000

I agree with you, but most I've met would prefer to set expectations with a private office. Preferably with a door and social contract to leave alone unless needed.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked to Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet"

jamesmiller5 — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 01:25:36 +0000

That was a great read on it's own, thank you!

Mutual Knowledge

jamesmiller5 — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:28:37 +0000

Article URL: http://boz.com/articles/mutual-knowledge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18894163

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years"

jamesmiller5 — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 03:51:34 +0000

It's a shame that so much modern technology ends up betraying the average consumer in ways they can't understand.

I can understand the hesitation. It's warranted, but there is progress such as this very threads response.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "‘I went straight to Hell’: Philip K. Dick did Not like LSD"

jamesmiller5 — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 04:51:39 +0000

I've been told the first time one tries acid can be a very "religious" or "spiritual" experience. I didn't really believe it but indeed that was my personal experience.

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)"

jamesmiller5 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:10:47 +0000

I wish more developers knew of the wonderful "repo" tool[0] developed by the Android devs which allows a monorepo _perspective_ of many git repositories. Breakdown of the repo tool and example manifest files http://blog.udinic.com/2014/05/24/aosp-part-1-get-the-code-u...

[0] https://source.android.com/setup/develop/repo

New comment by jamesmiller5 in "The F-106A That Flew Itself – After the Pilot Ejected, Landing Gently in a Field"

jamesmiller5 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:31:31 +0000

It would be nice to capture those reply chains and package up a bunch of related links at once. Kind of like a shared mapping of our unexpected deep internet dives on Wikipedia, just automated.