Hacker News: joesmo

New comment by joesmo in "The need for tooling and the need for mastering your tools"

joesmo — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:27:32 +0000

Almost every software tool decision I make is one of garbage quality with features vs ok quality with no features. I can choose a text editor that does the basics but nothing else I need or an ide that does everything poorly. From browsers to package managers to debuggers to operations tools, the quality of software tools is absolutely atrocious. Why master any of this garbage when more garbage tools will be required later? It's hard to stay sane just using them. Yes, non software tools like reading and writing comprehension are useful, but for the most part, investing heavily in a tool that's bound to fail over and over again seems like a terrible idea. Then again, there simply isn't enough time to write proper versions of these tools. But amazing things have been built with much less tooling than we use today which leads me to think that the proliferation of software tools partly exists only to make the tool developers happy as they create useless rube Goldberg machines (especially in js land).

New comment by joesmo in "People’s freedom jeopardised by new software adopted by California’s courts"

joesmo — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:12:07 +0000

Justice is whatever the 'justice' systems says it is. Citizens have no recourse. The 'justice' system has no checks or balances that can be accessed, except by the rich. There are no penalties for abuse or misuse, even when uncovered.

Yeah, that's exactly what I think of when I think of the concept of 'justice'. One day some people might create a just society, but it almost certainly won't be in the US.

New comment by joesmo in "Reddit Gearing Up to Ban or Quarantine the Alt Right Subreddit"

joesmo — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:34:23 +0000

How can you have an intelligent discussion without a lot of racism and hate thrown in? It's impossible.

New comment by joesmo in "Reddit Gearing Up to Ban or Quarantine the Alt Right Subreddit"

joesmo — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:29:52 +0000

You're thinking of 4chan. Reddit has never been that--it's been moderated for many years.

New comment by joesmo in "Amazon Aurora Update – PostgreSQL Compatibility"

joesmo — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:13:06 +0000

Auto scaling in RDS? That'd require a multi-master cluster. As far as I know, that's impossible on RDS, Aurora or not.

New comment by joesmo in "It Was Never About Ops"

joesmo — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 01:06:49 +0000

Couldn't agree more. If you have a monolith, you can probably get away doing dev ops as long as you don't grow too much. We have a handful of microservices and trying to keep up with the ops work has been hell, though part of that is due to AWS's tools. And this is without even a growing user base, just a growing app base. Burn out is definitely a problem in either case.

New comment by joesmo in "Don’t Sign That Non-Disclosure Agreement Yet"

joesmo — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:25:48 +0000

The main lesson here is to leave a company that doesn't pay you immediately. The rest of the lesson is only for the idiots who didn't do that like the author.

New comment by joesmo in "Disk space usage leak in Docker for Mac"

joesmo — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:22:42 +0000

Docker for Mac has issues that make it unusable? You don't say!

New comment by joesmo in "Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff"

joesmo — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 06:20:06 +0000

For those whose imagination is lacking: http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...

New comment by joesmo in "Don’t Be Fooled: The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams"

joesmo — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:29:19 +0000

Apple reviews every single app that makes it to the store. Does the author really think this is not intentional?

New comment by joesmo in "Why I Left White Nationalism"

joesmo — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:17:38 +0000

How are we supposed to have a conversation when facts no longer matter? Should I start spewing out delusions also?

New comment by joesmo in "Why I Left White Nationalism"

joesmo — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:09:54 +0000

Actually, I think this is much more the key: "I never would have begun my own conversations without first experiencing clear and passionate outrage to what I believed from those I interacted with."

Outrage is the only reasonable first response to what happened and must come first. If that opens the doors of discussion like it did here, great. Most likely it won't as most people are not persuaded by argument, though they are susceptible to manipulation by sympathy.

When those people choose hate over everything else, however, they deserve to be ostracized and relentlessly attacked. Hate is NOT acceptable. I'm disgusted by those who suggest otherwise, especially in the name of "understanding" the other side. It not only shows an incredible lack of understanding about the human condition, it encourages the acceptance of that hate as a legitimate part of the political process, and brings into question the morals of the person making the suggestion to acquiesce to hate.

New comment by joesmo in "Three Software Freedoms"

joesmo — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:03:21 +0000

"Also Freedom 0 is just silly I mean of course I can use the program as I wish."

Tell that to people spending time in jail for using a program in a way that was frowned upon by government. Clearly the author hasn't spent much time thinking about these topics.

New comment by joesmo in "New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada"

joesmo — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:38:52 +0000

So they listened to developers demands from four years ago and didn't think to upgrade the specs to what would be needed now in 2016 but left them at 2012 levels? They must have a different definition of "listened" than the rest of the world.

New comment by joesmo in "CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night"

joesmo — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:56:58 +0000

That's what the "flag" link is for. Please use it when you see garbage like this.

New comment by joesmo in "Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship"

joesmo — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:34:10 +0000

"If Zuckerberg can lock up another 1.4 billion Chinese, Facebook could feed the growth beast for at least several quarters!"

I hope this was an intentional double entendre by the author because its metaphorical meaning is brilliant and its literal interpretations chilling.

EDIT: Actually a triple entendre.

New comment by joesmo in "Fake News May Not Be Protected Speech"

joesmo — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:30:41 +0000

I don't think you realize the people gave up power generations ago. It doesn't matter what the people want now or even if they want or do not want to give up power. The power was given up to the government when it was formed and forever it will stay there until the government is destroyed by violence. We've seen this over and over again and know this to be the state of things. I don't understand what pretending the people have any power left gets you. The only power the people still seem to have is the power to vote (not very powerful, IMO) and of referendums and other state initiatives. These are the powers that were given to the people in exchange for people giving up the rest of their powers (except as otherwise legislated). If you want to talk about people regaining or not giving up power, you are necessarily talking about violence and rebellion on the scale of a civil war. I don't think anyone wants either of those and even for people that do, it's likely unwise to talk about it on the Internet.

As far as free speech, the original topic of this post, IMO, it doesn't exist when people are afraid to speak out and right now, many people are terrified to silence.

New comment by joesmo in "The End of Coder Influence"

joesmo — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:08:45 +0000

That's exactly why I decided to choose anything BUT Python. If it really was inconsequential, the community wouldn't be split. I'm also not going to select my programming language with a coin flip. That's ridiculous.

There are so many alternatives these days that it's simply not worth dealing with this type of bullshit.

New comment by joesmo in "The End of Coder Influence"

joesmo — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 20:29:15 +0000

From an outsider's perspective, the rift between Python 2/3 that's been going on now for so many years indicates that the language has completely stalled and stopped as far as progress goes. I don't see any reason to pursue a dead language that can't resolve its own problems over the course of almost a decade. Think about what that says about the community! People talk about community in the abstract, but here is a concrete example of a divided community that cannot figure out how to move forward. And that's with a dictator leading it!

I can't think of anything holding people back more from trying and adopting Python for serious projects. Before you can even begin to play with the language, you're forced to make a choice that the most experienced Python developers cannot agree on. If that's not user unfriendly, I don't know what is. Note also that it doesn't matter if my perceptions are right or wrong. You can't expect a Python beginner to have good perceptions about something he has not learned. However, I've read enough information to know that making this decision is not easy, nor is it really doable for a beginner. If I'm going to consider Python as a language for my next project, I have to be able to evaluate it properly and the rift basically now forces me to treat Python as two separate, incompatible languages that have no opportunity to grow, change, or adapt for the future.

No thanks.

New comment by joesmo in "Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2"

joesmo — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:14:29 +0000

"if Google were to support (1) Android apps running on Chrome for Windows and Mac"

Check out the ARC Welder extension (also works on Linux). It's obviously a developer tool, but showcases the technology:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-welder/emfinbm...