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New comment by mbillie1 in "1Password for Linux beta"

mbillie1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:15:01 +0000

Lack of 1password support on linux is the main thing keeping me on macos. Sounds like I might be switching back soon.

New comment by mbillie1 in "The End of the Redis Adventure"

mbillie1 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 02:54:26 +0000

Thanks for putting so much effort into Redis! The software itself is awesome (I've been using it one way or another over the span of nearly a decade now), and in my opinion anyway you've handled the project and yourself in an exemplary way. You're the only programmer I can really say I think of as a personal hero. Best of luck in the future!

New comment by mbillie1 in "Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents"

mbillie1 — Thu, 14 May 2020 17:54:19 +0000

The company feels it can decide your quality of life for you, instead of your compensation. It's kind of unethical (imo) but not uncommon. I'm fortunate that my current remote employer does not engage in this sort of thing.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Ask HN: What are you thankful for?"

mbillie1 — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 04:03:28 +0000

I am incredibly thankful for my wife, my job, my family, my privileged upbringing, my pets, the tech industry in general (even though I am contemptuous towards it at times) and most immediately a warm safe place to sleep.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals"

mbillie1 — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:36:42 +0000

I cannot imagine the feeling of pride you must have if you worked on the Voyager program in any capacity. The first interstellar spacecraft, over 40 years old, and someone's still writing FORTRAN or ASM for it. So cool.

New comment by mbillie1 in "New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets"

mbillie1 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:14:14 +0000

Those famously stable cryptos sound perfect yeah.

New comment by mbillie1 in "You can fool some of the people, all of the time"

mbillie1 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:44:26 +0000

I think you're missing what the parent is saying: since the majority are poor, they plainly don't rule (since then they wouldn't remain poor). If democracy is defined as "majority rule," and we plainly see that the majority in the US do NOT rule, then the US is not a democracy.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Yes, Estimate Software Projects"

mbillie1 — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:56:26 +0000

I thought I would hate this article, having years of delivering software with and without estimates, and preferring the latter. But it makes a compelling case!

New comment by mbillie1 in "Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)"

mbillie1 — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 14:20:49 +0000

A great article I read before every time I interview or change jobs.

New comment by mbillie1 in "If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down?"

mbillie1 — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:41:11 +0000

> They're not interfering in an official congressional process in any capacity, because they're not part of an official congressional process.

This is the crux of it I'd say.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Coffee Is Hard"

mbillie1 — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:30:51 +0000

Absolutely my favorite (funny) thing about programming ever written.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2"

mbillie1 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:11:45 +0000

Thanks for making iTerm2! I've used it daily for work (and hobby coding) for longer than I can remember now.

New comment by mbillie1 in "The myth of inevitable technological progress"

mbillie1 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:02:13 +0000

"Progress is merely a modern idea, which is to say, a false idea."

New comment by mbillie1 in "Nietzsche’s Eternal Return"

mbillie1 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:56:20 +0000

There's nothing poorly specified about Nietzsche's ideas, he just wrote deliberately in a way to be incomprehensible to people casually browsing his books, or looking for quotes to bandy about someplace like this. He deliberately says in a few places (effectively) "if you can't be bothered to read my entire works then you have no right to claim to understand my thought." It's a bit pretentious and a bit arrogant, but please don't confuse a New Yorker article wondering whether the overman is a "cyborg" with the consensus of serious Nietzsche scholars. He is not so unambiguous as English-speakers who've read 1 or 2 critical essays and skimmed half of one of his books would lead you to believe. (I've read all of his books multiple times, the big ones over a dozen times, and studied him for 5+ years in college).

There are lots of legitimate criticisms of Nietzsche. But saying "overman could be a very strong man, or cyborg??? lol we don't know" is a bad faith child's argument, imo. Overman (the man who continually self-overcomes) is a notable example of a very clearly articulated idea in Nietzsche's thought, and it has nothing to do with being stronger or more powerful than other people.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Nietzsche’s Eternal Return"

mbillie1 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:51:47 +0000

In English, the Kaufmann translations are excellent.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Why Go and Not Rust?"

mbillie1 — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:51:45 +0000

> However, as you start pushing beyond "scale" Go is designed for,

Go was designed at Google to be used internally at Google, so frankly it's hard to imagine commonly pushing past the "scale" Go was designed for.

New comment by mbillie1 in "On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer Score"

mbillie1 — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 21:23:23 +0000

> I'm a regular at a few places, and I treasure that status and the privilege that comes with it, and wouldn't go trying to fuck it up unless I was prepared to completely burn that bridge.

Same. In fact, I tend to think that the "cost" of being a regular includes specifically NOT complaining too much or throwing your weight around. The benefit is great and preferential service, oftentimes free stuff, and so on.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts"

mbillie1 — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:12:05 +0000

Then the old company would still have fired them.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021"

mbillie1 — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:28:32 +0000

Not sure why you're being downvoted, despite being a bit cynical this may well have been the pitch to the folks in Utah County.

New comment by mbillie1 in "Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021"

mbillie1 — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:27:09 +0000

The case is not so extreme in SLC. I've lived here about 4.5 years and while much of the state is overwhelmingly Mormon (I do not practice or sympathize with any religion), SLC is not so different from other similar-sized cities culturally. There's great food, arts, music, and so on. Obviously for a non-Mormon the outdoors access is the primary draw here in my opinion, but it's a nice place to live regardless.