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New comment by odonnellryan in "Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981"

odonnellryan — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:54:13 +0000

Inflation will kill Americans. It may kill more Americans than Ukrainians due to the war. That's hard to say but inflation has a strong correlation with increased mortality rates.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981"

odonnellryan — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:46:43 +0000

They are probably referring to core inflation... also fuel contributed massively to inflation in March, which was expected, but not expected to stay high forever.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 21:20:04 +0000

No it isn't, because these are all anecdotes, and I never made a claim anyway, I asked you to name one.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:58:29 +0000

"I am black?"

New comment by odonnellryan in "A database for 2022"

odonnellryan — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:57:21 +0000

Because it would probably lead to the database doing stuff that you don't want it to do, with no way for you to tell it to do something else.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:33:05 +0000

I don't think this happened to very many people.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Response to Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:32:20 +0000

Paul Graham, post on the front page.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:29:13 +0000

Yes absolutely. My point is it doesn't matter if we create a system unless we really think society is going to use it.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:55:45 +0000

He's insanely detached from reality. Dude should not be making social commentary lol

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:50:38 +0000

No. It isn't insane at all.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:39:35 +0000

What topics are acceptable for teachers to hold views on?

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:20:16 +0000

You don't need to. Society will always define this for you.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:17:56 +0000

Name one?

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:15:57 +0000

None of these would get you fired?

Response to Heresy

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 20:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@odonnellryan/response-to-heresy-or-when-did-pg-become-such-a-boomer-a9a6343fa40a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30981640

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 19:47:05 +0000

Yes great point. What we do is trade off "wrong-being" for "wrong-thought" or "wrong-talk."

New comment by odonnellryan in "Heresy"

odonnellryan — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 18:00:13 +0000

I know this is going to sound insane, but what is the obsession with truth? Things can be true and harmful.

People should be judged for saying harmful things.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)"

odonnellryan — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:12:22 +0000

Sometimes nothing beats grep, but using a Windows environment I usually just go to Python to create a quick script to handle this stuff.

Lots of times it is really nice to have all your "debugging scripts" in a repo anyway. Once you have that it isn't hard to set up a basic Python environment and have your scripts there.

New comment by odonnellryan in "Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)"

odonnellryan — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:10:09 +0000

I love hearing about services like this that managed to scale with not-so-cool tech.

Where are the stories about services that have scaled with the latest fad? Maybe they will be posted in a few years - or maybe those teams are too busy to blog ;)

New comment by odonnellryan in "What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast"

odonnellryan — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:00:51 +0000

That is nice! What happened with remarkable is I never got it and they refunded me. Which was also nice. Good guys, just a weird policy!