Hacker News: profalseidol

New comment by profalseidol in "What Happened to Rt.com?"

profalseidol — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 10:41:08 +0000

No matter what is your stance. It is always important to listen to both sides, and exercise your critical thinking.

RT's YouTube channel has been blocked in my country just today. I thought the west was all about freedom? (Not that I believe that, especially as they torture Julian Assange and commit horrible atrocities against Palestinians)

New comment by profalseidol in "Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)"

profalseidol — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 02:53:17 +0000

> Languages that focus on "easy to write" are a trap

Reminds me of that time when my company abused Scala Implicits, possible because one of it's libraries for mapping scala to relational database had examples of it.

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Regarding re-usability. Does that imply well defined interfaces and private scopes? Does that eventually lead us to Pure functions? Afaik, pure func has maybe the highest ease/simplicity for reuse. Happy to be hear your thoughts.

New comment by profalseidol in "Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts"

profalseidol — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:50:47 +0000

Libya got destroyed when they wanted gold for oil. At least China has established yuan for oil for their trade with Russia.

> I am always surprised at how long we have kept this advantage.

With the amount spent with US Military (more than all the next 9 countries combined), not surprised. Military bases everywhere, wars everywhere etc.

New comment by profalseidol in "Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts"

profalseidol — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:30:57 +0000

We should've listen to RMS about Free Software huh?

New comment by profalseidol in "China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains"

profalseidol — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:20:28 +0000

"dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works" = repulsive

"green tech investment and high tech public transport systems" = actually helps the people

Start by fixing misinformation about what is the PRC and the "democractic" US.

New comment by profalseidol in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

profalseidol — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:37:12 +0000

Ain't government is comprised of corporate owners? President. Then there's lobbying/bribing. Create/participate in wars. Sell weapons to the human rights respecting Saudi. And when corporations die, they take the people's money.

That's beyond giving me a choice. Lols.

New comment by profalseidol in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

profalseidol — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:28:45 +0000

You do know that Hong Kong was really part of China right? It was taken by the British Empire in 1842 by destroying China in the First Opium War. When the British finally gave it back to China in 1997, a lot of the non-chinese moved out of HK.

What I'm trying to emphasize is that "Hong Kongers" and Jackie Chan are Chinese.

New comment by profalseidol in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

profalseidol — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 23:26:27 +0000

Yeah, time to get Julian Assange and Snowden back to America (gitmo)! The land of the free (for non-natives)!

New comment by profalseidol in "I started an online subscription business from Malaysia"

profalseidol — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:56:44 +0000

Tell that to the millions who choose to be born in the slums. Then there is also the fact that we are not equally the same upon birth. Everyone has different traits. I suspect that when you really weigh in the factors, a lot of the result we get is caused by a lot simply being at the right time in the right place.

New comment by profalseidol in "People Simply Empty Out (1986)"

profalseidol — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:54:48 +0000

Ask again when you have kids and discovered that there is soooo much more to life than being a cog 99% of your life.

New comment by profalseidol in "Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon"

profalseidol — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:48:23 +0000

Science is hard. Superstition is fast and might save your job, at least for awhile.

New comment by profalseidol in "The Horror of Microsoft Teams"

profalseidol — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:18:59 +0000

Coupling is not bad in itself. Depends on what you want to achieve. There's likely always a trade-off.

New comment by profalseidol in "Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)"

profalseidol — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:13:41 +0000

There's this course in pluralsight that talks about two orgs that promote scrum. The other one seems to be giving out the wrong ideas. I think it's this one (copied from wikipedia):

    In 2002, Schwaber with others founded the Scrum 
    Alliance[18] and set up the Certified Scrum accreditation 
    series. Schwaber left the Scrum Alliance in late 2009 and 
    founded Scrum.org which oversees the parallel Professional 
    Scrum accreditation series.[19]

I think it was Scrum Alliance that's giving out ideas like Burndown chart is required in scrum.

New comment by profalseidol in "Universal Laws of the World"

profalseidol — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:02:46 +0000

Nah, it was probably the 'meetup god' that caused it.

New comment by profalseidol in "Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30"

profalseidol — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 04:28:26 +0000

DemocracyNow[1] is a good one. 100% free. Noam Chomsky is a regular guest here.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow

I wonder how they make money.

Checked wikipedia:

  Democracy Now Productions, the independent nonprofit 
  organization which produces Democracy Now!, is funded 
  entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, 
  and foundations such as the Ford Foundation,[failed 
  verification] Lannan Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund,[4]
  [5][6][unreliable source?] and does not accept 
  advertisers, corporate underwriting or government 
  funding.[7]

The remark from Bill Clinton is a fun bit:

  Clinton defended his administration's policies and charged 
  Goodman with being "hostile and combative".[51]

New comment by profalseidol in "Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30"

profalseidol — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 04:19:08 +0000

Maybe Brave and BAT. I believe they already have the system up and running but not fully.

New comment by profalseidol in "On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck"

profalseidol — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 03:53:53 +0000

Add to that, the Fortune 500 list - for the first time ever, it is not dominated anymore by US Companies. At least that is what I've heard from RT news.

New comment by profalseidol in "Employee happiness and business success are linked"

profalseidol — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 03:14:42 +0000

Ultimate stake is that the employees are also the owners themselves.

New comment by profalseidol in "Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?"

profalseidol — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:03:51 +0000

One advice I've read/heard is to make sure to give everyone a chance to give his/her input and address any concerns. It should be done individually so everyone has space.

Should a decision be made that was not favorable to one individual, at least it was discussed and was given the chance to give his/her opinion.

New comment by profalseidol in "Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?"

profalseidol — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 06:21:31 +0000

Might be a good idea to find a place with lots of PhD folks.

I think I know what you mean since I prefer to talk to friends who are genuinely interested in programming and not just a job. Colleagues who are just here for the job I still talk to them but with other topics which I usually learn from as well - as long as you are willing to listen despite what you may think of them.