Hacker News: rabino

New comment by rabino in "Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee"

rabino — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:33:48 +0000

Why would you take them seriously if they fire someone senior just to respond to the public outcry but did nothing when this wasn't public?

New comment by rabino in "My Self-Hosted Life"

rabino — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:52:05 +0000

I never said that. If you want to learn to manage servers, by all means. The industry needs more good people!

But to suggest that everyone should do (or will do it, as some people are commenting here) it is bananas.

New comment by rabino in "My Self-Hosted Life"

rabino — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:50:47 +0000

I do the same. And some times it goes down and I'm busy so it stays down for a day. And I never find time to keep everything updated to the latest security patches, etc. Fun hobby, but I wouldn't trust that as my only repository of data.

New comment by rabino in "My Self-Hosted Life"

rabino — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:49:28 +0000

Sure. And that's called a hobby. You can do whatever you want, but the point here is this is not what the masses are going to do. Or should do, for that matter.

New comment by rabino in "My Self-Hosted Life"

rabino — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:48:30 +0000

You lost me on how you went from "They find bigger and better and stealthier ways to learn about us" (which I agree with) to "move against us in the future". Care to elaborate?

New comment by rabino in "My Self-Hosted Life"

rabino — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:47:14 +0000

I own my phone, but the data is still in the cloud.

I'm not sure I agree with your version of the future. People don't know enough ( and don't want to) about security, scalability, availability, etc.

New comment by rabino in "My Self-Hosted Life"

rabino — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:58:03 +0000

Do you homeschool your kids? Grow your own produce? Kill your own cows?

I mean, why don't you let experts do what they do and you spend your time doing what you do?

Unless you do servers. In that case, sure. Whatever.

New comment by rabino in "Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss"

rabino — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:01:22 +0000

I was expecting the list of sources at the bottom of the article to be a mile long. Not a single one. Hot damn, so much broscience and red herrings.

New comment by rabino in "Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer?"

rabino — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:43:11 +0000

Allow me to be skeptical when your first quoted source is Gladwell.

New comment by rabino in "Peachpie – PHP Compiler to .NET, Part 2"

rabino — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 19:08:34 +0000

I'm confused about what the goal of this is. The best thing about PHP is its dynamic nature, and the fact that any new page load is a completely new universe. Why would you want to loose that and compile it to a, well, compiled language?

New comment by rabino in "An obsession with safe spaces is not just bad for education"

rabino — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 04:34:31 +0000

I totally empathize with people that are truly affected by words or ideas. What I can't tolerate is people trying to impose me what I should be offended by.

New comment by rabino in "How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina with HP iPod"

rabino — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:13:54 +0000

Oh my god the tone of the article is exasperating. We get it, you think she'd dumb or something, but you need to relax a bit.

New comment by rabino in "Alex King, an original Wordpress developer, has died"

rabino — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:26:18 +0000

He was a great person, a great developer and a great businessmen.

And fun piece of trivia, he invented the share icon http://alexking.org/project/share-icon

New comment by rabino in "iOS at Facebook [pdf]"

rabino — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:18:29 +0000

The unnecessary bashing of PHP, the lame justification for a sloppy architecture, the immense ego... I don't think hack culture should be used to justify asshole-ery.

New comment by rabino in "Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation"

rabino — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:17:57 +0000

We have a pretty functional distributed organization and Slack has been a godsend for us. We totally love it.

New comment by rabino in "Apple MacBook Review: The Laptop of the Future Isn’t Ready for the Present"

rabino — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:46:23 +0000

If you have two external monitors you are not the target market for this machine. At least not as your primary machine. I'm planning to buy one for when I'm out to meetings or traveling. Still keeping my bigger and more connected MBP 15'' for my desk.

New comment by rabino in "Ask HN: Could you share your general purpose development contracts?"

rabino — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:54:56 +0000

This one is really cool http://tri.be/update-the-shane-peter-inc-contract/

New comment by rabino in "Remote Developers Are the Real Solution to America's Tech Skill Shortage"

rabino — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:02:39 +0000

I'm a foreign (from your standpoint) remote developer working for an american company. I make average salary for a developer (in the U.S.) because my company understands that the fact that I'm working from my home in south america doesn't make me less qualified that someone working from his home in Minnesota or Florida.

My point being, skill level != physical location. My even more tl;dr: find a better company to work for.

New comment by rabino in "James Golick has died"

rabino — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 02:08:52 +0000

I think the reason we focus on the 'what' is our own fear of death. We ask to check in our heads how likely it is for that thing to happen to us.

New comment by rabino in "Philae has landed"

rabino — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:28:08 +0000

we just landed a friggin' robot into a friggin' commet

mind blowing