Hacker News: suppressingfire

New comment by suppressingfire in "Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars"

suppressingfire — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 04:39:32 +0000

In the meantime we have Lyft and Uber. I don't think we need fully autonomous vehicles to want to eliminate the need to own a vehicle that needs to be housed and stored for 95% of it's lifetime. Waiting for an L4 transport service is just an excuse.

New comment by suppressingfire in "Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry"

suppressingfire — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:29:35 +0000

I tend to agree. While I find it painful to hear criticism when I inadvertently use words or phrases that are taken hurtfully, I nevertheless would prefer to be offered a wider perspective about how my words and actions are viewed so I can more clearly communicate in the future making fewer verbal blunders that detract from my point.

New comment by suppressingfire in "Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry"

suppressingfire — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:24:05 +0000

"you all" or "youse" can work as reasonable alternatives. I haven't tried "tons" since I've never actually heard it "used in anger."

One less fraught, but equally confusing terms are "a couple" vs. "a few" vs. "a handful" (some believe "couple" = 2 whereas others treat it and the others as explicitly more fuzzy). Often it's best to just assume as little context as possible and be a little more explicit and verbose.

New comment by suppressingfire in "I let a stranger watch me work for a day and I've never been more productive"

suppressingfire — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:19:24 +0000

To be fair, I see plenty of folks in open office settings that DGAF about that and looks at memes or YouTube or Reddit on 30" monitors visible to any passers by.

New comment by suppressingfire in "Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company"

suppressingfire — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:04:42 +0000

I've seen it go both ways. Definitely agreed that it's a human process and it can be gamed a bit. There are (or had been in the past) some checks on that with secondary committees that re-reviewed primary committee results (not just appeals of negative cases). I think the removal of those checks and move to org based promos has allowed more of what you described to take place in unfortunately.

New comment by suppressingfire in "IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)"

suppressingfire — Tue, 01 May 2018 06:27:14 +0000

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New comment by suppressingfire in "California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state’s housing crisis"

suppressingfire — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 02:20:16 +0000

There were lots of states with similar problems in the 70s. Others solved it better (e.g., NY Star program that helps specific classes of people that need help). Prop 13 was a chainsaw solution to something that needed a scalpel.

New comment by suppressingfire in "California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state’s housing crisis"

suppressingfire — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 02:15:45 +0000

As a kid, we ate at Ponderosa quite often. All you can eat soft serve.

Though I recall putting some chunked (presumably canned) pineapple on my plate once, taking it back to my table, and chomping into it before realizing it had (apparently) fermented.

We still went back months after month.

New comment by suppressingfire in "California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state’s housing crisis"

suppressingfire — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 02:12:39 +0000

The one in my hood closed overnight inexplicably before we ever got to try it. Oh well.

New comment by suppressingfire in "A preview of the U.S. without pensions"

suppressingfire — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:05:53 +0000

Could be that the plans or companies offering coverage in her region have changed from year to year? While I wouldn't call this being "dropped" others might.

Another possibility could be due to fraudulence during the application process?

But yeah, grabbing at straws here.

New comment by suppressingfire in "Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack"

suppressingfire — Sat, 20 May 2017 19:30:51 +0000

IIRC, doordash used to provide a live map a couple years back. I'm guessing they have all the data and could share it again if they desired. Presumably they have some product reason for not offering it.

New comment by suppressingfire in "The State of Go"

suppressingfire — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 22:18:14 +0000

i.e., distributed systems.

New comment by suppressingfire in "Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017"

suppressingfire — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:13:45 +0000

Check out the graph here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/waging-am...

Yeah, they rank on the list, but they're pretty far behind.

New comment by suppressingfire in "Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger"

suppressingfire — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:55:15 +0000

Also, SMS is not guaranteed to reach the recipient in any reasonable timeframe.

Also, if they're supporting desktop clients I again call shenanigans on your argument.

New comment by suppressingfire in "Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger"

suppressingfire — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:53:11 +0000

Mobile web is an edge case, too.

Shenanigans!

New comment by suppressingfire in "Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger"

suppressingfire — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 22:34:55 +0000

I call shenanigans for two reasons:

1) you can never assume a recipient ever has their phone on, with them and in a non-silent mode 2) users can disable push notifications for individual apps anyway

New comment by suppressingfire in "Go 1.7 toolchain improvements"

suppressingfire — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 16:29:43 +0000

"It was introduced with those words. They have changed since (a long time ago too)."

New comment by suppressingfire in "The daily stand-up is an anti-pattern"

suppressingfire — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 07:06:08 +0000

While I broadly disagree with the OP, I don't think this critique resonates.

The OP argues for more communication and collaboration throughout the day: Don't wait for the standup if you're blocking. Share status information immediately. Keep up to date with teammembers constantly.

Also, dammit, it's not a sync! And if your team has so many members that it last 15 minutes, there are too many people on the team (or the team is being too lenient with the format).

New comment by suppressingfire in "Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product"

suppressingfire — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 03:36:31 +0000

And protobuf.

No, wait, that was someone else.

:-)

New comment by suppressingfire in "How Emacs changed my life"

suppressingfire — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:57:51 +0000

You're totally right, the transcript is quite readable 1/1 Powered by Rabbit 0.9.2