biesnecker

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Comment · 23 days ago

China is not part of the embargo, so I suspect commodity server and networking hardware isn't hard to come by.

Comment · 1 month ago

I came here to say this, like... wow. I'm pretty sure at at least a few of the places I've worked that would be grounds for immediate termination.

Comment · 2 months ago

It seems exceedingly unlikely that the current Pro plan costs will hold for the next two years. The subsidization train is going to end eventually.

Comment · 5 months ago

Engaged != listened to.

Comment · 6 months ago

It had a very 90s/early-2000s tech blog feel to it. Only thing missing was his custom Gentoo build.

Comment · 6 months ago

Comment · 1 year ago

$10k is such an insanely small amount of money (compared to SWE salaries) for someone at a big tech company to risk their job for.

Comment · 1 year ago

This was the first example that popped to mind: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

Not having Google accounts isn't the end of the world, but given the amount that many (most?) of us rely on their services (I think of all the accounts I have tied to my @gmail email and cringe, but still I'm there), this is fairly disasterous.

Comment · 1 year ago

This. People tend not to realize how sprawling enterprise software stacks tend to be, how many implicit dependencies have to be untangled, etc. Even simple things can take years and complicated things often just don’t get done at all.

Comment · 1 year ago

All my feedback has been covered by others, so just +1 on “this is awesome, he (and you) should be proud!” Looking forward to seeing his internship projects in a decade or so.

Comment · 1 year ago

I don’t click on HN articles expecting to cry, but here we are.

Comment · 1 year ago

Pretty soon the apes in charge are going to be using this study to demand that the chimps return to the office 5 days per week.

Comment · 2 years ago

There are 330 million of us, too. The vast majority can be reasonable people and that still leaves millions of batshit crazy Americans out there to write about.

Edit: typo

Comment · 2 years ago

Pascal was the language that AP Computer Science was taught in in the mid-90s when I took it. We used Turbo Pascal 6.0 for DOS, and I have fond memories. I think I'd still prefer C, but I appreciate the nostalgia.

Comment · 2 years ago

Chinese grammar only really seems like English in the beginning. It diverges fairly aggressively from intermediate onwards.