heleninboodler

There were a lot of aspects of this talk that I thought were really great. The willingness to try something unscripted, diving into the code repo live (e.g. to show where fuzzing is used), and the discussions of the reasoning behind the design choices. Great job @xiaq. This really makes me want to try elvish out, and I usually am quite skeptical of new shells.

The copy on the homepage is very dramatic and reads as if Bandcamp has already turned against all its artists. It's been over a year since the second sale if I am calculating the dates correctly. Has Bandcamp changed at all?

Not endorsing the view, but that's how some people think. It would actually be incredibly interesting if he decided to commit political suicide by having Trump killed and spurring congress into amending the constitution to explicitly revoke the immunity. If presidents start murdering presidential candidates, we might be able to get together and pass a constitutional amendment. :)

Can't help but wondering if Joe is contemplating Seal Team Six's summer plans right about now.

The median employee also isn't the guy who's going to make a killing by being an instrumental early employee at startup. It's apples and oranges. I'd argue that the person who is versatile and productive enough to help build a startup from zero is also in the upper tier of those FAANG employees, and commanding 400k+ per year isn't out of reach.

I personally have taken both paths, and made what I considered a ridiculous amount of money at a startup (after I'd been gone for a while, having bought my stock). When I got my cash out, I didn't quit my not-technically-FAANG-but-pretty-close job and that comp continues to grow. I never expected this, but my comp has grown to the point where the cumulative amount I've made here has actually surpassed the startup money. 7 years at each place, and the steady paycheck eventually outpaced the big windfall. The difference is I can keep the steady paycheck indefinitely, so it's definitely the win if I stick it out. Of course, now I'm itching to do a startup again. :)

> I don't get the hand-wringing when it comes to reasonably priced services.

For me, it has nothing to do with the price and everything to do with the fact that I don't want a service dependency for my most critical passwords. I want them to be available no matter what. The product should be standalone. And this isn't a hypothetical concern, either: my employer is contractually mandated to disallow cloud-based password managers, so I must use standalone ones (yes, this is a stupid policy, but one that I'm bound by).

And on top of that, 1Password 5 was an excellent product and it is just steadily getting worse, in my opinion.

You're getting a lot of glib answers, but in all seriousness, this is one of the amazing things about tom7 videos. It sometimes starts by appearing to be about nonsense or triviality, but as he weaves all these weird stories, they start to come together into observations that are absolutely brilliant and funny and he writes code to demonstrate what he's saying. I highly recommend "Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need" as an intro to his style, his humor, and the absurd lengths he will go to in order to prove a point. It's in three chapters and the middle chapter still blows my mind.

Call me crazy, but it's almost as if these should be guidelines considered by a thinking person, with experience to help inform them, rather than hard-and-fast rules that must be applied to everything.

> Why wall of death?

I think that's just what the cylindrical room is often called when it's used for motorcycles. The paper repeatedly references it, abbreviated "WoD." I don't think there's any death involved. :)

Yes, exactly.

Fun fact, the quartz is used to make the big crucibles where the silicon wafers crystallize by starting from a seed in the center which is slowly drawn upward. My grandmother was a quartz salesperson for GE for decades (they sourced their quartz from this same company) and they make the crucibles. My grandma lived in a place with a small yard and her garden was planted in these very modern-looking quartz crucibles that were destined for chipmakers but had some tiny flaw on the inner surface so they couldn't be sold.

> not only infinite ones

I don't think this really has much to do with the "infinite" nature of the canvas. Individual instances of infinite canvases have a finite size. :)

My very first thought about this format was that someone is definitely going to pervert it to be used as a graphics format, and for that it's woefully inadequate. I decided to hold my tongue since it's not the creators' fault that someone will misuse it, but I can totally see people adding optional ad hoc fields to nodes to allow for example all sorts of fancy line styles.

Suggestion: add some metadata at the top level, including a bounding box that includes all nodes so that you can encapsulate a canvas and include it within another context before having created all the elements within it. It's redundant information and it needs to be kept in sync with the nodes and edges, but it's very useful for applications working with your data.

Also, this is not very json-ish, but optimizing your serializer so your metadata is always written first is pretty handy for embedding, since it allows you to use a pull parser and do useful things before the entire doc is parsed. (e.g. picture a huge doc being embedded and starting out as just a box and having its elements filled in async. You can't do that well if you don't know the bounding box ahead of time)

You mean just for fun? I'm having a hard time imagining real value in doing something like karma-farming on HN. Not to mention, that would be more like anti-karma-farming.