mbillie1

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Comment · 6 years ago
Lack of 1password support on linux is the main thing keeping me on macos. Sounds like I might be switching back soon.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for putting so much effort into Redis! The software itself is awesome (I've been using it one way or another over the span of nearly a decade now), and in my opinion anyway you've handled the project and yourself in an exemplary way. You're the only programmer I can really say I think of as a personal hero. Best of luck in the future!
Comment · 6 years ago
The company feels it can decide your quality of life for you, instead of your compensation. It's kind of unethical (imo) but not uncommon. I'm fortunate that my current remote employer does not engage in this sort of thing.
Comment · 7 years ago
I am incredibly thankful for my wife, my job, my family, my privileged upbringing, my pets, the tech industry in general (even though I am contemptuous towards it at times) and most immediately a warm safe place to sleep.
Comment · 7 years ago
I cannot imagine the feeling of pride you must have if you worked on the Voyager program in any capacity. The first interstellar spacecraft, over 40 years old, and someone's still writing FORTRAN or ASM for it. So cool.
Comment · 7 years ago
Those famously stable cryptos sound perfect yeah.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think you're missing what the parent is saying: since the majority are poor, they plainly don't rule (since then they wouldn't remain poor). If democracy is defined as "majority rule," and we plainly see that the majority in the US do NOT rule, then the US is not a democracy.
Comment · 7 years ago
I thought I would hate this article, having years of delivering software with and without estimates, and preferring the latter. But it makes a compelling case!
Comment · 7 years ago
A great article I read before every time I interview or change jobs.
Comment · 7 years ago
> They're not interfering in an official congressional process in any capacity, because they're not part of an official congressional process.

This is the crux of it I'd say.

Comment · 7 years ago
Absolutely my favorite (funny) thing about programming ever written.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for making iTerm2! I've used it daily for work (and hobby coding) for longer than I can remember now.
Comment · 7 years ago
"Progress is merely a modern idea, which is to say, a false idea."
Comment · 7 years ago
There's nothing poorly specified about Nietzsche's ideas, he just wrote deliberately in a way to be incomprehensible to people casually browsing his books, or looking for quotes to bandy about someplace like this. He deliberately says in a few places (effectively) "if you can't be bothered to read my entire works then you have no right to claim to understand my thought." It's a bit pretentious and a bit arrogant, but please don't confuse a New Yorker article wondering whether the overman is a "cyborg" with the consensus of serious Nietzsche scholars. He is not so unambiguous as English-speakers who've read 1 or 2 critical essays and skimmed half of one of his books would lead you to believe. (I've read all of his books multiple times, the big ones over a dozen times, and studied him for 5+ years in college).

There are lots of legitimate criticisms of Nietzsche. But saying "overman could be a very strong man, or cyborg??? lol we don't know" is a bad faith child's argument, imo. Overman (the man who continually self-overcomes) is a notable example of a very clearly articulated idea in Nietzsche's thought, and it has nothing to do with being stronger or more powerful than other people.

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