alexandercrohde

You mean the South Park references that add no contribution to this scientific article? Or people broadcasting their moral opinions into the void? I don't see any good comments downvoted.

Agreed. I was formulating it as this (at a previous job, obviously) There are 4 "top engineers." All 4 of these top engineers would identify each other as such. There are 4 "D tier engi…

I agree. I'd challenge whoever is upvoting this to distill it to a few essential points (a tl; dr: even) that are worthy takeaways.

Yeah, this is the tradeoff of HN -- Just about anybody can get a wild headline to the frontpage. Sometimes this is great, because that wild headline is an important truth that is ahead of what we norm…

Okay, I mean conceptually cool, but it's not like an existing startup gonna throw away all their code and rewrite it to save on dev-ops time. I guess the value prop is that if you're startin…

Honestly, in my opinion, the fact that this type of thing can even happen suggests the format of code-review has a problem. I propose it's better to: 1. Sit at the desk of the person and pair-cod…

I mean, I don't imagine I'd "pay" to leave comments, submit stories, or facts. Maybe I'm an odd-breed but I see HN as a charitable place for those in the know to contribute to…

How as nobody here connected the possibility that this is caused-by our reduced average testosterone levels [1]? If nobody else is gonna suggest its possibly environmental chemicals then I guess I get…

This type of comment has gotten so bad in some topics lately that I just skim through topics to find ones that don't start with "I"

The credit thing is my only real concern here. As far as I'm concern, upvoting/downvoting isn't fun, it's an act of public service. I'd be incredibly concerned that corporate …

I do think there is another side to this though. I think equally bad for the organization are people who are entirely supportive of huge mistakes: - Encouraging people to try any technology they want …

>> In most relational database management systems (RDBMS) views are not persisted/materialized or indexed separately. Right, which is why they're great. You can materialize a view, but…

Sounds cool. The thing I'd say is, in this type of setup you can use somtehing called a "view." It's like a query that makes a virtual table. So you can then have this "virtua…

I think this is one of the most realistic responses here. I think it's in most party's self-interest to keep playing the "agile panacea" game. 1. Salesman sells something that does…

Well, from where I sit, it's a huge difference in terms of how much I should care about it. I have a limited amount of outrage and try to ration it to the issues that are the largest societal pro…

But if intelligence agencies broke factoring, would we know? Maybe they have.

> I'd be fascinated to see a historical account of that. Well, not a hard-source, but having been alive in the 90's most women didn't consider themselves feminists in the 90s. And if…

Yeah, there's a few types of "great solutions" in engineering. There are those that run really fast (big O) and those that can be written really fast. 99% of the time the job calls for …

Maybe an easier solution would be to append all the answers, take a hash (e.g. sha1), then convert the last 2 digits from hex to decimal, and mod 10. 1 liner. -- EDIT: I lied, this doesn't work, …

>> If we're too survive we need to do both steps as of yesterday, Huge supporter of climate change action, but scientifically is there any basis for the idea that current models point to hu…

Odds are you can simply add their calendar on google calendars and see when they've booked meetings.

Right, but maybe even go a step further, and be like "Hey Josh how you doing? Busy day?" They'll likely elaborate, and if they don't want to then it means your question is overbe…

Maybe it's just me, but it's always been my experience that it's a better career move to A) always avoid using fancy business-isms outside of meetings, and really whenever possible and …

The truth is we live in a post-war era. This is a statistically indisputable fact [1]. My question is who all these odd people are who seem to have some deep emotional need for the world to operate li…

So... there's this place right next to America, called Canada. And instead of attacking Vietnam, trying to overthrow South American Governments, going deep into debt over nonexistent WMDs, they j…

Certainly 18% of TV characters aren't creationist, or addicted to painkillers.

The investment itself is a meaningful business endorsement. However I said this article is a meaningless endorsement (given the major conflict of interest). In fact, the "hype-factor" and un…

Well then it's kindof a worthless endorsement, isn't it...?

And who the heck is upvoting this strange advertisement for an undefined product to the frontpage of my go-to NO-BS news aggregator site?

I also kinda wonder if this is "signaling value." Trying really hard to hype up that "this is for successful executives who don't mind blowing 30 a month" as a way for people …