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mdoms
·4 года назад·discuss
The supposed "downside risks" in this article just don't seem realistic to me.

> There are all sorts of ways that your former employers might retaliate. They might decide not to give a reference they would have before the exit interview. They might say bad things about you at industry events. It might be more subtle: they might just carry a negative impression of you in the back of their minds, and when you both end up working together again in the future they’ll hesitate to trust you. Or it might be blatantly unethical or even illegal. They could tell you they’re fine to be a reference, but when someone calls they could say bad things. They could refuse to confirm your employment to a background investigator. They could call your new company and tell them you were fired for fraud.

I just don't see it. Exit interviews are valuable. I find the never-ending cynicism around here exhausting. Sometimes people just want to hear why you're leaving because they want to learn from it.
mdoms
·4 года назад·discuss
You're absolutely right. There should be no sympathy for Russians from the outside. They must reckon with this situation internally.
mdoms
·4 года назад·discuss
mdoms
·4 года назад·discuss
You're going to keep a framed broken phone on your desk forever? Ok man.
mdoms
·5 лет назад·discuss
> Federate it a bit more than they are comfortable with, to at least give it a chance.

I have yet to see a single federated system that has demonstrated commercial success. There's no reason to believe that strategy would result in greater success than Facebook's usual playbook, which is proven.
mdoms
·5 лет назад·discuss
As someone who lives somewhere with an actual housing crisis, I just did a Zillow search for homes in Austin and I don't think you quite understand what a housing crisis looks like. Your homes look dirt cheap by Kiwi standards.
mdoms
·5 лет назад·discuss
Is this the same clowns who got hacked a month ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27664911
mdoms
·5 лет назад·discuss
This passage strikes me as meaningless self-help dreck.
mdoms
·5 лет назад·discuss
I don't really even know what Wayland is but I know I'll never bother to find out with morons like this behind it.
mdoms
·6 лет назад·discuss
Spoiler, it's just Ajax but it pushes the data through your templates before sending it to the client. We were doing this literally over a decade ago in the early days of XHR.
mdoms
·6 лет назад·discuss
> It is not that Linux is not a viable gaming platform. It is just developers not publishing games for Linux.

As a user this makes it a non-viable platform.
mdoms
·6 лет назад·discuss
The game may be unpolished and unstable but I can still boot it up and play it with my friends, which is more than I can say about Linux gamers.
mdoms
·6 лет назад·discuss
I only play two games at the moment and neither of them are viable on Linux. Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War is a non-starter even with Proton. Assetto Corsa Competizione will work, but not with my Thrustmaster wheel.

Both of these are deal breakers on their own, but the real deal breaker is the uncertainty that comes with running Linux as a gamer. For example Cyberpunk 2077 comes out this week. Will it work? I have no idea. With my Windows machine I don't even need to check - of course it will.