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mohamedattahri
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- This has nothing to do with the founder status.
Founders don’t face any competition when they get the job at their own companies, and they often have ownership to force it as an outcome if there’s ever a debate.
Baker, to her credit, probably faced brutal competition to get to the top job. It’s not out there to wonder why she was picked, and the answer cannot be because « she was there from the beginning ».
HN tends to like people who have a certain understanding of product and technology. Baker’s legal background probably didn’t help put forward her other skills, hence the questions.
If the argument is based on trends your personally noticed on HN, then I’m afraid there’s not much to discuss.
- I can question the qualifications of a person as it relates to a specific position (e.g. CEO), but that doesn't mean I don't respect their past contributions.
I find the accusations of sexism towards anyone who dares question her as excessive as some of the comments that were made towards her.
- If you're on iOS/MacOS, try https://netnewswire.com. Old-school high-quality free macOS app.
- There’s a long, long list of APIs which are Chromium-only because Apple and/or Firefox rejected them: Bluetooth, Battery Status, etc.
- Yep, and the US had a lot more leverage; out of the US translates into no access to US dollars either directly or via a correspondent bank, which essentially means bankruptcy.
- That's why I suggested govulncheck; it can keep a database of suspicious packages and issue a clear warning, and it can be locally check that the hash of tagged version you're using locally is the same on GitHub.
- There's indeed a serious problem if cache invalidation relies solely on the declared semver of the package. Maybe something govulncheck could manage by comparing a package's hash on pkg.go.dev VS the remote vcs.
- I don't think this is a valid argument, because both sides of it are true. Developers invested, but so did Apple, and they did it first and took bigger risks.
The App Store is packed with apps because developers saw an opportunity and wanted to seize it. Everyone's in it because it serves their interests.
- There's not a single mention of Apple Music. There goes the credibility of this statement.
It's rather obvious that problems started when Apple decided to build a services business the size of a F100 company by directly and unfairly competing with said developers, unchained from all the constraints and costs they impose on them.
- There’s something cool about the fact that parallel code in Go is still idiomatic Go.
- FYI - “Keys()”, “Values()” and others have been pulled because they’re likely to be implemented using the new range-over-function paradigm.
They were included in the experimental packages on google.com/x.
- This is factually untrue and I just gave you two counter-examples. While it's true that credit has long replaced deposits for money creation, the idea that all deposits strictly originate from some virtual loan operation is fallacious.
Consider that some banks are hundreds of years old and have commercial relationships that span well over a century, long pre-dating the modern financial system and the considerations we're discussing.
- > Every deposit originates from a loan
How is the cash I deposit from the dividends I earned originate from a loan? How about the community banks that purchase gold from their customers?
- BLOB on Postgres are awesome, but there's also a full-featured file API called Large Objects for when the use-case requires seeking/streaming.
Wrote a small Go library to interface with it: https://github.com/mohamedattahri/pgfs
Large Objects: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/largeobjects.html
- Driver, shepherd, you probably see where this is going...
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- The FED is not trying to push unemployment, they just accept it as a cost to curb inflation which is always enemy number one. Interests rates and unemployment are correlated; you make borrowing more expensive, people invest less and become more conservative, often by trimming.
EDIT: Fixed correlation sign.
- I disagree, because I think the scale is relative to the size and complexity of the ecosystem you're touching, not the size of your influence. They're unpredictable and unexpected, and that's why we tend to refer to them as unknown unknowns.
But like you said, they're not necessarily catastrophic or cataclysmic.
Back to the context, I just don't think someone can say for sure that changing the very nature of a thousand square miles piece of land in the middle of some of the least studied terrain types will be great and won't have any bad consequences.
Questioning whether someone was the right fit for a role isn't an attack on their legitimacy or their earlier contributions, no matter how pivotal they were. Steve Ballmer at Microsoft had a quasi-founder status, and he received the exact same backlash and hate throughout his tenure because he was perceived as someone who "didn't get it".
If the argument is that any skepticism of a female CEO's performance must be sexist, that shuts down legitimate discussion. I'd rather focus on outcomes rather than on trying to divine each other's motives.
Lastly, Your "pause and do better" is exactly what I'm objecting to: framing disagreement as moral failure. Question Baker? Sexist. Disagree with me? You're not doing enough for the cause.