Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960155

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hinkley
A bit of an aside, but after someone introduced me to the notion of Reversible Decisions, it quickly became apparent to me that the solution to the bikeshed problem is to throw money at it before the roosters can start preening about which color the shed should be. Decisions that are reversible should just go with the instinctive answer of whoever volunteers to work on it. I've been in many meeting rooms where, because of the number and caliber of people in the room, we've blown $5000 worth of combined salary arguing about basically nothing. I've been in a few where that number was well over $10k. If you're going to assign a relatively medium talent engineer to solve a problem, it's cheaper to let them solve it twice, maybe even three times, than it is to try to figure out what the right solution is before touching a keyboard. It helps them grow to give them that autonomy, and more impor
throw0101a
For those unaware, PHK created (amongst other things) the MD5crypt password hashing algorithm ( $1$… ). It came before bcrypt (1999), scrypt (2009), SHA2crypt (2016), etc , and was committed in 1994: * https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libcrypt/crypt.c?re... * https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/3b2b7f71deba2a... * https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp
andix
I don't think age restriction will impact FOSS in the long term. If there are some regulations that threaten FOSS now, they are going to be adopted in the long term. Regulations for age restriction are understandable. A lot of modern technology is harming kids (and I don't mean dirty videos, social media seems to be much more harmful). A sensible regulator would leave some responsibility to the parents, but require restrictions for consumer devices (smartphones, laptops). Maybe even enable age restrictions by default, block replacing the OS or the firmware, and only allow it once the age was confirmed. I don't see a point of including all kind of OS or software into this regulation. Just the ones that are preinstalled on consumer devices, and commercially distributed to consumers. Once the age of the user was confirmed, the devices should be able to become as open as we know them now.
ai_critic
First read of this pissed me off, but subsequent reads gave a much different opinion. Do yourself a favor and read this, a few times, and take a moment to actually try and see what the author's getting at.
rfmoz
This matches what I’ve seen in practice, individual tasks may become faster, but the overall development process doesn’t automatically improve. Heavily dependant of the real hands behind.
mimd
I have met women in tech who have been privacy conscious and paranoid about state control. Or even a healthy stream of non-tech women worried that it will be used to attack their sex and to discriminate. I don't think the author is correct in his belief that there are not a considerable amount of women worried about privacy. And to make such a board claim, and in light of my experience, would indicate either hubris or sexism. If anything, he frames that he is concerned about his daughter as a father. The viewpoint of patriarchy.
st3fan
"LLM-assisted code review won't be a huge disruptor" is quite the prediction. Because it already is in a very big way. The take on LLMs seems incredibly out of date and out of touch with reality. (Which of course, has moved/advanced very fast the past months/year)
dzonga
I think the author is missing a layer of abstraction. yeah - once regulators come into play - the private ecosystems take over. discord is already a precursor to this. the era of mass public social networks will come to the end. next it will be just private networks of individuals. likely the won't interact. how the dynamics play out - I don't know - but if you study history - you will know what behaviors will happen.