akilism's comments

On: Ask HN: How common is a counteroffer for developer...

[akilism]

i've only left 2 jobs in the last 12 years but both gave me counters.

On: Animated interactive of the history of the Atlanti...

[akilism]

hope you are also comparing chattel slavery as practiced in the americas vs slavery is Africa at the time.

On: Angular vs. React vs. Vue

[akilism]

chooooo

https://github.com/choojs/choo

On: Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor

[akilism]

no end to end encryption?

[bogle → akilism]

This is seriously one of the killer features. How can a company use this if everything is in the clear? How can you even have a conversation if at any time it can all be dragged up and pored over? The double ratchet of Signal, for instance, is open source so just implement it already.

[rtpg → bogle]

But companies want records of communication! They want/need auditable records.

If two employees want to chat in secret, companies sure don't want that happening

On: At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on p...

[akilism]

There are some viewpoints that should not be tolerated though.

[cuckcuckspruce → akilism]

Can you give me an enumerated list so I can be sure to not commit wrongthink?

[synicalx → akilism]

Answers like this truly surprise me. Do you not see a problem with normalising the idea of telling people how and what to think?

[thescribe → akilism]

I'm glad you agree with my super conservative grandmother.

On: At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on p...

[akilism]

Everything is political especially the conditions under which your exchange your labor for survival / comfort.

On: Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from o...

[akilism]

Onionshare....

https://onionshare.org/

On: Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again

[akilism]

328 million monthly active users and still not happy.

On: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut D...

[akilism]

exactly.

On: Lessons learned teaching data analysis with Python

[akilism]

there's a pretty good book out there "Data Science from Scratch" it's all in python and really lays out the workings of popular data science / analysis algorithms without relying heavily on external libraries.