accountable's comments

On: 10 facts about code reviews and quality

[accountable]

In all things moderation. Some code review is good, just don't let it get out of hand, or it takes 6 days to change one line of code [0].

[0] http://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line...

On: The mystique of Goldman Sachs

[accountable]

I agree. It's annoying how often HN links to paywalls. Luckily, they aren't hard to get around, more of an announce than anything. Just clear your cookies for the site and try again.

[dang → accountable]

Paywalls with workarounds are allowed here. We all agree that it's annoying, but doing without NYT, Economics, New Yorker, WSJ, and (et tu now?) WaPo articles would make be worse.

This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and (suitably, for a FAQ) has been discussed countless times, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989.

On: The mystique of Goldman Sachs

[accountable]

The beauty of capitalism, we get what people are willing to pay for (or what the government forces them to pay for).

On: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal

[accountable]

Yahoo has some good stuff, but their brand-name is just so, so toxic now.

I hope that if the deal goes through (and I'm sure it will), Verizon will still keep the better Yahoo services running.

[ocdtrekkie → accountable]

I have to imagine if they do buy it, they'll strip it for parts. They already have AOL, which has a dated name, but not one now synonymous with horrible security. And with the redundant properties between AOL and Yahoo, I can't fathom them not wanting to consolidate those, probably into a new brand entirely.

Between AOL and Yahoo (and their own Verizon email addresses where they're an ISP), they'd have a huge portion of the world's email accounts, and I could see a push to pull an Outlook.com: Move everyone to a new service, but keep all the old legacy email addresses from older services.