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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
As someone who worked a lot of low-end and blue collar jobs before getting into software, small talk with coworkers is a whole lot easier in the former environment. There is so much petty politics and ego in the modern office that all it ta
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Do you know there's a reason they call the tail end of the French Revolution "the Reign of Terror"?
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
That phrase could be used to describe how every genocidal maniac in history viewed themselves. Most of the steady progress that has been made in this world has been due to the efforts of diplomatic individuals who cast a wide, friendly net
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
This is a perfect example of how Stallman ultimately is an authoritarian. He wants all the freedom to do what he wants, but has no problem with his "free software" vision limiting the rights of others. As someone else pointed out,
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
First paragraph... > This knowledge can be applied to improve start-up performance for web apps that ship large JSON-like configuration object literals Third paragraph... > A good rule of thumb is to apply this technique for objects o
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
A Commodore 64 or TI-994A could. Probably not at 60fps, but it could be done. It would definitely need to be done in assembly, or with a modern compilation tool, like cc65. The sprites would have to be hardcoded, instead of being interprete
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
"Smith 6079W! Bend lower!"[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfW6HFP5cI
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
The Nokia 3110 3G reboot[0] that came out in 2017 is pre KaiOS. It works on US GSM networks (T-Mobile, AT&T). It has Twitter and FB apps you can't uninstall, but they're custom rolled ones that just open the website. [0] http
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> As of February 2018, KaiOS Technologies has partnered with Airfind, Facebook, Google, Twitter... The Nokia KaiOS devices come with built in Google services, which instantly disqualify them for me. I don't trust that information fr
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
I would love to see this demo ported to an 8 bit computer
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Commander X16 – a new 6502 computer in active development, with emulator(commanderx16.com)
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
I'm normally 100% on board with condemning this Malthusian environment that has sprung up in the last couple years, but I don't believe that Richard Stallman is a complete victim in this scenario. He has a long history of using fo
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
The world most certainly supports China, out of the desire for greater profits. When we know much of their labor force is forced labor, we are literally outsourcing slavery to them. If you can knowingly continue to buy products from a regim
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
And the Italian fascismo were different in many ways but still send ethnic minorities to their death - as we can be 99.9% sure the CCP is. Your argument is a red herring and acts, whether you want it to or not, as apologetics.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
CCP China is the most successful ethno-nationalist/fascist state in modern history. * With the introduction of a market economy in the 70s and 80s, but retaining full party control of that economy, they fulfilled the economic definitio
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
"Hey, Google, use every discernible iota of my personal information to build the foundation of a Chinese-style, authoritarian, digital dystopia, because I'm too lazy to learn basic, self-managed organizational skills."
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
“I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.” - Alexander Acosta Who cares what the CIA did 60 years ago? Why isn't NPR reporting on what they may be doing now?
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> "The reason" can also be lack of basic competence in previous workers. That type of wording belies a destructive approach to the problem. What I'm told is "lack of competence" is often someone not being trained
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Knowing Stallman, it is ordered.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Yes, they're two sides of the same, "my way or the highway" coin. Stallman has made it clear that he would destroy the right of private digital property, if he had the power.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
That's like saying Fascists and Communists are polar opposites. They may disagree completely on economic policy, but they're both authoritarian assholes. Stallman is only for "freedom" as long as it's his complete a
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Only Stallman would begin a "reasons to not use Google" post with a rant about modern webpages requiring JavaScript, as if there aren't a million higher priority reasons TO DUMP GOOGLE . I can't help but feel that havin
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
I'm glad that this type of yellow journalism is starting to be recognized by the general populace. It's been getting worse for years. These are the same activists posing as journalists that label someone like Joe Rogan "alt-r
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> Definitely not true, and a generalization... Just because you haven't been at such a place doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That in itself is a false assumption and generalization. Are we talking product or culture? Becaus
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
It specifically locates where most of the body mass increase is coming from.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
You mean like James Demore and Bret Weinstein?
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Make no mistake, this is the equivalent action of the type of Oskar Schindler's. CCP wanted those names so they could eventually disappear them.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
But in startups that whole "work somewhere or on something you enjoy" is a front. Programming is programming, as long as you find a challenging problem. Everything else is ego. Some of the most gratifying work I've done is on
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
I've been around both industries and the main thing they survive on is convincing engineers to stay in crap conditions because of how "cool" everything is. I'm lucky enough that the game company I worked for was run by g
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
I agree with the title, but disagree with the article. If you're at all an experienced software engineer, you should avoid working as a "software engineer" at a startup, because you'll most likely be worked to the bone f

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