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by CM30 3y ago
In my opinion: - Social media. We're already seeing a backlash towards it due to the effects it has on people's mental health, and I've noticed a large drop in usage from non celebrity/influencers too. Based on this, I s
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by CM30 3y ago
Isn't this called the Gambler's Fallacy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy Either way, it's interesting he mentions this, since quite a few video games are actively fixing the odds of ran
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by CM30 3y ago
So like this joke error message from a certain 00s game? "APPLICATION ERROR. SAVE YOUR WORK AND QUIT. YOU LOST EVERYTHING. WAY TO GO, GENIUS."
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by CM30 3y ago
Threads is already going that direction. It's a lot more negative and cynical than it was when it started out, and seems to be slowly morphing into more of a Twitter like experience than an Instagram like one. Not sure about BlueSky, t
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by CM30 3y ago
This is sadly a bit of a problem with most Twitter alternatives right now; many more niche communities haven't moved over (or have only chosen to go to one of them), so there's a good chance you won't find content you're
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by CM30 3y ago
It's nice to see this is the case now, though I worry it may be a bit too late. Having BlueSky stuck behind an invite wall gave a huge boost in popularity to other alternatives like Mastodon and Threads, and even now I'm unlikely
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by CM30 3y ago
For me, it'd probably require at least a couple of the following things to be true: 1. A significant payrise, perhaps at least twice what I'm making at the moment. 2. A team that I actually get along with well, with a significant
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by CM30 3y ago
Well, I started out using Microsoft FrontPage at one point, but once I knew enough about HTML I migrated over to Notepad, driven in part by it being the fashion among some percentage of the developer community at the time (there was an atti
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, this 100%. Which is why I suspect a 'winning' strategy for a career in software engineering is 'get involved in big new projects early on, take care of the low hanging fruit without much care for code quality or maintai
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by CM30 3y ago
On the other hand, that also meant that if the team/company didn't give a toss about the quality they'd release the product unfinished, and there'd be no way to improve it even if someone wanted to. So while in some case
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by CM30 3y ago
Not really, we've always had a mix of great software, terrible software and everything in between. Take the gaming world for example. There are definitely a lot of buggy messes being released on Steam and modern consoles (like many tit
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by CM30 3y ago
This is one of the reasons free web hosting mostly died out. You'd spend more time and effort helping people that weren't interested in paying (and often didn't want to learn how anything worked) than you'd make through
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by CM30 3y ago
Well, the revenue sharing probably didn't help much for sure. I've seen dozens of sites and platforms add that as a feature, and as unfortunate as it is, this almost always backfires. People see 'make money contributing to th
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, this is the main problem I have with Quora. You go to a thread to look for answers to a question, then find the platform has merged in a bunch of answers to related questions alongside the ones I'm actually there to read. For exa
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by CM30 3y ago
It probably also doesn't help that the following seem to be true as well: 1. Everyone is expected to make any remotely successful hobby into a business or 'side hustle'. So regardless of the activity or type of art, everyone
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by CM30 3y ago
Honestly something like this needs to happen, since the whole 'anything goes including illegal and dangerous products' setup these sites have going on is utter insanity. Cause let's be real here, if any site other than Amazon
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by CM30 3y ago
It's at least neat to see they're considering the possibility of adding Internet Archive links to replace the cache ones, but as Jason Scott said on Mastodon earlier, that could end up overloading the Archive even more than usual
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by CM30 3y ago
This is a very fair point. The recruiter and the company they're working with don't always have the same incentives, so it's entirely possible the former will put forward candidates that don't meet the requirements just
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by CM30 3y ago
It's probably also worth noting that most job ads are not 100% honest with the requirements for the role, and often feel more like a wishlist for the 'ideal' candidate rather than a set of concrete requirements. Heck, I'
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by CM30 3y ago
There's definitely some cool stuff here for sure, and I'm happy to see it getting better support. CSS Nesting is a huge deal for example, since it's one of those features that kinda made SASS and LESS useful to begin with, an
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by CM30 3y ago
Sadly, it's probably the first one. Awful people were bullying others for all sorts of reasons before that episode, and have done so for all sorts of other reasons afterwards too. If someone wants to be a bully, they'll find somet
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by CM30 3y ago
Depends on the type of website: 1. Personal site (no comments, static): Use static HTML/CSS/JavaScript, maybe upload to GitHub pages or Neocities. 2. Personal site/blog (comments, technical functionality): Use WordPress, and
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by CM30 3y ago
I guess the best term would probably be 'searchability' then. You want something where info comes up if you type it into Google/Bing/Kagi/your search engine of choice, and where there's enough of a community th
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by CM30 3y ago
Just a few responses/thoughts on this article: > Truth 1: People convince themselves not to do something True. This is likely in part due to the amount of tedious busywork it requires to get anything done in a large organisation, si
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by CM30 3y ago
Honestly, I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often. The challenge with stories about unusual situations, events and topics is that they're often difficult to verify, and you're relying on the author's word that
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by CM30 3y ago
Well, we're definitely seeing more interest in unions and work/life balance among younger generations now, and more people pushing back on the insanity of job applications, the attempts to force them to return to the office, etc.
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by CM30 3y ago
Hmm, some of these restaurants might want to rethink their font sizes and background colours, since their current menus are very hard to read. The one from Phuket Cafe with pink text on a pink background is damn near impossible to parse fro
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, the burnout isn't usually coming from the coding (though it may be in some cases), it's from all the pointless bullshit that gets in the way of said coding. In every job I've gotten burnout from I've wanted to keep
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by CM30 3y ago
Pandemic delusions and overhiring seem like the main issue here. Tech companies saw the level of success the pandemic brought (thanks to the pandemic lockdowns, lack of alternatives and rise in remote work), and assumed that was the new sta
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, this is kind of a problem with a lot of 'alternative' social media sites and platforms. They become places where the majority of discussion is "why the existing site/service is trash and why the people using it are

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