CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> One sense of feature flag that I am familiar with (not from experience) is in trunk based development where they are used to integrate new code (with a feature flag) which is relatively untested. Or just not fully developed. That’s an
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The primary purpose of feature flags is to provide a way to change system behavior dynamically, without needing a deploy. That's not feature flags; it's just ordinary configuration. (Actually, seems many contributions to th
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It's even okay to hardcode them into code (not a config/json file). Yes, as I understood it that was what the article was all about.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Did you honestly think the main issue is the location of the start menu, and not the toxicity of the incessant pushing, or are you just pretending to as a cheap discussion gambit? (If anything, your reference to the treacly treatise on the
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> A lot of the “never upgrade to 11” folks are completely unaware at how antiquated their OS is at this point. So all the talk about "Windows 10 is the last Windows you'll ever need" is now officially recognised as bulls
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yes, I am -- but, admittedly, not only on HN. There's far too much of that stuff everywhere on the Internet nowadays. So, OK, to the extent that HN is supposed to be a reflection of the larger 'Net... But is it, really? I'd
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101613
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Hard to believe that “learners ... get confused over mutability” more than functional programming when millions of middle-schoolers grokked the idea of “mutability” in the form of variables in Basic, while I (and at a guess, at least thousa
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Nope. The fact that he's telling you a high-level command is irrelevant. (If you didn't know what “sort the papers” means, he'd have to tell you in more detail; it's just the difference between calling your built-in so
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> (we might all study cosmology and get hawking IQ level in the end, if we don't know how to grow food, we're toast) I first read that as "we might all study cosmetology ...", so my mind went to an altogether differ
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I was once told that a lot of executive level management was based off gut instinct more than cold logical decision making. It would not surprise me if this also applied to deciding who is laid off. It would surprise me if it didn&#
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> but business can be much more than that and it is up to all participants to build, man, and steer the boats. If you own the galley you're a "participant"; if your job is rowing it, you're something else entirely.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That was "foot soldiers".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> confused about their reasons not to leave me a good review to help me get a new job. At a guess: They're afraid your stigma of not currently having a job will "rub off" onto themselves.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
So, did you join him, or did you mean your vindication was "No way; fuck you, too!" ?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I can't think of any reason why a CEO would not want to be able to spot the people who a) are not assholes and b) gel really well with the company. The CEO might want to be able to spot that, but in any company of some size they
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> They work very hard to *eek out every penny they can *: Eke.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> layoffs provide incredibly useful information for prospective employees. > For example, was it a small number of people who were laid off with decent severance, or was it a huge mass of people let go unceremoniously with minimum sev
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Agree with the headline Which of them -- the original (and still on TFA), "Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again", or the current one here, "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work&
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, sorry, I don't live in the Apple universe. Thanks anyway!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Yup, linking millions of documents that you are required to sift through to combine the information you need You just click on the blue underlined text; it's called a "hyperlink". Revolutionary new concept, I know. It&#
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> These are not pulled from some random website. Did anyone say they were? In this particular thread? > These are actual internal archives donated from Nokia Yes yes, that seems quite plausible. But why are you arguing that in respons
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Not particlularly angry (at you, not at all; at web sites, a little), just a very different experience than yours: Many articles I come across refuse to display in reader view. What's "forced reader view"? If I could force
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Sure, deca- as in "decade" is understandable. But why would deci- as in "decimal" be any less understandable?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> There's a few exceptions. No, there's not “a few exceptions”. It's really rather common for aites not to display in Reader Mode at all; far too common to be called “exceptions”, and nowhere near “a few”.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I've seen lots of kids coasting on bikes, but never any wooden kids. :-D (Except maybe if you count Pinocchio.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
If you have any more, don't show them the bike until you've taken the pedals off.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
His other post about that was also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036842 .
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> IME balance bikes is the greatest thing for bicycles since the safety bicycle. Since before the safety bicycle: Balance bikes came first. Then the pedals were added -- driving the front wheel, like kids' bikes still did when I w
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Bikes (at least used to) come in different frame sizes. If ordinary commuter bikes don't any more, at least mountain bikes still tend to, as I understand it. And those have the top tube of the frame lower anyway, and with that usually

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