DoneWithAllThat

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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   Mad Men is a story about people working for a company that is exclusively focused of human emotions (and manipulating them). I don’t think any “lessons” it may teach about workplace politics are any more generalizable than any other single
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   So everything everywhere through history only improves over time, forever? Nothing is ever lost? The tragedy of the commons is a myth? Any memory I might have of something having been better in the past is false?
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   My approach is to type the “limit conditions” first, then go to the start of the line and do as you say (predicate the command with the comment string). So in the case of sql it might be something like starting with: WHERE foo=bar LIMIT
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   What do you mean by “fair share” in this context?
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   Uproar about what?
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   I think “quite” is doing a lot of work here. I agree with this characterization of the mechanics of what’s happening, but more broadly I’d say western culture has been suffering a growing disconnect between dream and reality for some time n
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   I’ve never really understood what variations of the rejoinder “you are not the target user” are intended to accomplish, at least in conversations like this. When discussing things like product strategy it makes some (more than a little) sen
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   …says a single study, which the headline makes clear, but the HN submission title elides.
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   by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

   Case in point.
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    by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

    I’d say it’s worse, they’re usually trying to imply that the people engaged in the activity aren’t sufficiently allied with their pet political or moral causes. If you engage with their tweet-sized sniping the conversation inevitably leads
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    by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

    I only recently learned the “long press on the space bar” feature of iOS. It’s still cumbersome to navigate the url but far less so than tapping, which seems intentionally designed to be infuriatingly difficult to navigate.
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    by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

    This is my life right now and it’s utter hell. The company is infested with these people and it’s astounding to me that nobody seems to care.
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    by DoneWithAllThat 5y ago

    Easily one of my favorite books of all time. It’s also always thoroughly enjoyable to reread, there’s lots of little details and foreshadowings you catch each time.