Draiken

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by Draiken 13y ago
I unfortunately got tired of those damn dialogs one day and ended up with a G+ profile. Their methods are getting more and more like dark patterns (just colorful ones). I deleted my G+ account and fortunately didn't lose my subscriptio
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by Draiken 13y ago
You're nitpicking, and doing it wrong. Inserting ads on your mail client is not the problem, it's how they target the advertise. Of course they inserted it into the mail to make it clearer, but obviously it's not literal. Kee
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by Draiken 13y ago
I'd say that's exactly what they want everyone to think. Of course we see more violations in china, but who's to say you don't have 10 times more of that from the US? Just because they don't do it to US citizens (in
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by Draiken 13y ago
Everytime I hear the word I just think of this comic: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-05-22/
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by Draiken 13y ago
Agreed. I see many people that aren't that good at anything concrete and just sell themselves as "good at building products". If an engineer is not qualified to build a software (the product), who is? I get that not everyone
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by Draiken 13y ago
He probably doesn't. He stays too much time not doing the machine work :) The fact that you point "shipping" as a part of this discussion just shows how much he's right.
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by Draiken 13y ago
I'd say without documentation any code loses quality. I'm not talking about giving a manual for every piece of code you write, but any code that will be used by others (specially in big companies) should be well documented. If goo
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by Draiken 13y ago
Even on Office, people use it because it's pretty much the only thing they can use. Not because it's a great product. You work on a company and they have office. You didn't choose, you can't change it. It's just the
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by Draiken 13y ago
I think on a large corporation like Microsoft, both your cases can happen at the same time. The OP wouldn't blatantly lie and I assume you are not lying too... This huge disparity between teams are normally a sign of very big manageme
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by Draiken 13y ago
I'd say that's implicit, if code that doesn't deliver business value (refactoring, documenting, etc.) is wasted, people won't do it.
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by Draiken 13y ago
I think these are completely intentional. Additional steps made for the few that use that stuff, and hiding out the complexity for the big majority that doesn't want that. I don't think they would ever create anything without a decent reaso
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by Draiken 13y ago
After switching from any kind of desktop to xmonad (or any decent tiling window manager, I assume) I can honestly say, I've never been more productive. Hackable, easy to use, and the main thing for me is the fact that it's fast and straight
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by Draiken 13y ago
Maybe you are, but in my experience 99.9% of the contractors of those places don't pay well because they don't have to. Most of the time there is someone more desperate that lowers the bid just to get the job. If everyone paid decently that
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by Draiken 13y ago
That's a wild guess and IMHO very wrong. I get that you may not have a lot of resources, but those places normally pay badly even for 3rd world countries. Saying they're all employed it's a rationalization people make to feel less guilty. P
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by Draiken 13y ago
Ever heard of a heart surgeon that can't pay his bills? Now have you heard of a developer that couldn't pay his bills? That's why he wouldn't want his daughter to know what he does.
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by Draiken 14y ago
I agree that for you it's 3 more clicks, but for the millions of other regular users, it's less useless info on the way. People have to get that it's a product for many, not for all. You can agree with hiding emails or not, but a company as
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by Draiken 14y ago
The thing is, he didn't do all that. At least not by himself. A lot of talented people built every single one of those things, and without them, Steve Jobs wouldn't exist. As stated before, gathering those talents and driving them to make t
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by Draiken 14y ago
Not everyone has the option to leave. Very few actually have the luxury of leaving their jobs because they "don't like it". From the way you're talking, it seems like you either have a pile of money behind you, or a family with a pile of mo
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by Draiken 14y ago
Aren't we all? :D
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by Draiken 14y ago
Being an EVE player and lover, I still think this would be even more awesome with the good old knights and mages... If this gets to that, it'll be a very worthy game to play :)
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by Draiken 14y ago
There were expansions to spore? Oh boy...
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by Draiken 14y ago
That would be so awesome. :D
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by Draiken 14y ago
Exactly. The article assumes the most important thing is the company at all times. Just because there are people that are willing to give up everything for a company, it doesn't make it right for companies to expect everyone to be like them
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by Draiken 14y ago
You're still in EU... imagine us in the third world countries.
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by Draiken 14y ago
Guess this answers my question :p
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Ask HN: Do companies actually sponsor visa cards?
1 points by Draiken 14y ago|2 comments
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by Draiken 14y ago
Well, insurance in EVE does not free you up to suicide your ship. There is a saying in EVE "don't fly what you can't afford to lose at least 3 times". It is a hardcore game, for those who want it to be :) You can always just live in high-se
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by Draiken 14y ago
I agree with everything you say except for the "I simply cannot commit to one without creating a deficiency in the other". IMHO achieving excellence in both is unrealistic and VERY hard. Doable but improbable. But I really do think you can
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by Draiken 14y ago
I think that's also great, but it might happen here because we still have deadlines. To keep the deadline, the product suffers... sad but true.
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by Draiken 14y ago
> Few think designer's shouldn't code. I would love to say that is true, but I've met many designers that don't really want that crossing. Maybe it's a cultural thing, or we're still way behind here (which may very well be the case) but

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