Dylanlacey

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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
And since this is likely to get some downvotes, I will tl;dr: It's VERY provable that an Etsy seller is stealing material and selling her own goods. Then taunting the original artist. When hundreds of complaints are made, Etsy ignores the
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Etsy store rips off artist. Regretsy proves. Etsy twiddles thumbs, drinks tea(regretsy.com)
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
To be fair, I'm assuming that the percentage of terrible developers is constant, it's just that A: You're hiring more of them, and B: More people are being terrible web developers rather then terrible desktop application developers.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
As long as they've not been SO successful, that consumers now consider "App Store" to be "The thing you get stuff for your phone from" where phone could be WinMo or Android or Symbian.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Sorry, but claiming to reject "Objectionable" material that they classify themselves opened them up to a "political" issue. While I find this app sad, I don't have any issue with it being there... Except when compared to some of the apps th
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
See, that's the first thing that occurred to me. Why can't you use an emulator OR an older iPad for development for a couple of weeks?
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
That shits me SO much, because of how any similar "Women are incompetent" jokes are vilified. Is it blanket OK or blanket not OK? You can't argue that it's OK for one sex to insult another, but not the reverse, it just doesn't work that w
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
That is quite unusual, but not for geek relationships, for MANY relationships. There seem to be a non-insignificant amount of people who accept their partner making decisions for them, regardless of their wishes.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
"${Partner} said no" is also more acceptable then "Decided I shouldn't have bought it, don't judge me".
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
The "Rationalization" variant: "I have a professional obligation to stay up-to-date / Wouldn't want to embarrass my friends / Need to support my favorite designer.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Exactly. Doing nothing because "It won't help" is tacit acceptance. Only by slowly wearing away at the behavior can you change it, but you still need to try.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
"It's Complicated" == "I don't want to bother explaining/thinking about it"
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Unfortunately many people DO care. They care to push you back down. No-one likes the deep guilt of watching someone make something better of themselves, and some people reconcile that by trying to make you fail.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
You can only do this once you've got enough people with sufficient of both. Having a company full of people with "Can-Do" attitude who can't do will lead to one of two things: A: They all get frustrated and leave B: Your technical compan
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Maybe you need a metaphor for him, based in finance "At the moment, we're a credit union who only does banking in Japan. We'll expand to loans in English one day. You send us an English speaking loan dilligence expert. He's VERY talented
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Although this is a kinda clever solution, part of the problem's premise is false. Subtitles, directors commentary, alternate languages and the like aren't magical DVD only features. There's no technical reason that streaming solutions ca
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Side-thread: This 'extra commitments' idea shits me in SO many ways. It's trotted out to explain why people who are older earn more when they have the same experience. It's why our student allowance in Australia is ridiculously low but our
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
But this is a business truism, really. Never EVER build a business based on another who is in a power to revoke it, unless you can make a TON of money in a short amount of time.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
While none of this is surprising, they out an interesting twist on it when they say “...place additional pressure on physical bookstores...". Wait, so now they CARE about physical bookstores? No, wait, they want to have their cake and eat
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Honestly, I'm on the other side of the fence. I've found that good programming shops are a bit offensive and a bit agro when discussing code, and it leaks playfully out into regular relations. It needs to be offensive, but not about the p
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
But unfortunately points of view aren't innocent things that everyone is entitled to. They can cause SERIOUS damage to the lives of other people. If I have a point of view that binder clips should be made illegal because they're hideous, a
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
I wonder if the asker was deliberatly trying to avoid saying "For free", while still wanting to not do anything at any cost. They might already know they're being unreasonable, and are just hoping to avoid having to think about or admit it.
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Apparently craftsmanship means making products that are pretty and clever, well made and totally useless. I get it, you're using a journal metaphor because we're wandering medieval craftsmen, exchanging bits for broth. But really, it's imp
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And those people were probably steam-rolled over by a group of 'experts' who decided that 'very few' people would care about this, because, y'know, it's social? And everyone likes social?
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Why not just ask what you want, then? If you're leaving somewhere, there's probably a good chance it's about money. Even if it's not, the only reason to ask in this fashion is because every now and then you get someone who low balls thems
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Yes, OK, Bluster is probably a better word. You pretend to be comfortable until you are. Basically, you're not going to suddenly become great as a CEO, but if you don't at least give off SOME confidence, your employees, partners, board, co
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
I dislike Gruber. I dislike him because I don't think his content is worthwhile. I dislike him because I find his content INCREDIBLY biased. I dislike him because he applies fanboyism and tries to pass it off as objective criticism. And
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
I have had people get offended, but you don't want to work for them. I have had a recruiter just get totally confused when I wouldn't tell him. He refused to take no for an answer until I said I was walking out. The same recruiter then tr
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
It's not a mind game. It's a simple truth. It is totally irrelevant. Asking is it's own mind game, because they're not asking in good faith, they're asking so they can bully you into accepting a lesser offer. They either don't know what
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by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Heh, amazing isn't it? Bullshit has a single purpose, and that's to turn itself into gold.

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