EddieDante

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by EddieDante 4y ago
> And you didn’t answer the question - is there any amount of money you could be offered to work at Twitter? I'd do it for $1024/hour on a 1099 contract with guaranteed time and a half for overtime. As for the question in the h
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by EddieDante 4y ago
> "Good" means you didn't think about your answer... Bullshit. I gave my answer plenty of thought, and came to the conclusion that, "Mind your own business. Let's focus on work." would be counterproductive.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." --Barry Goldwater
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by EddieDante 4y ago
That's dang's decision, and he is welcome to act accordingly. Until then I will speak from the heart; I honestly believe that women, LGBTQ people, non-white people, non-Christians, and neurodiverse people should arm themselves, le
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I called out schools and employers because of the inherent power imbalance. Students are compelled by law to go to school. Workers are generally compelled by necessity to work for somebody ; you aren't free when the invisible hand of
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Turn off the electronics. Read books on paper. Write in a notebook with a pen.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Good. What a student says outside of school ought to be none of the school's business. Likewise, what an adult says outside the workplace ought to be none of their employer's business unless they have explicitly identified themsel
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by EddieDante 4y ago
She should have brought a gun, and forced this asshole to put aside his self-righteousness and do the job for which he was being paid on pain of death. Give these fucking Christians who mistake mockery for persecution something to cry about
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Zoom with video on isn't face to face. Neither is a conference call. Face to face only makes sense when everybody is working in the same location, not when they're scattered across the width of a continent, and to me face to face
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Being a developer, I have yet to attend a status meeting that couldn't have been handled over email.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Likewise, if family farms, businesses, and trades were still viable corporations would have to pay more to lure people into working for them.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
It works for the ruling class. That it doesn't work for the ruled is of no concern to your masters.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I'd be happy to do the honors. I'll just drag JS out back and give it the Old Yeller treatment.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I knew that star looked tasty for a reason.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/150/ Obligatory C. S. Lewis: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." What the olds don't
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by EddieDante 4y ago
> We don't have to be too grateful. I'm not grateful at all.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I'm not quietly quit ting . I quietly quit in middle school. All I ever wanted was to hide in my room, smoke cannabis, and listen to heavy metal while reading 70s New Wave sf. Unfortunately, those turned out to be rather expensive tast
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I only majored in CS because I had to major in something unless I wanted to drop out of college and join the Army. I'm not passionate about it; it just pays reasonably well because somebody has to make boring-ass CRUD applications.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
> Idk its in the JS ecosystem so HN will probably hate it lol. Not my style, but it's your site so do it your way.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
tdarb has a nice one called pblog ( https://pblog.xyz ). It uses pandoc, xsltproc, a shell script, and a makefile. It's barely a SSG at all.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
There's also IndieWeb, but I decided it wasn't my time because I wanted my own website, not a web application that pretended to be a website.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Well, I'm going to keep on being outdated. I've got posts and a RSS feed. If you insist on a mailing list then I'm pleased to disappoint you.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
That's not how bidets have ever worked.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
It's not the metaverse unless I can ride supersonic motorcycles while slicing through giant talking penises with my katana.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Might be handy for those Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on iOS, and FF Tactics: The War of the Lions , too...
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by EddieDante 4y ago
If she doesn't trust me enough to fart in front of me, she probably doesn't trust me enough to fuck, either.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Strunk & White's The Elements of Style is a classic.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
If I wanted to talk to customers I'd still be working in retail.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Why is this barbarian still using paper to smear his shit around his asshole instead of installing a bidet and washing up after he shits?
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I always give the worst possible rating I can give on these surveys. If somebody asks me why, I'm going to say, "Why? Because fuck you is why."

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