EddieDante

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by EddieDante 4y ago
Good.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I think this is a good thing. The more tightly coupled with GNOME Wayland becomes, the more useless it will be for everybody else. X11 will remain relevant and useful for everybody who thinks the GNOME environment is crap.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
This is bullshit, and you shouldn't tolerate it. But use it to pad your resume and get the promotion you've earned at another company -- and get a raise in the process. And in your exit interview, tell them you were being exploite
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Competition doesn't motivate me, and if I want to feel like I'm "achieving something" I can go lift weights.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I'm the insufferable coworker. I do it on purpose so that people leave me alone and let me work .
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by EddieDante 4y ago
> There's no serendipitous learning: few random exchanges, little chance to see someome beaming & hear them brag/explain, rarely chance to see someone struggling & have somone step in. That shit never happened to me whe
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Gamification doesn't improve bullshit jobs. It just adds more bullshit.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
This is the first time I had heard of tontines. Thanks.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I have all of the business acumen of a turnip, and the social skills of a Dalek with a hangover. Besides, 1099 contracts are close enough for my liking.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
There's no such thing as social good. There is only individual good, and what is good for one individual might prove inimical to the interests of others.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
> for people in creative/tech professions where fun stuff / offsites / happy hours were the norm? I was one of those people, and I declined every invitation to mandatory fun, offsites, and happy hours. I was there to work
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Peggy Noonan has failed to justify the continued existence of "office culture" and "national culture". As somebody else mentioned, I work for a living. I am not there to make friends. I am there to make money. I am not t
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Go read The Unincorporated Man . This isn't a novel idea; it was explored in a novel published in 2009.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I've never had a social media account unless Reddit and HN count, and I don't ever regret not joining.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I am quite pleased. People are getting the future they deserve, and they're getting it good and hard. The wage of obedience is death.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
GP should be grateful we didn't get stuck with Multics, ITS, or TOPS20 instead.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Mark Cuckerberg wants this shit.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Centrist pragmatism is part of how we got into this mess in the first place, trying to find a "third way" when one side is slowly descending into outright authoritarianism.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
We don't need a centrist party. We need the Greens and the Libertarians to get their shit together and build effective local and state machines capable of winning elections so that they can then take on the task of driving Democrats
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by EddieDante 4y ago
archive at https://archive.ph/qpPpd , because democracy dies behind paywalls
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by EddieDante 4y ago
The well is poisoned. Fuck social media. If you don't have your own website with a RSS feed you don't belong on the internet.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Whether you care what I think is your problem, not mine.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I don't learn for the sake of learning. I learn what I need to get paid, and ignore the rest. I didn't give a fuck about React one way or another until I got staffed on a project that used it. Now that I know React, I loathe it. I
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I never wanted Instagram in the first place. Instagram is for the aliterate and image-conscious.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
If men are trash, their mothers, sisters, aunts, girlfriends, wives, and grandmothers helped make them that way.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
I've been trying to figure this out myself, because as you pointed out Google is worse than useless.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
TL;DR: It seems like they want to feel like they're doing something meaningful rather than merely making rich assholes even richer while collecting a fairly generous paycheck themselves.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
You can try to influence others' perception of you, but that's ultimately beyond your control.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
Well, they still need their own website . I'm only a little surprised that Sony Music hasn't impressed upon them the importance of having one or set one up for them.
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by EddieDante 4y ago
This pleases me.

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