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by LaGrange 7y ago
It's just generally taking a reasonable stand ("I don't want to spend my time on Nvidia, especially not for free") into an unreasonable one ("Users who have Nvidia are bad and should be bullied").
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by LaGrange 7y ago
"--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" --ill-pass.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> I understand your point but I wonder if working with people who you would socialize with even outside of work makes work more enjoyable? Not really. Who I like to work with and who I like to socialize doesn't necessarily match up.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> But I never see anyone anymore, and that's starting to wear on me. Work is not a replacement for a social life, and there are more ways to develop one now than ever. And, the social load from people who do their social life at wor
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by LaGrange 7y ago
I'll go further: it's very common for abusive people to intentionally misappropriate the vocabulary of people they abuse. This ranges from "telling me to clean up after myself is a microagression" to "we're goi
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by LaGrange 7y ago
From that messed up email from support that leaked them. Or I assumed that you'll have a big cross-section with some other site that leaked. This is not theory, this is hard-earned experience. Locking-out people is bad, the most that&#
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> It enriches everyone This is untrue. It might appear obvious that it does, because in the first instance, everyone can take and use it however they want. But as soon as anyone relicenses the work, everyone else loses out. There are als
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> By the account. 3 failed login attempts in a row, and you disallow further logins for 30 seconds. ...congratulations, I just locked out all of your users. Have a nice day.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> surely a web developer isn't supposed to know latency figures ...that's a terrible example, 2007 link nothwithstanding. Nobody cares about AWS unless they use it (and many don't, either because they use something else,
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Jesus, you're describing a hellscape, as far as I'm concerned. A noisy place where people can interrupt me whenever, where no work ends up documented because you can just "look at this," and people are motivated by the b
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by LaGrange 7y ago
"and to also have your employees afford to live downtown too ('so people aren't forced into long commutes')" ...it also has to be in the countryside at the same time, because so many people find it exhausting to liv
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> This can be equalized by having a perk or bonus on reporting phishing attacks to IT. ...there is no way you can equalise "you're going to lose your job" with anything less than "we're going to give you enough m
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...and now we see why such policies are bad, and it's even covered in the article: while people falling for phishing are bad, what's even worse is when they fall for it and don't report. Creating a culture where the security
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Scrum is badly misunderstood and maybe that's a failing in and of itself but it's really a victim of the developers who sold it as a magical process. Even if so, that would be in itself a failure of Scrum. A process that work
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by LaGrange 7y ago
"GDPR has made it so that only large multinationals can steal your personal data :["
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Frankly, I think higher fines and more aggressive fining would even further deepen the business moat that mega businesses are already developing over small and medium. You can always charge small companies more than the big ones. Also:
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by LaGrange 7y ago
..Amazon not doing due diligence ain't a GDPR problem. The only problem is that those two values are way too low: * €55,955,871 in fines * €50 million of which was a single fine on Google Those are a joke. Considering what's going
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by LaGrange 7y ago
They definitely do in Amsterdam, and in London that might be different purely because y'all have an even bigger mess on other fronts, somehow.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Be a traveler, not a tourist! The way you describe "traveling" is actually tourism, just long-form. Read a book if you need to "expand your horizon," or I don't know, follow someone on Twitter. Like, do you thi
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Which part do you oppose the most? The one where you lift property prices so high that nobody can live in the city centres anymore.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> except for privacy-minded users ...that's like saying "high standards of medicine are bad except for hygiene-minded users." The fact that the user has other concerns in their life doesn't change the fact that it&#x2
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...except it actually took effort to make it that bad. Plain HTML without any styling whatsoever would be more readable. Someone _thought this was an improvement_.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are. Yup, that's exactly what I'm saying. There might be overriding
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Plot twist: X factor was known but dismissed by management. Management knows this and knows how to read between lines. Your career hit a brick wall and you didn't even get to openly snub the management.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> European cities are far more walkable and accessible without a car. A really weird experience I had while visiting CA (SSF specifically) was seeing a fast food place - I think it was Wendy's? - that wasn't reachable by foot
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> How does a forum mostly made of software engineers hate opt-out telemetry so much? Software engineers, not cops and marketing specialists. Seriously, I know that might sometimes make our work harder, but the answer to many of those que
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> Also, “environment friendly“ is yet something different. Using bare steel and reusing rockets, as Musk does, will help there, but this design also seems to be reusable. ...also, burning pretty much anything at high temperatures in our
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Those are not at all better. They're mixed materials. Much harder to "recycle," in practice even if collected, usually just burned.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
...unfair as Apple's rates may or may not be, it's a bit rich coming from Spotify.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> smoothness in their flows ...what? > continuous saving No problem. > and all those nicely choreographed state transitions Learn to say "no." It works wonders whenever people tell you that your aircraft has to go under w

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