Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'd add decent search (looking at you, Reddit) and the ability to easily share and discuss MULTIPLE articles/resources/etc at once as a single topic.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm a bit younger than you (I was in my mid 20s during this time) and I would agree that about then is when I started to be like 'wait a minute'. I'd had small crises of optimism in the 90s and 00s as a kid where things
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by Mezzie 4y ago
You don't have to code for a living. I can code and have been doing so about as long as you (albeit less seriously), but I came to the conclusion that for me coding is like fiction writing: I am really, really good at it, but coding is
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Thanks for the reply! This was helpful. I'm glad that you were able to get the diagnosis and treatment you needed. And yes, very concerned about giving her any stimulants/mania inducing things. I'm glad to hear that Wellbutri
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Quick questions, apologies if they're too sensitive: - Regarding your co-morbidity, how did you know/decide to seek ADHD treatment and diagnosis? Was it before or after your bipolar diagnosis? - Was there any concern about med int
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And related to this, don't get discouraged if it ISN'T ADHD and medication for it doesn't help. I thought I had ADHD and was frustrated as to why medication made it worse until I discovered I actually have PTSD + crippling an
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by Mezzie 4y ago
In addition to what others have mentioned, using elements for their stated/official purpose helps with accessibility. Yes, you can use the role attribute, but some accessibility technology works more completely if you use proper elemen
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I wonder if this could be done as a collab with another class, because I agree with this: "It would be nice to have recent grads respond to that environment with something other than a sneer towards the "non-technical" folks&
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I do this. I have a handle I've been using for 20+ years (not this one and nothing on HN) and I lie about stupid shit rather frequently. I also also create one-off usernames in addition to my 'permanent' name. That way ever
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by Mezzie 4y ago
More traditionally, at least a couple of formal logic classes. Nothing drilled into me the fundamental that the logic gate system is IN AND OF ITSELF an abstraction quite like the class where we constructed a formal language. (Which did not
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I stand corrected! Thanks.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And the people who ARE interested in those get less far because we don't have as many shiny things to show off to HR to get an interview in the first place.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
That is definitely a good way to do it if you're going to go solo, but once you grow enough/depending on the product and market and who your competitors are, you absolutely CANNOT wait a week to respond to people/make sales p
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The main problem is that anyone who can do both is highly incentivized to go into engineering/coding instead of product design. The pay and respect are usually much better. So then that pool is limited further to people who can design
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The main problem with doing it all yourself is the time sink/cost eventually becomes an issue, especially since in my experience communications/marketing/sales and programming/technical work tend to involve exactly oppos
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The US is pretty strict about it, legally speaking. If I recall correctly, the reason I couldn't get a debit card for my bank account as a 14/15 year old without giving a guardian access to my account is that issuing a debit car
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's possible that when they signed up/created the account, it wasn't required. Paypal was founded before there were any laws about age for signing up for things online, and minors are legally allowed bank accounts that their
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Point 2 is interesting, because one of the reason that foreign-manufactured TVs came to prominence is because they were cheap enough + reliable enough that TVs could functionally be a disposable good. Another is that right during the late 8
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by Mezzie 4y ago
But they are less than the points for playing dirty and not getting caught are. Then you reap both the rewards of the sketchy behavior and the perception of moral behavior. So the logical thing to do is dump resources into keeping yours
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'd consider them slightly different. "Hellsite" is a pretty common epithet for sites that are the brain version of cotton candy or Taco Bell: Very few people are under the impression that Tumblr or (to show my age) Fanfictio
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's darkly amusing to me how many well off leftie progressive types are on board when I talk about difficulties that revolve around being a lesbian or disabled but look horrified when I drop into working class speech patterns or refus
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Because they knew that it would be too powerful, too ahead of its time. We all would have wept at the beauty and been unable to continue on in our meagre existences if Bob v2 came into being.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
For the record, I think CF and everybody else are well within their rights to drop KF, and the place is a cesspit. I'm very firmly 'Team Nobody' here. And I'm sure that there are other queer people who've been onlin
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It also actively undermines other people's ability to parent. My parents made the active parenting decision to expose us to things and stress the value of information. We never had our media/internet consumption censored (hell, I
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by Mezzie 4y ago
That was so fucking weird. I still remember watching AS's videos and being confused as to how something so bland pissed off that many people.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> Neither thought process was particularly healthy, but the witch-hunting mentality of contemporary online discourse is bound to end at some point. Give it 10 years. Twitter will be the new Facebook. Only for old, uncool people. I'm
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I understand. I'm growing my hair out and have started painted my nails and wearing dresses again, and the binders have gone back in a box. (I'm not trans but I like male clothing). Likewise, I WANT to be out, especially since a l
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> I do find it distressing how the worst examples of my group are held up as typical of us, though. I agree! Which is why I made the point about straight men also being gross and my point that people should be leery because we (queer peo
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yeah, this basically. Trans people weren't a substantial portion of queer spaces until the mid to late 2010s, and I'm talking about the 90s and early-mid 00s. There was also more of a focus on passing/not talking about it + i
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Girls are mostly preyed on when they're younger than 20- and mostly when they're in middle and high school. At the time, out trans women were rare enough that no, none of the people who tried to prey on me identified as such. I ha

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