Mikushi

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by Mikushi 9y ago
> I have a huge list of primary sources, will export and paste it here if anyone wants Definitely interested. Been thinking about making the shift but not sure where/with what to start.
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> Mobile payments haven't taken off in the west because credit cards have worked well enough Yeah but no. Come in the UK and you'll see that mobile payments are seeing widespread acceptance. I can go weeks without having to pul
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by Mikushi 9y ago
I can bootstrap consulting, can't software. On top of that consulting opens door, you get very valuable insight inside certain industries and get paid for it. Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one who is not interested in the s
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> The places with so called, work life balance. I'd rather have a real work life balance (it's not so called, it's very real) than any amount of abuse working for a US style startup would throw at me. Most of my colleague
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> All this being stated, ya'll should check out Horkheimer's essay "The Concept of Man." He wrote it in ~1952(might've been 53 or 57, I'm forgetting the exact date)--and it's crazy how prophetic that es
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> The so-called AI as pursued by Google & other tech companies isn't AI at all. True AI won't need as much data. Deepmind / AlphaGo, Watson, and other like them are about the best thing we have nowadays when it comes t
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> there appears to be absolutely no form of appeals process It's a common problem with these giants (Facebook, Google, Twitter). Being an area that does not generate profit there is not attention paid to it, or just the bare minimu
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by Mikushi 9y ago
And telling yourself that on such a small sample (200years) Captialism is a success is lying to yourself. We're already facing the hard consequences of capitalism and consumerisms, and with no real change in sight all the QOL improveme
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> What I am trying to say is that I think nowadays people live in the city for many other reasons than work. I think we both agree there. From my own limited sample I see the opposite trend as well, people who would rather live country s
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> Everyone seems to be discussing UBI and largely ignoring the fact that even if you cut everyone a check for some kind of basic income, if we don't solve some of our housing issues, you will still see growing numbers of people eit
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> can find a million articles on the internet telling me that cold showers are a good habit and another million saying hot showers are a good habit - which one is objectively right? The one that works for you? We are all different, depe
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by Mikushi 9y ago
> Last week, the company announced a slate of new ad-supported shows on YouTube, including projects with Ellen DeGeneres and Kevin Hart. Gotta support "well behaved" brands and cut the small man out of the picture. Insipid low
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by Mikushi 9y ago
Managed to find a company where the product fitted my technical knowledge, took a bit of a pay cut as well but well worth it. It's been a few months and I do not miss coding full time one bit, hell even no longer being involved deeply
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by Mikushi 9y ago
Agreed, I just moved to Product Management as I want to have the mental energy to work on my own stuff. While I was a full time Software Engineer I'd get some done but would be way to fried to get any real progress going.
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by Mikushi 9y ago
Same experience for a writer friend, convinced him he could get some following on Twitter, created an account got promptly locked and to boot the phone confirmation never came through. Also Twitter sucks, that's why it won't grow,
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by Mikushi 10y ago
I've had a bit of exposure to it (writing some HTTPS audit tool using Go\Crypto & some third party library - from CloudFlare) and I agree mostly, what struck me as a guy with 10+ years of PHP background is the speed at which I got
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by Mikushi 10y ago
I lived in big city and while I enjoy most of my time in them, most of what I got to show for is health problems related to living in a big city. I understand some people enjoy it, I for one traded a 50% pay cut for the ability to live far
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by Mikushi 10y ago
The ever elusive brand exposure. Another scam of the ad industry.
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by Mikushi 10y ago
I mean, I you weren't already doing iOS dev, why have an overpriced paperweight like a MBP?
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by Mikushi 10y ago
Is it equally bad? I didn't do TDD most of my career, product I delivered worked, where delivered on time and reached the goals set out by the business. Why bother? Because it's good practice? Hardly a valid argument in a business
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by Mikushi 10y ago
What hypocrisy? I reject both, many do. I legitimately hate most western values (I am French of German & Portuguese descent to give some context) for those reasons, hypocrisy central. When I hear the French PM talk about our values, I w
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by Mikushi 10y ago
PHP is still the best for that type of website, I've done my fair share and that is an undeniable fact. Handles load perfectly, easy maintenance, works well with Redis/Memcached/MySQL, FPM+Nginx is solid, plenty of competent
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by Mikushi 10y ago
To have worked in both (Pornhub Lead Dev a few years ago when it took off, and more recently tech architect at some ad shop), advertising is wayyy shadier and scummier than porn, no doubt. I lasted barely a year in advertising, the whole in
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by Mikushi 10y ago
Exactly, when I was Lead Dev on Pornhub, I had more than once a phonecall at 2 or 3am while out partying having to sort out problems and deploy. All streamlined, press button, deploy happens, almost null chance of fuck up and if it would, a
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by Mikushi 10y ago
More reasons to evolve your career away from coding, it's a dead end by 35, you'll just be outcompeted on so many fronts.
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by Mikushi 10y ago
Instagram or Facebook, they thrive on stolen or relinked content and monetize it day in day out. Being amazed at this kind of bad behaviour where the targets are some of the most despicable companies on the web is a bit ironic. Scrape away,
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by Mikushi 10y ago
I am thirty and I find the same. More than two weeks of heavy days and my productivity plummets until I get proper time off.
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by Mikushi 10y ago
And I think it's a myth you can't. I did so for a year and for various reasons had to jump back to the meat grinder, I never felt less alive than being back to work. It's demeaning, in all senses. You probably have the wrong
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by Mikushi 10y ago
Worse for who? I don't necessarily agree with far right arguments, but as far as I'm concerned nothing indicates that rejecting globalisation will leave us in a worst future. Globalisation has destroyed the planet along with the c
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by Mikushi 10y ago
That's actually par for the course for most VPAID stuff out there, specially the infinite looping kind.

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