MrPatan

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by MrPatan 5y ago
Because they didn't buy. And because they're very smart, there must have been a reason why they didn't buy, so they find one. So next time, next opportunity, they can't buy, or they would have been Wrong about it befor
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by MrPatan 5y ago
If you fail on your bid for power in an NGO the chance of you being disappeared is very low.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Do they sell you bags?
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Meat was a thing before government subsidies were a thing. Or before governments were a thing. Before most things were a thing, really.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
The fuss is about the "Facebook" bit, not the "smart glasses" bit. I want smart glasses that are mine, not Mark's.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
I use firefox as my daily. For several reasons I've started to also use Brave and Edge. And I am quite happy with them, I have to report! And I use Chrome to keep it logged in to my gmail only there, I'm logged out of Google (wi
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by MrPatan 5y ago
If spyware concerns keep you from Lenovo and you then consider Huawei.... I don't know, man.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Enterprises do try all the time to replace devs with "no-code", or "config" solutions, automation, interop, or the flavor of the day. Many times the initiative comes from architects such as yourself. I've never seen
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Do you know what I want? After a few years of WFH, somebody should do a study looking again for the "height salary premium". See if taller people still get paid more.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
This will only be a thing for a while. Why pay somebody's grandchildren when you can create a new face that's yours?
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Wars are won with absolute resources, not per capita resources
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Causation typically goes forward in time
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by MrPatan 5y ago
A refreshing change of pace to twitter journalists demanding the removal of anybody else's content
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by MrPatan 5y ago
There is indeed, but careful with words. "Experience" meaning "practice" is the only thing that will make you competent. "Experience" meaning "time passed while on payroll at an org" is not. One is
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Saying "Calories In Calories Out" is what makes you fat is as interesting as saying "Money In Money Out" is what makes you poor. It's tautologically true but doesn't help anybody.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
I'll let someone else reap the 15% extra productivity or w/e office working adds. Knock yourselves out. For me there's no turning back. The cat is out of the barn and the horse out of the bag. That ship has sailed and it hit
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by MrPatan 5y ago
So it was always better to not separate the plastic for recycling, just send it to the dump.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
I think they are already. I don't see a file with code as linear text but as a shape. And several files are the other dimension. And I think not everybody is like this, though! I think there's a difference between "visual
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Ooh, and I got an optical illusion for free. After staring at the spiral for a bit the text then seemed to want to spin as well.
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by MrPatan 5y ago
Why wouldn't the expiring bidenbucks be spent on Doge?
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by MrPatan 6y ago
The medium is the message. Look, if you and I are talking about the population of Birmingham, but instead of speaking normally you are signing your comments to the tune of "Never gonna give you up", I'm not going to reply to
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by MrPatan 6y ago
> 02010 > 02019 I have no idea what your point is, because I got stuck every time at "why write years like that?". It even looks like a postcode, in a sentence about city populations and areas.
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by MrPatan 6y ago
I've seen a few comments along the lines of "the best workers will go if they see union people treated like that". I find that hard to believe, but fortunately there's a way to test that! Just start your own companies a
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by MrPatan 6y ago
Parent didn't say it was harder to use from JS. Parent said "It had to be replaced with JSON by the web developers though, so they could just “eval() it” to get their data." First of all, I was there 20 years ago. I had to
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by MrPatan 6y ago
If all the smart people like you used XML, how come it was so painful to use and it died?
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by MrPatan 6y ago
How much can 2 Clojure developers do together? Is it more or less than what one can do alone?
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by MrPatan 6y ago
For the money
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by MrPatan 6y ago
AFAIK the author is just one guy. I'm sure he's the best guy there is, but if tomorrow morning he finds his favorite horse's head in his bed, I wouldn't fault him for including some tiny little script in it, you know, p
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by MrPatan 6y ago
I've stopped using extensions altoghether. And I used quite a few back in the day, even made a couple myself. "Hesitant" doesn't convey the level of fear everyone should feel after reading "Has acess to: All data o
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by MrPatan 6y ago
I'm not sure I need to engage my imagination very far. Why do you think that's not exactly what happens?

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