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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
"Local-First software." Isn't that just a desktop application that syncs?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Where do you find these jobs? And are they only available at Universities? I'd be happy to take the pay cut to work on something that contributes more to society than getting people to click on ads, but not at a college or university.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
here's a secret: these things aren't constant. Everybody has been a 10x engineer for at least one day in their career. Everybody has also been a -10x engineer for at least one day in their career. Most of us spend our time sliding
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I'd settle for a number that wasn't previously used. I've had my current number for 8 years and the caller id still shows the previous owner. I still get all manner of calls for the previous owner too, everything from local p
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I have been procrastinating on finding a new job for about a month now. I am seriously questioning whether I want another web development job. I'm almost 40 and the web space stopped being interesting for me about 8 years ago. I suspec
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Portable 3D printer gets even smaller, faster, better(hackaday.com)
5 points by PainfullyNormal 4y ago|0 comments
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> Being able to attract workers is definitely difficult though, as we cannot pay what the big guys around here can. Maybe visibility is an issue, too? I like boring work for a decent (not excessive, stable) wage. But finding these compan
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Can you elaborate on that? I'm a bit young to have done desktop development in 1998. What aspects of it do you miss?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
A debugger like RemedyBG, but for linux and macos. Bonus points if you could use it for all the things, including but not limited to: WASM, javascript, android, and iOS. To clarify: I use Vim as a text editor. I use it for all of my program
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Home in the summer. For me, that's a particular chunk of New York State that's full of lush greenery, strong winds and particularly severe rain and thunderstorms. There's nothing quite like standing barefoot in the grass whil
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
After a good night's sleep, your blood pressure also goes down. I've been monitoring my blood pressure for a few months and I've noticed that my tinnitus gets better or worse depending on how high my blood pressure is.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Adam Savage went on a rant about 2 weeks ago about this very thing. He was trying to find a large format laser printer and the typical "best laser printers of 2022" blogspam were all filled with inkjet printers. https:/&#x2F
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> I recommend people spend a bit of time to read an(y) introduction to linguistics textbook Do you have a favorite you can recommend?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Does that keep the list up to date? I use the things widget on my phone's home screen. It doesn't update unless I tap it, which makes it pretty useless. I just open the app (when I remember to).
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> "Maybe Diablo 2 difficulty and savageness belong to another era." The popularity of the dark souls series would indicate otherwise. I feel the invisible hand of upper management here, using words like "casual" and &
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> Ruby is in an interesting phase approaching niche status with correspondingly high rates. native iOS in objective-c is getting there too, I think. I see a lot of job listings for it with surprisingly high rates considering everybody is
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
What you're talking about is social proof and while it's definitely a thing, it's not as precise as "you get this title once and you're a made man". For example, I know a few people that were forced to do what
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How to handle one million transactions per second on a single CPU core(medium.com)
19 points by PainfullyNormal 4y ago|1 comments
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The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal(joshwcomeau.com)
37 points by PainfullyNormal 4y ago|20 comments
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JavaScript Garbage Collection with WebAssembly Is Possible Today(jott.live)
104 points by PainfullyNormal 4y ago|26 comments