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by ThalesX 4y ago
Reminds me of when I worked in Berlin for a year. The streetlamps were filled with posts of what looked like young models broken from heroin. Sexualized and dirty. They used the hashtag #heroinkids. I believe this is their current website:
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Oh man, this reminds me of four years ago when I build just such a thing for my group of friends. It was so much fun! I just went back to it and found some stories that made me so nostalgic. Thank you! I love your project! Edit: I created a
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> Sadly, I think practically there is much more quality control for programmers than there is for managers. Wholeheartedly agree; I'd also add that it's a lot harder to be a good manager than to be a good programmer. > Still
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I used to build React components with inline CSS and everyone was going mad about my lack of ability; then I did the switch to tailwindcss and now I'm a top-tier frontender (/s-ish).
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I consider winter to be a magical time of the year when as a child I used to play in the snow, hear stories about horrible winters from my grand parents, and that as an adult I feel brings some difficulties to my life. When I read something
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> And with climate change, traditional seasons aren't nearly as useful in discussion as they used to be. It's definitely a bit more useful than arbitrary subjective interpretations of said terms based on hyperlocal weather patt
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I'm not surprised at the fact that different places in the world have different weather patterns and different approaches to heating, lol. I'm surprised at the fact that winter is such a debatable topic and people base it on how t
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I'm not trying to 'get past this', I'm trying to express my disbelief at the fact that: A - Things have gotten to the point where we can't talk about a damn season without personal interpretations of it; B - This ha
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It's definitely not the easiest way to talk about it. I've used heating, in Europe, in late spring and in my cabin even in summer. Am I just living in a perpetual winter?
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Just a couple of months ago (2?) there was an article on Hacker News about the arctic vortex falling apart making for an unusually hot autumn and a very bad winter. I don’t know how it’s going to pan out but where I am from, yesterday was b
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> this Winter is warm with minimal gas burned so far I feel like I'm going crazy as this is not the first time I've seen / heard this argument. What does winter mean? I thought it was the months from December to February.
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Technology is ultimately a tool. Can you leverage it to increase the pace and amount of value creation in the field? If not, perhaps the field doesn’t have much to gain from technology. If yes, it shouldn’t be that hard.
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I am wholly amused by the fact that you write your disappointment in a comment that is consumable faster than a TikTok video. The same goes for the person replying to your comment sharing in your flabbergast.
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Relevant: Jeffrey Epstein's household manual: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21128538-gx-606
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I gave the article another read and found some advice even weirder. I'm not going to go through all of it, but this bit stood out to me. > I’ve found it really valuable to start out conversations about compensation / promotions
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> I don't read the article like that: it's not a list of (all) things your manager doesn't know, it's a list of (some) things your manager might not know. I have a feeling this is the same core truth, but worded diffe
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tl;dr; do your manager's job also because they don't have a clue and it's up to you to clue them in. There's also a pretty conclusion where if you suck up and do your manager's job, you get the superpower of being a
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Is that goal for next week? Two weeks? My argument was that three months is too little for any sort of company strategy. We’re talking about a financial quarter. You don’t even have the time to measure your decisions.
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Who said anything about detailed planning? You’re throwing this in and then using it as a lever to push an engineering led approach. There is no such argument in this thread. There is however the argument of whether companies should look ah
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> Just look back 3 month and assess how many of the things that happened were predictable (keeping in mind the fact that hindsight is 20/20). The company I work for hasn’t changed a single procedure or milestone. Neither have my cli
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Let’s assume you have a strategy for the next 3 months. You identified / endivisioned a need in the market and came up with a reasonable solution; you locked in the budget, you allocated the resources. How many times are you going to c
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Three months!? Is this the stability we expect from companies in our day and age? I would think it's a lost company, one that couldn't somewhat predict what the next three months are going to look like.
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They're talking about the commission, not the parliament.
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> VR, moreso than other platforms, will require great design, artistry, music. VRChat has some amazing experiences. In a way, it's a lot closer to being a Metaverse than Meta.
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I have a Quest 2 for a year now and keep trying from time to time to download the app to experience it. It's not available in my region. If that's not pure metaverse irony, I'm not sure what is.
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> without Russia any of these goals are senseless This is an absurd take... Russia emits 4.65% of world output and has been decreasing last year the most out of the top 10 [0]. Could you base your arguments? I'd like to understand w
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In my neck of the woods, "line" managers have a vested interest in growing their team sizes and taking more and more budget to increase their personal valuation.
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I have this feeling of polluting the thread. Like if I'm interested enough to start a discussion about a topic, or the person replying to my post is, maybe this thread format is not the best way to go about it. Sometimes I even go and
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You'd think the largest tracking machine humanity has ever built would be able to tell whether their 'underwear'-clad engineers are implementing the assigned tasks as expected.
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I wish I'd see advice where they prioritize having a roadmap, milestones, an actual plan of execution, after Product Market Fit (PMF) has been found. And before you find PMF, any concern for hiring the 'best engineers', build

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