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by ThalesX 4y ago
Half Life 2 for me too. Being in Eastern Europe, that also marked the moment I sort of stopped pirating games.
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by ThalesX 4y ago
One of the best time / insights book I've ever read, as a product builder, is The Mom Test. I think the audio version is like three hours, and it's a good read | listen in my opinion: https://www.momtestbook.com
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Interesting read for anyone that might be interested: 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ukraine BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-...
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> Much of which serves mostly to create corporate careers for developers than to actually serve users. I'm a developer that's done with this, but it brings in VC money so in my experience it serves mostly to create opportunitie
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My reasons are usually related to processes or the rate of growth for me as a person within the company. I can work just fine with jerks by aligning on the process for collaboration. What I can't work fine with, is a place that disrega
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I've had a melancholic moment traveling in a bus on the narrow roads in Nepal, and seeing some rock faces, just realizing that while the rocks will be there long after I am gone, I will never set my eyes on the same rock face again. So
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> Not wanted operations can happen, but they ultimately boil down to human error. This made me think. Is a cosmic ray human error because we were unable to prevent it damaging the system?
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This reminds me of college where we had to design a game and prototype it with pen and paper; it was a great and fun experiment with comfy results and we nailed down the menus, gameplay and level design before any of us touching the keyboar
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by ThalesX 4y ago
This reminds me of some fun times. I was super excited for the European Chips Act and when I got the ‘teaser’ video from my friend I just chuckled: https://youtu.be/NuGzt-MK-Fk Basically sums up EU tech scene. Not even cari
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Being such succesful products, all of these taken together probably generate sufficient income to cover Google's Ad business...
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Like higher quality / cheaper prices wouldn't spread by word of mouth... if anything advertising behemots are keeping actually improved products out of the spotlight by selling us whatever pays most in advertising costs, regardles
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by ThalesX 4y ago
My dad ran for mayor in a small town. The opposition kept flagging our (I was a sort of campaign manager) posts as being nazi propaganda (hint: it wasn’t). They did this until my dad’s account got banned. There was no way I could recover hi
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I’ve helped build an EMS that got deployed to 3 countries. This was early in my career. It’s been downhill from there, in terms of fulfillment and uphill in terms of money. This makes me profoundly dislike my choices. I keep lying to myself
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Thanks for this! You are right. I’ll update my posts and perhaps this also answers my question of why I am downvoted! I’m using SSE indeed.
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Clients connect to server, connection kept open and server push the base64 data to all connected clients.
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Not all that complicated, I have some places on the interwebz where my kind of NSFW content is posted so I scrape those and maintain an SQLite database of direct urls. Over that database I have a tiny Koa server that checks if URL is still
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by ThalesX 4y ago
How is this different than the worries of traditional systems?
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Huh, I just moved my NSFW scraper to serve me content through HTTP2 server push. Guess it’s back to the drawing board. [le: curious about the downvotes (-3), for anyone willing to shed some light] (le2: turns out I’m using Server Side Event
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Awhile ago the company I used to work for used a local service that does 2 pieces of content per week for you for lime 50€ / month. Quality was shit but it did get us views and paying customers.
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by ThalesX 4y ago
Whenever I start a greenfield frontend for someone they think I’m horrible in the first iteration. I tend to use style attributes and just shove CSS in there, and once I have enough things of a certain type I extract a class. They all love
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by ThalesX 4y ago
> Here in France, if I ask for something during the interview process with the recruiter, I will get a response like this: "Sorry we don't do that in our process, so goodbye" and they move to the next candidate while I&#x2
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> Hey Cortana, define confirmation bias. You say you have to disable ads manually and then go on saying "I don't see this ad riddled Windows". Are you being serious? Please re-read my argument. I expect more from this comm
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by ThalesX 4y ago
I am so confused when people say this. Microsoft Windows Professional allows you to configure any such things. I have almost all telemetry off, all permissions off, all notifications off, all ads off. I don't see this ad riddled Window
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by ThalesX 4y ago
People are free to do whatever they want of course. As a consumer (and investor having lost a significant amount on Beyond Meat), I think this is a pretty bad differentiator as the product always going to be compared to meat instead of bein
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by ThalesX 4y ago
As a meat eater, I love mushrooms and I think they are so much better as a healthy food than those weird Beyond meats. I also love vegan patties made with various kind of nuts, beans and veggies. I don’t get this appeal of turning goos and
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> Why is this inherently bad? Growth and velocity can be beneficial for users. It's not inherently bad, but if you have velocity and growth build on shoddy foundations, that's not velocity and growth. That's speculation. &
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I 'love' velocity in the wrong direction, so easy to be fooled that progress is being made until you end up with a mess on your hands.
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> The only responsibility for the IC would be stand ups with their manager to discuss progress and agree to future timelines. The ICs wouldn't have to go to any other Agile meetings or write any business/project planning docs.
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<Rant> Is there any place in the world for a developer passionate about creating value for users and less so for fighting leadership-made fires (velocity! faster! quicker!)? I don't care to debate endlessly about velocity and pro
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> I don't know of any technology that can project an image into the sky like that, and then there is the radar signatures seen on some of these things. Here’s a cool little read, from 2015. “Plasma Fairies: Femtosecond Laser Hologra

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