VonBlue

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by VonBlue 4y ago
I describe this as, “I don’t want to have to think.”
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by VonBlue 5y ago
Same here! I am generally not interested in shiny new tech. After I had the experience of a v1 TomTom runner watch, I decided I don’t want a v1 of anything anymore. Also new tech makes me too worried about breaking it or losing it or having
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by VonBlue 5y ago
“I make lifestyle choices that do not involve a screen outside of work hours.” This is my line for the past 13 years to apologetically explain why I do not write code in my personal time. Why do people still rely on this as an indicator of
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by VonBlue 5y ago
> just because someone is paying for your room that shouldn't make it impossible for you to say "No" to them. This is incredibly difficult to do, especially when you are young. First, having the help and the time of someon
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by VonBlue 6y ago
An asymmetrical relationship with a faceless platform is terrifying. I remember asking Facebook support to update my secondary email. My first one was an old college one that I no longer had access to, but my second one kept coming up as “a
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by VonBlue 6y ago
When I was in my AP Calc class in high school, the teacher began by explaining what a derivative was. He drew a picture with a curve, drew a line across two points on that curve, and explained that the derivative is the slope of that line a
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by VonBlue 6y ago
I don’t think it’s outrageous to hope that company interests would be the prime goal of someone in a high-level position. Self-interest being the goal is what I find problematic.
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by VonBlue 6y ago
I’m surprised I did not see a discussion of whether such behavior can be considered unethical. In my own simplified view, there is a dishonesty in the behavior described. Building strategies in pursuit of self-interest rather than developin
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by VonBlue 6y ago
Does this integrate with something like OneNote? Because this would still be only half my notes. If I can keep my hand-written ones and the ones I type when I work, for example, NOW we’re talking.
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by VonBlue 6y ago
Until there isn’t
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by VonBlue 6y ago
Hold on... how could they have de-anonymized the blockchain transactions? That seems.. false