Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Kurt Vonnegut, it seems, saw this coming 60 years ago.
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Apple isn't perfect, I'll admit that all day long. But, frankly, the "absurd prices" argument just doesn't hold water to me. I paid almost $3000 for the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on--eight years ago. Meanw
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We have GOT to stop confusing the messenger with the message.
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I love DigitalOcean and would prefer to build my new project on their platform. Unfortunately, the one and only thing that is keeping me from doing so is their support. It's great, don't get me wrong. Whenever I've contact
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I’ve not used Twitter in years and don’t know what the appeal was when I did. “Audience” is specious to me considering the number of bots. Still, it’s an echo chamber regardless of which side you’re on. So, yeah; I think we would all do wel
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They figured that little “Breaking News Alert!” out during 9/11, during which it was useful, but not at all after. I remember when Jason Priestly got into a car accident and they started throwing those alerts up. I realized then, “ok.
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Jiu Jitsu is the same way. I learn as much from “mentoring” lower belts as I do from training with upper belts. I also learn how much I don’t know from both.
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One of the benefits of Montessori is you have kids with two years age difference in the same classroom. If you’re in the 8th grade then you’re in a class with 9th and 7th graders.
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Isn't the whole point of Phel to provide Clojure-like syntax? in which case, the dot operator should be used for namespaces. If I recall, the backslash for namespacing was the lesser evil even when PHP implemented it at the time.
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That is a very good point. I'm not necessarily opposed to their names being mentioned personally, but you're right that had they not been mentioned, those peoples lives might be quite a bit less stressful.
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The names are public knowledge anyway given they were listed in the lawsuit. Anybody who blames Arokia Raj, his boss, or Vincent Fratta is either lazy or a fool. The blame rests on the software vendor who built such an atrocious product an
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I'm surprised it took this long for the kind of UI's that are typical in enterprise software to cause a problem of this magnitude.
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Yep
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I had a boss tell me that once. My young, straight, naive self thought he was talking about cannabis. Years later when I talk to those old coworkers and hear the stories of what they were doing I’m kinda surprised we got anything done at al
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I read CODE before reading The Elements of Computing Systems. I felt like the former provides details that you actually implement in the latter. Highly recommend both and in that order.
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Doing that would equate to $2.7 billion a year in revenue. They currently generate about $70 billion a year. So, yeah; they'd pretty much die if their revenue dropped that much.
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I suspect what he’s referring to is the fact that so many people think that, because they have 100% code coverage in their tests, they have quality software. I’ve seen so many times a team claim that with pride when it’s brutally obvious to
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Because Facebook users are Apple customers. If Apple kicked Facebook off the platform you know as well as I do that the number of people screaming at Apple for doing so would be overwhelming. And that's before the media got involved.
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Part of the downvotes to your comment may be coming from the fact that this framework is (I'm assuming?) a joke. Otherwise, I completely agree with you. The last few projects I've worked on I used vanilla HTML/CSS/JS an
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The difference is, I had to physically be around that person afterwards. I had to see how my actions affected that person. I don't have to see that online. I get to lob bombs over the wire at someone I've never met and will like
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To take your analogy a little further: if we all started saying to someone who started lashing out online, "Hey dude, what's going on? You're acting irrational. Where's this anger coming from? What can I/we do to
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Everybody at my Jiu-Jitsu academy knows I don't have social media. Until COVID that was never really a problem. After the first shutdown lifted somewhat, the health department mandates requires us to be part of small "pods"
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I deleted my social media almost ten years ago and I feel like I have a stronger social network now than I had before. The key thing I think I may have done differently is that I got involved in things that provided opportunities to be eng
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I think about the times I've lashed out, screamed and yelled at someone and you know what? It felt pretty good. At first. Then I felt worse. WAY worse because I knew I had hurt the person I had yelled at. So I think you're rig
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It’s true that Wordpress is very good at letting you modify content easily. That is, as you say, a major reason to use it. However. That assumes you are only needing to edit text with basic formatting (bold, underline, etc...) As soon as yo
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I've been wondering this myself. Related to this; I was wondering the other day why the seemingly sudden rise of people who buy into conspiracy theories like Q-Anon? One possible answer could be that people are feeling like they are
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Maybe I'm in the minority here but; I'd buy an iPhone with a tactile keyboard in a heartbeat if they offer it. I get where they were going with a virtual keyboard, and I agree with what Jobs said when they announced the first iPh
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Yes, but I feel like in the end it'll do more good than harm.
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Kind-of sounds like Steve Jobs was right in what he told Drew Houston: Dropbox is a feature, not a product. Houston disagreed and they've spent all this time ever since trying to prove Jobs wrong. Meanwhile Apple built iCloud and Micr
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Companies like Facebook with their demanding WhatsApp users provide access to private data, and now Dropbox demanding access to private data is highlighting an interesting phenomenon: These companies feel entitled to our private data and no

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