Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 6y ago
At the risk of seeming like I'm helping the pharmaceutical industry off the hook; there's a flip-side to the pharmaceutical companies pushing their products the way they do: people want the pills. We--especially in the West--are
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Something that I would include with the apology part (the text may have covered this and I missed it) is that apologies don't have but's. "I'm sorry I funded Wikimedia Antarctica but..." Everything you say after the
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Please tell me it is more stable than Catalina. I have to reboot my machine every day or two just to keep it going.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I can't help but wonder if this correlation over causation? You just had a disease that has rocked the entire planet, that is so new that nobody really knows a whole lot about it by comparison to other coronaviruses, that has killed a
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Marco is right about PHP's documentation. I've felt for a long time that the quality documentation PHP provided played a major role in the language's success.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
This reminds me so much of the Commodore-64 I had as a kid.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
This is becoming a problem Internet-wide. Too many people are more interested in becoming Internet Famous than becoming actually good programmers/engineers/etc...
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Medium is not StackOverflow Maybe StackOverflow should add a Medium-like product where people can write tutorials?
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Is it "Colon Blow"?
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I have relatives who were convinced that the Rapture was coming in 2012. The looks on their faces when I asked them in 2011, "Why do you keep going to work, then? Why are you still having kids? Why did you just buy a house?" ca
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I love that the home page is clear, concise, and simple while still being stylish. The current trend of a massive hero image pushing most/all of the usable content below the fold is getting really, really old to me.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
A lot of great comments here and I generally agree. One thing I think we all need to consider essential is ethics. As software continues to eat the world, programmers are being used for unethical endeavors and I think all too often we don&
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
The Vizio that I bought four years ago has kind-of gone that far. They updated the OS so that you can't access the main interface (which includes built in Netflix and Amazon Prime, among others) unless you agree to a ToS giving them a
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Someone mentioned this in another thread awhile back and it really hit home with me. It's a line by the Joe MacMillan character (portrayed by Lee Pace) from Halt and Catch Fire : "The computer isn't thing. The computer&#x2
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
This is true. He was quite along in age by that point and was clearly having trouble. I'm sure it didn't help that he recorded A Feast for Crows at the same time as A Dance With Dragons and was probably pretty tired. I believe
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I'm genuinely worried about Apple now. It seemed to me that, for the most part, they had avoided the "change for change's sake" mentality that is rampant in the tech industry. Moving Bedtime to Health is clearly that.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Roy Dotrice did, for the most part, a superb job of narrating the Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones). So much so that when he wasn't available to narrate A Feast for Crows, the publisher replaced him with John Lee who was s
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
That's a pretty big straw man argument. If Apple said all apps have to pay a 95% cut and all customers have to pay $20/mo to use Internet on their phones then they'd nearly instantly lose massive market share and the backlas
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I had this exact thing happen with the purchase of a Nest Protect from Amazon. Nest packaging complete with "Inspected" sticker on the box and a First Alert detector inside. I no longer shop at Amazon.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Thank you so much for the clarification between goals and values!! AND for the work you do! Finding a therapist who practices ACT changed my life.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
While I'm not a psychologist my reading of that seems to confirm one of the aspects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which is to clarify ones values and work towards them. For example; it might be one's goal to travel to
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
When the guy who created Smarty (his name escapes me) and announced it on the core PHP developers mailing list, the other developers practically begged him not to release it and told him outright how redundant it was. He did it anyway. PH
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
> We were told that this was standard FAANG practice I'm getting really tired of companies trotting out the "because [Facebook|Apple|Google] does it" excuse. Those are massive companies. Are we so delusional to believe t
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
Explain to me how our government failing the people at a massive scale is a feature, not a bug.
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
Great idea! One suggestion: don’t use Twitter as your support/contact system. I don’t have an account with them, don’t want an account with them, and so it’s a turnoff to think I might not have a good way of providing feedback or get s
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
I disagree somewhat with it being a team sport. It’s more of an art, which is the problem here. The way I solve a problem and the way you solve it may be two completely different yet perfectly valid ways. Who is right in that situation? We
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
Seven years ago I noticed I was getting really nasty allergies this time of year. I had never had allergies before. They got worse as I got older. My overall health did. Two years ago I changed my diet and dramatically increased my exercise
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
I don’t have a blog or Twitter or Facebook anymore and I’m fine with it. I never really got anything out of it. In fact, it was all just me complaining which doesn’t do anyone any good. I’m happier not having those channels.
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
> Fundamentally, the problems I'm solving are not technology problems, but human problems. This is what we’ve lost in our industry in the last 25 years, and to the worlds detriment.
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by Zelphyr 7y ago
> most do not likely return the item for a broken resealable package I am and I encourage everyone else to do the same. I bought a package of matcha tea from Costco that has this problem and the quality of matcha degrades quickly when

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