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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > But then I dare say that faking Swiss German is an order of magnitude harder than faking English. Someone has compared the typical cadence of Schwyzerdütsch to riding a donkey over very rough mountainous terrain, and I'm inclined
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   Flagged. Unscientific gender baiting.
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   I didn't even have fraud as a use case on my radar, but social engineering attacks will be completely reimagined.
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > The idea that one works their way up from a secretarial position to executive could not be more unrealistic today. Is it? I would guess that it's much, much easier than 50 years ago or 100 years ago (it's still hard, obviousl
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   Very entertaining presentation, not about opening day, but about operations at Disney parks in general: https://resources.qt.io/videos/qtws18-keynote-beyond-the-ux-... Spoiler: ... ah, watch it yourself
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > Wouldn't modern C++ be better suited than Rust because it's closer to C? I think the point is that it would be worse because it's closer to C.
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > No language tooling is perfect. Java and C# tools are pretty close. But yeah, it's generally hard for dynamic languages.
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   > Perl 6 is probably a great language, Does it also have the unparseability problem[0] of Perl 5? That's a deal breaker for a lot of tooling. [0] https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393
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   by _pmf_ 7y ago

   MacBook revenue is a rounding error in Apple's books.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > how badly a company can treat its customers App developers are not customers; they're indentured peasants.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Disallowing "outsourcing" such tasks to private contractors would be something I'm definitely in favor of. A fast track for appeals in cases of suspected power abuse would probably also be worthy of consideration.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    That's a case of an official abusing her power; not something that changing immigration laws will prevent.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    In Joe Armstrong's concept, the standard library still exists, it's just organized differently (i.e. while it's possible to switch out parts with high granularity, but not the default us case). NPM's stance is "ther
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    The Nintendo Switch is also quite accessible; but Nintendo might be the outlier here.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Brave and stunning.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > I now consider myself one of these people. Please don't. Do enough interview situations at companies you don't care much about to numb you down (I did); this helps with nervousness. And sometimes you find out that you don&#x2
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Tangential: does Chromium have a native widget abstraction? Are there any projects that extract this layer and expose it?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    I'm using Textadept and Notecase on Windows. I personally like the Win95 aesthetics, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Porsche sells sports cars without driver assistance and with manual transmission to young US-American people who are using it to learn to drive. I think it's safe to say that passenger safety or safety of the general public is not a mi
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Using log structured file formats before it was cool.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Any examples?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Wait until you learn about hunter/gatherers.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > This is basically forever for a user experience. Why does your user experience force the user to wait?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Will Charlize Theron play his grandma?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Strange. I would have thought that serving more niche customers would be a more sustainable business model than competing against GitHub and GitLab on their home turf. Is Bitbucket profitable?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    This one is exactly at the lower acceptability limit for me, but it seems deadly to onramp/offramp with it.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    He should to a TODO app.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    > This struck a chord with me: "Software Is about Developing Knowledge More than Writing Code" Managers are very unhappy when I tell them of all the knowledge I've developed.
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    Wasn't it both an exercise and a decoy/distraction operation?
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    by _pmf_ 7y ago

    "We". Maybe the feminist agenda pushing the narrative that creating powerpoints is more satisfying for women than caring for their children has something to do with it.