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by _zzaw 4y ago
Yeah. It's horrible. I'm on there because that's where my audience is for now, but I despise both the platform and company to a degree that's hard to express in words. It's weird. You'd think that inspiring cus
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I'm not sure the average person drives a BMW. I don't know, maybe if you can afford to drive a BMW, you don't mind having to rent something you already bought. I have a feeling that if Honda or Toyota pulled this shit, nobody
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Haha nope. If I buy the car, I own everything that is in it. Installing extra parts or features? Sure, I'll pay for that. Hardware that's already in the car, and disabled just so the manufacturer can try to squeeze more money out
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by _zzaw 4y ago
That was what I was thinking. A dating service for devs is going to be like 99% guys. On the up side, though, it might underscore the benefits of having a more diverse tech industry. I get what a few people said about not wanting to be talk
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Obvious? I wouldn't have known what the hell that was. Going by the comments, it looks like a lot of other folks weren't sure what it was either. Don't be so quick to put other people down. It's not good to have that kin
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by _zzaw 4y ago
They seem to have replaced instances of "Touch ID" with more generic references to a fingerprint scanner, but the fact that they didn't realize that Touch ID was a specific, proprietary technology is a little concerning. I ca
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I think claiming HN has less overt moderation and still manages to be civilized is a little like pointing to a low-crime part of town without much of a police presence, and highlighting it as evidence that cops are unnecessary. In both case
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I've found that genuinely caring about one's craft—beyond a baseline observance of best practices—requires, for lack of a better word, psychological space. Constant deadlines and distractions, workplace toxicity, and a pervasive f
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I think not being a weeb—i.e. obsessed with anime, Japanese pop culture, etc—works in your favor as far as making a good impression. The Japanese people I know are well aware of the American-Japanophile-nerd types, and generally find them v
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Dcd2o
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I don’t even read the unherd links anymore. They’re invariably just preachy, resent-saturated tirades that exemplify most of the qualities they’re railing against. It’s admittedly amusing to read extremists from one side being mad about the
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by _zzaw 4y ago
This looks really useful; sort of a roll-your-own-Bootstrap tool. I had my own version of this, but I’m looking forward to experimenting with it.
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Working calculator in Cities: Skylines is powered by human poo (2019)(pcgamer.com)
2 points by _zzaw 4y ago|0 comments
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Wrong. Pretending bullying isn’t evil in kids, as you just did, is what trains them to be dysfunctional adults.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
She could have just played an actual song, or—what I would have done—played the actual notes and claimed it was experimental art or something. Thirty seconds of a stultifyingly academic explanation about how some dissonant collection of no
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A Book from the Sky(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by _zzaw 4y ago|1 comments
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I think inflicting sexual, physical, verbal, and psychological abuse—to say nothing of paying one’s workers a pittance, or not paying them at all—goes a little beyond merely being a “misfit”.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I’ve been wondering for a while when Apple was going to launch its own mobile network. It just seemed like a matter of time, especially considering that Google’s already active in that space. Apple likes to redesign product categories that
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Man, I’d almost forgotten about this. I remember when it first made the news—I thought claiming to have built something like this was pushing it, even for Musk. I’d be surprised if we see a generally available, all-purpose humanoid robot ea
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by _zzaw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/6mGxk
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I really wish there was a reasonable—like, less than 75 years from now—copyright expiration date for things like ROMs. Apple doesn’t make a dime from Newtons these days, so it’s not like they care if someone wants to run Newton OS on Linux.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Oy. I guess they’ll just have to return to the office. People always respect it when authority figures lay down the law as condescendingly as possible, and it’s not like someone with Tesla on their resume has any other options in the tech w
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I mean, considering that those who don’t know it are doomed to repeat it…
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Just curious why? Stamina test? I definitely respect that level of effort, and I used to work that way. These days, though, I reserve sleepless hacking sessions for last-resort emergencies; I’m really not at my best, things take longer, and
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Agreed. I really dislike this trend of super-minimal sites that aren’t much more than a logo, peppy marketing text, and a signup button. The idea sounds interesting, but I want to know actual specifics—what something looks like and how it w
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by _zzaw 4y ago
“i am nodding and grrinning at this, completely unaware that it is probably a grievous assault against my character” —@dril
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Were you keeping your databases on Dropbox? It crossed my mind that maybe that was related, although I only ever viewed/edited them on one machine.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
There was a point where I had most of my work and ideas in Devonthink. Then I noticed that a few important files had somehow vanished. I don’t know for sure if this was due to the software, but it unnerved me, and I moved to Obsidian. I use
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by _zzaw 4y ago
I'm not sure why. It looks really interesting. I’ll be checking it.
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by _zzaw 4y ago
Standing up for your quality of life and questioning stupid company policies isn’t being an “asshole” or a prima donna. More of us should be doing it, and more of us are. Apple’s arrogant attitudes regarding its employees were always going

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