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by asark 8y ago
Is there somewhere you can set up one of those tax-advantaged college funds such that others can easily add money to it? I can imagine grandparents and such adding money from time to time, maybe even not around holidays/birthdays, if i
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by asark 8y ago
1) they're great for certain kinds of graphic art. 2) they're great for various sorts of low-end creative work, like making films (think: for kids or adults to learn the basics of shooting and editing on a single device capable of
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by asark 8y ago
We had a Surface tablet at work ~1.5yrs ago for testing. It did not live up to what I expected given the hype, especially judged as a tablet rather than a generic Windows portable. Slow & unresponsive, terrible touch UX otherwise, too.
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by asark 8y ago
Remember calling the theater's recorded schedule line? Then if someone bugged you at the wrong moment you'd miss the times for the one you needed and have to listen to the whole damn thing again?
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by asark 8y ago
Without the Internet: between rentals, purchases, and the library, more than enough media to keep me 100% happy and occupied my entire life for very little money. With the Internet: Same but now I have way more than I need rather than jus
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by asark 8y ago
The field's (quantum physics') moving back and freely between: Serious Math; ill-advised specialist terminology that borrows then twists common words in just the worst ways; and seemingly metaphysical stories or explanations tha
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by asark 8y ago
I've observed factoring generally to be a big problem. I also recall the official introduction of factoring in our curriculum (9th grade?[0]) to be when they lost an awful lot of people. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also whe
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by asark 8y ago
Looking from the outside in, serious mathematics seems to require a ton of memorization. I really don't know how they keep all the names of everything straight, and what they mean, and how they relate to one another, and so on. That&
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by asark 8y ago
Ha! Good point. Sorry, when I think of anyone having any opinion on country and the topic coming up in conversation my mind went straight to the US, but of course it's huge all over the place so that was dumb. I do agree that knee-je
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by asark 8y ago
There's a strong country & western strain running through "indie" music, and a ton of influence and presence in what pop music nerds consider the canon of 20th and 21st century popular music and popular genres. Ask your l
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by asark 8y ago
There are several "hard" things in CS/software-development that I keep having to convince myself I do, in fact, understand, every time they come up in a discussion like this, because I find them really simple and wonder wheth
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by asark 8y ago
In my mediocre Midwestern city wages are stupid-high (for the area—they've gone up like 20+% in the last two years) and anyone who sounds like they have half a clue and isn't sitting there with 3-5 years of clearly-mediocre experi
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah unless you're going FAANG or finance that's a much, much nicer track to be on.
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by asark 8y ago
Hell, if they managed to muddle along at a startup for seven years (that is, it took seven entire years before it failed) they've probably picked up enough to be super valuable in non-programming roles. SEO, UX, (perhaps especially)
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by asark 8y ago
A few years ago, on Nu Gmail (Ajaxy Gmail) but pre-Inbox, I tried to walk my grandma through adding a contact. Their add contact screen, with the form to fill in contact info, had two same-colored buttons, not that far apart, same copy. One
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by asark 8y ago
> Essentially it's the same as saying that you're scared to pay for anything online and you only trust Apple for making online payments. I'm not particularly scared of paying for things online. I'm scared of almost
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by asark 8y ago
> However, when welfare is badly managed and is essentially given out to anybody, is overpaid because "muh rights to basic standard of living," and without adequate consideration of where the capital comes from to provide the w
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by asark 8y ago
If we had pure one-person-one-vote democracy—no representation, no parties, no interest groups, everyone basically living a solipsistic political bubble—and some way of preventing the rich from gaining outsize control over the media in that
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by asark 8y ago
> You can't rely on a lot of 3rd party code/widgets since many of them are non-compliant so now you require an in-house development team to recode a 3rd party widget to follow WCAG guidelines. We've gotten a lot of mileage
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by asark 8y ago
I think basic usability and user-friendliness on iOS has been going backwards since iOS7. I still think the platform overall's preferable to Android (hobbyist interests aside) mainly because Android started so far behind and, despite i
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by asark 8y ago
Part of it's the platform's defaults, part of it's every product owner and designer thinking every part of their "experience" needs to be some special snowflake crap. PO - "We need an alert dialog, just some te
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by asark 8y ago
> Why the hell should somebody else's effort be spent sustaining you when they could be following their own aspirations. A modern economy in a democratic state is built by the collective will of the people. No entity at the top sett
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by asark 8y ago
I guess people who've put that much time into it must really enjoy the hobby. It probably does suck to have folks who are way less into it come along and mess up their fun, with the magic of technology. It's not like mass media—to
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by asark 8y ago
Ubuntu had saner default desktop package sets than most other distros at the time, for a good long while. You wanted Firefox. Everyone wanted Firefox, pretty much. Obviously. Yet other distros liked to package up Epiphany or some such weird
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by asark 8y ago
> Ports/pkg is better. Gentoo’s package manager is better. Strongly agree. Gentoo's Portage is the best experience I've had with a package manager on Linux. My package management observations, as someone who's been us
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by asark 8y ago
Outlawing all the shitty data collection, or GDPR'ing it to the point so at least it's much harder and more under control, would go a long way toward fixing things, including off the web (medical providers, credit card companies,
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by asark 8y ago
Parenting time tends to take over most of the hours that would have been work-time, on weekends. At least until your kids are old enough that they don't want anything to do with you anymore (or so I hear). With kids it's usually p
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by asark 8y ago
I can recommend Incan Gold as a good, simple, fast push your luck game. The sort of thing that fits nicely as a quick diversion on a non-gaming evening or as a filler or opener on a game night. The article's description of Quacks had m
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by asark 8y ago
What's so friggin' different about hiring software developers that we've gotta get all weird about it and come up with some brand new thing? What's the hiring process like for other office workers? How about for other te
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by asark 8y ago
What we ought to do—to tie into the "let's break up Google" story also being discussed right now—is make collecting and hoarding data about people incredibly risky. A leak of any size should be a "your company is finis

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