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811.
by ashark 10y ago
I think the idea is that it keeps you engaged much longer than an ordinary ad would. Now, that just pisses me off when I figure out what's going on because you're deliberately wasting my time, but the claim is that it's mea
812.
by ashark 10y ago
This is a marketing piece badly masquerading as an informative article, after the pattern of awful "long copy" email/website marketing pieces. That's why it's "off".
813.
by ashark 10y ago
The piece isn't supposed to get to any point, really, because it's long-copy marketing. The whole idea is to keep you expecting a point for as long as possible, without delivering, then stop, hoping you decide to give the writer(&
814.
by ashark 10y ago
Pro tip: go to a place that does the no-incision variety and then make sure that's what you're getting . Just the first part isn't enough. Just because you read that they take the same amount of (doctor) time and so assume t
815.
by ashark 10y ago
You have to know which parameters are meaningful, any tricks that could be used in presenting them, the degree to which the person/entity reporting them can trusted for accuracy, anything that's changed about any of that stuff s
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by ashark 10y ago
I really think it's the education issue. To be able to buy confidently in the mid-range without regulatory protections ensuring that things cannot be under mid-range (talking quality-wise) you have to know a lot. To do that for a sub
817.
by ashark 10y ago
Trend so far has been: lots of very bad but cheap products made by machines with as little use of materials as possible (we keep getting better at determining what the smallest amount is, so everything keeps getting worse!), with some varie
818.
by ashark 10y ago
Their attention span for products and tendency to half-ass things that aren't highly visible (Android SDK and documentation comes to mind) supports this notion. It's exactly what I'd expect from a company hiring 100% A player
819.
by ashark 10y ago
> Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off, Watching most of what you build—which often wasn't exciting or very important-seeming to begin with—be discarded in short order, having benefitted few ( i.e. not enough to justify
820.
by ashark 10y ago
It's probably: 1) they'd rather encryption didn't become widespread on the service because they want to spy on users (users encrypting things themselves is still fine, they say) 2) they don't want support calls from peop
821.
by ashark 10y ago
... so the EncFS-backup-your-6TB-media-drive trick isn't threatened yet? That's good.
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by ashark 10y ago
Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror
823.
by ashark 10y ago
The date coupled with your optimism made me wonder whether the rest of the post was parody. You know, "we have the technology now. We can do this. Why, just as soon as our great God King returns from distant lands of the dead bearing t
824.
by ashark 10y ago
> I think this can be done before 2500 B.C. Uh, I'm pretty sure it's already too late for Gilgamesh. Sorry to give you the bad news.
825.
by ashark 10y ago
> Ads, in the broadest definition, are not going anywhere, no matter how much we push them into the shadows. As much as I hate being inundated with ads, at least I know that they're ads. Know what I hate even more? When you can&#x27
826.
by ashark 10y ago
How short, and how old are the kids? Very young kids: Animal Upon Animal Older kids, really short attention span: Love Letter Older kids, somewhat less short attention span: Carcassonne, Sushi Go Party (which is a gateway drug to the simi
827.
by ashark 10y ago
I'd never actually played with auctions (had no idea they were in the rules, which I'd learned from friends/relatives and not from reading the rulebook) until I played the video game version for NES (years after it came out),
828.
by ashark 10y ago
> Influence helps me a lot to deal with my 3 year old. I'd been teetering on the fence with this book for about a year, but I think you just sold me on it (haha!) Any idea whether it's worth an extra ~$7 for the (I gather) text
829.
by ashark 10y ago
If only women have legally mandated paid time off for new kids it'll provide even more reproduction-related disincentive to hire women, which is reason enough for it to be relevant, I'd say.
830.
by ashark 10y ago
> 1) Discourage your work 'culture' from being built around aggressive tech code reviews/debates/arguments/chat where young males love to beat their chest I'm sure whatever you'd like to replace these p
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by ashark 10y ago
Just read this recently, on loan from a neighbor. If you like that, you may like the works of Richard Bach, especially Illusions .
832.
by ashark 10y ago
> However, at least once a week, when switching between the dock and home, my mac goes into flicker mode, requiring a hard reboot. Insanity. Discrete graphics, or Intel?
833.
by ashark 10y ago
I think the main driver is that a lot of developers are really not comfortable manually juggling types. Seriously.
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by ashark 10y ago
Java was and is wasteful. Some of us remember something very similar to this Electron mess happening in the Distant Past when Java fans tried to convince everyone that UI slowness and general system-wide performance issues when Java progr
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by ashark 10y ago
I can see it now. Manager: All apps have to use this feedback framework now, no exceptions. Getting feedback is super important so we can be more Agile! Dev: ok... uh, but this is 40x the size of all of calc.exe. Plus it's just a cal
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by ashark 10y ago
Use the basic HTML version. It's worth the loss of a couple features from regular gmail or inbox for a much snappier UI (even with it fetching full new pages from the server all the time!)
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by ashark 10y ago
> For one thing, it made sense financially because the gov't stopped counting my parent's money (that I couldn't touch) when determining how much aid I received. Can confirm. If my (now) wife and I'd gotten married fr
838.
by ashark 10y ago
I think that, among other reasons for its existence, open offices (especially when coupled with office-having supervisors) are one of many weapons arrayed against programmers to keep them from properly entering the professional (high-middle
839.
by ashark 10y ago
Nothing that can be learned from tools belongs in a standup—or any meeting—unless it's especially notable. Spend a morning automating the reporting of it to email or IRC or Slack or whatever (god, email, please) and forget about it.
840.
by ashark 10y ago
Right, but then they're not a pawn shop. Payday loan places would do fine, too, if they turned into traditional banks.

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