austinjp

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by austinjp 6y ago
Agreed. I wasn't saying exclusively. I just feel that swinging from one extreme to the other doesn't solve any problems.
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by austinjp 6y ago
So, some devil's advocate perspectives: A career at one company might span 5 years rather than a lifetime, and that's plenty of time to be affected. One form of interaction benefits one type of employee. A second form of interacti
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by austinjp 6y ago
I wrote a long edit clarifying a few things, and lost it on submit thanks to timing out. Damn. I'm morbidly fascinated by the polarisation that drives some online conversations. Admittedly I have probably fuelled some of that with my q
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by austinjp 6y ago
Sure, a 100% remote company might be friendly, for example. I mentioned "friendly" since the previous comment mentioned "friends". Not my intention to suggest inclusivity/exclusivity.
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by austinjp 6y ago
Well that was the point of the comment I was replying to, which I felt was somewhat one-sided.
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by austinjp 6y ago
Some of the boundaries here are blurry and subjective, making it nontrivial to produce neat categories. Personally, I go to the Wikipedia page for any particular term and follow the crowd wisdom, plus a grain of salt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Actuall
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by austinjp 6y ago
What about those who _do_ want a friendly workplace with some element of social interaction?
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by austinjp 6y ago
Can you go into detail? Also, which country are you referring to?
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by austinjp 6y ago
Thanks for this, I suspected similar. Only yesterday I was thinking about the payment processes I've experienced in universities and councils in the UK. Every month would see a flurry of emails with invoices, purchase orders and cost c
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by austinjp 6y ago
Agreed, although it would give the maintainer and other contributors a simpler way to say 'no'. They can point to the rules and say "that's the way things are here". This might also help them shrug off the sense of
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by austinjp 6y ago
In a team I worked in many years ago, there was a general consensus that a manager saying "thanks" didn't come across well. It implied that the dev was doing a favour for that person and wanted to do so. Instead, they preferr
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by austinjp 6y ago
This and other recent threads here about OS development make me wonder, how many OS projects set deliberate and specific rules to safeguard the sanity of the maintainer and prevent burnout and distress? I'm sure I've seen at least
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by austinjp 6y ago
To help spread some insights, could you go into a little detail about why? I recall a friend of mine once saying his planned product would have a price-point that a typical mid-level exec could simply charge to their company credit card wit
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by austinjp 6y ago
You raise a point that seems to come up increasingly frequently, and it's a good one because it highlights some complexities in the issues. I don't think you're entirely wrong, but I don't believe you're entirely &q
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by austinjp 6y ago
Hehehe okay, I'll take the downvote and repeated comments :) Serves me right for not thinking twice! Genuinely didn't occur to me that it might be something other than a typo that went rogue. Ho hum.
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by austinjp 6y ago
Genuine question: why "EVER GIVEN" when "EVERGREEN" is written on the side of the ship? Someone with insider knowledge: is this a typo or similar error? How does it happen and proliferate without being corrected?
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by austinjp 6y ago
Collectives are fundamental to human society and always have been. Even hunter gatherers lived and still live in communities. These pre-date the "free market" (no idea why you introduce this) and will outlive it. Certainly, there
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by austinjp 6y ago
Personally I have at least one business idea every day, probably due to some neuro-divergence issues. The problem is determining which are worth pursuing. By their own admission, OP's 20+ ideas didn't work. You only need one, it j
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by austinjp 6y ago
Personally, I think the underlying issue is polarisation of opinion. Polarisation produces frustration, fear, and anger. This in turn produces responses like GitHub's, intended to anticipate criticism, since the criticism trends inevit
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by austinjp 6y ago
There certainly were, I worked with a bunch of them. They were all talented, came from print and shifted to web + print. My job was to turn their gigantic Photoshop files into hand-crafted HTML, usually tables to layout carefully cropped an
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by austinjp 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why do that? To see how people function under pressure?
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by austinjp 6y ago
I do this. A small annoyance can crop up when trying to log in to a service with your + modified email address. Hmmm, what did I append after the plus? If you can't remember that, you can't use the "forgot my password" f
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by austinjp 6y ago
Looks like we've got a few things in common. I've no time to start or join a project, but I'd enjoy some conversation and someone to bounce ideas around with. What's the best way to get in touch?
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by austinjp 6y ago
I must hit ctrl-l a thousand times a day, learned it before I knew of clear.
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by austinjp 6y ago
SQLite is so ubiquitous you'd be hard pressed to find an app or service that doesn't use it. Look through the licenses for the software included as part of your phone's OS. You'll find SQLite in there. Search GitHub for
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by austinjp 6y ago
> It's pretty clear that human brains are just programs. Extraordinarily complicated highly optimised programs, sure. But nobody has even found a shred of evidence that there's anything fundamentally different to programs in th
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by austinjp 6y ago
It's entirely probable that this experience is shared by plenty of others, we just don't hear much from you guys. If you're curious to discover whether you dream or not, have someone wake you when you're in REM sleep. Yo
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by austinjp 6y ago
I'd suggest the hubris is in the author identifying as a "Ratonalist", cherry-picking the others whom he identifies as being in that same tent, and identifying with them while simultaneously declaring their efforts trivial, a
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by austinjp 6y ago
Well sure, and evidence is collected by various means, all of which are temporally bound to the present :)
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by austinjp 6y ago
I don't disagree with the premise that outsiders are unconstrained. There is a notion that modern science lacks the frequent paradigm shifting leaps in progress due to bureaucracy and safety. But... obvious issue: without the bureaucra

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