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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   Speaking as someone who voted for Platforma once, these guys have no credibility today because they don't commit to any program and are fickle. They can't communicate what is that they're trying to do, what's their progr
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   I think the worst kind of intellectual DOS attacks are those with high compression rate. Those that sound vaguely plausible at first ("Just do away with ALL the taxes, people will sort it out and enterprise will skyrocket") but
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   "Any programmer can be replaced with a finite number of interns" - Janusz Filipiak, the biggest shareholder of Comarch, Poland.
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   I think many people contribute to Linux because there are all these extra distros. People have different needs, and gather around a different itch to scratch. If there wasn't a distro focusing on Rasberry Pi, performance or security,
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   I found an alternate explaination which hadn't occured to me at the time. It's not necessarily that most people don't like balanced views. It may be just most people aren't excited by balanced views. Extreme views are
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   Please do watch the TED talk by Zeynep. She actually says something along these lines - that it's not so much a conspiracy but probably an unfortunate side effect. What the system ultimately cares about is that people stay longer on a
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   Even if your first sentence was true, I don't think it would explain why content with extreme views dominates. Perhaps because it causes more emotion , and the algorithms senses that emotions is what people crave. As a counterpoint to
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   If you watch the 20ish minute talk, she really doesn't limit it to youtube, but also talks about Facebook, Twitter etc.
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   by b0rsuk 8y ago

   I suppose users are just "getting used to" data breaches? Like clicking your way through pop-up windows asking for permission to install?
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    This was addressed more broadly in "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads" by Zeynep Tufekci on TED. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15891014 She remarked that Youtube's recomme
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    My hypothesis for which I have only anecdotal evidence is that us evolved monkeys still thrive with face to face social activity. We need body language, voice, faces, and even touch. A sense of community. If you look at the chart, pretty mu
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    I was confused. I thought everyone was getting 100% by default but unable to access the hidden room. I don't have DII installed at the moment.
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    I very much doubt it, because unmodified DooM doesn't display the message about secret areas. There's only summary at the end of the level, on the score screen. So the only way to find this secret would be to complete the level wi
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    Three more approaches not mentioned in the article: Pixel Sorting ------------- A subtype of glitch art. Generally you do it horizontally or vertically. You choose contiguous intervals in a bitmap and sort pixels in it by color, hu
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    The bad practices are mostly on the part of our client company. They understand they painted themselves into a corner, they are afraid to touch it anymore and are glad someone took it over from them. They loosened our deadlines because we&#
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    Yes, I distrust him strongly because he consistently works to undermine me. He doesn't upset me anymore because he's predictable and I understand what he's trying to do - make me lash out and discredit me. I could take it to
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    After being burnt out by previous 2 jobs I found an offer which advertised "good work-personal life balance" among other things. It turned out to be a subcontractor for a grown-up startup. There were 4 people at the moment, includ
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    Overall, disregard for documentation in places I worked in puzzles me. I like to say: Documentation is memoization for communication. Training courses and videoconferences are overrated. A guy gets to wear a suit and (usually) point at some
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    Where I work, technical writers earn 0.92 of a developer's wage, while a team leader earns 1.4 of a developer's wage. These are calculated from actual contract with our client. While I'm pretty good with some documentation to
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    One thing I haven't seen mentioned is drawing a graph of dependencies using Graphviz. It's immensely useful for my current task - removal of two obsolete, fundamental variables from a convoluted permission system spanning a very b
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    I think this is nowhere more evident than in the world of games. In my opinion RTS games stagnated and died because they failed to innovate in interface department, outside of a few like Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander. The clas
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    You just gave me an idea for a vim plugin... I guess it's already done? Recent changes could be highlighted with a background color. For example changes from the last 10 edits would have green background. That way if I pressed a key
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    I designed a very convenient interface for my otherwise extremely simple Chess program. In most chess games, keyboard interface works like this: one axis has labels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; the other has a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. Then you movi
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    I'm not trying to say Kakoune's exploration is without value, but Vim very much does have "movement before action" mode. It's the visual mode, entered by the "v" key. It's the main feature vim has ove
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    Actually I got this by turning OFF fuzzy search. I don't use bookmarks anymore. I just type gi<DOWNARROW> or gm<DOWNARROW>, or st<DOWNARROW> and press enter.
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    You achieve this by putting the following 4 lines in your $HOME/.inputrc file: "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward set show-all-if-ambiguous on set completion-ignore-case on F
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    Monospaced fonts also mean monospaced puctuation. Punctuation is super important in programming languages. In human-human languages, a comma, a dot or a semicolon is mostly just icing on the cake. There are examples where it can completely
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    By the way if you are the person who flagged my post, I'm not mad at you but I would like to know why .
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    I think he would beat me with experience. And I have an idea what he wants - he wants to become a team leader, and perhaps replace my current boss as the head of our outsourcing company (several times he openly wondered how it would be to w
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    by b0rsuk 8y ago

    Care to elaborate how exactly I'm passive-aggressive ? People have been telling me I'm blunt and direct. That's what I attract girls with. When I try to correct that guy's manipulations, he turns it into a joke, says I&#