badman_ting

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by badman_ting 12y ago
I look forward to the idiotic backlash (not really).
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by badman_ting 12y ago
It seems obvious to me that there are good reasons we should want more women in tech. I just don't think we should expect things to be so different once that is the case, we'll still have (most of) the same shitty problems. It&#x2
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I like that this person talks about connecting people and people having their lives touched by Nokia. Nowadays we are very distrusting and dismissive of such talk. There is a good reason why of course, but still there is something reductive
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by badman_ting 12y ago
"he suggests that S3 has an erasure encoding strategy" Apologies for the diversion - what does this mean? Does it mean that when an item is erased from S3, S3 "encodes" the data so that the next person who gets the same
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yuck.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I have had that happen once or twice. But also I've encountered a lot of people who "aren't drug dealers", who only sell weed to their friends, basically so that they can smoke for free. This type takes the "not a d
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by badman_ting 12y ago
See, I've always wanted someone like this, but never found it. I've always found people that sell one thing only (cannabis), or maybe a couple, but not the "drug supermarket". I mean, it makes sense as the article points
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Note that you'll find nothing of the sort in the Angular docs. I believe this is at least part of what the author is really railing against. If the docs were crystal clear as to how Angular actually works, doing stuff in Angular would
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by badman_ting 12y ago
"Language has nothing to do with this." Great, thanks. Hey, by any chance do you think there's no single greatest language, and that people should use the right tool for the job? Terrific, me too. Saying "language has no
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by badman_ting 12y ago
This wouldn't get anyone very far in my case, I really don't know that many developers outside of work. I don't like them, usually. They have bad senses of humor and annoying personality traits.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I find them irritating for the same reason. It reminds me of the jQuery cycle: use jQuery for everything -> decide that depending on frameworks is lame -> use "vanilla JS" for everything -> realize this requires polyfills
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Same here. The main factors were that brewing with the Aeropress is fussy (all the stirring and timing and inverting), but more importantly, it doesn't make very much coffee (I like to drink somewhere between 12-16 oz). French press ma
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by badman_ting 13y ago
As noted, it's expensive. I've encountered potential employers who were lukewarm because I hadn't done enough work in open repos to impress them. That's understandable, it is rational to tend towards "no" inste
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Yes, agreed. If you have unlimited vacation it shouldn't really make sense to talk about someone "abusing" the policy. You might say that someone takes so much vacation that they don't actually contribute any value to th
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by badman_ting 13y ago
If the vacation is "unlimited" at my company and I end up taking 3 weeks off in a year, and your company gives you two weeks per year, who's the sucker -- Me? Because the nominally unlimited vacation is not actually literall
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by badman_ting 13y ago
I work for a company that offers unlimited vacation, and I am skeptical of the skepticism around this. To me it feels like some kind of backdoor justification for the standard, shitty two weeks most American firms offer. While I certainly a
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Right, this observation amounts to "people who are all in similar situations say similar things". Whoop-de-doo.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Seeing this cycle is tiring. People became obsessed with to-do apps (still not sure why, I guess as a demo for trying different styles of app development), then they all tried to be the most polished to-do app, now comes the to-do backlash
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Sure, why not. Desktop Linux too.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Stop it, that was not an attack.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
All of us are rolling boulders uphill.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Ha, totally. I often think of that book as a bunch of him saying "hey, isn't this kinda weird/cool?"
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by badman_ting 13y ago
I don't see what's so bad about excluding Apple in the license. I mean, they're not really playing nice here. Perhaps unintentionally so, but if that's how they want to carry it then they can write their own thing for th
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by badman_ting 13y ago
I sympathize. That's how I feel about our recent wars, among other things. But I'm paying for them anyway, and will be for the foreseeable future. Sucks.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
If that ever comes to pass (nope), perhaps the US taxpayer should have thought twice about prosecuting him.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
The best way to employ the things you learn and discover when reading and thinking about code, is to write code. All the reading and thinking is no good without the part where you write code.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Oh, people who do that are terrible. But then, nerds have so many terrible personality tics like that, which is why they/we are considered socially ungraceful. Another favorite of mine is the one where you take what someone said supe
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by badman_ting 13y ago
I agree with you - this is like 100x worse than making Eich CEO - but doubt anything will come of this. The Eich thing was somewhat of a surprise, but no surprises here. If them backing off this decision was possible they wouldn't have
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Agreed, and that is shrewd thinking, though I'm not sure if it is related to gender. It may be part of it, but I think also design is a more attractive job than coding which is gross and technical, so there are more people who want to
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by badman_ting 13y ago
And GOD HELP YOU if you have a page with a footer and infinite scroll.

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