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by bartread 3y ago
Oooooooookay, so I'm not about to do this down, because I think it's awesome, but I do think it's time for a little more up-front transparency here. When I clicked through and hit play on the first video I braced myself for t
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by bartread 3y ago
And also pick something that's distinctive and easily Googleable. I'm tired of companies and products picking super generic names that mean I get swamped with spammy SEOd results every time I search for information/help/
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by bartread 3y ago
> Developers are users too. But not generally the users of the systems that are being built. Those are the people you need to think about. Sometimes they will be other developers, but more often they'll be end users of some sort or
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by bartread 3y ago
I don't think that scales: a lot of the complexity is in the detail. It's pretty hard for it to meaningfully live with someone whose job is all about higher level concerns and bigger, more forward-looking moves.
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by bartread 3y ago
That makes sense, and I think I probably come down in a similar position to you. I'd say it can be great for a project to have a community, but I don't think I'd conflate managing and supporting that project, with interacting
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by bartread 3y ago
Respectfully, I object. Evidently I wasn't clear enough, for which I apologise, but I've explained the intent of my comment in more detail in response to @SiempreViernes' sibling comment. Hopefully that clarifies.
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by bartread 3y ago
> Because pointing out that wars in the history of planet earth have irrational causes is a long way away from explaining why an interstellar actor should attack whatever it sees. I'm not explaining why they'd want to or wouldn
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by bartread 3y ago
I can see a trade off here: effectively we're talking about different strategies for reducing the amount of noise. With GitHub you reduce the noise because people who know how to use Google will find the relevant issue and either contr
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by bartread 3y ago
> Trying to find people more job opportunities is very different from trying to make people depressed. Yeah, but having suffered with depression myself, having had a friend with depression commit suicide, and having seen my dad's li
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by bartread 3y ago
This sounds like a fair question, and it might be (including from a legal standpoint - IANAL), but the way I figure it LinkedIn will be constantly experimenting with their recommendations anyway, whether those results are shared for researc
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by bartread 3y ago
This is what I love about the whole discussion. In some sense this is so utterly trivial, but I imagine the kids would be pretty upset if they broke a piece of the Duplo too. And I love that we've all absolutely nerded out on it, and g
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by bartread 3y ago
I think this is an oversimplification. The concern about entrenching the positions of big tech companies is, I think, genuine, and I do believe it's important to find ways to foster competition and opportunity for smaller players. Poss
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by bartread 3y ago
I have no idea what I'm doing with this, but I love it. Will look forward to figuring it out.
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by bartread 3y ago
Aye. Nothing against housing associations that provide much needed social housing but the vast majority of private landlords[0], including AirBnB owners, are absolute parasites that have an entirely corrosive effect on communities and socie
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by bartread 3y ago
> want rentier incomes with low risk. I don't know if I buy your point about inherited wealth but there is what I'd describe as a stifling culture of rentseeking that, if not actively encouraged is certainly tolerated and overl
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by bartread 3y ago
All the people on that Twitter thread getting butthurt about it and complaining that Windows' backwards compatibility is a bad thing... WTF koolaid have they been drinking? I don't often sing Microsoft's praises but backwards
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by bartread 3y ago
Agree, this seems like it's being flagged in bad faith. In probably 13 years of HN membership, and maybe 14 - 15 of readership, I've never seen anything on HN before that's accrued 250+ points and been flagged. @dang I realis
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by bartread 3y ago
> The very people in that very local community! On one level I agree. On another level I think this is perhaps unrealistically idealistic. I'm a member, and very infrequent poster, on a couple of different facebook groups for local
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by bartread 3y ago
That's not true: you make the SID sound weird and exotic when it's really not (although it is incredibly cool). Seen from the perspective of microcomputers, which mostly either used simple square waves, or FM synthesis to generate
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by bartread 3y ago
> West fought hard to kill it in the last 30 yars. Nope. We just sat by and watched whilst your own oligarchs pillaged your natural resources and asset stripped your industry. This was a mistake. We should not have allowed that to happ
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by bartread 3y ago
Drop the URL in here: https://translate.google.co.uk/?sl=auto&tl=en&op=websites . Russian to English translation is certainly good enough to understand the thrust of the article. It makes "cunning" use of h
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by bartread 3y ago
Yes, but you'll note that the article you've shared doesn't unequivocally and unambiguously state that only some of the brakes are being disabled: they imply it, with some handwavey talk about redundancy of systems, but they
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by bartread 3y ago
This is absolutely perverse and messed up... but I sort of love it. Amazing, and fun, piece of work. Ivan, I think you may be the sedmaster. I haven't had to use it seriously in more than 20 years but back then I did remember use it
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by bartread 3y ago
This is very true: if you wanted to do anything interactive you really had to dive into Java, Flash, or ActiveX. But, as you say, ActiveX was Windows and IE only, and that wasn't an accident. And it wasn't just that JavaScript and
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by bartread 3y ago
> I'm curious what "its own vision" was Well, back in the late 90s it was all about ActiveX and integration with other Windows components and applications in order to shove all other browsers out of the marketplace, gain d
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by bartread 3y ago
I agree with your second point but... > I don’t think it does unless you take a dim view of it and perpetuate the simplistic scrum-agile bad meme. Look, the thing is, if you've worked in a load of different organisations, and lots o
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by bartread 3y ago
> Jesus, that ‘speccy brew’ burning tyre taste. Yeah, it's basically undrinkable. It was a bit of a staple at 6th form parties in the early 90s because it was cheap and strong, although I always struggled to get it down. I did buy a
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by bartread 3y ago
My immediate thought exactly. You'd have to be absolutely flat broke for this to make any sense whatsoever. Why sell it at all? And, if it's so worthless, wouldn't you be more than a bit suspicious if the CEO were so keen to
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by bartread 3y ago
I think this is a lot of it: people order IPA because they think they know what it is and because they're everywhere. It's the John Smith's of the 2010s/20s. I went through a phase of drinking a lot of different IPAs, an
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by bartread 3y ago
> the last beer in the cooler at a party. I'm a bit surprised by this. I think a lot of my disappointment with Anchor stems from the fact that people raved about, and feted them, whereas to me they were always at about the level of

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