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by bartread 4y ago
Good grief. That flashing search button GIF... and the similarly garish loading GIF. That is the 1990s web all over for me. A very powerful hit of nostalgia there. Particularly with this one: https://gifcities.org/?q=constru
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by bartread 4y ago
Yeah, this is the reality. I'm not going to name the tool but I went to a training session for one of these things recently and it pretty quickly devolved into programming: looping, branching, conditionals, etc. Except rather than raw
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by bartread 4y ago
Sure those people exist: but there are plenty of people who aren't that way. I've worked a couple of different places where the systems, processes and structures in place effectively rendered me as deadweight. In both cases it was
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by bartread 4y ago
I use Apple Maps for nav in the car because the Apple Carplay support is better, and it's usually pretty good, but I've had a couple of occasions recently where I've questioned the directions it's given me: like, why are
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by bartread 4y ago
Not to mention, backups, restores, and disaster recovery are so much easier with One Big Database™.
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by bartread 4y ago
Yeah, that's true, they were definitely more of an early 80s thing. I certainly don't remember seeing anything like them later than primary school years.
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by bartread 4y ago
That camera with the stack of flashbulbs tho! Used to see that sort of thing at weddings and other family events all the time in the 80s.
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by bartread 4y ago
I had a look. Wasn't as bad as I expected based on what you'd said. In fact, for a 90s corporate website it looks fine. Nice job winning the pitch!
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by bartread 4y ago
I didn't know I wanted to know the answer to this question but having now looked at that picture I reeeeaaaally do. You touch on a more serious point though: one of the issues that's apparent, at least here in the UK, is how subop
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by bartread 4y ago
That link just opens a standard map of the whole globe in a flat projection - I think you might need to use the sharing link generator to share what you intended.
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by bartread 4y ago
And now you're simply employing bad faith argument, which is basically impossible to constructively engage with: please don't do that.
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by bartread 4y ago
> I totally don't care about the Earth slowing down. Neither do I in day to day life. But I do have to care about it when I or members of my team write code, or store and retrieve data to and from a database, or work across multiple
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by bartread 4y ago
> It's frustrating that programmers want to redefine civil time just because it is "hard". This article glosses over the real world problems that detaching from UTC will cause. I agree, but I'm also - sad to say - les
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by bartread 4y ago
I think this talk about tracing traffic could well be missing a bigger point. The last time I left a Glassdoor review I had to provide a company email address to do it. This means, although publicly my review was anonymous, Glassdoor knew (
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by bartread 4y ago
Do you have any particular IC skillset? E.g., software development, QA, UX. Would you be willing to learn a new stack if you had to? No promises but, if so (and assuming you don't get plenty of better suggestions and offers here), drop
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by bartread 4y ago
Yes: this piece kind of lost me with the opening. Consumer software barely existed in 1999? Even ignoring games, have you ever seen the contents of a PC World cover CD? It's all over the map: there was consumer software for every conce
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by bartread 4y ago
> MP3 player UX has ever been comparable to what Spotify offers nowadays. You might have different experiences to me. My iPod was never a distraction whilst driving in the way that Spotify, with it's manifold failure modes and incon
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by bartread 4y ago
I've read this piece before. It's all very well for MS to get on their high horses about Easter Eggs but this quote in particular, at the very beginning, seriously grinds my gears: "One of the aspects of Trustworthy Computing
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by bartread 4y ago
Ah, you must have worked with Howard Scott Warshaw back in the day. He put his initials into his games as well, didn't he?
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by bartread 4y ago
That's why it's called an experimental treatment, and is why you only try it out on people who will certainly die if only treated in more conventional ways. You can't possibly have everything worked out before you try an expe
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by bartread 4y ago
I've seen and enjoyed quite a lot of those and, yes, there have been many great action-oriented films outside of Marvel (thankfully!). Mad Max: Fury Road is a real stand-out. Amongst the rest I've seen, I agree with you that they&
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by bartread 4y ago
What particularly struck me about Top Gun: Maverick, which I didn't expect at all, is that it held a very unflattering mirror up to the Marvel dross that's being endlessly churned out by showing how to make an absolutely great a
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by bartread 4y ago
I think the wider point here is that technologists represent a small portion of Samsung's target market. Most people won't know or care how to change an IP address in the TV's network settings. Whereas I fall into the "I
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by bartread 4y ago
I prefer vertical as well. Find it much easier to follow, possible because I'm used to working with code, which is also laid out vertically (and where I tend to break and indent long lines to make them easier to read).
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by bartread 4y ago
I think making a non-free Usenet is pretty much anathema to the whole concept of Usenet.
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by bartread 4y ago
You mention the filter effect: I think what really killed Usenet, at least for me, was spam, much of which was automated, with no great mechanism in place to combat it.
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by bartread 4y ago
It is a good idea but not an original one: what it's really doing is reinventing the vertical scrollbar, but placing it horizontally, with a bunch of the functionality missing.
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by bartread 4y ago
Seconded. I code outside of work now to keep myself sharp. It needs to be fun though, so I end up delving into things like 8-bit assembly, writing games, fiddling with MIDI or whatever.
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by bartread 4y ago
Thank you! I've been looking for a water-cooled laptop solution. I've tried the fan based laptop coolers and they're basically a waste of time (plus they add to fan noise). This is what I wanted. Nobody sells it, but I don&#x
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by bartread 4y ago
Same, and same spec machine (2015 15" maxxed out everything). I did manage to make it handle Zoom just fine by opening it up and blowing it out with an air duster, which I've been doing about every 6 months since 2018 or so. The i

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