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by bartread 5y ago
Sure, I work in tech, but like plenty of other people who work in tech, it's not as simple as "just move somewhere else." I've only ever driven through Texas, and it's a big state, so I can't comment on what it
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by bartread 5y ago
You can't compare HIV/AIDS to COVID in this simplistic way, including the attitudes and public debate around them, and this comment is dangerously close to some sort of public health version of a Godwin's Law violation. What
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by bartread 5y ago
Tend to agree. And, yes, there are people who get really hostile with these kinds of conversations (HN is a decent-sized community, so not surprising, and it's not always the same people in every discussion so I'd like to avoid an
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by bartread 5y ago
Doesn't work on Chrome/MacOS. Go for Quick Game and then Got It (which is slightly off the bottom of the page) and then... nothing.
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by bartread 5y ago
I mean, he literally says that he immediately reported the crash to the FAA and NTSB at the beginning of the video. It's certainly both fascinating and terrifying to watch, but wouldn't the FAA investigate, regardless of whether o
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by bartread 5y ago
> By an ostensibly "luxury" brand, no less. Bose aren't luxury: they're premium mediocre. They're expensive - overpriced in fact - but have a supremely competent marketing team who are probably responsible for mo
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by bartread 5y ago
Wow. A mere 3 weeks to get something done. I worked somewhere once where it took 8 months to implement a two page sign-up process, and I counted about 60 people involved. A colleague said I didn't know the half of it and that there wer
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by bartread 5y ago
If you mean it's turning into a grinding and repetitive groundhog day, I concur. We don't even use log4j and yet are fielding a steady stream of requests to reassure clients that we've mitigated against it, which hasn't
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by bartread 5y ago
Same. I'd have got repeated calls from PagerDuty, and probably not that much sleep, if we'd seen any impact from this.
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by bartread 5y ago
No stress. Here are a handful: - As I mentioned, our business is very different to Basecamp's. We're a technology driven MR and insights consultancy that is increasingly platform and product focussed. As such we have four or five
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by bartread 5y ago
I'm assuming by this, in the last paragraph: "By realizing that the world is always changing, and by stopping to complain, we opt out of seeing the world through cynical glasses, and become part of the change. When we realize that
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by bartread 5y ago
Sort of, but that's not been the real value of Shape Up, at least not for us. We've found it's changed the conversation about what to build into one framed by investment and return, which has helped to take a lot of the emoti
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by bartread 5y ago
I don't know that I entirely agree. It's a bit plain Jane - reminds me of CDE in the 90s - but it's not unattractive. I can see it for a more focussed work environment, maybe, but I could say the same of a terminal running fu
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by bartread 5y ago
Well, and also, isn't it basically free to implement an RSS feed for a website on every common content management platform, blog generator, etc.?
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by bartread 5y ago
> counter programming and to skip the 18 minutes of advertising per hour of TV. ^^^This. I basically can't tolerate watching anything on ITV, Sky, or other commercial TV in the UK nowadays, nor for well over a decade, due to the fre
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by bartread 5y ago
Thanks for the tip. Weird thing is I'm not the only one experiencing these issues with the same model of laptop. Possibly a bad batch, but worthy of further investigation, for sure.
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by bartread 5y ago
> Maybe NZ has socialized healthcare? In which case you need to relinquish "personal liberties" to access medical resources. That argument does not hold water. Socialised healthcare, as we have in the UK (I'm not sure abou
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by bartread 5y ago
I simply like the fact that I can take an ISO file and easily mount it as a drive in my OS. It might be a breakfast of a format, but all that complexity is nicely hidden away from me and it "just works".
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by bartread 5y ago
Lot of people making comments about Google and Android here, and I can understand why, but they aren't the only company who make an operating system where Teams interacts unfavourably with the core OS. No matter how many Windows update
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by bartread 5y ago
> The Catholic Church has reversed itself on earlier condemnations and beliefs, notably of heliocentrism and the conviction of Galileo. But nobody changed their minds or admitted a mistake: people just died or retired and were replaced b
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by bartread 5y ago
This very topic is covered in Eric Hoffer's book, "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". He's talking more about religious and political movements than companies but, with the way many companies t
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by bartread 5y ago
Yeah, funny you mention that. I did a bit of digging after I'd written that comment and, well, he's certainly said and done some quite unsavoury things.
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by bartread 5y ago
> Rumble for now promises Not to become a censorship platform like YouTube is now currently. Which is all fine and good until people start filing copyright claims, lawyering up, withdrawing adverts, and cancelling subscriptions. Not to m
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by bartread 5y ago
As others have pointed out, the Zoom part isn't the big problem here. The delivery is. Just for starters, within under a minute he's made the whole thing about him. Comments like, "Last time I cried," and, "I hope I
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by bartread 5y ago
> IMO the problem with modern cars is the airbags in the A-pillar. The pillars have gotten so wide that you have to consciously bob your head around back and forth (like a fighter pilot, of course...) to look around both sides of it. Exa
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by bartread 5y ago
This is a follow-up piece to Karl's earlier video, "Exposing FRAUD and DECEPTION in The Retro Video Game Market," from a few months back, which you can find at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A .
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The Retro Video Game Scam Gets Worse [video](youtube.com)
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by bartread 5y ago
I worked on an event sourced system once, many years ago. I'm not saying I hate the separation of write and read models, and all the challenges that brings (heck, the platform I'm working on now does that, and it's not a big
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by bartread 5y ago
This is a valid point. I've observed or been involved in a number of acquisitions at various distances over many years. There are any number of reasons an acquisition might not go ahead and, of course, as the potential acquirer you obv
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by bartread 5y ago
Do you perhaps mean "Radical Candor" by Kim Scott, rather than "Radical Focus"?

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