borbulon

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by borbulon 3y ago
I did NOT do well on this quiz. Remind me to run any time someone says they invent programming languages.
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by borbulon 3y ago
you're assuming that without electricity, I don't know how to take care of myself.
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by borbulon 3y ago
That window was dead center of HS, right above Curious George. The entrance to my work was right across Brattle.
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by borbulon 3y ago
having lived in the tech age, I'm not completely against that idea.
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by borbulon 3y ago
I am against this and think it's pretty unconscionable, but I will say this in defense of Google collecting my data: Google's entire business model is predicated on the fact that they and only they know who I am. As soon as they s
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by borbulon 3y ago
It’s a satiation attack (my term). The hope is you’ll get so frustrated at the frequency of the emails that you’ll eventually just press yes or ok or whatever it is that allows the reset.
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by borbulon 3y ago
My friend, it may be one of the most important lessons you learn. I have Stage IV lung cancer and have had some brain metastases along the way which can thankfully be cleared quickly (mostly due to my proximity to boston). I do not know how
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by borbulon 3y ago
I found Kurzgesagt has a very good ELI5 on how cancer grows in the body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFhYJRqz_xk I have lung cancer, stage 4. My cancer has a mutation that is uncommon in lung cancers (< 2%), but comm
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by borbulon 3y ago
Our house had photos that made it all look so small and close, which is the exact opposite of what you get when you walk in the door. We were supposed to be auditioning the RE agent but we walked out saying “this is the house we’re going to
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by borbulon 3y ago
isn't a proto-pizza just foccacia with some stuff on top?
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by borbulon 3y ago
I could spend days in front of just one of his real works.
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by borbulon 3y ago
> Have you always been so sensitive about being a Negro? I know this interview is from 1962, but are you fucking kidding me?
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by borbulon 3y ago
Let's not forget that the in-app browser page can be injected with whatever javascript the owner of the app wants. FB/Instagram use this for tracking. There is a more comprehensive list of what apps do this somewhere; I do not rem
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by borbulon 3y ago
TBH Fear of death isn't really the issue for me (well, maybe a little, but I've done high-dose ketamine treatments twice). Right now it's the fear of living - of doing this same thing for the next 10, 15, 20 years. Chemo ever
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by borbulon 3y ago
I have stage 4 lung cancer. I'm not "battling" cancer. It's not a "battle." It's stage 4. Cancer will eventually win. At best I am "prolonging the inevitable." I am not "courageously fightin
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by borbulon 3y ago
if you can't figure out how to manage remote-only teams, then the problem isn't the workers, it's you.
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by borbulon 3y ago
What did you do for exercise? Do you mind me asking what your chemo was? Was it mutation-specific? Good luck with the surgery!
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by borbulon 3y ago
I was walking 10+ miles every day when I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer, which means it was growing pretty much the entire time I was exercising. It’s not just Diet, exercise and sleep (and proper eating). Some of it is just plain l
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by borbulon 3y ago
I prefer solving puzzles -as- my work. If I’m not doing work that gives me the opportunity to take a Problem Solved Victory Lap every once in a while, I don’t want the job.
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by borbulon 4y ago
I tend to agree on this one. Yes, there is a whole lot of jockeying to be a chokepoint (an artificial barrier between business and customer where even more money can be extracted for minimal service). I can't stand chokepoints, it&#x27
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by borbulon 4y ago
Ok, I’m giving you the killer app idea A messenger which you type what you want into, and it translates it into friendly-speak before sending it to (your mom/your ex/your coworker) Just give me 2% of the sale price once you sell o
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by borbulon 4y ago
I find this whole thing fascinating. Lots of companies making seemingly bad decisions where the "metaverse" is concerned. Meta/FB dedicating so many resources to this as-yet-truly-defined thing seems silly to me, I'm not
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by borbulon 4y ago
At least that’s what I’ve heard
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by borbulon 4y ago
"Oh Agent Starling, you think you can dissect me with this blunt little tool?" Look, I think they're useful as a general idea, though I'd never use them to tell me anything concrete, even with the caveat that all people
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by borbulon 4y ago
it's entirely possible to "win" a debate and still be dead f*king wrong.
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by borbulon 4y ago
this is an underrated comment. Any long-term software, really. What you're building will, if it's big enough, essentially be a snapshot of a moment in tech.
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by borbulon 4y ago
It’s not just YouTube, the Google mobile app feed has the same issues. It’s like they take one thing you read or watched and then try to throw anything even tangentially related at you ad nauseam and don’t really listen when you say “not in
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by borbulon 4y ago
You're skipping the part where Google grew because they were opening new channels for growth - YouTube was only a few years old and growing, in 2008 Android had just been released and DoubleClick had just been bought. Now their growth
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by borbulon 4y ago
@TODO is a real person on github as well
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by borbulon 4y ago
First off, there's this weird thing about management - "you're good at your job, let's give you a completely different job to do." It sounds like your company is more worried about someone's work product than t

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