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by bpizzi 7y ago
> That is a terrible attitude IMHO - why should they have to have to learn how to talk to developers? Your cynicism towards “typical users” probably harms you and your career. I think I'm sensing a bit of anger in your tone, looking
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by bpizzi 7y ago
Well, it does says a lot about users too. The typical user would have a hard time describing a software problem beyond 'I don't know, it is just not working anymore'.
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by bpizzi 7y ago
> But, there are these "small" hacks: It joins Z with the ctrl key. Z has to be hit twice to type Z. Sounds like the end of the world, right? I'm not sure I'm reading you correctly, but you do know that you can change
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by bpizzi 7y ago
> rather a handful of government. Which are mostly democracies, or sort of. China, Russia and North Korea apart, every big population center is governed in a way or another threw a certain form of consensus. > humanity at the moment a
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by bpizzi 7y ago
> we could instead revisit the concept we have of growth You say 'we' like humanity wasn't 7 billions or so completely autonomous actors. This would be a more accurate sentence: '7 billions autonomous actors could dec
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by bpizzi 7y ago
That's why there's so much blank space between the paragraphs! /s
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by bpizzi 7y ago
> I'm not a child prodigy, so learning anything takes focussed effort over time. Like (almost) everyone else here. > The second it gets hard, or boring, my ability to stay on task diminishes rapidly. Bis. The thing is to be res
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by bpizzi 7y ago
This hits home, being born and growing as a kid in Lyon, having played AITD on the family's 386 in 1993/4 or so, and later practiced rowing for years on the Saône river right in front of Atari's ship-shaped buildings, even gi
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by bpizzi 7y ago
This guy can't be a 10x engineer, because the first thing you learn when being admitted in "Rule #1: you do not talk about 10x engineers" (I can, because I wasn't invited myself and heard it via someone they dumped).
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by bpizzi 7y ago
I think that 'to avoid merging or committing to public branches' means 'to avoid pushing' here, specifically the 'to public branches ' part. Because, obviously , it's pushing commits that's proble
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by bpizzi 7y ago
In theory I agree with your stance. OTOH, in the real world, almost all websites that I've got to migrate are somewhat hardcoded for one domain (I've got this side project were I do websites hosting, good recurring money, little w
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Vaccine for Alzheimer's on the verge of becoming a reality(wired.co.uk)
2 points by bpizzi 7y ago|0 comments
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by bpizzi 7y ago
At work (enterprise stuff) we've grown tired of duplicating 1000's lines of boring CRUD stuff and turned to code generation. Which is so much better. The workflow now is: - think really hard for 10 minutes about the business probl
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by bpizzi 7y ago
'If we didn’t have exceptions, we would have to write a lot of if-statements all over the place. [...] We can focus on the happy path.' In my own experience in developing and supporting enterprise class software, focusing on the &
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure Command+P is much better than anything Vim could offer for quickly opening files Actually, you're wrong here: https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim .
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Link to the paper: https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/496086
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New molecules reverse memory loss linked to depression and aging, in mice(camh.ca)
4 points by bpizzi 8y ago|1 comments
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by bpizzi 8y ago
That may be 'Look To Winward', where a war retired Mind is having a lot of philosophical conversations with the local human music composer. Actually this Mind is not actually captaining a moving ship, he's retired into nursin
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Hey, I see what you're on, don't steal my prospect :D (joking ;))
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Two things: build the form and collect the data. Now that I think about it, it's a "surveymonkey" disguised in "change.org", actually.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
https://www.kimsufi.com/
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Sure, the typical customer is this semi-professional non-profit organization that need something more "result driven" than change.org when it comes to build its audience (nothing black hat, really).
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by bpizzi 8y ago
It's definitely not a simple CRUD vanilla app, thought.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
I've built a petition system that allow users to publish their own petitions and download signatures lists. Got a handful of loyal customers acquired threw relations. MRR is ~500€ since +10 years. Won't give the url here because i
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> And you're not considering the widespread preference for Buddhist and animist religion [...] Actually I'm not considering anything, I was just pointing that the theory in the parent's book could be reversed.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Or maybe the starting point is that sapiens' DNA really is shaped for ruling. That sapiens mostly preferred 'Abrahamic religion' to others is then a consequence to this starting point.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> three or four days learning it Now this is being ambitious :)
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> For example, when deciding on the color of a new logo, or what to do for a company trip, there's no obvious canonically true solution. Therefore, opinions and personal preferences come into play, which is a source of conflict. Ha,
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by bpizzi 8y ago
I'm not sure, there's definitely people (I mean, there must be others than myself ;)), mostly introverted, that shine best when they know that the relationship is based on pure facts and no unforeseeable tension may arise from hur
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> As if that is always possible. Were your responding to 'make it physically impossible for the child to access a hot oven.'? If yes, then you're wrong: its (99%) always possible. Just buy and install a kid's barrier

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