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by c0vfefe 7y ago
> What do you mean when you say "should"? Probably "according to the original designers' intent," see this comment below you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20284550
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
If it wasn't intended to be a communication platform, then what was it intended to be?
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Perhaps they made it implicitly self-closing.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
The price we pay to try and capture 20-40% of our income in equity instead of it enriching someone else!
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Imagine never meeting a wife because you used a self-checkout, pumped your own gas, drove a car instead of taking an Uber, read a FAQ instead of calling customer support, watched TV instead attending local theater, played Minesweeper instea
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Did you happened to take on many more life responsibilities in the intervening years, e.g. parenting & home ownership?
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
HabitRPG also exists, for the full gamification effect.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
If they don't want older devs, why would they pay to join the board? PR?
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
> parse through what are often questionable answers from anon users, possibly still influenced by marketers I mean, that's Reddit though? No one's making you look there first, it's not "The Internet's" fault
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Or even "site:old.reddit.com" if it means that much to him.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Firebug has now been mostly integrated into the main dev tools.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Well, certain practices common within the meat industry are torturous, regardless of whether they're intended for fun. "Food, Inc." & "Earthlings" are good resources.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
It keeps people happy who might otherwise leave.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
People with a greater emphasis on work-life balance probably wouldn't stay at a job requiring occasional massive overtime, like the comment you replied to. At that point, the dinner after work is no longer the issue.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
This isn't the US, this is human nature. Or rather, "bad manager" nature. A dystopia would be where everybody was a bad manager.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
A good cop, and a bad cop. A buddy and a taskmaster.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
I'm glad for the sake of the future of electric vehicles that Tesla is retaining so much control, but as a customer/user I'd rather wait until more open options can come down the path Tesla's blazing.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
I think a more apt analogy would be those hand trucks that come on U-Hauls, where it's already physically on the truck, but just sealed up unless you pay a little extra. So if you don't buy the option it's not destroyed forev
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Education has nothing to do with elimination of greed. White-collar crime exists, after all. You can't out-nurture human nature.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
In the Information Age, value is chiefly derived from organization & presentation of information, rather than simply its availability.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
The classic dilemma of whether presenting the extreme version of your view will shock people towards , or away from your view.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
FWIW, coming from Chrome, the Firefox mobile UI was very frustrating to me also for about two weeks 'til I got used to it. Now it feels familiar and seamless.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Part of the whole problem with distracted driving is that danger is difficult to predict.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
This may be true, but in terms of priority, I'd estimate that a car carries multiple people only 5-10% of the time it's used.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
That's what it looks like from her point of view. One man's cooldown is another woman's shutting-out.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Polite fictions make the world go round!
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
The individualism of the Enlightenment and the sexual revolution has gutted the meaning-making institutions of Western society. We threw out the baby with the bathwater, and are by-&-large culturally programmed to pursue individual free
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Right; is "a free and open source 'Google'" a company? Because that's what Google is.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
I suppose if your process relies on that type of design happening regularly, remote work is not going to allow for that. But I don't think colocation is a requirement of iterative & reactive design.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
It's all about forcing in-person workers to use the same communication tools as remote workers - which is worse for those particular interactions, but better for the company overall.

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