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by cdchn 3y ago
Your lack of participation at extracurricular activities will be recordlessly considered in your next compensation refresh.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Serious Morloch/Eloi vibes. Kind of the reason I prefer mid-market tech companies. More likely to treat "contractors" as equals. The place I'm at now they're indistinguishable internally from regular employees, th
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by cdchn 3y ago
LOC is so divorced from measures of productivity no rational shop actually uses it as a measure of productivity/value.
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by cdchn 3y ago
The developer who is removing more lines of code is frequently producing greater value than those who are adding them.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Code is a liability. More code != moar better.
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by cdchn 3y ago
BF2 = folie à deux
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by cdchn 3y ago
Same, the very term "human resources" feels dehumanizing.
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by cdchn 3y ago
I always thought the phrase "human resources" was itself intensely dehumanizing.
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by cdchn 3y ago
No takesies backsies.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Thats a blast from the past. In what year was he using RCS? If this was like the 90s this VCS was all the rage at about the same time "making yourself un-fire-able" was.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Step 1: Fire whomever in management let you get into this situation.
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by cdchn 3y ago
YOU. Those fusion cards were ahead of their time. Shame they didn't take off.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Thrown out by who? Steve Jobs? You're totally right about Woz's legendary status. He is essentially the living embodiment of the hacker ethos.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Not at all surprising to me. Recently I got 3 new LiftMaster garage door openers with the built in cameras. Over the course of a few months the HomeLink connection to the box supplied remotes stopped working, never worked syncing to (mult
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by cdchn 3y ago
Interesting. Why would they present it to the user? Are they presenting captchas to sites they're trying to scrape to their users?
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by cdchn 3y ago
Oh. That's kind of weird. Why/who would ape Cloudflare for their detect-a-bot interstitial?
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by cdchn 3y ago
Being rich and being an idiot aren't mutually exclusive either. Lacking scruples seems to be more important than having intelligence.
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by cdchn 3y ago
They even had an acronym for it: FOMO
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by cdchn 3y ago
>I can't stop thinking about how much fun it is to throw people off cliffs in Baldur's Gate 3. I was too worried about wasting loot then I finished the game with 20k gold and nothing to spend it on and thought "And nothing
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by cdchn 3y ago
It was the lowest friction way to get screenshots off a Playstation.
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by cdchn 3y ago
I know, it was a joke, but it seemed to have very solidly wooshed.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Bribes.
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by cdchn 3y ago
> Electroboom His "i electrocuted myself lol" schtick gets old fast but otherwise good.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Tech Ingredients is the only person out of all you listed that I wouldn't describe as "insufferable."
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by cdchn 3y ago
>Could have done without the Kraken shilling though, they are part of the problem. That made me a bit sad. That now he's getting paid by crypto - arguably the greatest scammer enabling technology since the telephone.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Its moderately depressing Kitboga has hitched his wagon to a crypto exchange.
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by cdchn 3y ago
It has a web telnet client so that probably has something to do with it.
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by cdchn 3y ago
Two lines put you in the BBS big leagues. I was turning the ringer off on my parent's phone and hoping nobody would call outside of my 10pm-6am BBS host time.
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by cdchn 3y ago
This has a web telnet client which is pretty cool, it even shows a little capture of logging into the site -- pretty neat! I've been trying to find info/screenshots/video of the old style 'lightbar' menus that were
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by cdchn 3y ago
Saturated their 14.4k modem.

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