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by chasing 4y ago
Just to say it, for measurements that take a unit I am hardcore that you should include the unit in the variable time: `timeSeconds` `distanceMeters` `amountDollars` Have unit tests and everything, but also write your code so that when some
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by chasing 4y ago
"Hey, boss. I'm going to need you to go ahead and pay me twice as much this week. Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to work any extra. But just think of the sense of accomplishment you'll have seeing me drive into t
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by chasing 4y ago
> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools. I’m an individual developer and I pay for tools all the time . They just have to be of value to me. If developers weren’t paying for your tool, maybe look within.
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by chasing 4y ago
I don't know what he's like deep inside, but in public he comes off as an enormously powerful man who is childish, cruel, not nearly as smart as he thinks, and is (frankly) really annoying. If he doesn't want people reacting
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by chasing 4y ago
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable. And what might we learn from this?
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by chasing 4y ago
No, they can't.
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by chasing 4y ago
...and then you have kids.
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by chasing 4y ago
If the United States had universal healthcare and education wasn't brutally expensive then more people could justify being entrepreneurial. You can't have society in which almost all wealth flows upwards and normal people are c
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by chasing 4y ago
Yup. I have to pay Google a chunk of change every month to do something I used to be able to do for myself for free. Because suddenly they flagged my domain and no one would get any of my e-mails. And there ain’t nothing I can do but pay.
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by chasing 4y ago
I live in a place where in-person restaurants are an important part of the culture and community. Even when I order food, I want to support those places. I respect that operating out of a warehouse might be a way to break into the restauran
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by chasing 4y ago
I just can't believe that aggregator sites would be gamed by bad actors... Shocked, I tell you. Also, on all of these delivery services I desperately just want a "no cloud kitchens" option. I want to support local businesses
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by chasing 4y ago
Of course there's still a lot of freaky flag-flying happening. I just meant that now it feels like everyone's shouting in the same room — a room 1/3rd full of people trying to maximize the cash value of shouting and 1/3r
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by chasing 4y ago
This is amazing. I miss the days when the web truly felt like a vast tapestry of people energetically letting their freak flags fly. Pave paradise, put up... an algorithm to maximize engagement.
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by chasing 4y ago
> ...as long as they don't hurt anybody. And that's the problem. A lot of wield these beliefs like weapons and go out of their way to cause pain.
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by chasing 4y ago
Because it sheds light on the American political situation by highlighting a surprising set of facts that many people in educated tech circles may not be aware of. We want an enlightened society. Education is something we should be working
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by chasing 4y ago
Transgendered men can become pregnant, yes. Literally.
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by chasing 4y ago
That's why the religious right cares about it and not the dozens of other things they could be focusing on to save lives — from gun control to universal healthcare to environmental conservation. They won't budge on that shit. But
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by chasing 4y ago
The actual disagreement is whether individuals should have the right to enjoy their own sexual freedom. The religious right says "no." The cases we're going to see the Supreme Court tear apart are about abortion, contraceptio
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by chasing 4y ago
> As a society, we may need a platform where educational/government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this. We do: It's called Their Own Web
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by chasing 4y ago
This is why your CEO shouldn't be spending his days on Twitter bleating out college freshman-level hot takes on "freedom of speech." Right or wrong, this sort of thing will become like catnip and make everybody look ridiculou
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by chasing 4y ago
> This capacity to produce a stable, psychological model of self is also widely understood to be at the core of the phenomenon we call “consciousness”. No, it's not. If you're calling something "conscious" you're
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by chasing 4y ago
Agreed. Best case experiences were in rooms that felt like mid-tier tech conference panels. Clubhouse could've leaned into the above idea and really figured it out. Like, how do you mix the experience of a live in-person panel of exper
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by chasing 4y ago
A significant part of the debate is simply scientists going, "please, for the love of god, look at the data."
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by chasing 4y ago
Speak like an empathic human being, not like an asshole, not like a robot.
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by chasing 4y ago
Mildly interesting article until he starts whining about "lefties" and straw-manning what he thinks their reactions to all of this will be. To which: No. Humoring people who make up mental disorders for social media clout is not &
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by chasing 4y ago
No need to bother, there are plenty of people who will be doing this for you. Your contributions will be mere drops in the grotesque and offensive ocean.
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by chasing 4y ago
I might trust my kid. I do not trust people in cars.
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by chasing 4y ago
Turn off the feature and go about your day. That's what I do with grammar checkers, anyway, for many of the reasons you just described. As far as I can tell, using the passive voice or saying "I think" too often has neither h
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by chasing 4y ago
It is a suggestion, people. The same way you're allowed to missspell words as much as you want despite the little red squiggly line thing, you're welcomed to either ignore or disable the little purple squiggly line thing. It'
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by chasing 4y ago
Currency created to get around regulations used to get around regulations. News at 11.

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