chpmrc

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by chpmrc 8y ago
A friend built https://arguman.org/ a few years ago. It's a platform for structured discussions ("argument analysis") which uses a different (IMHO better) approach to discussions than unstructured text.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
I don't think there is enough evidence to prove this claim but yeah, it's possible. It really depends on the size and culture of the company.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Actually removing even the tiniest barrier makes people want to try a feature that everyone thought was useless. Example: WhatsApp voice messages. They work so well because the barrier is extremely low: it's literally a single interact
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by chpmrc 8y ago
This strategy should be implemented only if you are absolutely willing to leave if they say no.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
How did this not get more attention??
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Docker on macOS literally halves the battery life (since it's running a VM).
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by chpmrc 8y ago
"Ask someone local you trust" already assumes you've been there for enough time to know and befriend some local, which is almost never the case, for frequent travellers, plus "private" (more often than not unlicense
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Very interesting. This website is completely unusable on Chrome 72 (MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2015) but is smooth as butter on Safari.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
> Setup went from intro chem to quantum mechanics Sums up frontend web development nowadays.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Anyone who has lived or is living in a foreign country, and doesn't speak the language, appreciates the presence (or lack thereof) of these services. I know I do. Without even considering that there are people who get very anxious talk
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Very much off topic but being in the process of choosing a "base" in the EU I'm curious to know where you ended up living, that has a good tech scene.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
This is in response to ordinaryperson's comment but I wanted to write it as a top level answer. Working from cafes can be awesome but make sure you're not a leech. My "decent cafe' customer checklist" is the followi
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by chpmrc 8y ago
> doesn't mean somebody else is going to find it You either failed to document it / name it properly or the other dev was too lazy to find it. Making 10 different variations of the same thing is purely a mistake, not a good rea
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Documentation, Ctrl+Shift+F (on most editors) or Ctrl+T (symbol based search on VSCode) and you try looking for something that "looks like it". It's not hard, it's just that most don't do it because they are lazy an
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by chpmrc 8y ago
I didn't know Theresa May wrote for The Economist. /s
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Here's a counterargument to that: you have to read and understand those "trivial" functions only once and just assume they are correct and do what they do when you keep encountering calls to them. > Modern IDEs help, but t
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Here's a counterargument to that: a developer wants to do exactly what's done in those 10 LOCs, but there's no function encapsulating that so the dev in question can't intuitively, or through the documentation, find a
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Couldn't help it. > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or M
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by chpmrc 8y ago
And the data proving this is where?
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by chpmrc 8y ago
There is "Oregon" on the map (with 54 jobs) but even if it was referring to Oregon City that's way off the actual location.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Doesn't answer parent's question. Django and Rails are both web frameworks.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Google should integrate this in Drive. It's just too easy to make diagrams this way.
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by chpmrc 8y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I've had experience with a family member having cancer myself and they lasted only 3 months. It's a trade-off: fighting for something you believe in and enjoying life. If we realize it's not worth
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by chpmrc 8y ago
What's more clear than being explicit about which fields will be published and which not? IMHO adding that to the main page is redundant and a waste of time and space. Specifically about field 7 are you suggesting we rephrase the descr
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by chpmrc 8y ago
All great points! I think we will have to face similar challenges. We're working on different options. One is along the lines of Glassdoor which allows companies to respond to reviews. If you have any references regarding the first par
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by chpmrc 8y ago
Hear, hear!
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by chpmrc 8y ago
No we are not. We are clearly stating that the data will be publicly available EXCEPT for those fields where the opposite is explicitly indicated. I really don't see how this could be more clear. EDIT: by the way we updated the related
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by chpmrc 8y ago
We've already done our research, of course, but before releasing any data we will lawyer up properly and make sure we're not in violation of any law or regulation ;)
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by chpmrc 8y ago
That is actually one of our goals but first we have to prove that there is an actual widespread interest in the community to put an end to this kind of behavior (this is what we need the data for) and that we tried to get in touch with thes
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by chpmrc 8y ago
The same way websites like Glassdoor guarantee that the reviews posted on their websites are real. Hint: they don't :) A company's reputation isn't ruined by 1 or 2 nasty reviews (which will be deleted in a timely fashion sho

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