csande17

39 ms·

451.
by csande17 4y ago
Say, for sake of argument, that I'm the World's Greatest Widget Engineer. I'm worth more than the average employee at my company, so I can get stuff I want by negotiating individually with my employer. On the other hand, if a
452.
by csande17 4y ago
If you use Mozilla's VPN, you have to trust that they won't backdoor their VPN client in order to serve their public policy goals. (Mozilla has taken a lot of public stances against things like "disinformation" and &quot
453.
by csande17 4y ago
> Their promotion of subscription pricing over other business models is anti-consumer. It's funny you should mention this, because Apple's compatibility treadmill is one of the biggest things driving developers towards the subs
454.
by csande17 5y ago
Online high schools are already a thing; Connections Academy is the largest where I live. I took a few classes there, and from what I remember, the primary mode of instruction was a janky early-2000s webapp that presented excerpts and quiz
455.
by csande17 5y ago
> Ask yourself why you do this for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton and no other politicians. ...Because there are sitting members of Congress with the names "Donald", "Joe", and "Harris", and a former pres
456.
by csande17 5y ago
> (including, with respect to the Margin Loan Facility a condition which requires that the borrower thereunder satisfy a maximum loan to value ratio of 20%, which is expected be satisfied by the contributions of a portion of Mr. Musk’s u
457.
by csande17 5y ago
Microsoft Word already shipped their version of this feature, and it informed me that it was not inclusive to describe the main character of The Music Man as a "salesman".
458.
by csande17 5y ago
Isn't this why Internet service providers have multiple bandwidth tiers? If you don't want to use your Internet connection for bandwidth-intensive tasks, you can save money by buying a slower plan.
459.
by csande17 5y ago
If you want to get nitpicky, Hatsune Miku is a voice synthesizer and character design that anyone can use, whereas VTubers usually have one person who "is" the character. A VTuber is basically the video equivalent of someone who u
460.
by csande17 5y ago
Despite the name (and the misleading-at-first-glance "demo" on the home page), Lexical appears to be a rich text editor like Quill or ProseMirror, not a code editor.
461.
by csande17 5y ago
I am skeptical that, particularly in software, rolling releases are a net improvement. If users are locked into subscription services or monetized via data collection, version N+1 no longer needs to be better than version N for the company
462.
by csande17 5y ago
Sometimes, I've just kept on coding through the meeting. It's like listening to a podcast as you code. You do have to keep one ear out in case someone asks you a question directly, but listening for your name Alexa-wake-word-style
463.
by csande17 5y ago
My favorite Agile failure case is when you have all the meetings and still fail, because you spent all your time on Agile paperwork instead of designing and building a product.
464.
by csande17 5y ago
Is your core concern here the fact that when Paul Graham writes about things he likes, his posts have a positive tone, and when he writes about things he dislikes, his posts have a negative tone?
465.
by csande17 5y ago
It is not clear to me that correlation would hold if there were dramatic changes to the reporting and enforcement of non-murder crimes. (And that's assuming that murders are in fact being reported at the same rate, and not being miscla
466.
by csande17 5y ago
Violent crime levels as reported by the police departments who are allegedly ignoring all the crime, or are you getting your data from some other source?
467.
by csande17 5y ago
I don't think anything is impossible in big commercial engines. I mean, IIRC Unreal Engine gives you a Visual Studio project containing all of the engine's C++ code, so theoretically if you use Unreal your game could be any lega
468.
by csande17 5y ago
Yeah, one difference between React and, say, Unreal Engine is that Unreal Engine is the brand for the whole package while React is the brand for one of the core components. ("I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you'
469.
by csande17 5y ago
For me, at least, I like to write my own engines to get the end-user experience I want. Every game engine comes with a million little decisions about how games should work by default, and writing my own engine lets me make those decisions
470.
by csande17 5y ago
Unicode was supposed to save us from language-specific codepages, but alas...
471.
by csande17 5y ago
Even if you suck, tremendously, at management, if you're the least bit good at programming people will never stop trying to push you into management. (The Peter Principle in action!)
472.
by csande17 5y ago
YouTube is allowed to make content moderation decisions, and we are allowed to talk about why we think it's wrong for them to make the decisions they did. Or, to slightly paraphrase another pro-censorship cliche, freedom not to carry s
473.
by csande17 5y ago
> By default, the client already expects the server to fulfill a gatekeeping role in filtering (censoring!) spam. This is how a lot of email clients currently work, but it is not a fundamental law of the universe. Back in the day, you co
474.
by csande17 5y ago
If con artists convinced speculative investors to spend millions of dollars on Tesla Model 3s, light them on fire, and dump them into the ocean, I would not blame Tesla for the reduced availability of Model 3s.
475.
by csande17 5y ago
Dependency Injection frameworks definitely seem like one of those technologies that primarily exists to allow people to get away with bad designs, rather than making it easier to create good designs.
476.
by csande17 5y ago
Personally, I don't know how anyone could learn algebra without first understanding the concept of a variable. In programming, one generally thinks of variables like "boxes" that you can put values in (with, eg, `i = int(in
477.
by csande17 5y ago
Fastmail recommends setting them as the DNS nameserver for your domain. If you do that, then they'll automatically add any records needed to host websites with them. (They'll also set up records for stuff like DKIM and SPF for you
478.
by csande17 5y ago
> But searches made in the drive UI are not. What? Yes they are! Browser history includes every page you navigate to, including the "search results for 'tps report'" page of a cloud storage service.
479.
by csande17 5y ago
I feel like "literally any URL supplied by anyone capable of visiting your website" and "some random guy from the Internet, with no connection to you or your company whatsoever, who was recently arrested for trying to burn hi
480.
by csande17 5y ago
Given the number of times we have failed to learn the lesson "downloading code from untrusted sources and running it is a bad idea" -- the log4j and NPM colors fiascos spring to mind -- I think it's fair to conclude that this

More ›