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by dbrueck 4y ago
A big part of the problem is that it's not really a problem for companies to solve. Or, put another way, it's nearly impossible for most companies to address the problem in a non-ham-fisted way; arguably they end up doing more har
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I'm so sorry that this is your experience, and I'm sorry that you're being used. This is one of the unfortunate outcomes of so many DEI initiatives - or at least every single one I've seen directly or heard about secondh
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I can't decide if the font makes me angry or not.
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> I always feel like my vacation starts after I endure the entire airport + plane experience Your whole comment brought back so many great memories for me, but this hits the nail on the head. I've only done one long train ride but t
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Code captures only a portion of the thinking that went into the software's design. If you don't preserve the rest of that thinking elsewhere, you're forcing people to recreate / rediscover it later - and probably the mos
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Probably a very stupid question, but can someone help me understand the following: once you have airships that have a rigid shell, why isn't using a vacuum better than a lifting gas? Isn't the buoyant force simply the result of di
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I'm curious to know what specific lesson 'this' refers to, but hey, if we're tossing around hypotheticals: maybe the teacher was just lazy and/or crummy.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Nothing made my kids hate working with other people more than group projects at school. The projects were, without fail, a total disaster every single time.
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Yup! 400' AGL for every 1 deg C of temperature spread.
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It's also an easy way to get a rough estimate of the bottom of the clouds: 400' above the ground for every 1degC of difference between the temperature and the dew point. This is useful for a couple of things, including whether or
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by dbrueck 4y ago
It's actually fairly common (in my area, for example, it's common for the controller to tell you to follow the interstate for awhile, and it works especially well at night). Keep in mind too that just telling someone to fly a cert
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Last few have been my own, but I heartily recommend first joining other startups as an early employee - you win if the company does well, but even if it doesn't, you can win by gaining many years of experience in a smaller number of ca
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by dbrueck 4y ago
DIY, mostly. The first one that was truly my own I did by starting a dev-for-hire/consulting company and stashing some of the proceeds on the side to fund development of my first startup, and then from there it's self-sustaining.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Same boat as you, tried for a decade to figure it out, tried many of the suggestions here, eventually gave up and switched to starting small startups and then when they start to grow past a certain point, transitioning to someone else and t
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Slight correction: the baker refused to bake a cake celebrating a gay marriage (i.e. the refusal was not about who was asking for it but what was being asked for).
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by dbrueck 4y ago
What do you mean by "stable statutory definition"? Are you meaning to imply that they have removed subjectivity from identifying it? It seems like Germany's approach has the same problem that all others do, in that so-called
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It's a custom VM running inside their app, though calling it a VM might be a bit of a stretch because it doesn't appear to be a general purpose computing mechanism but more of higher level command processor. It sounds like the for
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Agreed - obfuscation is useful for keeping honest people honest. If someone is sufficiently motivated, they will circumvent it, but for the vast majority of people it's just not worth the effort so they'll move to something else.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
It is really gratifying to look outside every day and see the finished project, that's for sure. Overall I really enjoyed it, but I found that my ability to estimate the time for each step was way off - everything took far longer tha
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I recently built a largish shed in my back yard and although it's obviously far simpler than an actual house, it has many of the same core elements (including balloon framing), and it really struck me that someone like me could go from
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I'd gladly leave Spotify for a better alternative, and there is so much that could be done to make it better[1], but the article did little to point out Spotify's real flaws or make a compelling case for something better. [1] For
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by dbrueck 4y ago
It's one of the things I love about svelte. Obviously global styles live in a separate place, but having scoped JS/CSS alongside the HTML its related to is a godsend, especially as a project grows.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Ditto. It's my go-to for all new web projects - we just move so much quicker in it, and don't usually spend a whole lot of time thinking about it - most of the time, it just doesn't get in the way at all.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> [svelte] is utterly untenable for an actual product-serving business This is an overstatement. Use what you want and what works for you, but we've been using Svelte in production for years and overall are extremely happy with it.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Yes. A similar scenario is when I use a cheap microcontroller in some one-off project that uses only one or two GPIOs. I'll use an esp32 because I've got a bunch lying around and it's only a few bucks, but the fact that it&#x
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Others have given some good answers already, but I'll add one more: PDF is all about creating a final layout, but given a final layout, there are an infinite number of inputs that could have produced it, but if you are parsing the PDF,
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by dbrueck 4y ago
My biggest git gripe is that its cognitive load can get high pretty quickly, while really for a VCS you want it to be powerful but stupid easy all the time. For example, if you try to find info on best practices on non-trivial git stuff, yo
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by dbrueck 4y ago
These are such great questions, and worth exploring IMO. My thinking is biased towards online communities (like old Usenet groups or mailing lists) and not towards giant free-for-alls like Twitter, so I think I have a lot of blind spots, bu
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by dbrueck 4y ago
This is lumping together multiple problems, but IMO a platform that tries to police wrongthink from the top down is guaranteed to fail. For my part, I don't think anyone anywhere should be prevented from saying the dumbest things tha
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I posted some additional ideas in a reply to another comment that I think addresses some of your points, but actually I think you bring up a good point of another thing that is broken with both offline and online communities: reputation is

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