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by deckard1 9y ago
They did a study using Facebook. But I'm more curious about Instagram. "Look at all these rich beautiful people with millions of followers sailing around the world on their yachts." Ten minutes on Instagram is enough to fill
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by deckard1 9y ago
People live in Slack and github today. The last time I had an actual conversation via email was probably 2 years ago. It's rather refreshing to see the Linux kernel keeping the tradition of using mailing lists. Every company I've
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by deckard1 9y ago
Worse than that, I think. You can claim the npm account that published the package has zero relation to your github page that hosts the untainted source. The amount of times I've gone to npmjs.com, looked for the "official" v
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by deckard1 9y ago
eh? You're not running Android on iOS on the thing. It's still emulation (or "virtualized" environment), and it's still largely going to be crap.
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by deckard1 9y ago
> However, this side-channel mechanism could enable someone to potentially extract some information that otherwise would not be accessible to software from processors that are performing as designed and not based on a flaw or bug. I&#x27
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by deckard1 9y ago
We'll have to dig a time machine out and go back to 1998 then. I'm being a facetious ass. But you know I'm not wrong, either.
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by deckard1 9y ago
Which all comes from taxing... Jeff Bezos? This all feels like we're sleepwalking into a nightmarish hell far beyond A Brave New World or 1984. Amazon, drones, mass surveillance, erosion of privacy. The day will come when we no longer
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by deckard1 9y ago
> I think that's sorta what people mean when they say people are doing Agile wrong - they do these things that are explicitly discouraged. Usually how it goes. It's like critics of communism. Or libertarianism. Maybe--just mayb
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by deckard1 9y ago
Same here. I love working remote, and have been doing it for nearly 5 years now. The idea of getting up early, getting into a car, driving an hour, and sitting at a table with 20 other people surrounding you in one of those open offices t
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by deckard1 9y ago
> undoubtedly benefits for consumers when you have a decentralized marketplace I'm not disputing that. What I'm disputing is the idea that corporations are willing to give up that much control over their copyright so that consu
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by deckard1 9y ago
Cryptokitties is little more than a scam to bring kids into the world of Ethereum speculation. They make part of their money via their marketplace, which of course has zero to do with the blockchain. Most people aren't going to care wh
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by deckard1 9y ago
> Digital Pokemon cards, 2nd hand ebooks market, 2nd hand digital assets market None of these are realistic examples. Do you think Nintendo won't want a piece of that digital trading market? Or Amazon, for ebooks? Digital assets are
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by deckard1 9y ago
you joke, but I get the sneaking suspicion that many of my co-workers don't squash commits simply because they are gaming github metrics. Didn't help that my company went as far as saying they used # commits as a guide for annual
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by deckard1 9y ago
> people always get weird UI requirements I would say this is dancing around the issue. The fact is, you need a unique UX, or your app will lose its identity in a sea of competitors. You can't build something interesting by using
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by deckard1 9y ago
> It's like having a db, but on the front end eh. Not really. Because there is no schema, what happens is the Redux store turns into a mess. You got 10, 20, 30 developers working on an app, no one has a clue what any of the Redux va
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by deckard1 9y ago
> but a more realistic opinion is that they actually do matter, by warping how you think about the problem Yes, and this is a more general problem with tools. In some cases, the tool changes your attitude towards the activity in very sub
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by deckard1 9y ago
> make depersonalized unoriginal loop music Seems like the art fits the times, then. We live in a society where it's easier to "like" something on Facebook, or "friend" someone on Instagram rather than talking in
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by deckard1 9y ago
Well, considering this article on Ableton never even uses conventional musical notation and many working musicians sit in front of their DAW all day, I think it's safe to say that the virtual piano roll has largely taken over the roll
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by deckard1 10y ago
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512439121/trumps-executive-ord... > prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individua
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by deckard1 10y ago
> have something resembling useful discourse. How do you debate a person that denies objective reality, and embraces their very own alternative reality? I don't think you can. For the same reason you can't negotiate with terror
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by deckard1 10y ago
Engineers often operate under the false belief that they can solve social problems with technology. And the systems they build rely on participants being rational actors that subscribe to a shared system of values. They end up devolving int
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by deckard1 10y ago
Not sure if you're only considering Unix/BSD-ish OSes here or not. But there are perhaps hundreds of such projects. http://tunes.org/cliki/operating_20systems.html You may want to dig around that entire site
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by deckard1 10y ago
An article, for anyone that has missed it: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine... Relates casinos to World of Warcraft, mobile gaming, and everything else that uses similar feedb
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by deckard1 10y ago
No idea why you're getting downvotes. You're completely right. I was there when GNOME started. Was working heavily with GTK+ and GIMP at the time. Most of GNOME was tossed together haphazardly in a mad dash to catch up with KDE. T
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by deckard1 10y ago
in what way? Are you referring to the slightly apocalyptic connotation of the word? Or are you suggesting there won't be a conclusion to the election?
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by deckard1 10y ago
I had to look it up, but it appears OnLive was shut down in 2015 and patents sold off to Sony. I was completely skeptical at their claims with respect to latency. I never believed they could get the service to work, and for enough people to
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by deckard1 10y ago
People love to say this. But it's total mythology. For the vast majority of people living in LA, the bus is not an option. Your 30 minute commute will turn into a 3 hour slog. Freedom of location is severely limited once you have a sig
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by deckard1 10y ago
To make matters worse, each package gets its own node_modules directory. Do a grep for 'async' in your node_modules. Mine contains ~20 instances of it. Some of those, probably, are the exact same version. Going further down shit
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by deckard1 10y ago
> the JS community seems to prefer just trusting that new versions won't break anything. Its either very brave of them really (or maybe just foolish). Let's not pretend that we aren't all blindly tossing in random libs of
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by deckard1 10y ago
I feel your pain. Few years ago my company switched to an open office layout. There was a temporary arrangement issue, so I had to sit in the sales section of the floor for a few weeks. I don't think I accomplished a single thing the e

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