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Zimbabwe crisis turns spotlight on China’s role in Africa(ft.com)
3 points by dictum 9y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 9y ago
This is every corporate job ever.
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by dictum 9y ago
Don't explain it, let them piece together their own imagination from Hollywood depictions of tech workers and news reports about tech companies. Sometimes the best inspiration is to imagine the alternative ;)
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by dictum 9y ago
Agreed on all points. Perhaps I'm advocating for a frivolous courtesy versus a fully rational process. Maybe the rational process works better than my suggested approach, but my intuition says no, and would prefer that it be done in a
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by dictum 9y ago
> I didn't see anybody implying that people asking for feaures are "lesser people" or "lesser developers". I admit that I may be reading too much into the dynamic at play here. To be precise, naturalgradient did
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by dictum 9y ago
Sometimes even a well-formatted, respectful issue feels like a thank you.
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by dictum 9y ago
I get what you're saying, but even without the requested feature, the existing code also took time, mental effort and opportunity costs to come into existence — the user sees it and naturally imagines, "there's more where thi
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by dictum 9y ago
I'm not against offering to work on the problem in exchange for money. I'm against outright responding to a feature request with an estimate. If you don't want to work on the feature (i.e. you're uninterested ), it&#x27
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by dictum 9y ago
"Stamping out widgets" is the classic industrial equivalent, and the idea certainly dates back to the first craftspeople. For instance, when their whole work is considered, nurses are essential, but their work can be similarly red
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by dictum 9y ago
The reverse @tjholowaychuk ;) (If you're a 10x engineer, check his new tool for 1e10x engineers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15731936 )
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by dictum 9y ago
Honestly, this exudes arrogance, even if the intention is completely free of ill will. It's better to say a clear NO ("I will not add this feature" or "I cannot implement this at this time"), and let them figure if
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by dictum 9y ago
Done incorrectly, this can sound passive aggressive, but I suggest adding a short notice in your README: - Feature requests should follow ((list your rules)). All requests that don't follow the rules will be ((closed|ignored)) - ((The
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by dictum 9y ago
Thanks, but my comment was entirely in jest.
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by dictum 9y ago
It all started when Google banned all software that can not be used for Evil: http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code
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by dictum 9y ago
Safari has been my main work browser for a while, and I really like it, but as soon as you need an extension, it's a sad story... It's not that you cannot make good extensions for Safari. Apple closed the doors for non registered
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by dictum 9y ago
Anecdote time: I skipped Yosemite altogether (had a feeling it wasn't quite ready, and the discoveryd, wifi issues etc. had me vindicated), but El Capitan was really smooth (rose tinted glasses maybe, but I remember it beating my Snow
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by dictum 9y ago
I don't see where the parent comment implies Group 2 is expected to produce "higher-valued" thoughts. Neither more diversity of thought between members of a group OR a single leaning, shared by all members of a group impl
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by dictum 9y ago
I genuinely believe one of those IoT companies will start banning users who talk of legal recourse for hate speech or some such.
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by dictum 9y ago
For anyone (like me) who was surprised by FF Beta upgrading from a point release to 57.0: > Note that the merge from beta to release happens ahead of time (usually on the Mon/Tue a week before the release date). https://w
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by dictum 9y ago
It gets worse (a thinly veiled threat to get the Google employee fired): https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1307#issuecomment-342...
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by dictum 9y ago
Spare a minute to do the opposite of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15623604
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by dictum 9y ago
Grids are most useful in wider viewports (tablets and laptop/desktop browsers). Except for IE11, basically all browsers that don't support Grid are outdated mobile browsers (pre-iOS 10.3 versions of Mobile Safari, Android Browser
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by dictum 9y ago
A similar phenomenon is that of swollen lithium ion batteries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swollen+battery
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by dictum 9y ago
I saw some defenses of Hillary's actions (i.e. the 'bailout' was an ultimately good act, done to strengthen the DNC, proving her commitment to defeat Trump and protect progressivism etc.) which doubles as a cynical defense of
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by dictum 9y ago
> 0:00 - 00:10 Useless video animation I'm happy when it's only useless. It's often useless and loud.
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by dictum 9y ago
Reader readies Radar regarding Reader regression. (Please don't continue this. I just had to get it out of my system.)
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by dictum 9y ago
Working on Safari 11.0.1 / macOS 10.12.6. Maybe 10.13-specific?
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by dictum 9y ago
> I wish I could give up on Edge Why?
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by dictum 9y ago
On macOS, web app wrappers created with Fluid ( http://fluidapp.com ) consistently use less resources than the official Electron-based versions, in my experience. It's a wrapper for the system-supplied Webkit, so it inherits
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by dictum 9y ago
I realized something was wrong when many local web design/development shops started redirecting their domains to Facebook profile pages. Never thought I'd miss outdated Flash-only sites. Of course, the saying about the cobbler&#x2

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