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by dimal 2y ago
Holy shit, this is the best way to describe it. I mean, just that we have Scrum “ceremonies” should be an indication that it’s the opposite of what it says it is.
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by dimal 2y ago
Exactly. This what Israel has been doing, as I understand it. We don’t need to use desalination for everything, but for places like California which have water shortages, it could certainly help.
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by dimal 2y ago
I wish it would at least not show those obnoxious spinners over and over.
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by dimal 2y ago
I’ve found that on the website, they seem to log me out pretty aggressively if I’m not using it often.
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by dimal 2y ago
The medical industry, when presented with a chronic illness, instead of trying to cure it, sees it as a source of recurring revenue. And then that’s not even good enough. The consumers are captive, so they find a way to gouge them. I wish p
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by dimal 2y ago
I enjoyed it but I never understood why the seven races didn’t interbreed. That made a lot of far future stuff less enjoyable to me. Even Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred. Did the genetic modifications to each race make them complete
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by dimal 2y ago
I agree and disagree. Maintaining the health of a human body in a complex industrialized society is the most complex problem in the known universe. The amount of variables involved is astounding. But we’ve settled on a system that is more o
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by dimal 2y ago
I’ve had chronic fatigue for long stretches my entire life, sometimes for years at a stretch. I think I would qualify for a CFS diagnosis, but no doctors treat it, so no one ever thought to diagnose me. They’d just say my tests are fine and
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by dimal 2y ago
I was on one team that used it and it always felt overly simplistic. But I have to admit that we generally delivered what we committed to each sprint. It was pretty clear when we were overcommitting.
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by dimal 2y ago
I don't think most people understand how difficult things are for "high functioning" autistic people and how much work we have to put in just to get by in society. It's not like I've had an easy life. At times, life
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by dimal 2y ago
Are you sure you want that? We could lose people like like Alan Turing, Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton in the bargain. The estimates now are that autism affects about 1 in 35 people. That’s not a disorder. That’s human diversity. I realiz
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by dimal 2y ago
I wish they would be at least forced to change their name. It’s like if Exxon called themselves The Free Renewable Energy Company. It’s misleading to consumers. In tech, we all know it’s BS, but the average consumer might not. It seems like
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by dimal 2y ago
Are you joking? Once a corporation gets large enough, the worst they can get is a fine, which is usually a fraction of their income. This is how the system works. For example, depending on how you calculate it, Merck killed between 3,000 an
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The legend of Serbian factory worker Abul Mogard(loudandquiet.com)
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by dimal 2y ago
It matters what you measure. The studies only looked at Copilot usage. I’m an experienced engineer. Copilot is worse than useless for me. I spend most of my time understanding the problem space, understanding the constraints and affordances
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by dimal 2y ago
There are plenty of better ways to draw a user’s attention to something. Any half decent designer should be able to do it without this kind of noise. And there are people like me that will close the tab before interacting with the page, so
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by dimal 2y ago
While the demo is interesting from a technical standpoint, please don't make buttons animate like this. It seems like everyone is adding nasty purple gradient borders to everything and now they want to animate it. Just because you can
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by dimal 2y ago
What? Do you only start working on something the day before your deadline? Do you not plan ahead at all? If you’re always behind the eight ball, scrambling to land whatever you can slap together by the end of the sprint, it’s not going to w
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by dimal 2y ago
This pretty much describes my method of working as well. Often at the end of the day, when I’m not feeling like I have enough energy to solve anything new, I’ll spend some time just looking over some new problems I’ll have to solve in the n
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by dimal 2y ago
If they can pull of that migration, it seems interesting enough for HN. It’s “just” a blog, but this is a huge technical challenge.
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by dimal 2y ago
Cool idea. I’d suggest a few tweaks to improve text formatting. Justified text generally doesn’t read well on a device. Better to justify left. And paragraph breaks seem to be lost, which makes it harder to read and scan.
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by dimal 2y ago
“Most of the time” in my case, it has been bad. Because it wasn’t one big bill. It was dozens of bills for $200-500. Each submission could fail in unpredictable ways. “Lost” claims forms, database “errors”, “incomplete information”, etc. An
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by dimal 2y ago
I’ve found that it’s often able to fix its own code when I’m able to understand that problem and state it clearly. On its own, it tends to just go in circles and proudly declare that its solve the problem, even though it hasn’t. It needs a
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by dimal 2y ago
I wish I was taught math like this when I was younger. So much time lost thinking I didn’t like math.
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by dimal 2y ago
I thought the same thing, but that didn't work for me. It's busted.
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by dimal 2y ago
I agree that 90% of software development happens in the mind, but also that being a keyboard maximalist makes sense, at least for me. First of all, there’s the ease with which I can get those ideas out of my mind and into working code. If I
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by dimal 2y ago
It doesn't achieve the same thing, though. Functionally, for the computer, it's the same. But code has two audiences: the computer and the coder who has to read and write it. And from my perspective, the human is more important th
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by dimal 2y ago
Here's my perspective. I never understand how some people could look at the code you pasted and think that's just as good. But different people's brains process information differently. Your example has a lot of punctuation t
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by dimal 2y ago
Love the idea. FYI, on your demo page, the todo app is 404. And you might want to spell out static site generator instead of saying "SSG" on your docs. I didn't know what SSG was, even though I've used static site genera
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by dimal 2y ago
I like your thinking. Things have gotten far more complex than they need to be. We've been piling abstractions on top of abstractions for too long and there needs to be a culling. If we get rid something that we really did need, that&#

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