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by dimmke 4y ago
I've been thinking about how the original vision for cryptocurrency was basically "once this exists, governments will fail because they can't tax it" and how far reality had strayed from that. It only gained popularity b
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by dimmke 4y ago
Don’t even get me started on Octupus. Putting aside that it’s dubious ethically it’s like fucking rubber. Georgia being a tiny third world country that hardly anybody knows about might have something to do with their lack of cuisine reach.
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by dimmke 4y ago
This is a more nuanced version of what I was trying to say. But if the cuisine in a country doesn’t hit for me, it’s a big con. I’m in Mexico right now having a lot of fun
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by dimmke 4y ago
The national dish of Portugal is salted codfish with cabbage. Fucking gross. I will die on this hill I don't care how many downvotes it gets me. You can find Italian restaurants all over the world. Where are all the Portugese restauran
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by dimmke 4y ago
Portugal seriously sucks. The food is bad, and yeah you can see about all there is to see in both Lisboa and Porto in under a week. I was really turned off when I went there in November. I think it's a magnet for this stuff because it&
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by dimmke 4y ago
It's worth saying: This guy's novels are really bad. He gets a pass because of his music cred but I don't recommend trying to read any of his fiction.
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by dimmke 5y ago
I have to pair program all the time at my job. It's just the nature of a lot of the work I do. However, all the pair programming I do is over screensharing where we aren't physically next to each other. The tips in this article ar
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by dimmke 5y ago
Most people never get to the point where they're candidates for executive positions. And software salaries get shared publicly on things like levels.fyi these days, so you need third party recruiters even less. With that said, I don&#x
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by dimmke 5y ago
It's also pretty much confirmed at this point that the next pair of AirPods won't be using bluetooth - which they will get a lot of shit for but is probably necessary to address a lot of these issues.
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by dimmke 5y ago
You are forgetting the biggest feature: You can actually leave an iMessage group chat. An SMS group chat will keep texting you as long as someone keeps it alive. To stop getting them you have to individually block every user.
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by dimmke 5y ago
Seriously. I feel like complaining about hiring for programmers is the #1 topic discussed on HN. I actually feel like algorithm questions are somewhat of an improvement in the programmer hiring process over the alternatives. When interviewi
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by dimmke 5y ago
Thank you for saying this.
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by dimmke 5y ago
>I disagree that people dislike shared and more dense housing because of their conceptions about what what noise insulation could be Have you ever lived in apartments? Because It's the reason I bought a house instead of a condo or t
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by dimmke 5y ago
I agree with this. It's something I think about a lot actually. Neighbor noise is the TOP complaint about that style of living. If you go on the subreddit r/neighborsfromhell well over 50% of the posts are about a disruptive upsta
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by dimmke 5y ago
I am a long time Mac user and I don't use any software that requires a subscription. I do buy licenses for a few pieces of software but the way it works if you get to keep the version you bought forever and up to a year of updates. To
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by dimmke 5y ago
This is a great articulation of what I was thinking when reading him talk about Angular's templating language. JSX feels "honest" - like an authentic extension of JavaScript. Yes there are a few quirky rules but I hated the c
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by dimmke 5y ago
Apartments and condos in the United States are built as cheaply as possible. Developers love the 4 over 1 style which is the most they can get away with. Combined with hideous "developer modernity" styling. Neighbor noise is the t
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by dimmke 5y ago
I really feel like Apple's stores are an embarrassment. I understand they have some really unique challenges with way more foot traffic volume (especially during COVID times) but my issues with them started way before COVID. Apple has
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by dimmke 5y ago
>training focuses less on product knowledge and more on high-margin service and branded payment upsells. This to me is the death knell of brick and mortar retail. It's like this everywhere. There is absolutely no focus on actually h
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by dimmke 5y ago
I have used t mobile for like a decade. They’re a better carrier, but I have had terrible experiences in their stores before too. You’re at the mercy of randoms working retail. The best experience is no experience. Just buy your phone direc
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by dimmke 5y ago
Yeah. I could go back and finish (though I’d guess I would be starting from scratch now), but I’m now at a level where it doesn’t matter. It would be so weird to be taking English classes with a bunch of 18 year olds just to add a line item
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by dimmke 5y ago
I did a year of college and dropped out and began my career at 20. It’s definitely possible to have a good career as a software engineer without it, but it definitely put me at a disadvantage in some situations. Only one time that I explici
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by dimmke 5y ago
I also wanted to add, I think a lot of the value that Apple adds should actually be things that are regulated by our government. For example, you should be able to cancel a service the same way you signed up. And a lot of the privacy stuff
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by dimmke 5y ago
The problem is that it's completely a company's decision to make it easy to cancel and the vast majority of them make it as hard as they can. Just a few examples: Xbox Live, you can sign up online but to cancel you have to call th
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by dimmke 5y ago
Reversing a binary tree is a real question that gets asked in interviews: https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/ It’s actually pretty easy if you’re comfortable with recursion and traversing trees. The
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by dimmke 5y ago
I feel like every year in the past decade there has been some new Reddit clone. Reddit itself was open source for a while, so it used to be really easy. They never catch on.
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by dimmke 5y ago
Reddit has a standardized layout, you don't have to learn a new interface. It has single sign on, so you don't have to create a new account to participate in a community (low friction) and it has the people. Also, it has the votin
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by dimmke 5y ago
Reddit literally destroyed independent forums. That's such a huge swath of the internet and they effectively have a monopoly. Additionally, they top Google results for so many different subjects. I don't understand why they can&#x
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by dimmke 5y ago
Reddit ended up adding a corny chat feature that is exclusively used for spam as their answer to it. Pretty awful. But to be honest, before subreddits had Discords they had IRC channels. This has always been a thing.
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by dimmke 5y ago
Bingo. And LinkedIn allows you to deactivate your account now, instead of deleting it. So you can keep it dormant and only reactivate when you actually do want to find a new job.

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