dimmke

47 ms·

481.
by dimmke 6y ago
I agree with this. There are so many other stores that do loss prevention in a way that is effective but very muted if you aren't a thief. The way Fry's did it almost felt like disdain towards their customers.
482.
by dimmke 6y ago
The last time I went to a Fry's was 2-3 years ago. I needed a very specific cable that was somewhat obscure. Their teenage employees couldn't help me and after searching it was nowhere to be found in their giant store. What's
483.
by dimmke 6y ago
Half the time. It's not even snarky/rude. It's usually just "meh, I don't have anything good enough to say" I just went through the process with this very comment since other people have said something similar
484.
by dimmke 6y ago
The key is don't live in a suburb. There are plenty of neighborhoods in Atlanta proper that you can buy into that will allow you to get anywhere else in the city in 20 minutes, give or take.
485.
by dimmke 6y ago
I live in Atlanta. I get a lot of recruiters pitching me senior SWE jobs from mediocre companies with salary ranges between 115k-130k. I think 130-150 is average for senior roles. That's definitely lower than other markets, but Atlanta
486.
by dimmke 6y ago
I thought this article really jumped the shark when he started referring to everybody as "slaves" The one aspect of what he said I do agree with is that most of what is taught in school is not useful, remembered or applied in dail
487.
by dimmke 6y ago
I agree - native development is bad. I had an iPhone app that I built using native Apple stuff and it was miserable. And the whole time you're struggling with their buggy UI framework you can't even take solace in that you're
488.
by dimmke 6y ago
I love the concept of "Just-in-time learning". I think it applies to other things too. In my personal life is when I am working on a large scope project, I tend to try to anticipate every single thing that I will have to do up fro
489.
by dimmke 6y ago
First of all, this is a great reply and yes it does clarify your viewpoint. I really value that it's possible to have discussions like this on the internet. >I am yet to be convinced that "neutrality" or a requirement to p
490.
by dimmke 6y ago
>Yes, that's actually how the law works. I am really trying to understand your perspective on this, because it's so obviously not true. Companies are regulated by the government and limited with what they can do in a lot of dif
491.
by dimmke 6y ago
This isn't just about "other companies" though - that's what is so crazy to me about this. We've reached a point where the idea of creating and providing software is almost exclusively thought of through the lens of
492.
by dimmke 6y ago
>If the private company is "so powerful the government needs to step in" then it should be through breaking up a monopoly. I definitely agree that the government does need to break up some large tech companies. But I don't
493.
by dimmke 6y ago
>If you are destroying the property you live in or using it to commit or facilitate illegal acts Ironically, this also feels like a false equivalency to me. I don't believe Parler was putting Amazon/AWS at risk in terms of lega
494.
by dimmke 6y ago
I wasn’t really talking about direct government roles when I made that comment. I was more talking about what the government shells out to contractors for programming jobs which as many have pointed out is the vast majority of programmers t
495.
by dimmke 6y ago
Fair point about state/local. My statement about FAANG was based on some napkin math I did with regard to published rates for certain labor categories by some big contracting companies on some vehicles they were a part of. But even doi
496.
by dimmke 6y ago
This is wrong - This playbook actually came out of fixing Healthcare.gov. The original version of Healthcare.gov that failed and had all those issues WAS contracted out. Your premise that the government should just contract out tech is bad
497.
by dimmke 6y ago
>they cannot afford to pay people market rates This is not true! On average, the federal government is paying quite a bit of money for tech people. I'd seriously estimate they're paying almost FAANG rates in a lot of cases all
498.
by dimmke 6y ago
I think that stuff was on its way out before Flash's general demise. I think people (let's be honest, mostly kids) seeking that sort of content now will download games on their phone and watch YouTube/TikTok. They're pro
499.
by dimmke 6y ago
It might have been fun/easy to use for some people and encouraged game development that would have otherwise been too complex/too high of a learning curve. But browser games is a niche thing and really only a part of Flash's
500.
by dimmke 6y ago
The weird contrarian "actually Flash was good" takes I've been seeing all over today is absolutely bonkers. It's like these people think we weren't around when Flash was a thing or they just have rose colored nostal
501.
by dimmke 6y ago
This is a very spammy website
502.
by dimmke 6y ago
>there are a lot of software developers out there who either don't have the inclination or skill to push back against their boss's boss's boss, or question why a particular abstraction is request over another. I definitely
503.
by dimmke 6y ago
Taking on the responsibility of pushing back hard on poorly conceived new features is one of the important hidden skills of being an effective software developer. Programmers who just do whatever they get told like marching ants end up shoo
504.
by dimmke 6y ago
This was a total blast from the past. I had forgotten about Adium. I used Growl for years but forgot about that too. I still use Alfred though every day. The CMD + Space for MacOS's version of it is the first thing I disable on new ins
505.
by dimmke 6y ago
I was shocked by this too. The only thing that makes sense is that it's a form of advertising/branding for them. Baremetrics is a startup whose main audience is other startups and the posts like this have a good reach. Other start
506.
by dimmke 6y ago
>you need some function to disincentivize people from being drawn to try drugs. Something that Bernie Sanders talked a lot about that I found very compelling was the idea that a lot of people get into life ruining drugs (I'm talking
507.
by dimmke 6y ago
>This explains why even though for the last two decades 90% of the entire planet has gotten used to the back-slash (C:\foo\bar) as the path separator, but Linux uses the forward-slash (/mnt/foo/). This is the most triggeri
508.
by dimmke 6y ago
Hey, I just sent you a connection request on LinkedIn. Definitely interested in learning more about your open working experiences. I'm really surprised that they're also including project management with that.
509.
by dimmke 6y ago
Nice link, I've followed 18F a little and I'm interested in everything they're doing. I think whipping contractors into shape is the easiest path to increasing government participation in open source. It's easier than co
510.
by dimmke 6y ago
For what it's worth, there is a lot of movement in the Federal government to open source code that is written for the government. The GSA, which is the kind of meta agency that helps other federal agencies do stuff talks a lot about th

More ›