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by dkarl 4y ago
> The impact of the App Store Improvement policy is nonexistent for VC-funded companies. Not true. More often than not, our iOS releases get delayed hours if not days, while our long-suffering iOS lead patiently walks yet another green r
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by dkarl 4y ago
If you're interested, there's a fascinating book called Life of a European Mandarin that provides an insider view and manages to be entertainingly written despite being about the incredibly dry work the EU does. It gives a vivid g
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by dkarl 4y ago
Does it have another key in its place? The Windows key is one of my favorite things about Linux in a desktop/laptop machine: a key that isn't used by any applications, which I can dedicate entirely towards window management, witho
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by dkarl 4y ago
Is there some kind of badge or special section in the site that tells me which pieces are misleading wastes of my time for their profit and which aren't? If not, why wouldn't I use this piece to predict what I can expect from them
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by dkarl 4y ago
Sometimes when creating software that solves a hard problem, the author is so thrilled by all the little conceptual breakthroughs they experience along the way that they think the users of their software will enjoy it just as much as they d
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by dkarl 4y ago
Sorry, but those two stories sound like dream outcomes. A more typical outcome is a service that is never quite right, needs bug fixes every release, requires a code change for every minor change in the system around it, and basically serve
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by dkarl 4y ago
Jackson doesn't have a stable API for building modules. You have to get elbow deep in their internals, which is already scary enough given that it's an old and highly performant library, but the bad part is that there's no fo
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by dkarl 4y ago
It's hard to image improving on that handle design. It's even good with the hard, slick plastic handles of my old cheap Craftsman screwdrivers. I hate handles where I have to figure out and copy how the designer expected me to gri
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by dkarl 4y ago
> Doesn't sound like good advice. When the market drops suddenly, lots of the people on the top rates won't get any work due to demand. Could you drop them at that point? Possibly but not if your mortgage would become unafforda
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by dkarl 4y ago
> The problem is that the "throw text at the wall and see what sticks" can be gamed by seeing how many upvotes you get. You can get machines to receive upvotes not by actual helpfulness, but by fooling people. The most popular
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by dkarl 4y ago
Doing application programming in Python now after some years of Scala, the uncertainty when I'm looking at code is overwhelming. What type will this argument be? Any type. What fields are optional in this record? All of them. Is this v
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by dkarl 4y ago
Funny to see coyotes referred to as "jackals." They're similar in size and ecological niche, but I thought biologists long ago rejected the idea of grouping coyotes together with the jackal species. Coyotes are more closely r
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by dkarl 4y ago
If that's the best answer, I think it tends to show that money didn't buy Brexit. The media doesn't care what circus they're covering, as long as there are plenty of clowns and dancing bears. The people who had the money
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by dkarl 4y ago
Do you think it doesn't apply to the UK? I drew on a US example because it was something I could explain in enough detail. Maybe UK economic elites have mastered control of their voters in a way that US elites have not. Although, you&#
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by dkarl 4y ago
> Democracy turned out to be easily manipulatable with large sums of money and media control. Is it, though? Establishment interests spend huge sums of money and often lose. The Republican party was an elite country club party, but when
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by dkarl 4y ago
This is a really counterproductive take, not because of the ways it's wrong about how rental income works, but because it paints a completely wrong-headed picture of whose interests are opposed to progress. People who own property they
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think what you're describing is the best case, the world we should shoot for. But getting there for most people will take a generation of social change. Meanwhile, most of us find ourselves in a shitty current situation where a healt
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> I think it’s more likely that what Smart People actually have isn’t some supernatural common sense that allows them to iterate over cause and effect to a greater degree than Joe Stupid, but rather a set of specific domain experience an
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by dkarl 4y ago
When you're the market leader, you get to define what's reasonable. If you're the industry-leading solution and your users struggle to do a simple, common task, then it becomes conventional wisdom that the task is "diffi
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by dkarl 4y ago
When was the quality turning point for Vectorworks? My wife uses it and still experiences regular crashes, though to be fair she avoids upgrading because she doesn't want to learn a new set of bugs to work around.
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There wasn't a choice when I bought mine.
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by dkarl 4y ago
> I don't even see what the Kobo value prop is Not having to hack the device you supposedly own to avoid having ads as your screensaver? My Kindle is at the bottom of my closet for that reason. I haven't bought another physical
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by dkarl 4y ago
There are a lot of obvious questions to ask about a situation that aren't being mentioned. What is my actual power to influence this decision? What would the most effective line of communication look like? What are the motivations behi
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by dkarl 4y ago
Agree with all of that except readability. Java has some language deficiencies (no first-class functions, "streams" missing for almost twenty years and added too late to be done elegantly) and some cultural norms (mutable everythi
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by dkarl 4y ago
You are saying some things that are guaranteed to generate skepticism. First, that the great power of this teaching method only manifests under circumstances that very few people get to experience. Second, that concepts make skills "tr
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by dkarl 4y ago
> this is a clear demonstration that a fundamental understanding of fractions was skipped in order to grind out solutions Leaving aside that you concluded this from a one-sentence story about solving a single problem, it's funny tha
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by dkarl 4y ago
I haven't tried psychedelics yet for the same reason. The people I know who offer them to me don't show any level of care or responsibility when it comes to dosing themselves. For example, they'll buy drugs from people they&#
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by dkarl 4y ago
> Objects are excellent for data Objects are great for modeling data as long as you still think of it as data, and you can write good data processing programs using OO language constructs. OOP as an approach to programming gets it backwa
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by dkarl 4y ago
When I switched from Linux to Macs for my daily drivers ten years ago, I was really shocked by how much stuff just works. But there's plenty of stuff that doesn't work, even on Mac. When I am struggling to get something working wi
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think most doctors aren't eager to prescribe the pills, but they have to treat the parents like any other drug-seeking population. It's impossible to get medication to people who need it while denying it to people who don't

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