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by dleslie 4y ago
Or you have a higher tolerance for negativity and hate than I do.
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by dleslie 4y ago
> I currently have about a half-dozen accounts, each following different types of accounts with limited overlap. So, what I get on the genealogy account feed is limited almost entirely to genealogists and historians posting about those
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> Twitter is what you want it to be, topic-wise, based on who you follow and what they like to talk about. I've tried this. It's false. It's a myth that Twitter users tell themselves, AFAICT. Even disregarding the trending
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by dleslie 4y ago
For some things, like "lisp", it goes back to the 70s. That seems correct. For others, like "slashdot.org", it only goes back to the turn of the millenium. It can't really be that the first thing indexed on Slashdot
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by dleslie 4y ago
Perhaps worth considering is that sarcasm doesn't transmit easily over text, and certainly not in contexts where it's not expected. If you want to be clear about it, a common convention is to write /s after your sarcastic sta
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by dleslie 4y ago
I suspect that it's largely because Goodwill and Sally Ann became unofficial suppliers for vintage clothing stores. They probably upped their prices in response to that market. And now Facebook neighborhood free groups are (often unkno
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by dleslie 4y ago
Their point only makes sense because they excluded a class of individuals that I mentioned in my original response. I have some grace; I'm willing to include those in my consideration that they have deemed unworthy of consideration.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Game development is full of exploitative companies looking to squeeze whatever effort they can from passionate young people. When you're young and inexperienced it's best to avoid those companies as best you can; the experience yo
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by dleslie 4y ago
When someone says "anyone can do it" I understand that to mean what they said, which is that they believe anyone can do it.
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They ignored that class of individual in their response; individuals who exist and who I've personally worked with and do continue to work with. > Stephen Hawking was still quite expressive despite his limitations, although they did
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... No. Many people suffer from partial or full paralysis of facial muscles, neurological conditions that limit expression, and numerous other conditions that will forever and permanently limit their ability to engage in expressive body lan
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by dleslie 4y ago
Video calls convey body language. You don't need an office for that.
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I think it's worth noting that those things are adaptations that occurred after open concept took over. It's sort of a situation where the industry went a direction and never thought to reconsider, backpedal, and take another path
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The point they were making was ignoring one of the groups of people that I mentioned, because in order to make their point they _had_ to ignore that class of individual. > > I'm naturally introverted, but when I say that to co-wo
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by dleslie 4y ago
It sounds like your meetings need more structure.
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by dleslie 4y ago
This is spot-on. Nearly all of our younger hires have their social networks _entirely online_, and most of our older employees are in a similar situation albeit with a few token IRL friends. That said, I work in game development and I suspe
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by dleslie 4y ago
I use a virtual avatar, so that doesn't bother me at all. One of my coworkers is a slug with a nice hat; another is an alien.
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... How are those who are physically incapable of engaging in normal body language, due to any number of permanent physical conditions, going to simply pull themselves up by their bootstraps and do it? They're not.
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> But it's not the same as brainstorming on a whiteboard with your colleagues in the same room. It's better! We pair it with a slack call and collaboratively edit it. > For a lot of my breaks when I worked in the office I en
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by dleslie 4y ago
Open office is cheaper than cubicles and allows more employees in one space. That's why it caught on with decision makers. Some people like it because they thrive on attention and being disruptive, and open offices are optimized for th
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by dleslie 4y ago
> whiteboards Digital whiteboards are trivial to share, recover, modify and maintain. They're light-years beyond the limited physical variety. My team leans heavily on Miro, for instance. > Lunch Lunch time is a break. Not everyo
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by dleslie 4y ago
So it's not a smash hit, but it's not a failure either. In game development, any game that makes a profit is a success; that's just how our business is.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Episode 1 is a terrible movie. I tried watching it with my kids as a marathon of Star Wars for May the Fourth, and they became bored with the trade federation and Senate, and were annoyed by Jar Jar. The pod racing was the saving grace, in
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by dleslie 5y ago
The cyberpunk game that covered its expenses, made a profit, and is slated to receive DLC was made by a studio that disproved that theory how, exactly?
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by dleslie 5y ago
Schools have children for roughly 5/7 of the daylight hours in a week, while the parents are working. They _are_ day cares, and they are responsible for helping children become adults, beyond simply training them in the basic Rs.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Basically, yes. There doesn't seem to be any political will in Canada to oppose it, so it's likely to pass.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Interesting that they mention Canada's Bill C11. Forcing CanCon on the entire internet, under threat of onerous fines, is a topic that I would hope to see more discussion of.
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by dleslie 5y ago
That needn't be aliens. Human culture existed prior to the old kingdom.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Bold of you to be critical of capitalism around here; but I can't completely disagree with you. IP rights exist as a result of state force; copyright and patents can't really exist without it. They are fundamentally reliant upon t
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by dleslie 5y ago
The legal protection includes the assurance that the government will use force to prevent others from engaging in certain expression or activities, on your behalf, under threat of financial penalties or worse.

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