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by dogleash 4y ago
> I'm so sick of the cynicism in general. Cynicism is just self preservation on topics like this. Most people can’t afford the risk of behaving otherwise.
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by dogleash 4y ago
> but then shouldn't the argument be: how to accomplish this without those effects? Nope. I think it's perfectly fine to raise issues and tell someone to go off and fix their proposal without my assistance. It's not like t
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by dogleash 4y ago
> Given the "interstate" nature of online commerce, I would think that this law is not enforceable What legal distinction do you draw to separate enforceability of this law from any other law regarding a business providing a se
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by dogleash 4y ago
>It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe What is the roll out process by which GDPR and this enforcement action could take place and would be seen as "predictable?" Surely we wouldn't expect every bu
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by dogleash 4y ago
>How the hell... like... who decided to do Microservices in the first place if they didn't know this? Microservices can have both design utility and simultaneously been a major fad. Lurking reddit and HN you can watch development fa
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by dogleash 4y ago
>I'm a Windows developer and as such I'm biased, but I think Windows apps are dramatically easier to write than web apps. I agree that the developer-facing usability of a good desktop GUI toolkit runs circles around whatever we
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by dogleash 4y ago
That’s just a clever quip. It comes from a time and a place. Nobody is rewriting history, because (1) this conversation is about the current and the future and (2) it’s intellectually dishonest to essentialalize the content of quip.
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by dogleash 4y ago
100%. One of my relatives was on some wild shit last night, I had to struggle to give a shit though. It’s a life skill to not get pressed over conversations even if the subject matter is important. The funny thing is we all learn it for o
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by dogleash 4y ago
I don't have statistics, but I work with teens and it is a thing. I've also noticed it's a point of social expression to align themselves with phone for tasks, and even claim they're easier than on a laptop/desktop
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by dogleash 4y ago
This is a evergreen meme: Step 1: People old enough that it's deliberate effort for them to learn new things, can't be arsed to learn something new Step 2: Older people notice the younger people still in the "absorb as much a
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by dogleash 4y ago
Nope. The Verge is reporting a staged photo op. An event they learned about because they're addicted to twitter. And ran it because it involves major brands. This should tell you exactly how much respect to give The Verge as a news ou
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by dogleash 4y ago
This article is mostly fluff. But it does make me realize the business thought put into "influencing" is potentially interesting for just how grim and comical it must be on the inside.
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by dogleash 4y ago
With the benefit of hindsight, I think esports are more similar to the model set by the World Series of Poker than pro sports. Well attended in-person attended always felt like a non-starter to me. I go to NFL and NHL games a few times a s
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by dogleash 4y ago
My experience building products for customers is that they're a few percent novel or exciting and >90% eating veggies.
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by dogleash 4y ago
>I'm also slightly concerned over how blase "hackers" here on this site are treating the news There's a long standing phenomenon where the people working in tech have more visibility (or just insight) to witness busin
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by dogleash 4y ago
>If you design technology with disabled people in mind, you design technology better for everyone. >This was the sentiment from Google as it opened its first UK research and development centre dedicated to making tech to help people w
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by dogleash 4y ago
True. This is why I mentioned intentionality in design. The design of email means there is an argument for the legal system that gmail is a very very popular post office. That email is a system wherein users have disparate storage areas fo
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by dogleash 4y ago
>email to 200 recipients they can all store it On discord there are no 200 individual "they" storing it. It's stored by discord. (Or I guess people could be manually logging their own chats, but that's not the issue
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by dogleash 4y ago
Your perspective is one I've only recently come to understand after migrating a team to git and being the "source control guy." The lesson I learned was: Prescribe everything about the workflow because nobody is going to lear
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by dogleash 4y ago
I've been in both fields and I'd dispute some of this post, but I'm not sure what it's trying to say. web is the default entry point for the vast majority of developers these days, and has a much more welcoming leaning c
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by dogleash 4y ago
I recall another HN post prior to covid about the MIT administration clamping down on the culture, but don't remember what specifically. I watched a lot of nice-to-haves get removed over the years at the school I attended too. The fou
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by dogleash 4y ago
> all of that are technical choices, that can be debated on their own merit without the need to attribute malevolent intentions to the developers The ramifications of those technical choices on the software ecosystem are so well understo
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by dogleash 4y ago
>DevOps has different meaning depending on who you’re talking to 1000% this. I think it's an instance of how the conversation in software always talks about solutions as if they're end-all-be-all answers, rather than explain a
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by dogleash 4y ago
Relational databases are one of those technologies where enough people can skate by enough of the time with just some very basic skills. And the skill curve in relational databases isn't offset by experience in other domains. There&#x2
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by dogleash 4y ago
The topic of code generation that's near-identical or overwhelmingly-similar to existing code has come up a number of times. While the problem is obvious, it's a bit opaque and poorly communicated. How has your team defined, spec
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by dogleash 4y ago
> It's 2022 So someone else should have done it for you by now? Be the change you want to see in the world. I'm sure you have an excuse for not doing it personally. Just as I'm sure the person who you've mentally ass
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by dogleash 4y ago
>This may be true but if kind of pointless as an api on localist isn’t very useful unless you’re automating your home. Of course it’s easier to hack something out on localhost than to design for actual users. When did developing software
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by dogleash 4y ago
>Real leadership happens in the IDE lolwut? Do people actually believe these kinds of things? Like what comprehensive leadership happens solely in an IDE? > there's no such thing as grunt work It sounds like this messaging for pe
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by dogleash 4y ago
>I read some vulgar spins in newspapers that students don't want to do their work, they're lazy and entitled and so on. That is most likely oversimplification Does nobody remember their schooling? Those students exist and are e
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by dogleash 4y ago
> If there was a government mandate requiring phones to have whatever connector came before micro USB, wouldn't that have prevented the Android phones from changing connectors/choosing the new innovation? Dunno, we have a test

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