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by donatj 2y ago
> BeOS would show CDs as a directory of numbered AIFF or WAV files MacOS modern and classic both do this as well
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by donatj 2y ago
I think the throwaway actually raises the valid point about the rule being an exceedingly broad catchall. The type primed for selective and weaponized enforcement. That said, the kids are clearly defenseless in this situation, for blatant p
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by donatj 2y ago
I know I made a bunch of terrible barely functioning Winamp skins as a kid. I could not remember for the life of me if I had ever submitted any of them to Winamp.com This inspired me to do a little research. Sure enough, this unusable piece
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh fascinating. This is the sort of stuff that really inspired my interest in computers as a kid of the late 80s. I am sure software of the demonstration sort like this still exists these days but it's far less publicized. I remember w
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by donatj 2y ago
Trying to convince developers from "classical" OO that not everything needs to be a class in JavaScript has been a major thorn in my side for years. Your little procedure with no state? That can just be an exported function.
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by donatj 2y ago
In 2007 when The Orange Box was released, Half-Life 2 took forever to load on my dual-core Athlon 64 X2. It would run but the levels would take a solid minute to load. At the time I figured it was some incompatibility with the multiple core
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by donatj 2y ago
I'm still irate Twitter broke all my automaton and then had the gal to try to charge me $100 a month!? Looks like it's up to $200 now. That's as much as my car loan... No normal individual can justify that.
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by donatj 2y ago
Nah, my dude. 90's Onion was peak, todays Onion is weak. https://imgur.com/a/Jhk4CPq
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by donatj 2y ago
I work in EdTech, I have for a very long time now, and the problem I have seen is no one in education is willing to ACTUALLY let kids learn at their own level. The promise of EdTech was that kids could learn where they are. A kid who's
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by donatj 2y ago
I've never heard of "the politicians syllogism" but I'll need to remember it. I am a big fan generally of letting things unfold a little to see if they're actually problems rather than just smelling like problems. I
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by donatj 2y ago
Some part of me always assumes people are innocent. I think I just see too much of myself in others and when they commit some act I never would it seems genuinely outside reality. I remember vividly being a very tech-involved twenty year ol
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by donatj 2y ago
Off the top of my head, PHP, TypeScript and INI. JavaScript might cover TypeScript, I don't know.
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by donatj 2y ago
I really want to like Apples handwriting recognition, it's half the reason I bought an Apple Pencil with my new iPad. It's just kind of difficult to use in practice. It's just not that good at recognizing my handwriting, and
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by donatj 2y ago
Neat idea for sure. Language support is pretty limited right now, hopefully there's support for more in the works.
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh this is genuinely fascinating. I literally had no idea so much went into the dithering, my presumption was there was just an off the shelf posterization filter applied. The end result looks fantastic and managed to give me wild nostalgia
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by donatj 2y ago
I agree, I absolutely hate reading basically everything other than novels/non-fiction narratives in epub. All the work they did laying out the pages is just thrown away! Trying to read any sort of instructional book as an epub is strai
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by donatj 2y ago
> while making those who might test the waters subject to possible public ridicule. I mean… No? A board basically showing that you're actually doing your job isn't going to get you ridiculed…? If it is, the person ridiculing yo
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by donatj 2y ago
Both? I was in charge of our codebase as well as managing our developers. Is that not how it always is? Everywhere I have worked "Lead Developer" has been a management position, such that your team reports to you. No, it was actua
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by donatj 2y ago
> trivially gamed Eh, there were no rewards, so no real incentive to win. The idea was just more to get the act of committing their code into their minds. Like "oh hey, everyone can see I'm at zero, maybe I should commit my wor
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by donatj 2y ago
I was ill suited to be manager in hindsight. I am a good developer, I am not great with people. I wanted it because it seemed like the next logical step in career progression but I was not good at managing people. I am very glad I left. I h
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by donatj 2y ago
In the late aughts, I became lead developer of a team that had never done any sort of version control. Just nightly backups of a shared SMB server. I wanted to get everyone using git, but getting people to actually bother committing their w
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by donatj 2y ago
My mom worked in corrections and after an incident with one of her coworkers getting attacked at home, we got an unlisted number. I remember as a teen being very irritated that people could no longer find me in the phone book.
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by donatj 2y ago
I'm getting old, I've been doing this for going on 20 years, I've been doing this since before fad workflows were really embedded in the culture. They were around but not nearly as common. What we did then, and what we do now
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by donatj 2y ago
Can I ask why? What is the harm in saving users work unexpectedly especially when I see a version history here? I have been working with computers for 30 years, and I would find lack of a timed autosave surprising. Autosave was common on de
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by donatj 2y ago
I don't understand why the author believes auto save would be so difficult to implement. Just automatically click the save button for the user on a one minute timer. Done. setInterval(() => { document.getElementById(&q
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by donatj 2y ago
Has anyone made a game where cheating is not just explicitly allowed but is in fact the game ? It really seems like there could be something there.
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by donatj 2y ago
TL;DR They gendered people based on name stereotypes and ran Pylint against their code. Methodology seems questionable. By their own definitions earlier in the article, it seems like Pylint would provide biased results.
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by donatj 2y ago
Checking my Search Console Tools recently, the number of "Crawled - currently not indexed" pages across all my sites has risen sharply recently, especially on sites where the age of the content is more than a few years. I put a fa
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh, I've looked at it. I'm not sure how much it would actually help? The holes of the filter seem rather large. This one from the related products actually looks maybe a little more promising https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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by donatj 2y ago
I replace the filter on mine every couple months. It's clear of bags and the filters are regularly filthy.

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