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by douche 10y ago
Because when people say AAA, often they are talking about the cookie-cutter, churn-it-out yearly titles, like FIFA and Madden and Call of Duty. The other comparison with Hollywood is the unrelenting sequelitis. It's even reached the p
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by douche 10y ago
Businesses in general seem to have a really hard time dealing with training and institutional knowledge transfer these days. As an example from another industry, my father was working as a mechanic/greaser in a power plant for the past
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by douche 10y ago
These are all really terrible jobs. Most of them ought to be automated out of existence in the next 10-20 years. There's got to be something better we can do then bring about a resurrection of the Victorian-era servant class.
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by douche 10y ago
When they do this, it's usually a shittier offer than it sounds. They're not offering cash, but value in tickets, which has an expiration a short time in the future, and can only be applied to certain flights. It'd be intere
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by douche 10y ago
Do they not have those "Catch Me If You Can" era jumpseats for deadheads anymore?
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by douche 10y ago
Very little that airlines do appears logical, looking from the outside in. Especially United. I've never had so much as a mediocre experience flying with them - it's always been notably terrible.
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by douche 10y ago
> How is it for taking notes? I've been pretty happy with it so far. The included stylus is pretty responsive. > How smooth is the experience with PDFs? Scrolling a PDF is a little weird on the e-ink screen - the refresh rate is
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by douche 10y ago
I got one of these https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade... It's pretty decent, and exactly what I wanted - an old-school Kindle around the size of a sheet of paper.
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by douche 10y ago
I recently got one of these https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade... . It's pretty fantastic so far. The stylus and e-ink screen do work pretty well for handwriting with the built-in notebo
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Programming in the Point-Free Style(eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com)
180 points by douche 10y ago|101 comments
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Blockchain is today what XML was in 1998(lhotka.net)
3 points by douche 10y ago|0 comments
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How Much “Magic” Are We Comfortable With?(exceptionnotfound.net)
2 points by douche 10y ago|0 comments
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by douche 10y ago
There's going to be a huge market in used pre-DRM heavy machinery. The purely mechanical/hydraulic versions of this stuff is virtually indestructible, with a little maintenance.
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by douche 10y ago
I suspect we're violently agreeing. Minimum wage is too high for the value provided by the jobs I used to do, although they were not value-less . And restrictions around child-labor are well-intentioned but occasionally produces sub-o
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by douche 10y ago
Kids used to do a lot of menial farm labor. At least I did... Try getting a 14-17 year old to do anything these days.
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by douche 10y ago
Hit right on the nail with every point. I'll add one more: feature requests that are fishing expeditions on the customer's part, but are interpreted as show-stopping issues by sales/management. And one more: byzantine networ
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by douche 10y ago
It's hard to keep up when you've lost the better part of two generations in a row, and most of the stockpiled capital of a century of imperialism - especially when you also lose the empire that generated all that wealth.
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by douche 10y ago
This is normal. You just show up, do what you need to do for your 40 hours, collect your paychecks, and go home to do what you actually want to do. Find meaning outside of work. At the same time, you need to have the discipline to keep d
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by douche 10y ago
My problem is typically that I'll have my work day planned out at the beginning of the day, around the known interruptions. Then I'll get in and there's an urgent problem report from some customer. Then that turns into an hou
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by douche 10y ago
Yet oil is cheaper now than it was ten years ago, in raw dollars (before even factoring for inflation). The technology to extract oil keeps getting better.
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by douche 10y ago
Looks pretty interesting. I like the curation a lot better than some others I've seen. Although this may be a function of user base and audience at present. My comparison would be Goodreads, which is so overwhelmed with historical r
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by douche 10y ago
Which is supremely confusing as a student of history of that region of the world. Trying to figure out whether a book or article used Pinyin or Wade-Giles, one of the other competing systems, a mishmash of several, or (especially in older
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by douche 10y ago
If a phonetic alphabet had taken off in China two thousand years ago, we probably would never have needed to bother ourselves with greater than 2-byte Unicode, as a practical matter.
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by douche 10y ago
Aside from the spelling, Chaucer really is not too bad. I must have had to read a really, really abysmal treatment in school, because I did not remember the Canterbury Tales rhyming at all... http://www.librarius.com/canttr
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by douche 10y ago
Yeah, those are not much good for anything, at this point. The one I have for work labors to process the Office 365 Outlook webapp and our ticketing portal when I take it to meetings. The $40 Amazon Fire tablet I have feels snappier.
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by douche 10y ago
If only Robert Jordan had lived another decade or so... The Sanderson books weren't bad, it just struck me as kind of... rushed, especially the finale. I'm becoming increasingly worried about GRR Martin. It'll be sad if the
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by douche 10y ago
I can't try to do any work and pay attention to an audio book or a podcast at the same time. Music, or generic TV in the background, sure, but that's effectively white noise that doesn't even register. Audiobooks and podcast
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by douche 10y ago
If only that were true... we could have been saved so much tedious wrangling and wikileaking.
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by douche 10y ago
Fusion is always 40-50 years away, going back to the first experiments in the 1950s. It's hard to take such estimates seriously.
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by douche 10y ago
It's far away the best distribution, particularly if you're one of those "everything since 7 is a pile of shit" grognards. So much of the cruft is stripped out, and it only gets security updates.

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