dudeman13

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by dudeman13 5y ago
>But one conclusion I have from this thread is that Hacker News has lots its way, and that Hackers are not really welcome here anymore I think you are conflating hackers with lack of empathy/being a dick. I mean, "is a hacker&q
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by dudeman13 5y ago
If Bolivia is like sweet home, that money is concentraded as fuck so either their schtick would have to be ubiquitous for it to be worth it, or they would be selling to the ~10% richest in Bolivia (which probably have decent internet access
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Pretty sure it's "afraid to touch it". Haven't you heard horror stories about complete hackery and shitshow (sometimes not even code, but actual company processes) built around them because fixing it might as well have b
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by dudeman13 5y ago
>Why do people want _every_ fig on the tree? It's because of greed, and desire Why wouldn't people want every fig on the tree? It's because of indifference and lack of passion. In a world where aging was solved, we could
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by dudeman13 5y ago
It's seriously annoying how people get pedantic with metaphors. It's a damn metaphor - if we wanted to be precise we'd roll with the whole damn explanation without metaphors.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
>It is arrogant to believe that from purely biological point of view, an individual would posses qualities (like "arrogant") that are of no possible value Why?
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Irony and sarcasm pointed at actual people shows disdain and contempt.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
>threat of a lawsuit is at best hypothetical Every lawsuit threat, including "I'm suing your ass next Tuesday", is hypothetical. It takes being used to communication that randomly quotes the law, or extreme lack of social
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by dudeman13 5y ago
>The police does that quite often to catch criminals Your country should crackdown on police behaviour.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
I think you've unintentionally made an argument in favour of GP.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Yes, and burning out and stress are huge issues for doctors their entire careers too
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by dudeman13 5y ago
You'd make the same argument if your life expectancy was 40 years and people proposed medicine could let you live to 80. You'd also make the same argument if your life expectancy was 200 years and medicine advancements could let y
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by dudeman13 5y ago
I don't think GP is arguing that utility doesn't exist. I believe the GP is arguing that the OP is making arguments as if utility weren't subjective. If you can attach a number to decisions, you can just do the math. The thin
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by dudeman13 5y ago
>It's understandable that people have issues with Moderna and Pfizer, since they are a new type of vaccine (mRNA-based) and we're not sure what the long-term affects of mRNA vaccines may be It's not understandable why they
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Having to wash your hands every day until you die? Sounds like the optimal solution for pharma companies, a consistent and never ending stream of income from handwash.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
To be fair, if they are so far off the end that they think "man, getting called up at 2am without being paid was great because I learned how to keep my cool during a crisis!" then they are probably a lost cause. It's fine to
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by dudeman13 5y ago
>If that's the crux, then why write about this other than to brag? Haven't you noticed how pervasive the "no, I'm self made and being lucky has nothing to do with it" myth is around these parts? Despite how trivi
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Humble-bragging either works real well or backfires real hard.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Somewhat off topic, but when I scroll down there is a position: fixed element that is always shown. The "book scrolling" animation was really distracting :|
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by dudeman13 5y ago
You deal with it just once, but you'll still have to more or less deal with every major breaks that would have been easily detected if the patch wasn't huge. Sauce: had to deal with that recently. It was not pleasant. I'd rat
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by dudeman13 5y ago
I'll get back to turn based RPGs once the industry stops going bonkers with random encounter frequency (or ditches random encounters altogether). It's ridiculous how The Last Sovereign, a lewd game made with RPG Maker is one of th
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by dudeman13 5y ago
>I’m going to get skewered for saying this … but the story feels like it’s pandering to current social political trends - i.e. the obsession with diversity How so? I didn't get that feeling at all from Horizon Zero Dawn. If someone
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Ah, I meant for the programmer to empathize with the user. If you have people dedicated to those roles, they should be the ones that decide what to do by default. As such, programmers don't really need to care about the user at all (
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Add a product designer or project manager that actually do things and all the empathy/making software for people becomes optional.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
I mean, I associate the book of faces with Lizard Zuckerberg. It might as well act like a faceless corporation, but it is far from "faceless"... I think. Consider f.e. Tesla's face, or Amazon's face.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
Oh come on now, it was at least somewhat bittersweet and hopeful in the end. "Wish for them to survive?" "Do you have any interest in helping the weak?" "Do you still wish to rescue someone - a total stranger - in s
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by dudeman13 5y ago
I'm a programmer working from home. My manager does not give a shit if I'm randomly unavailable for an hour every day.
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by dudeman13 5y ago
I mean, you can call a homeopath doctor (not sure if the expression is actually valid in english... it is on my native language) an actual doctor and it's gonna be approximately as ridiculous as calling a software engineer an actual en
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by dudeman13 5y ago
That's laughable. Software "engineers" pretending that "software engineer" is a protected title in any way or form (including soft and metaphorical community based protection). We'll get to call software engine
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by dudeman13 5y ago
They are not the same thing, unless they achieve what a 1x programmer won't on a lifetime on a day-to-day basis. If the 10x, 100x or 1000x programmer does not do the 10x, 100x or 1000x times on average on their day to day then they are

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