ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
...the last time I checked they were only available at restaurants, so this was very happy news for me. Thanks!
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by ergothus 8y ago
> [Pet peeve: nuanced is overused.] I'm used to seeing (and feeling) the inverse: people are far too likely to sum everything up into a simple, but too often wrong, explanation (he says with irony) Care to explain your reasoning fo
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by ergothus 8y ago
Right, they just let it wither. If you have a google apps domain, you run months to years behind getting new features compared to their free offerings. Then there's Google glass...when was the last update for that? Paid has not meant
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by ergothus 8y ago
Not the above poster, but for me - I omit my degree from my resume, because in my mind it was so long ago as to be irrelevant. It's also a bit odd - I have a degree in "Letters, Arts, and Science" - a make-your-own major fro
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by ergothus 8y ago
You are correct on all points, in my experience. That said, those of us that DO miss some level of meat simulacra (great phrase!) will appreciate this. I lost the taste for actual red meat over 20 years ago, but the texture is still someth
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by ergothus 8y ago
> bottom ~80% of the industry. The top ~20% How are you defining "top" and "bottom" here? I can agree with the 80/20 split, but I don't think it necessarily tracks with, say, name recognition or market cap
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by ergothus 8y ago
> If you can't measure how well you're performing, There are a lot of assumptions baked into that statement, not least among them: (1) that being unable to put a number on it means you can't tell if you're improving
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm more surprised they didn't mention the rubber ducks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
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by ergothus 8y ago
I think it's easy to ignore all the kids dead/suffering while talking about how nice it was for those that weren't. Kids today are SAFER than in the past - and we do things to bring that about. I loved riding in my grandpa
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by ergothus 8y ago
The concept that has been upheld for the current system in the past is: Companies do R&D, some fails, and some succeeds, and the profits from the successes pay for both the failures and successes. The poster I was replying to points out
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by ergothus 8y ago
...and lived in a society with far more racism and sexism. The world had high odds of being more violent, health was probably worse. (even recent downturns for some groups are small compared to the improvements over generations). We comp
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by ergothus 8y ago
As others have said, you cant ignore the purchase price of the research, and the buyer has that because they sell high priced drugs ...that said, it makes a good point about how the incentives work. If the govt did Xprize-like rewards for
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by ergothus 8y ago
For all that it is traditional to bemoan the state of "kids these days" or how the world has gotten worse, there are only two things I truly miss being added to my existence: C&H and The Far Side. I revisit both every few yea
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by ergothus 8y ago
It was thought so for a while, but recently (~10-20 years) was discovered that they do, albeit slowly.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I didn't comment on the advice, I commented on the conclusion the author made that learning that people are uninterested in your material leads to empathy. It'd be great if it did, but that's hardly a given.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> When you, the student writer, understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. That's a bold claim. I'd argue part of the reason that no one likes advertising is that the writers, by and large, don't
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by ergothus 8y ago
...or conference rooms that are de-facto dedicated for their use. The modern thing is to brag that execs have open office desks among everyone else...ignoring the fact that they don't really spend any time at their desks.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I hate open offices, and took it as a given that most others do too. But in my last office, they held a poll (anonymous, but kinda in-person, we all voted electronically while in an all-hands meeting) in an office that is mostly (but not s
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by ergothus 8y ago
> she's not embarrassed with her first version, she's shipping too late. Valuable wisdom! Thus inspired, I might make it "If you aren't embarrassed, you haven't shipped yet"
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by ergothus 8y ago
> This isn't true, or at least there isn't consensus around that idea all of the time I'm not saying it's true, nor that "most" people were saying it, just that enough loud voices were doing it. My point was
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by ergothus 8y ago
> It’s immediately obvious that increasing the money supply and spending the money will result in inflation. I'm not criticizing your logic, but I feel like my entire adult life (I'm 42) I've been bombarded with tales of E
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Presumably if we had work to be done we would have open positions for it. I don't follow the presumption. There's no shortage of work out there to be done, we just don't have the means to PAY for it under the current sy
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by ergothus 8y ago
Personally, I find it highly interesting that some of the major, truly changing innovations in my field (The common architecture standard for a PC, the internet, the web, and the various open POSIX-ish OSs, and arguably free software/o
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by ergothus 8y ago
Yes. I'm against having the drinking age being above the "adulthood" age, and I KNOW lots of kids violate these laws, but it is absurd to say that every single person violates them given the chance.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I doubt we'll agree, but something as simple as: make an unordered list of hrefs with a url (based on name) and the name. Also, have a class on the currently selected <li> (currently selected meaning some variable matches the it
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm too inexperienced to have a definitive opinion, but I'm not nearly so positive and wanted to toss out a contrasting opinion to the current comments. After a few years of using React and some past experience with various other
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm certainly keeping that in mind...but why do you believe those are codewords for that? Is that assumption, rumor, or based on personal experience?
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I know of no programming language that can convey the meaning of these sentences Are _these_ meanings the meaning that define language? To say that programming languages exist to convey meaning does not equate to being able to express
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by ergothus 8y ago
And yet, a vast component of code is communicating to developers. Some patterns (e.g. Java) try to minimize the expressiveness in favor of consistency, others (e.g. Perl, etc) focus on expressiveness (which makes the subsequent result highl
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by ergothus 8y ago
> However, on many job postings you'll see words like "grit" or "passion" listed as requirements. These are codewords for "we'll work you hard" and "overtime expected", as far as I can te

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