ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
This is a false equivalency. The alternative is not an hour of work, but an hour of some form of either news browsing or social interaction. If you think facebook does those poorly (I wont take a position on that now, though I certainly ha
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by ergothus 8y ago
I just started a about a month ago, and let me share my experiences that I don't see others report often in response to this question. (The responses are out there, but they are harder to find) There are many "masks" availab
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by ergothus 8y ago
> In a study, researchers found that people using an online sexual health forum featuring computer graphics, called icons Wow...this reads like news about the "World Wide Web" and "Information Superhighway" from 1995.
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by ergothus 8y ago
There is a whole world of professional "noses" used by perfume companies. They have a system for describing "notes" but I know far too little (and honestly, don't want to know more) to say more than that.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I like your view, because sacking them doesn't waste their talent (usually), it wastes all the time and effort of recruiting them, filtering out others, and forming a well-functioning team. This applies even in cases where someone isn
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by ergothus 8y ago
I took piano in college...and failed to learn it. Because I failed to practice, the root cause of which (in my mind) was the utterly uninteresting and unfamiliar drills. Now drills are going to be boring, but when there wasn't a singl
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by ergothus 8y ago
For papers and presentations at work (ones where i have time to do it right) I write the text, then run it through the xkcd simple writer ( https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ ), then make a new version with that output, then
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by ergothus 8y ago
In my experience, a good index doesn't just show where any usage is, it also covers where it is significant (bolding, sometimes subcategorizing). In the big texts (granted, for me these are almost always RPG books, but I've read&#
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by ergothus 8y ago
> there's a many-thousand page ECMA-376 Honestly, I'd love to see if there are organizational tips on managing (and using!) a document that large. I feel like technical writing is the closest to coding we get in plain language
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by ergothus 8y ago
Technology offers power, and power rewards those that use it. This applies as equally to modern tech as it did to older tech like literacy, so there isnt much point in focusing on that aspect. The meritocracy dream is that everyone unites
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by ergothus 8y ago
What is it about executive-speak? I entered the Google announcement about changes in their sexual harassment with a bad feeling because it started with a very executive-sounding statement that actually left me surprised with what followed.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> The boss will lend you tools for the first weeks until you get that first paycheck This doesn't line up with the "google it and try it for a week" unless some sort of apprenticeship is the norm (which also assumes you ha
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by ergothus 8y ago
Those are valid points, but that just means the API documentation and the concept documentation should largely be separate documents, not that the documentation doesn't belong. In the best cases a link over to relevant concept docs fr
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Google, “[this activity I like] for dummies” and learn for a week. I used to think this, but after guiding some folks into coding I find this flippant and discouraging. First, tech is lucky in that you can learn essentially for free, w
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by ergothus 8y ago
I wont agree or disagree yet, but why?
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by ergothus 8y ago
Why not? Document functionality and possibly showing examples is great (in general I'm a big advocate for examples), but those don't preclude explaining concepts. Some of the best documentation I've experienced covers concep
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by ergothus 8y ago
Despite having a great elementary and high school system, I learned critical thinking (at least in any obvious way) from exactly one class. It was a Home Ec class in junior high. (7th grade had both Home Ec and Shop, 8th grade you picked o
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by ergothus 8y ago
There's a definite line between "being challenged" and "You suck". As far as I can tell, society is rewarding burning people out. The tech industry is actually MUCH better than most other industries. Check out ass
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by ergothus 8y ago
FPTP is not the only system to do that - if the vote is to decide who represents _you_, any system can do that. If the vote is instead to give the party a certain amount of power, it won't do as you want regardless of the voting syste
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by ergothus 8y ago
Sadly, voting terminology is nasty. I've long advocated for a better voting system than first-past-the-post (or "pick one", as I call it for non-voting-system nerds). IRV has issues and is not my first choice, but it is bet
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by ergothus 8y ago
Interesting. I'm certainly not disputing the agism of the industry, but having fewer prospects is not equal to being forced out and I remain skeptical of the "shorter career" - then again, I believe women are discriminated a
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by ergothus 8y ago
During the confirmation hearings Kavanaugh repeatedly explained his high-school (and presumably college) activities by defensively and repeatedly emphasizing that "I like beer". Regardless of any good/bad quality of it, he wa
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by ergothus 8y ago
> The average programming career is relatively short-lived: you either have to move into management, analysis, project planning, etc. or be subject to agism. I won't dispute the problems in the industry, but I'm not sure you ca
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by ergothus 8y ago
My biggest LEGO discoveries as a child came about due to limitations: My mom would take me to visit her parents, which (once the sun went down and I couldn't run around outside) was very boring. I didn't have my huge lego collect
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by ergothus 8y ago
> When there are expected dimensions of software change, it can be worth paying the cost to create software with higher flexibility. Flexible software is harder to create, more complex, harder to understand, and harder to maintain. I agr
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Here's a good article on the subject: How so? The article rants about the 78% claim, without addressing that (a) even correcting for the concerns they state a pay gap exists, and (b) those "choices" men and women make a
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by ergothus 8y ago
But for both of these, "directly" often means being on hold.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I disagree with about every single conclusion you've drawn there, but I appreciate that you're willing to be clear and honest about your positions and beliefs. I won't upvote you, but I won't downvote either.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> It's funny that you say that I think you misunderstood my point in the "answers that are out there for anyone serious to find" - I'm saying it's worth restating your arguments even if you think people "sho
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by ergothus 8y ago
I think it is true that you wont change most people's minds. (When I discovered the psychological concept of schema, I was literally horrified) But some of us are discovering that what we thought of as "normal" (and thus form

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