ergothus

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by ergothus 7y ago
I don't really cry. I don't know how to. Don't get me wrong - I get choked up, I get teary. I'm actually rather easily emotional - any tear-jerker movie will get to me. But once I have the emotion, I don't know ho
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by ergothus 7y ago
> just get clicks Just because you have one goal (in this case traffic) doesn't mean your actions dont have other effects. Generate clickbait that, for example, leverages the distrust the public has in a group, or is based on the de
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by ergothus 7y ago
I think the key issue is that you've addressed your loneliness that was due to shyness. Others will have loneliness due to other causes. In all cases we need to take actions ourselves, because nothing will change otherwise, but the ac
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by ergothus 7y ago
> use loneliness as a motivator to decide you aren’t going to be lonely anymore and find ways to fix the problem. I'm sure it wasn't intended, but your post comes across as incredibly dismissive. Oh, you are lonely? You just
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by ergothus 7y ago
I understand the complaint about noise, but the message is fairly explicit as to what is changing and what you need to do and where to go for more info: "A cookie associated with a resource at http://google.com/ was se
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by ergothus 7y ago
I dont mean to be dismissive, but it has been long announced, discussed, and noisily in the console. My honest question would be how you've missed it (because I'm assuming your missing means others would also reasonably miss this)
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by ergothus 7y ago
> I've always been on the skeptical side of medical marijuana usage in all but the most extreme cases, Really? I've always found the milder claims fairly believable (fighting nausea or chronic low level pain relief). As an an
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm not sure how "usual" your version is. In the US, tax cuts on the rich have been the norm for most of my adult life, often fairly obvious. So points 1 and 2 of your list dont match. I'm not saying your scenario is i
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The old-timers on Usenet and IRC at the time thought that me and my classmates were idiots. FWIW, my view at the time was a bit different - the normal cycle was that fresh students et al would join each year and they would either take
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by ergothus 7y ago
"Both have done it" is not the same as "both have done it equally". Nor does it mean "we should therefore be okay with it". If we support the idea of Democracy, we should stop abuses that harm democracy, even
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by ergothus 7y ago
> I suspect this is why chat is such a crap, low-throughput form communication; it's trivial for the sender to ship of a half-assed message I think the crap is related to the amount of effort put into the message vs the medium. Mak
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by ergothus 7y ago
You know how people always say "back in my day, things were better!" (in between saying "you kids don't know how easy you have it")? For me, while there are plenty of differences between now and when I grew up, an
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by ergothus 7y ago
I didn't mean technical overhead, I meant presentational overhead. Email was fine, nay, great, for people to have extended group discussions in, so long as everyone was willing to follow some rules. Then Outlook plus the Eternal Septe
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Use email or something else for more permanent discussions. I don't actually agree with this. Email has hefty overhead per message. Chat allows for faster and easier communications, which does NOT mean you can't have a hist
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by ergothus 7y ago
The problem with this is that while it is easy to see that the success of large corporations with practices we disagree with creates the problem, it is harder to see how us stopping our support helps fix them. I boycotted Amazon for the bet
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by ergothus 7y ago
> IMO what every programmer should know is how to do their job :) In truth, though, we don't. And not "oh, a few good ones do, but the masses we pity and mock don't". All of us. The only difference is if we acknowl
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by ergothus 7y ago
And yet the original post in this subthread says simple "YouTube makes money from ads" and says that Stirling "disagrees" with Youtube's monetization, which is inaccurate. YouTube has a flawed system for allowing
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by ergothus 7y ago
> I can't understand your support for failing to put in some defensive measures when they couldn't recreate a frequently reported bug From the tweet series: "There were one or two cases before launch where this issue see
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by ergothus 7y ago
The real payoff to me is when someone asks why they didn't just try more ways of making companions unkillable without/before going through all that debugging. The response: > that was our fallback, but > -without actually k
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by ergothus 7y ago
How does trying to form a different company (which has additional concerns a union doesnt) deal with issues like noncompete, arbitration clauses, etc?
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by ergothus 7y ago
> There's no way to know in advance what someone will learn from an experience. Correct. You can, however, improve the odds. Being explicit about what you want them to learn as opposed to expecting a certain degree of interpretati
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by ergothus 7y ago
A polite response does not have to be a meek response. You can be blunt, you can point out all the problems, while still being polite. That also has the advantage of being 100% clear. "You just told hundreds of people my code is poor.
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Jump straight to 404? That's my pet peeve. I completely understand the logic - using the HTTP status code to show the result of interaction with the resource is very RESTful - but my complaint is that unless you provide more con
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by ergothus 7y ago
That's the DESIRE for what the junior learned. But is that what they actually learned? One could just as easily (or more easily) decide instead that this is the way business is done. It's literally all they've ever seen.
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by ergothus 7y ago
This isn't me, this is the whole concept of net neutrality - the internet is a utility where all access is equal access, at least in terms of priority. (obviously we have rate limiting and people generally don't have protests abo
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by ergothus 7y ago
Interesting. I was taking the example straight from their docs: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/list.html What you have here does fix the 1:1 issue, but introduces an extra layer of abstraction that still feels unnece
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by ergothus 7y ago
I've been a React dev and after a couple of years of being Vue-curious, I banged around with it a little for a work project. My reaction was the opposite of yours - I found the syntax to be some confusing "not really JS" that
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by ergothus 7y ago
Why would Riot give this network to competitors? Only to make money. If that price gets too high. You, as s small indie developer, have just been driven out of the market. That's the logic of the above post. The answer is NEITHER &q
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by ergothus 7y ago
I've heard this "it's hard to make money even when you're rich" often, and I just don't understand it. You don't need to beat the market, you just need to beat inflation + your rate of spending, and you&#x
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by ergothus 7y ago
> something that "pays for itself" is not dependent on government subsidies. I think you are ignoring the aggregate here. A govt program can "pay for itself" in ways private action cant because the govt can help smoo

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