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by ewmiller 5y ago
The paying customer cares when your tech debt becomes so burdensome that you can no longer deliver features (or fix bugs) on the timeline they want.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
This. Those with money and an interest in maintaining a positive appearance online can do so easily.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
Companies often make employees sign agreements stating they won't do work for a second company while on the first company's property or while using the first company's equipment. So if you were going into the office and using
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by ewmiller 6y ago
When I was a junior dev, my team was on the east coast of the US, but we worked daily with people from Ireland. This meant every meeting had a Skype link, and everyone was well equipped to screen share and collaborate remotely. The benefit
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by ewmiller 6y ago
Check out discogs.com. Most music listeners don't covet their physical media anymore, but there are still millions of people globally who buy and trade vinyl, and even CDs. Anecdotally, I have a friend who collects rare underground CDs
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by ewmiller 6y ago
It's funny that everyone is saying physical media is dying - that might be true for the majority of the population, but for niche music collectors vinyl is making a big comeback. I personally have a growing collection of a few dozen vi
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by ewmiller 6y ago
The headline is pretty misleading and emotionally worded. The actual article doesn't really talk about "redemption" of the world.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
You can call an animal "wild" without also condemning it to a cruel fate like the circus. It's not black and white. I don't personally know what the solution is, but I'm sure there's a more elegant middle groun
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by ewmiller 6y ago
I think you can acknowledge the evils of the circus during that time and still also acknowledge that a gorilla is far stronger than most adult men, and more difficult to reason with should it get angry or violent.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
> dressing up for work That's actually a great point - the days that I put on a button-up and nice jeans as if I was going into an office are days that I'm way more productive, as opposed to wearing pajamas all day.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
Can confirm. I live in a 450 square foot studio apartment and I work from home every day. I would love a separate room to just be my "office," but my only room is already my kitchen, bedroom and living room too...
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by ewmiller 6y ago
This is classic troll bait. Railing against the mayor of LA in a thread about housing and employment in the Bay Area. No opportunity to rant about big government must be left untaken, no matter how much of a stretch it is.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
“Liberalization” is a massive generalization and I don’t see what connection you’re making between public school curricula and reasons someone might move out of Silicon Valley. It seems a bit silly to do so. Besides high housing demand and
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by ewmiller 6y ago
What particular policies did people vote for that contributed to their reasons for fleeing?
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by ewmiller 6y ago
> This makes them feel unsafe at work. I wonder how long my employment would last if I just stopped doing a good job and then said that as a response to any effort by my manager or teammates to criticize my output.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
> Oh sweetheart This should also be on the list of annoying conversational tropes.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
That makes a lot more sense. I always pictured it as dinner first, then the movie, or just the movie itself, which never made sense. Still, how long could a conversation after the movie about the movie even last? "Yeah I liked it, it w
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by ewmiller 6y ago
The newest one fixed it enough to satisfy me, i.e. it has a physical escape key again. I never used the rest of the function keys anyway, and I like the customizable nature of the touch bar. The lack of a physical escape key when they first
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by ewmiller 6y ago
Dynamically typed, vanilla JS always seems like the faster option at first. Then your team grows, new developers inherit the project, and your codebase needs to be worked on at scale. This is when vanilla JS falls apart and becomes incredib
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by ewmiller 6y ago
I came of age in the era of budding social media platforms, and that was my primary way to consume feeds and news online for the past 10 years or so (I include reddit in the "social media" category, especially more recently). Now,
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by ewmiller 6y ago
Same boat here. I was a Google play music user for a long time, but switched to Spotify for good as soon as they announced YouTube music. The writing on the wall was there.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
FaceTime is very much still a thing, I use it with my family all the time.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
What the person you’re replying to means, is that Apple Music was added on top of iTunes as a new service rather than iTunes being scrapped completely. If Google were to do the same thing, then google play music would still be around and no
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by ewmiller 6y ago
I assume so. Spotify has a feature somewhat like this, but I keep it turned off because I find it annoying and distracting. It’s a bit silly to try to justify a huge move like this based on such a trivial feature, in my opinion.
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by ewmiller 6y ago
Contracts seem like a very weird motivation for this. Why completely overhaul the user experience by getting rid of an entire application for consuming music and trying to shoehorn it into another, instead of just keeping two separate entit
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by ewmiller 6y ago
I haven’t heard a single consumer express enthusiasm for the switch to YouTube music. Anyone I’ve casually talked to about it is dismissive and doesn’t really understand what it's even trying to be. If anybody has heard anything from a
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by ewmiller 6y ago
> it incentivizes said party to support election reform (such as ranked voting.) How? Why would either party support ranked voting, and make 3rd parties actually viable? Both major parties enjoy the power and influence they have. Making
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by ewmiller 6y ago
That seems a bit much, but I do feel bad for anyone named Karen now that it's become a meme. It seems really insensitive to turn a person's name into a pejorative.