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by fatnoah 4y ago
My 14 year old son and I found a gaming connection in Farming Simulator. There's something satisfying to both of us to go through the tasks of plowing, fertilizing, seeding, and harvesting a field with and upgrade path that allows it
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by fatnoah 4y ago
The red flag for me about how well this all works is that the only way to find out how is to pay money. As you noted, the site itself doesn't inspire confidence either.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Apple is no stranger to secret projects. A few years ago, when I worked for a large (> $25 billion in revenue) software company, we were approached by Apple to be part of a beta program for a new API feature. Their requirement was that
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My grandfather worked for a company that built industrial sized knitting machines, and his job was to ensure they were installed correctly and to help get them up and running. One frequent destination was Czechoslovakia, where he had a &qu
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Yeah, I'm so not into this. While I would love a more visually compelling and useful in-car infotainment system, something being tied to iOS or Android is a hard no from me. I don't trust Apple to be anything other than a closed e
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I've flown across the country many times, but have only done it on the train once. I ended up doing a loop going from Boston to Washington DC to Chicago to Sacramento to Los Angeles to San Antonio to Chicago and finally to Boston. The
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>I have lived in rural, suburban, and dense urban settings, and my quality of life was by far, by far, the highest in the city. Almost every aspect of my life was improved when I moved to a dense urban center. Same here, and the other fa
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by fatnoah 4y ago
As a resident of the northeast, the hour I'd save by not mowing would be offset by the 3 hours a day I'd need to remove ticks from my dog and family.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
A hiring freeze w/out backfilling attrition can accomplish a similar goal as well.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I've worked at 3 different startups, which were all unique. The first found good product/market fit and, though not profitable, had a solid customer base and a good technology. Founders were also knowledgable and well-connected i
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm in the same boat. I don't see "position in hierarchy" as a "trait". The second biggest indicator seemed to be getting income from property (land, investments, etc.) vs. labor. Looking up the dictionary d
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by fatnoah 4y ago
That's amazing. My dad and I were heading home from a trip to visit relatives (late '80's, I think) and he pulled a similar "hey, want to see something cool?" thing with me, and that's where we ended up. I now
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Fair point!
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember AltaVista and all of the others. There's a reason I stopped using them almost immediately when I found Google.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>While this is true, I can still code circles around frontend developers using vanilla JS. My first use of jQuery was in the dark days was building UIs (with things like drag and drop, etc) that had to run on Internet Explorer and Netsca
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My own experience was that only a couple of people in the groups I mentioned seemed like anything other than normal people, i.e. other moms and dads at Scouts, school events, kids sports & activities, etc. The only real sweeping general
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Wow, I didn't expect such a great discussion on tomatoes and sauces. I have a few things to check out. My own tomato story comes from another place in the city where I had a private roofdeck. It was basically full sun all day long.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Wow, that's a tough one. Just spitballing, I'd say: 1). Don't try to build it yourself, no matter how simple your case. Your needs will ALWAYS evolve to be more complex AND keeping up with the thousands (or more) of ind
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Oh yeah, I'm definitely on top of it and it's one of the constant themes of my discussions with my managers and skip-level reports. I very much start with making sure we're all clear on "why" before we even think a
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This was in the mid-2000's, so my memory is pretty fuzzy. I'll definitely check that brand out, though.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
One thing I miss about my old place in the city was the ridiculously expensive market on my block that carried all of the "real" cheese. The real stuff was so fantastic and flavorful that I usually used far less of it, which part
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Thanks to raising a kid in a large US city, and through my job in tech, I've met and/or regularly interacted with a fair number of "rich" people, as defined by this article. The level of richness definitely was in tiers.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>If they're complaining about your hours, then there's something else bothering them, but they're using this as a proxy[2]. This can also be a sign that the manager doesn't really know what you're doing and/
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I can't think of any environment that I've been in where this is true. I think the closest I've been was as part of a team of three people where each of us could really handle any task in the codebase. It was also true that
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> “I often see teams get into a mode where they’re just doing anything and everything to move the goal, without actually realizing they’re headed in the wrong direction from a strategic standpoint to create long-term value.” I see this a
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My very first startup (wayyyy back in 2000) built a billing SaaS. I fully agree that rating, billing, invoicing, and all of the related things are hard. I learned a lot in that role about dealing with complexity...and date/time.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> This reminds me of the dot com bubble. In 2000 people who had no software background and were making 50k would get offers for 80k... I accepted a $54k SW Eng job offer in 2000. To be fair, I had a Masters, but only 6 months work exper
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>I think it's also because they don't deal with complexity as well as younger programmers so they strive for simplicity (which is good). Yeah, I'm going to have to ask for details here. When I was a youngster, it was the
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I must admit, the _art_ of writing readable code really appeals to me and is one of my finest joys in programming One of the best compliments I've ever received was when a team member told me I created the most beautiful looking c
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>I can't speak for all of Europe, but here in Amsterdam most people have a decent supermarket within walking (<15min) or cycling (<5min) distance I lived in downtown Boston (USA) for a number of years in 4 different apartments

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