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by fleddr 4y ago
The wide base of young people in the healthy pyramid will eventually grow old. Since it was wide, it means to keep the pyramid healthy, multiples of young people would need to be added. Whom will also grow old, needing even more young peopl
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by fleddr 4y ago
I saw somebody on Twitter express it as follow: "Milennials/GenZ rule the online space, boomers rule the meat space." Your angry tweet means fuck all.
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're right when framed within the context of the Apple ecosystem. I was merely making the point that Chrome's dominance is not based on merit (alone). It's a lie, and a very relevant one. If Apple were to open up browser co
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by fleddr 4y ago
"However, apart from Android, where Google leverages the Power of Default, Chrome actually managed to compete on the merits." "Only on Android does Google leverage its market power in another field to strengthen Chrome."
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think this discussion is typically fuzzy because people do not separate weight and size. As for weight, no sane person wants to carry around more weight than needed. So there's a wide consensus that less weight is better. The counter
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by fleddr 4y ago
Your "no priority" stance doesn't hold ground if the article is to be believed. The lab leak theory wasn't just low on the agenda, it was actively avoid altogether.
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's hard to pick sides between two of the most hypocritical companies in the world. To start with, Apple. It's very much true that Apple has intentionally sabotaged Webkit's potential. By underinvesting, by neglect (not solv
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by fleddr 4y ago
Just adding to the pile of warnings... About 20 years ago, in the Netherlands, two people from my small town. Both were heavy users. They would visit a coffee shop (our term for a weed shop) twice a day and stay for some 2 hours or longer e
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by fleddr 4y ago
In Google Maps, when reverse geocoding a point on the map that is disputed, the result will not return any country identifier. They base this logic on the UN list of disputed areas.
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by fleddr 4y ago
For travel shaving I love the Philips OneBlade products. Light weight, works well enough and for a 3 week stay I don't even need to bring a charger. They can be used to shave any hair, should you need that. The only downside I can thin
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by fleddr 4y ago
I find it disappointing that solutions to the housing problem are so stuck in 20th century thinking. It has this "one more lane of highway" vibe. Extra supply in already dense/popular areas is fighting symptoms, an uphill bat
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by fleddr 4y ago
Your experience sucks but it's too simplistic to consider this malice/evil. I think none of us fully understand the extreme levels of abuse a service like Insta (and several other services) have to deal with. It's abuse at sc
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by fleddr 4y ago
My best guess is receiving positive attention to compensate for a lack of it elsewhere. I you want to see this escalated to an Olympic level, watch Meta Stack Exchange over time. It has quite a few characters that are writing lecture-length
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think the issue isn't even individual developers, it's indeed the runtime itself. Anything you build on top of it is laggy. Take my simple example of reading a file, processing it in memory, writing output. A process that should
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by fleddr 4y ago
Fine, change the term to "relationship expert". If you're good at maintaining a healthy romantic relationship, you'll have two, three, but optimally even one in a lifetime. That doesn't make you an expert, it still
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by fleddr 4y ago
I had no idea there was a term for it, thanks so much!
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by fleddr 4y ago
Frankly, yes, the non-tech discussions are the most entertaining and valuable to me. I really do like the format of slow lengthy discussions.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I have a colleague similar to that. Although it's not a popular term, he truly is a super architect and 10 x coder. You can throw any problem at him and he'll solve it, fast and with quality. As part of this, he explores new techn
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're absolutely right and this problem is getting worse and worse. As one example, Twitter has this concept of "Topics", which you can kind of see as a sub community. Take a topic like "Web development" and the gr
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by fleddr 4y ago
Horrified is a bit strong, but you have a point. There's a few themes that are strongly popular or unpopular by some type of community consensus. In those cases, it doesn't seem to matter what you have to say as minds are already
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by fleddr 4y ago
Kind of like a dating "expert". The only way to become such expert is to date a lot, which means you're not very good at dating in the first place. That is, if we assume that the point of dating is to efficiently find somebod
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think it's even stronger than a habit. When you're exposed to the typical "performance" of the web and apps for a decade or so, you may have forgotten about raw performance entirely. Young people may have never experie
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by fleddr 4y ago
Economic shocks are not fun, but to lighten the mood I figured to share a weird but hilarious subculture: vrekken. A "vrek" is the dutch word for somebody that is extraordinarily frugal in unhealthy ways. The vrekken culture embra
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by fleddr 4y ago
The "for life" remark is interesting in relation to generation Z. Materially, the most spoiled generation ever, through no fault of their own. Material abundance, cheap goods, instant gratification and very liberal parenting. Medi
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by fleddr 4y ago
I so recognize that behavior, and in our family it has carried on into the boomer generation, my parents and in-laws. Half the food in their house is expired. They have this lifelong habit of needlessly stocking lots of food as well as open
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by fleddr 4y ago
A "food shock" variation... My late grandmother, whom lived to the respectable age of 99 years, experienced the Dutch hunger winter. A period of famine during WW2. For the rest of her lengthy life she could not tolerate any type o
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by fleddr 4y ago
No, they're not. You go to different places and different people, every single day. That's 100% less repetitive compared to sitting at home or going to the office to see the same people. As for the tasks themselves, it was merely
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by fleddr 4y ago
Compensation does not reduce the type of suffering software developers typically endure (or complain about). Office politics, skills evaporating, high work pressure, ageism, boredom, physical inactivity, an indoor life, over-consumption of
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by fleddr 4y ago
An unsolvable problem. The rapid deterioration of skill will not stop, it is accelerating instead. People's desire for stability as they grow older will not change either. The only attraction in software development is the relatively g
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by fleddr 4y ago
The answer is similar to the DNT (do not track) debacle. When you give users a clear, informed, singular choice that would be sticky across their entire web/app experience, the choice in itself essentially becomes obsolete. Since prett

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