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by gdulli 8y ago
PC gamers haven't really ever owned their games in the whole Steam era. Most are too young to even be aware that buying a game anonymously and being able to resell it later was an ability that we used to have. You're right about t
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by gdulli 8y ago
My first instinct when I saw these was that if they'd been invented first, I'd have held out until they invented a wired version. Simpler, cheaper, harder to lose, more reliable.
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by gdulli 8y ago
Using source control is basic and vague, the specific practices around it you might be tempted to call an education are just as subject to getting lost in dogma vs. developing personal wisdom as anything else.
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by gdulli 8y ago
"Best practices" are not the best way to think about your output nor your (personal) development. The term is flawed to start with in the sense that it invites you to think of practices as fixed or objective rather than contextual
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by gdulli 8y ago
I've seen occasional attachments to years-old gmail messages get irrevocably lost. Well, irrevocably given the likelihood of ever getting human attention on it.
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by gdulli 8y ago
> Even so, "innocent until proven guilty" is the better standard You're confusing this with the legal system. Normal people outside that don't have access to formal investigative powers and resources. Their only cours
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by gdulli 8y ago
> allowing a computer to mount a filesystem directly requires that the phone unmount it I don't think that's true. My S8 storage is mounted and accessible from my computer right now while at the same time playing music from the
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by gdulli 8y ago
I use this: https://winaero.com/blog/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-w... I don't know if it has the features you're missing, I use it because I don't like the look and feel of the new apps.
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by gdulli 8y ago
> Small projects should not shy from the monolithic design. It offers higher productivity for smaller teams. Yes. In my next job search I'd like to find a way to feel out a team for whether they adopt new patterns reflexively and do
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by gdulli 8y ago
I worked at the two companies that made the two most important games I ever played. My experience at the first directly led to me keeping a bit of detachment the second time. At the first, the company made some decisions that were unpopular
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by gdulli 8y ago
There's a pattern where people go along with technology and progress because it's the thing to do, rather than by making a conscious decision. We're constantly sold new ways of doing things by getting bombarded with messaging
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by gdulli 8y ago
Where children are involved, acting "paternal" is appropriate and using that term in a derogatory manner doesn't make sense. A kid's entire browsing history could end up compromised on a Facebook server and go public and
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by gdulli 8y ago
> * t-shirts, foosball tables, etc as perks Or anything mentioning alcohol. I don't have an issue with alcohol in general, I'll drink socially. But as an indicator of culture it's just the biggest cliche and eye roll for m
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by gdulli 8y ago
Meanwhile, my modern engineering organization has projects less than three years old that are already obsolete or orphaned because they were built on someone's favorite JS framework or CMS that isn't relevant or growing anymore an
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by gdulli 8y ago
Browsing physical books is a lot more fun, too. Just looking at a shelf and picking something up and flipping through it. That's an experience you could never get on Amazon. Both in the sense of interacting with objects and also the di
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by gdulli 8y ago
I used to think that experience meant the difference between believing benchmarks and being skeptical of them. Now I know it's the difference between being skeptical and ignoring them.
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by gdulli 8y ago
I can't imagine many "expected" the prices to decrease beyond an introductory period used to buy some goodwill to offset the hit to the Whole Foods brand in the acquisition.
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by gdulli 8y ago
> If I were a customer Are you sure you're not one?
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by gdulli 8y ago
And they've treated employees worse than this.
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by gdulli 8y ago
> Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything? Meetings are rarely open-ended forums for arbitrary ideas or feedback and more often venues for agreeing with and carrying out decisions th
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by gdulli 8y ago
> The problem is that you can't say that today -- depression has to be all about BS "chemical imbalances" Really? I googled "what causes depression", first link: "It's often said that depression results
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by gdulli 8y ago
I'd say that Google is synonymous with hubris. Their unexamined but faulty trust in their ability to create automated systems that don't require manual intervention or customer service is one main application of it.
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by gdulli 8y ago
This happens to me too, various opt-in nags on both desktop and mobile. Using google maps has become a chore for me. I used to like going to the site or the app and browsing around for fun to learn about a new place. Now I only use it when
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by gdulli 8y ago
Because of their relative file sizes, downloading audio became fast and easy to do much sooner than video. It created a problem for the music industry pretty abruptly. They didn't have streaming technology (and business structure) read
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by gdulli 8y ago
Also, a company that offers a wide variety of services and collects your personal data to distribute internally among those services seems to get a pass. Compared to companies that are more vertical and benefit by selling your data rather t
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by gdulli 8y ago
I have friends and co-workers with free access to the MBTA because it's paid for by our employer. I see them pay for ridesharing when the free public transportation is a reasonable option for the same trip. I see some people paying the
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by gdulli 8y ago
I've commuted solely by public transportation in Boston for the last 8 years. Before that I lived elsewhere and commuted by car daily. While the public transportation has occasional delays and outages, it's overall reasonable and
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by gdulli 8y ago
It makes sense that fewer people who grew up with the internet would be fooled. But there will still be people of every age who lack the sophistication.
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by gdulli 8y ago
And as you get truly senior you've picked out the stack you like best out of the ones you've tried, the stack that lets you do anything you want to do with the least friction for your own personal style. And you realize there&#x27
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by gdulli 8y ago
Also, politics aside, the younger generation has some sophistication about domain names (which are essentially their news sources) in general. They know a domain that's been around vs. one like justice-freedom-eagle.usa that looks like

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