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by gfody 6y ago
another great explanation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRCDLre1b4 also from 2017
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by gfody 6y ago
well it appealed to me or I wouldn't've shared it, and I think his advice is eminently useful to anyone frustrated that you can't tell people anything - ie: rather than specific details you think might interest them, try shar
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by gfody 6y ago
relevant Ted talk, "don't tell people what you're doing tell them why you're doing it" - https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...
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by gfody 6y ago
you might unlock another 9x and fix that crash by using copy to load your messages instead generating arbitrarily large insert statements, and maybe a little more still by using appropriate data types instead of text for identifiers and dat
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by gfody 6y ago
I was on a fresh setup recently and caught a glimpse of the raw internet on my way to install uBlock Origin and uMatrix. There are still fake download buttons everywhere. I can't understand how the non-ad-blocking world tolerates that
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by gfody 6y ago
this plugin is obsolete since .net core 3 introduced single-file executables and assembly linking
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by gfody 6y ago
blogger's founder went on to create Medium after being chewed up and spit out by Google, you should give it a try you might have better luck
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by gfody 6y ago
it's a figurative euphemism - when a big company buys a blogging platform, changes the privacy policies and bans content, you can say they "shut it down".. like how the cops can shutdown a house party
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by gfody 6y ago
> Quality is the ability of a thing to do its job. He was an English teacher trying to judge the quality of rhetoric though, which doesn’t have a job other than to be quality.
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by gfody 7y ago
I'd trust a .com over a .lc even in Saint Lucia, ymmv
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by gfody 7y ago
I hosted a little file sharing utility at fy.lc that recently vanished from the internet. I guess I always suspected this was a possibility given the general jankiness of nic.lc but it's still pretty disappointing. Nobody should run an
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by gfody 7y ago
I’m enjoying lists like this. They’re like pocket versions of “This book will make you smarter”. Here’s another: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1225561131122597896.html
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by gfody 7y ago
and a 3D cube: https://observablehq.com/@pallada-92/sql-3d-engine
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by gfody 7y ago
It's just setting the tone of the discussion. Emotionally charged writing can be fun to read but can also be tiresome especially at length.
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by gfody 7y ago
This is the Nirvana fallacy. It's not some rare exception to be producing value for someone else while achieving personal fulfillment.
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by gfody 7y ago
..or some features are actually bugs, now your a bug farmer.
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by gfody 7y ago
totally agree, it's also possible to have built a feature that users have to use but aren't happy about - then the data can be misleading.
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by gfody 7y ago
A big part of product management's function is buffering all the features being asked for so that they can take a step back and design a solution that isn't just 100 new features. The feature factory process is mostly a symptom of
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by gfody 7y ago
when it comes to software you do not want to produce code at scale. the fewer lines of code the better really. it'd be like measuring the quality of your genome by counting the rungs in your dna.
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by gfody 7y ago
it's more that they're measuring the wrong thing. wash rinse repeat here just leads to implosion due to neglecting the big picture, death by 1000 cuts, etc.
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by gfody 7y ago
I had the same experience and I often wonder about the tendency to "go enterprise" - it seems more like sabotage than idiocy after enough coffee. Probably just the consequence of excessive profiteering /shrug.
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by gfody 7y ago
A database schema is the result of practicing the art of information modeling - a timeless art that will unlock the deepest mysteries of the universe if you master it. When database threads hit HN it's basically disgusting how poorly u
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by gfody 7y ago
agree, I'd love to see uMatrix get more sophisticated.. there are already a lot of sites that simply cannot be fixed
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by gfody 7y ago
Using uMatrix really raised my awareness of how bad things are - spyTech is utterly everywhere. I still take the time to micromanage my matrix every time I encounter a new site and it’s ridiculous how long it can take to get a random infest
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by gfody 7y ago
stuff.txt
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by gfody 7y ago
the idea is you don’t know if the null != 5 because null isn’t a value it just marks the absence of a value
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by gfody 7y ago
especially pyrophytic ones like au
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by gfody 7y ago
he definitely means magnet
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by gfody 7y ago
good point, crucial even.. thank you I should get back to work :)
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by gfody 7y ago
agree, I actually expect there to be all sorts of positive correlations with clean air - but they all start with caring about it enough to do something like change a filter

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