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by goldfeld 8y ago
I think Android is very frustrating as well. Actually, I pick old Palm. I'll buy a new Palm Treo like I did 10 years ago and it was glorious old tech. Maybe no whatsapp is a plus and I'll just use from the laptop, tell people to c
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Yes, my life as a programmer has been in horrible frustration with human-computer interfaces. Thanks by the way!
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by goldfeld 8y ago
I mean, it could be, but I meant like a completely silent sound feeling, there is no sound (well, the microwave oven is noisy, but that bothers me as much as a blabbering TV, which is nearly not as much as this complete screeching silence.)
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by goldfeld 8y ago
OK, since I like to write, have more so lately, have started a newsletter before and was planning to start a similar one soon, I'll bite. Except if Poe's law comes bite me and it wasn't in earnest (checked your comment histor
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Use another brand phone? It couldn't really be simpler, free market and all. Wireless things suck, I've never considered bluetooth for anything and I really, really hate my bluetooth keyboards. They have nice keys and petite build
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by goldfeld 8y ago
To preserve their main domain from the filthiest blacklists? So they can move on to another shady domain for dirty tricks if this one goes under in reputation. Executive thinking..
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by goldfeld 8y ago
To me it's similar to having to break-up a long line in the middle of a non-important function call, because parens is where it's at. Feels like hooking into the middle of nowhere-don't-care just because that's the unpra
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Yes, that's a great example, especially with deep nesting which forced indentation makes worse. But the solution feels like working against the grain, when a language should be working for human readability, not for workarounds to make
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by goldfeld 8y ago
But list/dict comprehension puts the programmer in bad shoes, because anything interesting/powerful done with it gets dangerously long. This and other features where non-trivial statements or calls are written seem poorly thought-
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Python formatting is egregious though, with hopelessly long lines and no sign of where to break them up, or at the most weird places. Yes I'm one of those persons who adheres to the terminal 80 column rule, it's neat for splitting
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by goldfeld 8y ago
If you can't harbor any feeling for even a huge, complex and intelligent mammal, you're a much bigger threat to the environment than 6kg of plastic could ever be.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
If someone is determined to be an example of sustainable living, having extra kids might be productive, even very much so, as it helps the signal-to-noise ratio of good values spread faster in the population; think of it as a multiplier. Th
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Please, democracy has barely, barely survived the cold war all the world 'round, it's a dead horse to beat.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Depends on what level, you can probably find the more creatively independent on here, and even judge work sample through the comments. Email is in my profile if you're interested.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Why, let the US sink itself in inequality if that's what university people want. So much for the liberal arts major navigating society, the dream is gone, the song is over.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
And people still say dolphins are the second most intelligent species on Earth.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Sounds like lack of sleep does funny things to his head.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
I don't mean "most efficient" or anything to that end, which is a moral judgement I'm not inclined to consider, but that effectively most practitioners (you know, at home, in small business et al) are women. The phrasing
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by goldfeld 8y ago
I learned a lot working at tech companies, though I've since moved on to other line work where I tend to be the only man in the room.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Statistical disadvantages are almost always on women's side on a variety of societal issues, yet women cope and mostly aren't loud complainers on a day-to-day (when they get together to do so male culture calls them out). It'
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by goldfeld 8y ago
That means you believe you simply die and your pain is alleviated, which many people (who are not intellectually lazy) don't agree with, so they might want to genuinely help out. In any case suicide most often comes from a moment of sp
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by goldfeld 8y ago
It's simple, generally it's more common in men that they don't ask for help, don't reconcile with their own true feelings, don't allow for their own full self expression, don't hug, don't cry, don't s
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Chinese medicine, for instance, consider onions and garlic generally unhealthy, not something to be consumed all the time or even as part of almost any dish depending on the western cuisine.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
There's also the concept of baseline and highly adaptability to continued circumstances, so presumably metabolism is highly elastic if gradually tuned over the years.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
"Low-carb" as practiced freely is also dangerous long term, luckily the scientists know better than to go to unreasoned extremes.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Yes, an engine burning through more fuel will deteriorate faster. Carbs are easy fuel that won't wear out the system as much as having to process fats and protein for that same energy benefit.
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Bingo. Young people thinking war is a boy's toy game, east or west. Generations who haven't seen a real massacre barely need desensitization, their family culture can be inhumane and insensitive enough from home. The comments on t
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by goldfeld 8y ago
I think all your further inquiry is valid but comes down to a political opinion and it might be that ours are opposite on the spectrum, so it might as well be a rhetoric questioning, and in any case such an in-depth conversation would be be
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by goldfeld 8y ago
People can still be taken advantage of with a mighty sum of money, surprise surprise. Money doesn't make everything right always. It's all about opportunity cost (how long does one's 20s and early 30s last?), the value this y
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by goldfeld 8y ago
Well, far-right thinking is on the rise as of late, so perhaps you're right. People outside the US are being deluded into thinking libertarianism will solve economic woes, among other harebrained solutions. Economic woes themselves hav

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