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by guhidalg 4y ago
Not odd at all. First-level managers may still have a tenuous grasp of being an empathetic person, but managers of managers are only interested in growing their kingdom. To that end, WFH makes it harder for them to demonstrate a need for mo
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I'm waiting for the legal case that decides if AI generated content is considered protected speech or not.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Before we lose ourselves in abstract generalities that don't mean anything, let's focus on the thread: communication applications. If you're comfortable working at a place that mandates Teams because it makes management'
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I assume by your answer that you work at Apple or know someone who works there so let me clarify that I'm talking about the messy work that happens before you have a take home prototype for a device. I'm talking about building the
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I do, every day. I still don't have an emotional attachment to the people I'm video calling from across the world. The folks nearby? Yes.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Commenting on the campus bit.... Apple makes devices, not just software. Good luck developing device from home and dealing with the constant headache of shipping samples around the world. The campus was not a mistake.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
That's never going to happen. Most people (maybe not you, you savant) need someone's physical presence to see them as a real person. The phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" did not become irrelevant just because I can ema
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Another view point: if you want to compete in the big leagues, you need to have "fuck you" levels of money. You can be happy building indie games for desktops as a career, but if you want to compete with Nintendo, Sony, and Meta t
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by guhidalg 4y ago
> They are usually _horrible_ to write in. No? Basically all the GUI frameworks are horrible to write in, and if you haven't reached a point where you're pulling your hair out then your application just isn't complex enoug
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by guhidalg 4y ago
After 2 years of WFH, the RTO complaints are absolutely valid. Everyone saw that it was not necessary for most people to be at the office to continue doing their work, but now they are being forced to go back because... 1. HR needs to justi
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by guhidalg 4y ago
The company does treat the employees well, the article specifically calls out VCs and executives as the principal actors: > The tech industry is desperate to somehow frame a period of time where it took advantage of low interest rates to
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Yes probably, I wish people would just write /s
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Shooting down one balloon demonstrated all the capabilities of the F-22? Doubt it. the F-15 has seen combat for almost 50 years and we’re still flying it, quite successfully too. I’m sure there are classified planes with greater capabilitie
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by guhidalg 4y ago
My head is spinning so fast from this comment, you could probably use me to chop down Chinese balloons out of the air.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
LOL! What? Aliens are worried about being exposed? Why? Did you ask them? Answer: not aliens, just a big PsyOps to give the military more funding.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Wow where do you work that management has their shit together that well?
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted… it’s true. Any seemingly feasible idea has already been tried in secret by DARPA or one of its friends. We only know about the ones they’ve declassified.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
That’s true, but it’s not like translating HTML into a bitmap for a display is some spontaneous process that happens for free. Your browser is anyone going to interpret all that HTML and CSS, and your users are going to click on buttons and
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Are you suggesting we give up on rendering layouts that respond to different window sizes, display resolutions, and zoom levels? I think what you’re suggesting is that clients requesting websites should receive essentially an image of the w
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Yes, I should specify I’m talking about software development. Physical products and work rarely have the luxury of making mistakes or taking shortcuts, the universe is a harsh place.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
No? Each client may be receiving the same document, but based on their device, view port, preferences, etc… the rendered result may be different. Either way, the measurement of Joules/page is likely to be such an astronomically small n
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by guhidalg 4y ago
So true. I use a similar quip at work: "Take the shortcut and if we're not out of business when it becomes an issue, then it will be a good problem to have".
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I'm glad they are too. Let's take another example: what if the client was a healthcare provider and instead of us merely chuckling at the inconvenience of losses we witnessed deaths from management's incompetence. Would you s
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Not destroying the world with emissions.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
But why? If you had the choice of EQUIVALENT (bandwidth, latency, jitter, reliability, etc…) network connectivity, why pick a wire over wireless?
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by guhidalg 4y ago
View it from the other side: even with this much dysfunction, things work most of the time and when they fail they are recoverable. There's no motivation to improve until something fails hard enough. If no one crashes as a result of th
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Does that cost include the externalities of how the oil actually used? I don't believe solar (+ all the other renewables) is equivalent to drilling for oil, piping it thousands of miles, refining it, then burning it somewhere. Happy to
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by guhidalg 4y ago
F# will always be a niche language compared to C#. The VSCode extension for F# is bad, while the C# extension for VSCode is just as good as Visual Studio for C#. I'm not apologizing for the .NET team, but if you want to be productive w
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by guhidalg 4y ago
At $FORMER_EMPLOYER, we had a company-wide service that tracked changes of all kinds: source code changes, deployment changes, config changes, etc... It was useful because some changes are never reflected in YOUR logs, but they are reflecte
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by guhidalg 4y ago
It’s absolutely an amazing replacement for cables IF you can get the magnetic alignment that MagSafe has. Have you used a Mac? You really want to stick to the USB-C charger that can drag your computer off the table?

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