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by handrous 5y ago
OK, but are you arguing against the substance of it? 2020, that age range would have all been Gen Z, I'm pretty sure. Still 31%. Do you think the breakdown of Gen Z political opinions, ordered by prominence, is "socialist (51+%) -
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by handrous 5y ago
> Thirty-one percent of voters ages 18 to 24 supported Trump in November, according to exit polls, down from 37 percent in 2016. From NBC. Sure, 37% isn't "most", but I think it's a fair guess that if 37% supported Tr
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by handrous 5y ago
Also because "four years at FAANG -> CTO or Development Lead (with a major hiring component) of a smallish funded startup" is a really common path, and those folks often bring along those interviewing processes. Startup founder
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by handrous 5y ago
Shitloads of adults were on anti-anxiety meds (and anti-depressants, for that matter) 20 years ago. Plenty more self-medicated for those symptoms with alcohol or illegal drugs. One of the big shocks of my growing up was learning that, more
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by handrous 5y ago
> It doesn't make much sense if they're looking for someone who can do the actual job, in my opinion. FAANG (& similar) have more applicants who can do the job than they have positions, so instead of checking for that and c
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> I absolutely found a way to work it into our name. :) Yeah, thought the "12" might be a bit of that, but didn't want to assume.
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You see these sorts of companies sometimes, especially outside the coasts. It's kinda like plumbers (or whatever) with the ichthus symbol prominent in their logo. Sometimes they even find a way to work it into the name.
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by handrous 5y ago
How do normal taxi services handle this? I really have no idea. I assume better, since they'd have already dealt with these sorts of suits decades ago if they didn't.
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by handrous 5y ago
AFAIK nothing has the plug-n-play library availability of Rails, as far as things that are highly relevant to stitching together "web apps". Not even Django, which may be its closest competitor. That single aspect of it is so go
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by handrous 5y ago
What it offers is that code you didn't write is significantly easier to read & understand than in most languages.
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by handrous 5y ago
Good-sized friend group spanning late 20s to late 30s. Flyover country city, and very few of them are in tech. No-one watches TV (broadcast, cable, any of those virtual-cable steaming options) unless they're sports fans, and that use c
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by handrous 5y ago
If it's helping keep the "'if' considered harmful" crowd away, I say keep it. There are plenty of other languages.
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by handrous 5y ago
Observation and experience over years has led me to avoid discrete video cards in laptops entirely. They seem to be the cause of a solid 50% of all major problems, across all vendors, including Apple. They were an endless headache on my Win
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by handrous 5y ago
> and then acts with impunity against you
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by handrous 5y ago
I think bitmaps are often used in 2d games for level definition or various other sorts of mapping (height, for 2.5d games, et c.)
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by handrous 5y ago
Slack and WhatsApp do it, too. I bet also in most of the other major messengers around right now (Signal, Matrix, Telegram). It's a thing in MarkDown, as well. Now that I think about it, some of the only places I type prose where that&
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by handrous 5y ago
I, for one, liked the options, and happily chose "Everyone involved is evil, the contracts should be voided and the companies dissolved." I think middle age is turning me into some flavor anarchist. Weird.
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by handrous 5y ago
What's this insurance for? Data breach liability?
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by handrous 5y ago
The loss of Car Talk and the changes to A Prairie Home Companion all but eliminated my weekend listening. Wait, Wait... is OK but I usually don't tune in without the other stuff to draw me. The other new comedy show (with Coulton and E
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by handrous 5y ago
Am I missing something, or is "customer success" one of those things where people come up with a new term for existing things, but with "... done correctly" implied? I read the "What is customer success and why does
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by handrous 5y ago
20-year career so far. Never seen a database swapped out. I've seen "apps" replaced on top of databases, or more programs added to access the same database. I've seen the app and database both get thrown out and replac
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by handrous 5y ago
Repair culture happens when stuff's expensive and labor's cheap. Both are false and getting, uh, falser.
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by handrous 5y ago
> It's not news that facial recognition is best at white male-presenting faces Really? On the male part? I'd have expected it to do best with women, because I'd have figured facial hair is more difficult to deal with than
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by handrous 5y ago
Counterpoint: Databases often outlive applications. Database features usually do what they do very quickly and reliably. Used well, a full-featured database can make things like in-place refactors or re-writes of your application layer far
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by handrous 5y ago
I wish vendoring in deps and/or monorepos were better-supported. That's the only thing that gives me pause with Go. Everything else about it is great from a "can this easily be built a couple years from now, if it's not
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by handrous 5y ago
Now that AI figured out how to press the "posterize" button, the singularity is surely just around the corner. Yeah, glad there were examples, saved me trying it. Results are nowhere close to what I expected. Zero of them looked l
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh wow. I just had an epiphany. This is why companies are still treating VR as a serious product that might have a large market, even as AR seems much better-suited to a mass consumer market and surely not that much farther off than good
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by handrous 5y ago
> gitea Can confirm that gitea's pretty nice. It's not heavier than a web-based git host should be. I really like that it has a SQLite database option, since that's plenty good enough for low-tens of users and operationall
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Nitpicking, but Japan and South Korea rose by being, deliberately and thoughtfully, protectionist , not isolationist . China's doing the same thing now.
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Sure, and new companies will arise to develop and use open protocols if that's incentivized, but as long as not just attention or eyeballs, but capturing as much user activity and generated content as possible, is monetizable pretty

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