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by handrous 5y ago
> I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance. They start at $400, right? Only r
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm pretty sure you're supposed to catapult into doing training and speaking stuff, and "leadership" roles that have you writing blog posts and attending meetings all day while taking credit for what your team is doing,
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by handrous 5y ago
Do extra work, and do present it, but pretend it only took 30 minutes when it actually took five hours. Congrats, now you get credit for the extra work and you're a "10x rockstar".
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by handrous 5y ago
"We probably need to do something about our CO2 scrubbers on this space ship we're all traveling on. They don't seem to be working very well." "OH COME ON, if you were serious you'd have spaced yourself by now
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by handrous 5y ago
> Mankind itself will most probably survive. How the world will look like fending off a billion people from moving to more moderate climates is a different story I'm still not fully ready to mentally prepare. I'm pretty sure av
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by handrous 5y ago
Theater and/or ego. Same reason for the President to fly out to an aircraft carrier just off the US coast and pose for a bunch of photos while wearing a flight suit, before giving the infamous MISSION ACCOMPLISHED speech. Or for a diff
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by handrous 5y ago
They were close enough (and downwind-enough) to experience direct effects from Chernobyl, no? Destroying contaminated produce, taking iodine pills as a precaution, that sort of thing, and, I'd guess, worries, for a time, about much wor
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by handrous 5y ago
It's ignored because it hardly seems relevant. Is providing healthcare to ~80m people (France, Germany—numbers off the top of my head but I think that's close for both) or, what, 150m or so (Japan, again, IIRC) really that differe
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, Bezos struggling to keep his attention on Shatner's apparently-sincere attempt to express his feelings about the experience, because he was distracted by all the celebration crap around and didn't actually seem to be trying
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by handrous 5y ago
I guess it'd be OK as long as everyone always accompanied such lines with a comment, with at least one line per symbol or character it's identifying & explaining. As all but the most trivial regexes warrant.
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by handrous 5y ago
Me, reading the link at the top of this thread: oh wow, those are really cool. Me, reading this example: oh no, those all need to be added to our project's lint rules to make sure no-one uses them.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Your second paragraph... what is that in response to? How is saying that forcing other developers to follow the tech whims of some wannabe 10X is a bad thing "propaganda in the class war?" The article, mainly, which reads ve
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by handrous 5y ago
My experience is that the worst part is the config file. Its documentation isn't great and it's got a lot of cruft and overlapping functionality that can be confusing. It's easy to end up following a guide that's outdate
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by handrous 5y ago
I mostly have, which is the only reason I haven't taken my own (implicit) advice and become parasitic, like everyone else who's (personally) successful in large enterprises. That would have been a better move for my finances, for
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by handrous 5y ago
Safer/easier to keep the .git somewhere else entirely, rather than in the working directory. Git's got arguments that let you do that. Then you can check out to a dir that doesn't have the .git dir in it at all. Alternatively
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by handrous 5y ago
Backend devs—who've been at it for any amount of time—know they're gonna have a really bad night followed by a really bad week and, quite possibly, a really bad month, if the wrong sort of stuff gets written to the production DB.
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by handrous 5y ago
Capitalists and the c-suite: Nepotism and self-dealing all day every day, constantly directing entire acquisitions to bail out a buddy's or a kid's failing business, or making companies they have control of rent buildings they pe
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by handrous 5y ago
> People don't Google-search them? Google search takes me to business' Facebook pages all the time. I don't have a Facebook account, but end up there pretty often because lots of small businesses only have a web presence
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by handrous 5y ago
Older generation? I'm not even that old and everyone freaking out at communication "reverting" to still much faster and easier than in 2003 and trying to explain why they were so distraught over a few hours of kickin'
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by handrous 5y ago
Yet, if the developers who successfully mislead their employers into misguided tech choices have notably better careers, on average, it's exactly what we should do. And we shouldn't feel a bit bad about it unless we're in one
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by handrous 5y ago
> Everything that TS does JS libraries do better Which ones do you need to do everything TS does? > without the horrible tradeoffs Which tradeoffs are horrible?
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by handrous 5y ago
> Every time I have a problem like this, I just think back to the Magic Mouse with the charging port on the bottom. I thought this was the dumbest goddamn thing ever until I was issued one at work. It turned out to be completely fine. Th
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by handrous 5y ago
For anyone deciding whether or not to read the review, this is not an accurate description of how the piece treats "work" throughout.
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by handrous 5y ago
Yep. I'm seeing weird bugs with e.g. middle-click-to-open-link-in-new-tab doing what it should—but then replacing it with the blank-tab content a quarter second after I switch to the new tab. I'm not used to Safari being buggy. It
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by handrous 5y ago
Facebook didn't start eating the small business site market until well after 2004. More like 2010 or later. Some places that definitely would have a site otherwise, don't, but have Facebook instead. Some have a site but neglect it
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by handrous 5y ago
WP also has an HTTP-speaking API, but yeah, I've done the "extract posts and pages directly from the DB" thing too. It's maybe half a day if you've never looked at the WP DB schema before, mainly figuring out which
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by handrous 5y ago
Drill tactics, like practicing pawns-only exercises and others that get you to use a small group of pieces in concert and without the distraction of a full game, to quickly get a feel for the kinds of moves & patterns that are good for
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by handrous 5y ago
A great demonstration of the power of selecting which stories to cover is in Democracy Now versus nearly everything else. A DN listener hears about tons of labor action and protests that don't make it to other news sources (or, if th
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by handrous 5y ago
> I don't know if that's a bias of my own (I'm open to hear a counterpoint!), but 2016 really stands out as an inflection point in my mind. Cheerleading the Iraq War did it, for me. Especially for the NYT, but media genera
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by handrous 5y ago
> Complete scam. Imagine if you had "unlimited pay". Turn up, demand a million bucks, see what happens. 1) Set your pay so incredibly high that you can accrue enough to retire within a few minutes. 2) Get fired like 15 minutes

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