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by handrous 5y ago
Judging from the stories posted here, can you even imagine what the stories from the poor souls working on this would be like, if only they could tell us without violating an NDA? Must be the stuff of nightmares.
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by handrous 5y ago
We can't know what the Web would look like without spying, data-moated giants wandering the landscape, making everything "free". The thing about a "free" spying service is that it competes with paid services and wi
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by handrous 5y ago
I think all the actually-Converse shoes I've owned were the Target version (One Star? Something like that) that were "Converse" but were mostly likely much worse than the standard kind. A case of you-get-what-you-pay-for, mo
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by handrous 5y ago
I have a first-initial-lastname gmail address and receive more email for people with same-first-initial-lastname than I do actually for myself. One of them likes to go to expensive hotels somewhat often. I get the receipts. It's weird.
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by handrous 5y ago
It may depend on the material. My recollection is that, when my usual shoe was a canvas low-top, I'd get maybe six months out of them before I probably shouldn't have still been wearing them in public (but then I'd stretc
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by handrous 5y ago
The US won't get significantly better unless our electoral system is fixed. That won't happen unless one of the two viable parties makes that a major policy goal... so, never.
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by handrous 5y ago
You can find something comfortable in nearly any boot style, since they're almost all based on designs that were actually intended to be used for long stretches of physical activity. Work-boot styles (obviously), equestrian styles (w
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by handrous 5y ago
The pictures in the story look more like fashion-oriented mods to shoes, than straight repairs or a traditional re-soling. AFAIK you'd pretty much have to rip off the whole bottom half of a typical glue-construction tennis shoe to repl
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by handrous 5y ago
> I'm surprised to hear how bad a decline in shoe repair shops there's been. Shoes are one of the last consumer goods you can actually get repaired. I'm legitimately worried that by the time any of my leather shoes & b
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by handrous 5y ago
Do really, really nice sneakers last a lot longer than the $40-60 pairs I'd wear, back when I wore sneakers a lot? Even with fairly careful wear, mine would look so shitty I wouldn't want to re-sole them, by at most a year, and
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by handrous 5y ago
The Web has a strange way of feeling both important and interesting while, on reflection, not really being either. There's some kind of time-eating black magic at work—and that's before something like TikTok or Facebook get involv
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by handrous 5y ago
> Meanwhile i just waste those 20minutes on Hackernews. Practically every "productivity hack" is less effective than simply dropping all lowish-value Web browsing and doing almost anything else instead.
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by handrous 5y ago
It kinda doesn't feel like a Steinbeck book, really, but it's not a bad read, for what it is. (someone DV'd my original post, at some point, and I'm not sure if this is why [maybe it was for some other reason entirely]
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by handrous 5y ago
Spam won. The entire web is spam now. It's all deceptive crap trying to grab your eyes. That's why we accept clickbait headlines as normal.
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by handrous 5y ago
Uh, did something change? As recently as a year ago I just dragged files into iTunes (or Music or whatever they call it now, but this was definitely after the split) then selected which artists I wanted to sync, and I only had to do that st
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by handrous 5y ago
High goods prices relative to wages force you to learn to fix stuff if you want to, like, have things that work (or, at least, they encourage quite a few people to learn how to fix stuff, so they can do it for others, for pay). High wages r
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by handrous 5y ago
Or his WWII propaganda novel featuring not-Nazi occupied not-Norway, and resistance fighters trying to commit sabotage against the occupying force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_Down
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm mid-career, I guess, and these days I kinda feel like I've fucked up if I'm writing any serious amount of code, under most circumstances. The best solution is often a small script in the right place, leveraging existing s
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by handrous 5y ago
Telling—being very generous—a lie couched in exaggerated hypotheticals (the lie: if sharing comp harms the company, it's the fault of the person who shared it, not management; exaggeration: this will have some huge and harmful effect o
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by handrous 5y ago
> The authors' argument of "the myth" is basically "smoking is still bad because smokers have worse outcomes if they're hospitalized for COVID, also smoking is bad, mkay" which is just avoiding the point. Th
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by handrous 5y ago
> The internet is already flooded with spam, but AFAIK that has never had an adverse affect on our ability to directly communicate with one another. It ruins email inboxes over time, without active management, and lots of people no longe
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by handrous 5y ago
There's a big difference between "what I'm allowed to do" and "what I'm actually able to do". Either could be called freedom. Personally, I tend to favor the latter, if I have to choose between the two, mu
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by handrous 5y ago
I'll consider worrying about unions lobbying as soon as companies and their industry groups no longer lobby. Absent that, it's downright necessary.
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by handrous 5y ago
E-reader UX degrades fast as you introduce more elements outside the body text. They're great for a huge percentage of what actual gets read (genre fic and "airport book" sorts of nonfiction) but the limitations show up fast
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by handrous 5y ago
What progress is it holding back?
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by handrous 5y ago
Amazon's the scary-looking flea market on the wrong side of town with the barbed wire on the roof and a couple tough-looking guys conspicuously hanging out out front, with half the stalls full of stuff that definitely "fell off th
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by handrous 5y ago
This still happens. Same for GitHub/Microsoft and Azure. Probably Google, too, though I've not seen that personally. Haven't seen it for CloudFlare but there definitely should be companies close enough to the spaces they&#x
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by handrous 5y ago
It's peacock feathers. You demonstrate company/product health by burning cash keeping your design "modern", even if a simpler but less-expensive-looking design would have been better for UX.
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by handrous 5y ago
I really like e-ink, but the ability to fiddle with page corners & edges in the iOS Books app means it's the only way I actually get ebooks read. Mini's perfect for fiction, 12.9" pro's amazing for PDFs (say, textboo
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by handrous 5y ago
I still wanna know what my body was doing with the extra ~2,000 calories/day I was feeding it from ages 14-22, a period in which I put on only a little height and, by the last half, only gained maybe a pound or two per year. ... also I

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