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by handrous 5y ago
Spam's ruined phone calls, like it ruined email. No coincidence those are the two worst ways to reach me. Email's almost exclusively for receiving messages that I'm expecting from machines, now (password reset, order confir
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by handrous 5y ago
Is that a hold-over from Byzantium/Eastern-Roman-Empire, kept after the Turkish conquest? They were all about elaborate hierarchies of ranks and titles, often expressed through big hats or helmets.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Smartphones (for me) have always been about consumption, not creation. One of the top uses of smartphones is creating and sharing photos and videos. They're also very capable tools for a variety of creative tasks that aren&#x2
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by handrous 5y ago
Nah, they mean it. FWIW (maybe nothing?) I'm pretty sure it's only ever been women who've told me this—but then, men I know all drive trucks if they are into that kind of thing, and I've never heard one name safety as wh
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by handrous 5y ago
Absolutely, but successfully enacting such measures would mean political violence , which is a whole different thing from traffic deaths, and even attempting it would probably lead to a wave of elections going toward the party promising no
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by handrous 5y ago
We 100% do, but there'd be an actual revolt. People'd die. I'm not joking. Folks who love their giant trucks really love their giant trucks.
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by handrous 5y ago
> I don’t think “big=safe” is a super popular reason to get a big car, especially given the cost difference vs a commuter car or whatever. Counter-anecdote: that's exactly the reason given by a lot of people I know who like SUVs,
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by handrous 5y ago
Sure, but school meal programs are a fairly important social safety net thing for poor and/or neglected kids. Anything that messes with those is a serious quality-of-life threat for the most vulnerable kids. You can see this in the des
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by handrous 5y ago
I like that driver management no longer sucks, I like search-to-launch, and I like the way you can send windows to the left or right half of the screen (decent tiling WMs or Spectacle on macOS are much better, but hey, Windows' thing i
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd like to chime in here that it's very fucking frustrating that the best & most convenient free tools for virtualizing macOS aren't available on macOS, considering macOS has shipped with a damn hypervisor for years .
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by handrous 5y ago
It filters for several things, including a very high level of confidence in technical abilities, and a strong enough desire to work in a FAANG(-alike) to put up with a whole lot of dull/painful unpaid bullshit, but the point is that th
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by handrous 5y ago
Our local well-regarded (by our city's standards, anyway) public school district can't find a food supplier that can meet lunch demand. Their usual two dropped them before school started, saying they simply couldn't meet dema
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by handrous 5y ago
A huge percentage of developers never bother applying to any FAANG (or similar) because they either don't believe they could pass so it'd be pointless, or they don't want to put hundreds of hours of study and go through sever
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by handrous 5y ago
> To put it another way, we should expect that picking names out of a hat would do just as well as Google's infamously rigorous interview process. If I recall correctly, this result is generally consistent with other attempts to stu
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by handrous 5y ago
> So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the communities I participated in to be highly critical of other languages. ... De rigueur , perhaps? Du jour basically means "of the day" (du = "de le",
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by handrous 5y ago
> Anyway, Linux has always been the under-dog. It's currently dominant on phones and servers. Google can snap its fingers and set one of those on a course to drop toward zero over a few years, and is well-positioned to push Fuchsia
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by handrous 5y ago
Lots of sites track your mouse movements and key log you. Letting Javascript initiate connections was a huge mistake.
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by handrous 5y ago
It's truly pretty amazing how much mileage a kid could get learning to shoot and edit video with just an iPad or iPhone. Sure, the editing will be really awkward and the full range of effects and such that one would have in Adobe on
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by handrous 5y ago
Glances sideways at basically all assets You sure? Is there a law that says inflation has to happen evenly across all sectors of all markets, at exactly the same time?
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by handrous 5y ago
This reads as machine-translated, if not machine-generated. Individual paragraphs contain errors and awkwardness that looks like bad translation, while the overall structure seems meandering, like a not-great machine-generated piece. What&#
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by handrous 5y ago
> You can't do both. I'm being entirely serious: I don't see why not. > It doesn't really matter which you do. It really, really matters if productivity increases are uneven.
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by handrous 5y ago
Seriously, I've worked at companies where everyone loved whiteboards, and I've been doing this work for almost two decades, but doubt I've seen more than 100 total lines of even pseudocode written on whiteboards, outside
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, I get the technical reason that as Pro chips shifted down-market to other iPads they couldn't add support for the new-model Pencil without significant (and unjustifiably expensive) changes, it's just unfortunate. They had a
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by handrous 5y ago
Yep—my phone's gone the day they announce that, as in, I won't have one anymore at all (well, the watch will be my phone, I guess). The only thing that'll even make me hesitate, maybe, is the camera, but ultimately that won
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by handrous 5y ago
Yes, plenty, but they usually only pay "excellent by any normal standards" money, not "holy fucking shit, I going to retire well by age 45 while living like a king" money. Confusingly, there are also some in that categor
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by handrous 5y ago
> 3. Ask what their typical day is like. This includes asking what the most painful part of their day is. If they do standups, see if you can sit (edit: er, stand?) in on a couple before you say "yes" to an offer. You can spot
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by handrous 5y ago
I wouldn't be opposed to iDevices being usable without cases, but they'd need to make them a hell of a lot tougher, then. If we've got to have a case anyway because the devices are too fragile, I prefer the strategy they usua
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by handrous 5y ago
Yes, but they don't do that on other models of iPad, not just the phone, and again, most people put these things straight in cases, so they've usually (and correctly, despite complaints on Web forums) designed their devices so t
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by handrous 5y ago
Well, the first one was a mis-designed piece of crap, so I don't mind that as much, though keeping it in use on some newer models after v2 was released does suck. (source for assertion about them being crap: I own one—the bad part&#x27
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by handrous 5y ago
> they don't want to cannibalize App Store revenue by letting people type in code to solve their problems. This seems implausible as a reason for keeping dev tools off iDevices, because 1) what percentage of their users would do tha

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