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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
For the folks who check the comments first, this is worth reading: > But then something happened: the average knob with a lock has a fair amount of internal complexity, but the beauty has been completely stripped out. We no longer think
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Put down your phone - stop staring at it at the gym, in line, on the toilet, at any time there's a lull in the activity - try just observing things around you. Read novels, especially before bed. Stop feeling like you have to be an inf
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Totally agree. Nothing makes me more upset than needing a pad and paper at a moment's notice, but having to reach into a backpack or a messenger bag instead. That feeling of dread when you realize the moment has passed, the thought is
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Engineers: > what are these requirements? Where the hell does product come up with this crap? This is so unrealistic and just explaining why will take 15 minutes! What is the deal, why can't we just get aligned? Product is so stupid
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
You don't have to listen to everything your brain tells you
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
It wasn't until I went to the UK in my late 20s that I realized how badly America needs coins in the dollar and two dollar denomination. Having spare coins with weight and mass rather than loose dollar bills helped me get a sense of ho
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> I should have known; ten years earlier I was an officer of my homeowners association, and it was the same thing, but face-to-face. This is the thing that baffles me the most from these discussions about the toxicity of social media. I
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Because Google and Apple are private entities, and they're not beholden to the government's whims. They have relationships with citizens, who may not necessarily agree with the governments' assertions. And because the governm
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I think the hat a lot of men (especially those with less hair) are looking for is called a boonie hat. More than a few guys I've recommended this hat to have said it's exactly what they wanted, they just didn't know the name.
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Business Logic is a euphemism. It doesn't mean literally business logic, it means the 'core functionality of your code.' When you design software, you typically model some real world process or system in the abstract. Busines
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I use -m as a natural filter for line length. If it's unwieldy to fit inside a -m cli flag, it's usually an indicator I can be more concise in my commit message. Obviously, from time to time you'll need to include more info
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I know you meant this harmlessly and maybe even encouragingly, but this post comes off as pretty entitled. It comes off kind of like, "hey, I want access to your knowledge and wisdom, but I want you to do an enormous amount of work to
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I remember the kids who had minidisc players. Usually spoiled cause they were expensive and didn't have much prospect for future use, so it took parents who didn't mind wasting money. And typically used it to feel superior to othe
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> Consider that this may simply be a knowledge gap on your end. My experience says this is very far from the truth. JavaScript's implementation of const is confusing for almost everyone the first time they come across it, especiall
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> We are never going to remove the slur filter completely (or add an option to that effect), because we dont want to make it easy for right-wingers to use Lemmy. Welp, I just completely wrote off this site and I'm about as middle o
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Sometime around 2012, my parents got me a segway tour in a city I was planning to visit one time. Kind of the dorkiest thing ever. My girlfriend and I grudgingly did it, and it ended up being awesome. Even though you look super dorky, those
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> $100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer Oh, well then fuck this idiot, right? What a dumbass loser - doesn't even realize they can be a s i l i c o n v a l l e y e n g i n e e r and mak
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
https://www.stophateforprofit.org/productrecommendations It's definitely interesting. I like these two: > At the request of a member of a private group, provide at least one Facebook-affiliated moderator per group w
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I applaud Patagonia for being principled and for standing for something. I deeply question justifying the decision based on this list of wrongs facebook did: https://www.stophateforprofit.org/#comp-kba0i6jc This is not very
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
And for that matter, how does the brewing method of coffee play into the health benefits? If I brew really strong coffee, do I get concentrated antioxidants and plant goodness? If I brew weak coffee and drink a lot of it over a longer perio
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I think it might be less confusing to say, how do you verify the feature? As in: how do engineers and product managers and designers know that the flagged behavior is correct and how do you verify that in production if all you do is ramp up
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> I think the issue for most people in the US is that they still fundamentally believe that the justice system is generally "just", at least with respect to themselves, though that is obviously changing. I think you highlighte
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Fuck Microsoft. I recently updated Windows and had to go through an unskippable ad for Edge. After the ad, I had to go through an unskippable setup process for Edge, even though I don't use it. After I got through that, I had to tell
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> We recently deployed an entire SaaS only using server-side rendering and htmx [2] to give it an SPA-like feel and immediate interactivity where needed. It was a pleasure to develop, it's snappy and we could actually rely on the Br
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> That is why I am absolutely against abolishing paper cash. Ah, took me a second. You don't mean paper cash in reference to fiat money vs the gold standard. You mean hard cash being replaced by plastic account balances in a sort o
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> I'm starting to think criminals are stupid. That is a really dangerous move and doesn't really line up with my experiences. This woman was pretty stupid. She's not a criminal though, she's a massage therapist.
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I don't think it's that simple. William Anders on the Saturn V's first stage: (which was RP-1 and oxygen, same as the falcon 9) > The sideways shaking was unbelievable. The vibration was so intense, you couldn't see t
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Diagnosed with ADHD 10+ years ago in my 20s. Can be very impulsive in behavior and hyperactive when it's bad. Since about 28 or 29, I flipped from being a night owl to being a morning person. I usually wake up between 5 and 6, dependin
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> I'm not trying to be cynical Welp, you failed spectacularly at that. You came off like a bitter, cynical asshole who's mad that someone made something. > Is there something special about this one? Yeah, someone had the i
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Something that may not be obvious: JavaScript absolutely, can not under any circumstances, break backwards compatibility. If JavaScript breaks backwards compatibility, it literally breaks the web. Most of the complexity we're seeing in

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