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by imbnwa 5y ago
Said this somewhere else recently, but I've never seen a Confluence that wasn't a disaster, magnified by the modern rate of turnover. Ostensibly Google/Amazon put a lot of thought and work into formalizing institutional pract
902.
by imbnwa 5y ago
Warner Bros hit animation out of the park in the 90s. Animaniacs is a classic with writing that I still get in my 30s, and we got Pinky and The Brain spun-off from there, but Freakazoid for me was the underrated pinnacle, the writing team&#
903.
by imbnwa 5y ago
RSS was only part of the solution, the other half... was Google Reader: the homepage's "Suggested" section learned what you were starring/following and provided new content. I found tons of new stuff to read with that.
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by imbnwa 5y ago
> Random encounters that create value sound good. It sounds less good when you flip this logic, and ask whether the reliance on randomness is a function of weak information-sharing within formal structures. It is easier to break down sil
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by imbnwa 5y ago
A difference I haven't seen highlighted in this thread yet is that there are phone apps and then there are tablet apps, and the latter have already made big in-roads with content creators, e.g. amateur/pro musicians, illustrator
906.
by imbnwa 5y ago
I worked with a company middle of last decade that had to port its Flash content to Canvas and friends, its not even close the power Flash provided, not to mention the content development ecosystem surrounding Animate. Like, yeah, go ahead
907.
by imbnwa 5y ago
> youtube-dl is a 10 year old project. Where are all the great qt gui-s for it?
908.
by imbnwa 5y ago
What I find interesting about this clip is that the 1991 movie 'Hook' is literally the opposite. There, Peter does make the sacrifice of maturity but the screenplay demands he re-discover the innocence/freedom of his life a
909.
by imbnwa 5y ago
In my experience what you're describing is true. JIRA Scrum is abused by businesses to implicitly blackmail teams into delivering ASAP, that means shortcuts and dependencies to "get shit done". All else is secondary. Tech deb
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Before, mentoring was something that was only present when I started for less than a year but I could've used a more persistent program like this, I think, to help rectify a number of long-standing problems I'm only now starting t
911.
by imbnwa 5y ago
Gods I wish I'd started my career at your company
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Its kinda crazy how casual people are with their constraints on explantion when the topic is intellectual disparity. Person you're replying to claimed they weren't arguing for a gentic component to another reply but also doesn&#x2
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by imbnwa 5y ago
That's because we haven't yet cornered good ol' "free will" yet like we have this subject, or if we have, it certainly isn't trotted out as regularly and forcefully by the Right, likely because the virtue of th
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by imbnwa 5y ago
This is so true. I'm Black and attended one of the worst performing elementary schools in my city for the first four years of school, which gave me an awful base for my math learning when I was finally transferred to a much higher perf
915.
by imbnwa 5y ago
East Africa and West Africa aren't the same places
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by imbnwa 5y ago
> Anyone can accuse anyone else of being a horrible, rotten human being who just puts up a tolerable facade. You say this as if human beings are entirely unfamiliar with the use of facades in everyday life (need I mention most women&#x27
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by imbnwa 5y ago
The crazy thing is how much time I see spent talking about how "web developers" or "Electron" is ruining software when the elephant in the room is business, i.e. the market, choosing cost efficiency. Michael O'Churc
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by imbnwa 5y ago
I remember Vimeo being the service of choice for film students back around then
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Kittens and puppies do the same exact annoying shit to their bodies as human equivalents as well, not to mention babies/toddlers smell distinct from adults/adolescents, even to humans (or maybe just me).
920.
by imbnwa 5y ago
W.E.B. DuBois detailed this not long after it started happening during Reconstruction over 100 years ago when he wrote "Black Reconstruction in the South".
921.
by imbnwa 5y ago
I sorta wish Brave worked with gorhill to port uBO to C++ instead of building their own Shields native module
922.
by imbnwa 5y ago
PM software basically reflects the level of disinterest and demoralization in an organization.
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Windows UI has been utterly inconsistent since Windows 8. 'Modern develpoers'? What're you talking about, first of all, HN has weird trend of speaking as if Devs are these all-powerful artisans at their org when actually ther
924.
by imbnwa 5y ago
> Foreign intelligence services are certainly doing a lot of crap online but it's not clear whether they've actually accomplished anything. Isn't this just the ol' "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence&
925.
by imbnwa 5y ago
> It should be up to the parents, not the government. I mean, isn't this what Korean and Japan's policies effectively are as well? Doesn't seem to help much. Children were not raised in isolation with two parents for most
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by imbnwa 5y ago
From the perpsective of someone who doesn't know too much details, China's ability to nope its way out of the social excesses of liberal capitalism is somewhat amazing here. I'm guessing they took a look at Korea and Japan&#x
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by imbnwa 5y ago
The problem is that this is the same solution as it was in 2005 and no average user is mucking about with specified shortcuts or command line flags. Chromium has demonstrated the most obvious GUI for this but for whatever reason the FF prod
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Yeah I can't believe they still have the same solution as 2005
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by imbnwa 5y ago
There is no such thing as a group of people who live in adjacency and share numerous social behaviors, protocols, and regular speech patterns are somehow culture-less . The contrary strikes me as the height of ambiguity. There is no sociol
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by imbnwa 5y ago
If by browser specific quirks you mean having to deal with Webkit as Windows is Chromium now.

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