ineptech

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by ineptech 5y ago
Change your mind about what? The performers aren't trying to convince you they have psychic powers, they're trying to convince you to buy a ticket to their show. Anyway, think this through. Derren Brown claims not to use stooges
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by ineptech 5y ago
> ..is impossible without telepathy. It's supposed to look like it can't be done without telepathy - that's the whole point of the trick! And yet, it is done, successfully, on stages large and small, by people who are d
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by ineptech 5y ago
Whoops, I've updated the link to point to the bit I meant to link to, thanks.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> None of his claims would pass an Amazing Randi challenge. "So, yes, what I do is real" means that his act really is mental (intuition, suggestibility, etc), as opposed to non-mental (confederates, well-placed mirrors, trick p
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by ineptech 5y ago
Surprisingly little actual information in here, so if anyone is wanting more, I'll just point out that a ton of of UK mentalist Derren Brown's work is available on youtube. A short bit (with an explanation that may or may not be
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by ineptech 5y ago
Deja vu? I saw these comments three days ago but they show as being from today. @dang seems like something is wonky? The comments correctly show as 3 days old in the commenters' histories.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Take the time to outline answers to the common behavioral questions (“tell me about a conflict you had with a coworker” etc.) and practice talking through them, so you have examples at your fingertips. This is good advice, but do not t
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by ineptech 5y ago
I know! Eight zillion designer-hours in to one of the most-used applications of all time, and yet the "you can join now" popup blocks the "join" button.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Thank you, I was confused. I'm very curious if the people complaining about this change as being too paternalistic still feel that way after reading the full disclosure link.
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by ineptech 5y ago
PG is implying that the phenomenon of getting shunned for having said something right-wing on Twitter is new/different enough that it implies some shift in societal attitudes. I'm arguing that it is not, and the 1985 equivalent w
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Up till about 1985 the window [of what you can say without being cancelled] had been growing ever wider. Anyone looking into the future in 1985 would have expected freedom of expression to continue to increase. Instead it has decreased
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by ineptech 5y ago
And in my experience, if more than 5 people are working together to do the same thing, one of them is going to be the manager, whether you call them that or not. We do it intentionally and explicitly because that's more likely to lead
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by ineptech 5y ago
You're missing the point of small talk, which is largely nonverbal. Is it wise to assume an API that returns an empty message body is broken, or to look for useful information in the response code and the headers?
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by ineptech 5y ago
https://ineptech.com - "We make the software that makes the world world go. How can we make you go?" (it's a silly spoof of a corporate website I made while commuting, back when people did that)
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by ineptech 5y ago
Yes, for a while Plex was usable without creating a SaaS account, but with some features blocked, and this (reaching the server from outside its LAN) was one of them. (I say "feature" but of course what actually happened is that t
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by ineptech 5y ago
Ditto. Plex was great but I'm not creating a web account to use local open source software that decided to be something else.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> It looks like he ... was impaired. That was alleged by Bird and the city, but there appears to be no proof of it. Specifically it says > lawyers for the city argued ... that he had consumed a “large amount of cognac” the night befo
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by ineptech 5y ago
The issue is not what kind of ad, where, when, how or why it is being shown. The issue is misfeatures foisted upon consumers. ("But wait," you might ask, "why do you get to decide which features are good and bad? I found
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by ineptech 5y ago
I liked this and the linked Pendulum essay a lot. I've never actually met a senior dev who wants to be a manager (and I've tried to convince several); perhaps the idea that you can still go back to programming will help me convin
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by ineptech 5y ago
This (briefly, the article is about rerouting winter runoff to flood fields as a way of refilling the rapidly-depleting water table) seems really exciting, because it's a rare example of a coordination trap with a practical solution. T
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by ineptech 5y ago
Not killed exactly, but I hate what they've done to Minecraft. It used to be something kind of unique, a game experience that was universal among kids. They paid $1.6B to gate it behind a microsoft.com account and force schoolkids an
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by ineptech 5y ago
Man, Keybase had so much potential, if it had been opened up as a platform. But it seems from the context that it was an acquisition of the team and the code, not the app.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Devs can add automation tests to a suite just fine. What you lose when you lose dedicated QA is: who improves the automation suite? Who checks out new testing tools and POCs them? Who reads QA blogs and goes to QA conferences and general
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by ineptech 5y ago
There's more than one kind of argument and the author's elision of that makes this kind of muddled: * "You vs Me" vs "Us vs the problem". In the latter, there's an objective Correct answer and each party
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by ineptech 5y ago
I was all set to complain about this, but the wiki is pretty on point: > Crypto Asset: A digital asset that is traded on a blockchain. Crypto assets have no use-value, no fundamental-value, and no income-cashflows and are a manifestati
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by ineptech 5y ago
> How devastating were they really? Well, we don't know, and won't for years perhaps, I should've clarified that I'm guessing about what will happen in the long-term, not asserting that Putin will say, "Oh gosh,
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by ineptech 5y ago
I take the opposite lesson - for the next generation, no one will think about invading a neighbor without remembering how devastating the sanctions were to Russia.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Twitter looks like a sunk-cost fallacy run amok. The pitch was that it would become ubiquitous, and it clearly isn't and doesn't seem like it ever will be, but the people who are most heavily invested in it act as if it was, pres
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by ineptech 5y ago
> The VP's contract is irrelevant when we're talking about staff. No it's not. If the VP's contract says "The company will hire an assistant for you" then the assistant negotiates with HR for their salary l
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by ineptech 5y ago
4. As a hiring manager, I'd need different "profiles" for each team (one team mobs 24/7, another almost never mobs, etc) 5. What I would want as a candidate (a blunt and specific "warts and all" description of

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