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by jddj 3y ago
The honest answer? There are some people who have climbed to relative positions of power not by producing value but by playing the business social metagame. It's not about having the best quality product, there are two ways to reach th
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by jddj 3y ago
Can absolutely relate to the linkedin cringe. I need to continue to increase my presence there, and I feel an almost physical resistance. Feel dirty whenever I put my marketing hat on and wade into that pool of narcissists. I'm seeing
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The alternative is more strange. In Europe not too long ago my partner and I called in to an undergroundish bar of the kind we used to frequent when we were younger for a beer on the way back from dinner. It's the sort of place where p
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by jddj 3y ago
On the SaaS side, yeah I think that's a good move. In this case there's a large hardware component of the sale which incentivises the software over-promising. There's also a lot of competition (think a tender process). It&#x2
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This is a very common story. Unfortunately the incentives and general historical inertia around sales as a role don't always gel with the long term picture. It's a very human story, but it's one I've had to try to put pr
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I spent many hours as a child playing load runner (the legend returns) but I have no idea where we got it. I think our Compaq Presario at the time must have come packaged with a sierra disk.
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There are open source QR scanner apps on F-Droid which actually make you tick a box saying "I've checked the above URL and I want to visit that website" before they will open the browser.
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I'd be interested to know if anyone here didn't have floaters
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If the result of those thousands of hours is worth <= 10000 by some valuation method which makes sense to me. More nuanced answer: I have a project that I've been plugging away at for years now. It may never pay for itself if I valu
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by jddj 3y ago
Earliest example might have been AOL. Some others would be Microsoft's embrace extend extinguish, much of cloud vendors' repackaging of OSS, evernote, to a certain extent the recent Reddit and twitter API changes, IoT devices whic
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That's true today, I agree. Having watched this movie a few times, I like to have the insurance policy of open source licensing so that it stays true tomorrow. Once something is proprietary it's arguably easier from a developer pe
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by jddj 3y ago
Not OP but for me it's to avoid the following playing out: 1. gradually, more vendor lockin (read: not plain markdown) features are added 2. greater focus on monetization 3. exit 4. go to #2. In some products this doesn't matter.
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I've never been lucky(?) enough to reach a scale or level of domain messiness where the standard method of indexing things naievely in elasticsearch or even typesense breaks down. Especially to such an extent as the umbrella example. W
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This happened to me too. It threw me because they told me which machine to go to (#11 for example) and when I arrived my items were already listed. For a moment I thought they had futuristic CV covering the whole store.
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This reminded me of an ongoing hack that I have running in a production webapp. When I was writing it there was no easy opt-in cache busting (renaming scripts at build time, or applying a static random querystring to the script requests, et
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by jddj 3y ago
Thanks for this, I'll give it a go. I can see how having the environment be at least cosmetically different might help though. I feel like there must be a good enough solution to that, I'll have a poke around
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by jddj 3y ago
Same here, but other side of the chasm. I use logseq for note keeping but I just want the text editing experience of vs code. I'm not sure why they all roll their own editor. Can't it be a plugin?
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Plus, by design it's easy to prove that you have a private key without having to stick it in somebody else's lock.
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It may be true that a part of the population already (privately?) thinks more like that. Some members of the justice system perhaps - criminal lawyers, charitably, and associated medical professionals. These moments of "what if it wasn
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>For that reason, a criminal is just as guilty of their crime, whether they spiritually willed themselves to rob the bank, or whether they are predetermined to. The decision to rob the bank happened in their head. > Punishment for a c
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by jddj 3y ago
To give the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was an intriguing title? I didn't personally think that the style of the writing or the content itself was particularly good, but event sourcing has an almost narcotic appeal. ES (nosql did to
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by jddj 3y ago
One of my filter bubbles presents me with something similar to what the parent is seeing, for another datapoint. There are extremely different narratives which one can be presented with. In one, the pro-palestine marches have been commandee
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Confident delivery, but very naive perspective
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Pretending you know where hidden gold is is a legitimate business if you float the venture on the ASX or TSXV
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Even in the public markets this happens all the time, eg. Biotech, new battery chemistries, etc. In trends people pay for a seat at the table with a good team and worry about the details later. The 2B headline number is a distraction.
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There aren't many sweeter moments in this game than reaching a new understanding which allows for pages of code to fall to the cutting room floor.
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Right, I can see your point now and my interpretation in my first reply wasn't very accurate at all. Sorry about that.
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Like a ban? That could be a reasonable decision for people to make. If observability comes with accountability then it might eventually end up as the same thing.
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I think that a world where that comment holds up to scrutiny would be very different to the one we've got. There's no magic objective moralism box that you can put a decision into and have it weigh its consequences and a little gr
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I get unsupported browser warnings on my country's government portal when I use Firefox. I think it's been the case for a good 10 years. It works fine, of course

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