johnorourke

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by johnorourke 4y ago
[Imposter Syndrome] This is wonderful, thanks for sharing. I'm part way through but came back to up-vote and comment that for this crowd, Shame is probably most often felt with * Imposter Syndrome in work situations * social faux pas f
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by johnorourke 4y ago
I remember reading about the never-ending story of Xanadu in a 1992 issue of Dr Dobbs Journal, which my local newsagent had to order specially for me... no web in those days. Imagine: there will be developers reading this who weren't
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by johnorourke 4y ago
Nice idea, but.. I work with Single Sign-On setups for multiple companies, where both sides of the fence have a certificate which needs to be valid according to well known CAs, and they have to be manually renewed. So a 3 month validity is
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by johnorourke 4y ago
Great question! We chose to make the order explicit and important - for example if we have two battling units, one with "unit reduces counter attack strength by 50%" and one with "unit counter attacks with 200% of original at
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by johnorourke 4y ago
Use case example: in a strategy game, we're implementing this format so that each weapon, skill, terrain, and unit has the chance to add patch commands during a specific part of the turn, which are then applied to a document representi
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by johnorourke 4y ago
It's so very weird reading this as a UK citizen. It feels like reading about some kind of dystopian future. Despite the UK government's best efforts to the contrary, even the poorest in society can still access health care locally
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Let's not equate "lack of understanding of a specific piece of technology" with "lesser intelligence", that is not a healthy way to think.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Honorary mention also of Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread short story: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Yes! I thought it was going to compare the fight against <insert internet problem> with the Hanoi rat problem of 1902, where giving people the wrong incentive exacerbated the problem.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
I think 'genius' is a relative term.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
I was involved in building a DRM-free MP3 download service called Datz many years back. The bulk of music is owned by 4 record labels, and they all wanted vast fees just for access to the catalogue, never mind subscription revenue.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
I can relate, mine is O'Rourke and even in 2021 I get: - websites telling me I have an invalid name - post addressed to O'Rourke, O\\\Rourke, O&Rourke - "my account" pages say "Welcome, Mr O\Rourke"
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by johnorourke 5y ago
The author seems very unimpressed with note taking tools like Evernote and Obsidian, then goes on to describe something similar - I may have missed some subtlety of the article in thinking that. I'm using Obsidian and find it makes the
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Captain Crunch called, said make that 81.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
(commenting specifically in the context of a personal information collection) Schema-on-write increases the cost (mental load, time) of finding useful things in the first place, which isn't always what you want. I happen upon an inter
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Nope. I'm left handed, and writing longhand hurts my hand after a while, more so if I try and make it legible.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Huge leaps in logic like "clinical trial failed" == "sponsor wants to kill people", and the passive tone, makes me think the author was on a tight deadline and a specific topic but doesnt fully believe what they're
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Art becomes life.. in "The Circle" a randomer gets chased down and accidentally killed as a "product demo", and in Westworld series 3, Caleb gets assigned vigilante tasks via the RICO app.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Very droll!
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by johnorourke 5y ago
This might say more about how having an anxiety-free mind allows for better and more consistent focus, than it does about specific medicine having a direct effect on reading speed.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
Diataxis[1] (mentioned on here recently) and ADR[2] massively helped me to create clearer docs. The Diataxis framework really helps you create something that could bring a new developer on board quickly, and ADR helps ensure the thinking be
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by johnorourke 5y ago
> gonna have to back up this rather hefty statement Thanks, you're quite right to challenge that, it's a belief based on past reading and should be backed up.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
It's a highly addictive substance which creates chemical dependence over time - for some, never, but a vast percentage of people are vulnerable to the gradual creep of addiction.
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by johnorourke 5y ago
For anyone clicking through to the comments thinking "I think I sort of need to do something about this but it's too hard/inconvenient/boring/...", I'd like to highly recommend the book "This Naked Mi
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Obligatory mention: reminds me of the syndication element of project Xanadu.
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Hopped on here to say exactly that! I've never seen it used the way the author describes, only the way you describe.
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by johnorourke 6y ago
I wonder if Architecture - a much older trade, also having immediate commercial value and expensive intellectual property - has a technical history? Or accountancy - another old trade with immediate commercial value, though perhaps without
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by johnorourke 6y ago
50/50 results... for contacts who are mostly work-related or arguably somewhere on the spectrum, the organised approach works and is appreciated; for the neuro-typical and/or more emotionally aware, it feels forced and not so genu
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Good advice. I've filled in dozens of those questionnaires from big corps on behalf of clients, and they can be gruelling, but in general the infosec team on the other end are usually cooperative / collaborative - eg. they'll
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by johnorourke 6y ago
Nice idea, but seems to lack timezone awareness, which puts me off completely. Maybe that's being developed, but the American date format with no timezone being described as "English textual" (say what?!) seems to be ignoring

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