josephorjoe

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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Maybe if people were more financially literate they would stop letting the boomers rob them blind by always protecting their own interests (stocks, houses, healthcare for old people) at the expense of all other aspects of society (education
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
If you research this I think you'll find that starting with capital correlates strongly with having a financially literate family who can provide useful guidance. Giving capital to people who are not financially literate will likely en
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
The lack of understanding of basic finance and statistics is crippling for many people. I know fairly smart people who understand calculus but just cannot accept that there is a problem with paying interest on all of their purchases. They s
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
I think they can start calling themselves the corporate IT department.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
I'm not sure "aren't compensated well" means what you think it means.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
i think it would be great for them to learn programming. i think if i try to push them to learn programming, they will lose interest because i will be turning their 'fun' into 'work'. it is better for them to go at their
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
The web never implemented easy micropayments, and iPhone/Android did.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
My son and one of his friends spent a huge portion of their stuck-at-home time during the pandemic playing minecraft. It turns out a lot of what they were doing while "playing video games" was learning how to make really complex a
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
three things i find to be true of every web app i work on: 1. good logging is the most important part of the app. whatever the app is meant to do is secondary. the app should be a logging app first, and then a backend service to sell widget
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
i was debugging some very terse, elegant, and dense code. i added a bunch of logging throughout to understand what was going wrong. someone then removed all of my logging because it was ugly. and then had to put it all back in when another
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
seems like a good way to get lots of publicity for your concert. and apparently death threats as i guess we are all just done w nuance nowadays.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
> The greediness of the contemporary public is really off-putting. Well put. This feels like some bizarre end game of "information wants to be free" where instead of railing against content owners expecting to be paid for conte
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
so now artists have to not only be talented artists but also talented self promoters. i shudder for the future of art...
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Right, so if you believe that, then you believe someone who fails to do that is doing poorly in their job. That doesn't make them a hobbyist. It makes them bad at their job. If you equate people who are bad at their jobs with hobbyists
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
I don't get why it is considered useful to denigrate hobbyists to score internet points. If you regularly get paid to do something, it is your job. Maybe you are good at your job. Maybe you are not. Maybe some people think you are and
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
i saw that and hoped it was a lie as the alternative is that the mta has granted a vendor who apparently has quite poor judgment the ability to shut down the subway system (or at least force people to jump turnstiles).
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
lol, this would result in engineering teams generating progressively smaller scoped tickets to maximize tasks and reviews completed. Update Text For Button -- started 5/10, completed 5/11 Update Color Of Button -- started 5
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
as someone who regularly works w python and javascript and misses being able to just write some simple html, this code snippet is going to give me nightmares... i assume any linter for this code will one day become sentient.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
completely agree. even though it creates a new class of problem, there should be a "cut me off immediately at $XXXX per month" option.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
You can set price alerts to email you on the day when you cross a monthly spending limit, but it is not the simplest thing to figure out. I run a small server and have a few odds and ends and get emails at $5, $15, $50, $75, and $100. Haven
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
This is somewhat overdue but glad they've made it official. I feel like a lot of people who tried their best to comply w safety guidelines during the worst of the pandemic are having trouble getting back to more normal life even if the
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
If you have people in your meeting who do not meaningfully contribute or learn something valuable that could not have been learned from a shared document, you have wasted their time. So, ask: Did everyone in the meeting contribute or learn
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
yeah, i don't get too worked up about "how" config values enter the application as long as i can easily see "where" they are initialized/validated. an immutable config object/class created on startup that
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Exactly. An expert is someone whose statements are valued because they are trusted to offer valuable insight and expertise. A liar is someone whose statements have no value because they cannot be trusted. A person with expertise (useful dom
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
The writing is literary in style rather than the usual web standard marketing style. It is rather well done largely because it is only trying to be what it is. I can understand why this is confusing to people.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
yeah, but those numbers seem fishy. I'm trying to picture the car that is worth only 5 * monthly-lease-price when it is 3 years old, and the only way that makes sense is if the car is expected to require very significant maintenance co
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Oh, your understanding of what "passionate" means in English is perfect. "Passionate" has nothing to do with taking satisfaction in performing an interesting job well and being fairly compensated for your efforts and hav
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Having deployed such code in the past, I have some very unhappy memories of list comprehensions with a bunch of single letter variables. Nothing like tracking a bug to 1 line and finding out the line does 12 different things.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
I learned at 43. Got my first developer job at 44. This description rings true for me. Persistence in the face of frustrations along with an actual enjoyment of creating things with code is what got me through. Programming seems like it wou
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
I read "Camels are more dangerous than we thought" and expected no discussion beyond "of course camels are scary dangerous,wth?"

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