karatestomp

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by karatestomp 6y ago
> I get that too, but personally, why would I care if a piece of software is 70kb or 500kb in this age? YMMV. I'm torn on this because I am way, way over screwing around with my OS, but I also hate that all the modern standard deskt
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I can think of two major, useful new features in desktop GUIs in the last, oh, 20 years? More? And both existed before they went mainstream anyway, I think. Both are basically just search: launching programs by search (replaced program-laun
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Maybe, but it's intended to be actively grabbing with them, not at rest (so having them turned correctly is probably just an accident, not a correction of the earlier pose) so the curved-in hands might make sense—I didn't get the
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> The phone delivers important news which must be checked at least once a day For most people in most situations, I'd disagree strongly with "important" and definitely with "must".
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by karatestomp 6y ago
In the book they're specifically Velociraptor antirrhopus (rather than mongoliensis), which, as I understand it, actually was a name for Deinonychus antirrhopus for a while before they settled on the current hame. So they (kinda) reall
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I remember having two Jurassic Park velociraptor toys as a kid. One had the arms positioned as in the film but, oddly enough, the other got it right, as in the article. Wrong: http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/jurassicp
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by karatestomp 6y ago
What I really want is a really stable base OS that's managed totally separately from the individual packages I install. It's the experience one gets with MacOS + Homebrew and it's way better than an "... and the kitche
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Launch times and (silly, but it really bugged me) pollution of my `df` output drove me away.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> only for the sake of a given trend becoming more trendy Sure, but that's not what I described.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
It's a lot harder to control one's diet and exercise when one chronically feels like shit due to poor sleep.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Working in Jira and (especially) Asana always feels like working on a VNC share of the person in charge's cluttered desktop-covered-in-folders organizational system. Everything's hard to find and I'm afraid to touch anything
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by karatestomp 6y ago
You only need something more complex or heavy than GH issues (if even that complex) if you've got someone bugging you for burndown charts and metrics and shit just all the time , or someone in the chain who just loves poking around
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> There's a terrible principal agent problem here where management, the principal, decides how to track work, and can put the heavy lifting of filling in values onto the developers. This happens when management's more worried a
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I don't like the framing of the behavior as somehow irrational or random or clinically-diagnosible. It's not irrational to get involved more in a movement when it is a movement, and seems like it might be gaining traction. Just
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Relative deprivation will do the trick. Double the prices of essential goods in the US overnight, and watch how fast a revolt forms, and what violence it will resort to if it meets resistance. Nevermind that everyone here'd still be ve
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Worked until some time in my early 20s. Ate an astounding quantity of junk food, often got 6 or fewer hours of sleep days in a row. Looked great, felt pretty good, almost never even got the sniffles. Go figure, at some point your body stops
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> framing a face of elfin intensity Oof. Now there's a phrase that belongs in a Lyttle Lytton entry.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
The biggest thing for me are the trivia. Wanting to know something that wasn't actually important didn't used to be an itch . Hell the urge to know it would slide right off one's mind, because it was impractical to follow up
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Since all that stuff's smaller now, men can cart around quite a bit of crap in a blazer or sports coat, appropriate year-round (though you may want different ones for summer versus winter depending on where you live) all while dressing
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Skipping tooling & processes below a certain (not very low) point isn't doing it "cheap and fast". It's saying "I want you to build my house but I want it to be cheap so don't buy any more hammers, it'
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> The interview is often seen as a one-sided interaction you are on the "I hope they like me", and the company is like "can they do the job?" when in my experience you should treat more like a date: do we have similar
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by karatestomp 6y ago
I've noticed that (low- to mid-level, at least) business, marketing, and other folks are generally a whole lot looser with their numbers than developers are. That is, they'll toss around measures that aren't meaningful—and no
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Point of order: Scotty was frequently on the bridge commanding the ship, and there's a strong argument to be made that he was the second-best at the job, after Kirk. Certainly 3rd best.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> Except in my experience it’s not two years, it’s two months. And I can set up two micro instances with terraform in less than an hour. Fucking that . Only skip the basics entirely if you don't plan to hire anyone in those 5 month
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by karatestomp 6y ago
It’s not a curriculum, though. States and districts burn a lot of money turning it into one.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Everyone who's still got stable employment used that stimulus check to DIY-reno their kitchen, I think.
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by karatestomp 6y ago
> I know that "the tech interview process is broken", but we, as part of that process, should aim to improve it, not to trick the system for our own and personal benefit. It's not broken for FAANG, because what they'r
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by karatestomp 6y ago
"Well these novels all look fine, Mr. Stephen King, but you see there are just so many fakers out there and even though you can talk very well about the process of writing a book in a way that only someone who either actually did kno
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by karatestomp 6y ago
Shit 40 hours is already 35% of my waking hours in a week, including weekends. Factor in that a lot of places extend hours by 30-60min to account for lunch ("9-5" my ass) and then commute time for most folks, and tons of people ar
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by karatestomp 6y ago
They're just using them as "how bad you want it" + IQ filters. The interviews end up testing for some combination of that—want very very badly + good but not amazing IQ, or want somewhat + very high IQ, that sort of thing. Th

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