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811.
by ketzo 5y ago
Companies are not people, and monopolies (and monopsonies) don’t need friends.
812.
by ketzo 5y ago
It can’t be emphasized enough how good IEx is. Maybe it’s because it is my first experience with a language like Elixir, but man, it just feels like I’m living inside the program while it’s running in a way that an IDE debugger doesn’t. I
813.
by ketzo 5y ago
> you can watch as negative stories about large tech companies are quickly flagged off the front page. you’re literally writing this underneath a very popular, negative, front-page post about a big tech company.
814.
by ketzo 5y ago
> Random uncles putting $100 into BitCoin isn't driving the market. No, but the companies providing easy ways for tens of thousands of uncles to put $100 into the market definitely are driving the market. See: Robinhood, Venmo, PayP
815.
by ketzo 5y ago
The working hours thing alone is awesome -- it sends a signal that "this is a good and valuable thing that you're doing, even if no software for our business comes out of it"
816.
by ketzo 5y ago
I mean, the vast majority of Americans do that, too. Entrepreneurship and self-employment are scary.
817.
by ketzo 5y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1958/ > I worry about self-driving car safety features. > What's to stop someone from painting fake lines on the road, or dropping a cutout of a pedestrian onto a highway, to
818.
by ketzo 5y ago
Okay -- but tell that to the people living within the system today. I'm from a smaller American city with abysmal public transportation. Cars are how you get to work, end of sentence. They are required for life. Yes, the city should be
819.
by ketzo 5y ago
This is, to me, the definition of a senior software engineer. Awareness across every single part of the process of making software. Not expertise, necessarily, but enough knowledge to know what to be on the lookout for.
820.
by ketzo 5y ago
Again: "I don't find this funny" =/= "this is not funny" Personally, the decorative gourds one always gets me. Different tastes.
821.
by ketzo 5y ago
There aren't very many things that someone can say that are universally wrong, but "I don't think this is funny and therefore it is failed humor" is probably pretty close
822.
by ketzo 5y ago
> You might think there aren’t enough bells and whistles for us to teach you a new one every time you log on, but there are. And when there aren’t, we’ll switch to a new one. > Update: It’s come to our attention that some of you don’t
823.
by ketzo 5y ago
I don't think there's quite as much malice as you seem to read into it. Yeah, 2FA is kind of annoying, particularly when you don't have a real concrete understanding of the reasons why it's important. It's a funny f
824.
by ketzo 5y ago
God, it's been said a thousand and one times, but in case even one person reading this hasn't seen it: you have to watch Into the Spider-Verse . I remember my mouth literally falling open at some of those scenes, and I'm n
825.
by ketzo 5y ago
And so if I take a candy bar from a drugstore counter, I deserve a 9mm round between the eyes?
826.
by ketzo 5y ago
No, no one in this thread is using that vocabulary. I am, because I think that's what people are describing, and it makes me sick. I'm not misinterpreting a thing you said. No, I'm looking at exactly the situation you are d
827.
by ketzo 5y ago
The strangers are outside my home, and your suggestion is to leave my home to confront them? With lethal force? That is crazy to me. Truly insane. If they tried to enter my home or harm my loved ones, that’s a different story. But if I saw
828.
by ketzo 5y ago
What? You’re gonna point a gun at someone who is not threatening your personal safety in any way, and tell me they gave away their life? What sort of moral framework do you subscribe to that makes that okay?
829.
by ketzo 5y ago
Wow, okay, I guess we are just on fundamentally different pages. That is, quite frankly, sickening to me. I cannot imagine valuing human life – any human life – so lowly.
830.
by ketzo 5y ago
To be clear: the idea of someone breaking into your car is enough to justify ending a human life?
831.
by ketzo 5y ago
But surely there are degrees to this? I mean, if someone tall sits in front of you at the movies, they are violating your right to full viewership of the movie. If you get cut off in traffic, your rights are being violated. Where is the lin
832.
by ketzo 5y ago
At first I was a little wary of this, because it had the sort of smooth, business-school-y tone that makes you worry someone’s trying to sell you something. But I after reading I thought this was genuinely insightful. Particularly political
833.
by ketzo 5y ago
which is an important, proven way to save lives. responsible treatment of drug addicts =/= the government somehow telling people to throw trash in the streets.
834.
by ketzo 5y ago
I'm sorry to sound antagonistic, but that is a deeply lazy take. It is so incredibly disrespectful of your fellow human to assume that "uncomfortable = illegitimate" by default, which is absolutely what your comment does. S
835.
by ketzo 5y ago
> a global "power user" setting. You can get shockingly far just by holding the "Option" key while taking a lot of actions/looking at a lot of menus. Always the first thing I try.
836.
by ketzo 5y ago
I mean, this is purely anecdotal, but if I drink two or three glasses of wine in a night, I get noticeably worse sleep quality than if I drink nothing. There are long-term effects associated with heavy drinking, but there are also short-ter
837.
by ketzo 5y ago
For an alternative that I have been using daily for a few years: ianyh.com/amethyst
838.
by ketzo 5y ago
I find this to be super important for noticing when my writing is getting repetitive; when I'm reading in that "Z pattern," it's easier to pick up repeated words or phrases in the last few lines of text.
839.
by ketzo 5y ago
Right, which is the main thrust of the linked article. I think it's useful, though, to try and pick apart the boundaries where that argument breaks down; how different of a forklift do you need for your experience to stop applying, etc
840.
by ketzo 5y ago
I was gonna quibble with you, but I realized that the article title is “specific technology experience,” not “specific programming language experience,” so I think you have a point. I mean, forklifts are a technology, but I feel pretty

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