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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
At some point this becomes about what is right for society versus what you can legally get away with and what you feel like doing because you can. Is this, legally, a free speech issue on its own? No, and I support Amazon’s right to “nope”
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
What's interesting to me about the comments here, is how much autonomy everyone seems to have about their work time. I'm working 100% remote due to Covid, coming from a loosely enforced "only work remote if you need to be hom
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. You were completely right to call out my initial post, it was poorly worded. Much as you said, regardless of the issue, we can often agree on what's right or wrong from a moral standpoint, but still
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
I can tell you from my experience that, regardless of forum, I feel rarely given the chance to even give a perspective that I feel is taken seriously, because the immediate assumption is that anyone who has opinion "x" on subject
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
I'm not equivocating the two, although re-reading my post I can see I left that impression. The violence in each case is disturbing to me, in different ways and for different reasons. I'm merely trying to sort out why the response
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
One side began returning home almost immediately after the situation escalated, and has since been so widely shocked by the violence that occurred that many continue to be sceptical it was even born of their movement. The other side, throug
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
I'm quite sure that the President launching a nuclear strike in his final days is of great concern right now to Pelosi. We were initially told early in Trump's presidential career that he was likely to start a nuclear war [1] due
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
All of those are very important points, and exactly why I chose the word "perceived". Let's say multiple people observed a pattern of suspicious acts over a period of time from this boss. Maybe it's a big company, and yo
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
Sure, making stuff up takes very little effort, and refuting it properly takes more. Makes sense. But what if it’s not as simple as “this side is making everything up, and the other side is 100% honest”. You could easily turn that argument
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
You can downvote me, but first indulge me... Imagine, for a second, that you saw something concerning. For argument’s sake, say you saw your boss doing something you perceived to be illegal. Imagine, then, that you were told that asking abo
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
In a free and fair society, it is not dangerous to ask questions. It is very dangerous to be told that you are not allowed to ask questions. In a marketplace of ideas, with free sharing of information, bogus claims will eventually (usually
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
The "don't reinvent the wheel" argument often acts as though using a 3rd party lib is "free", and building it yourself is costly with no benefit. This is sometimes true, but often not. From SFTP libraries to SVG ren
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
I still think there are wider use cases for named arguments. For example, even disambiguating between which argument is the "string" and which is the "substring to be found", or the classic "x, y, width, height&quot
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
Was not "marketing" one of the biggest driving factors of moving to Swift, though? Objective-C ranked highly in usage, but largely because of it being necessary for iOS development. At the same time, it was common outside of the A
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
Maybe it's shallow of me, but named/keyword arguments are now at the top of my list of things I want in a programming language. For all the attention given to static typing and unit testing for increasing developer confidence, I t
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
I agree with this, and it's something that's been on my mind recently. I've dabbled with trying to make a game over the last 5 years or so, and run into this problem every time. As a kid, I learned computer programming partia
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
Nice work! I really like the art style. It captures the minimalism of the original, while not resorting to voxels or a "hipster flat low poly" look.
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
That's certainly possible. But as someone who has been using Macs on and off for about 10 years now, I've heard people shout that Apple was locking down Macs from the moment the App Store was created on iOS (and long before it cam
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
"Team player" is one of those things that seems to go along with other, almost contradictory things like "self-starter" and "takes ownership". In theory, they can be good things. In practice, it feels like th
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
Are they really moving in that direction, though? An App Store from which you can download software with confidence is a pretty sensible first step for most users. Complementing that with a Notarization service for apps that can't live
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by kiawe_fire 6y ago
I can't claim to know how today compares to our past, but what strikes me about today is how close I feel we are in terms of values and ideas, yet how divided we are politically. Without saying my political beliefs, I've had conve
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by kiawe_fire 7y ago
It's also a great way to encourage people who may, for example, be skeptical of everything to take actions they otherwise wouldn't. Think you just have the common cold and won't be doing any harm by going out like normal? Wel
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by kiawe_fire 7y ago
This is something key that I feel most employers looking for “passion” don’t get. I have a lot of passion for the small startup business I’m working for... I have a vision for their product, the ability to execute that vision, and a strong
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by kiawe_fire 7y ago
Both you and jonathanfoster have raised some great points here. In a way, the working prototypes I've built (many of which could be production ready with little extra work) have been my "just get shit done" approach, both to
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by kiawe_fire 7y ago
I've not heard of Camille Fournier until now, but glad I found her, and this article is quite timely for me. I'm dealing with several issues right now in trying to "take ownership" of things that aren't mine. With o
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by kiawe_fire 8y ago
It seems many people either think older coders are experienced and wise, or old and stagnant. Younger coders likewise either young, foolish "wheel re-inventers" or up-to-date and ambitious. So far, I've not seen any pattern t