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by kmoser 2y ago
The article states that the biggest factor was user misunderstanding of the options, not so much the number of different options. In other words, if they offer option A at $x and option B at 10*$x, if most users mistakenly think they need o
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by kmoser 2y ago
> We also noticed vague cover letter language: Sadly, the examples in the article are as good as, or better, than letters I've received from US-based devs.
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by kmoser 2y ago
There must be a pain point beyond which insurance companies are willing to actually provide the services they promise. Perhaps jail time for execs might move the needle?
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by kmoser 2y ago
Nobody in their right mind gives up control or lets the LLM decide what's best. They take the output of the LLM as a starting point, changing it where necessary to accomplish their goals. This is no different than starting with boilerp
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by kmoser 2y ago
Google will review the listing and eventually add it to the map, no further action required by you. Once they do, you'll want to get your customers to write reviews.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Not an SEO expert but I've found that adding your business to Google Maps will get you many more eyeballs.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Over-researching is probably better than under-researching. To reduce time spent researching, try imposing a deadline. The difficulty will be sticking to it, since nobody but yourself will be breathing down your neck.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I understand the desire to reorder clauses in a way that makes sense to the user, but they seem to discount the value in the formality of enforcing a particular order to the clauses: you're assured that if the query contains, say an OR
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by kmoser 2y ago
What irks me most about the new Settings app is the lack of keyboard shortcuts. Sure, you can use the arrows to jump around the different elements but whatever happened to good old Alt-F, etc.? Plus, on a traditional menu bar, every keyboar
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by kmoser 2y ago
I find most people suffer from at least one (and more commonly two) of the following: insufficient attention to detail; poor time management; and bad organization skills.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Neat graphics and all but how do you actually play the game?
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by kmoser 2y ago
It's not hard to design a web page that's 95% text and which lets the user adjust the font size via the browser's zoom controls.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I don't understand the difference. With a touch-screen, if the propellers aren't synchronized, you would see it immediately on the green bars: if you slide one and the other doesn't slide similarly, they aren't synchroni
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by kmoser 2y ago
It seems to me that the checkbox, and even the UI, is the least of the issues. Even with the most intuitive manual controls, this problem still could have easily happened simply because the transfer of control from one station to another is
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by kmoser 2y ago
The most carefully honed social skills in the world won't help somebody plausibly answer a question like "What is the data type of this variable?" or "Show me the line where the null pointer dereference is happening.&quo
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by kmoser 2y ago
I find half my job as a developer is writing code, and the other half is advising clients on which features not to implement.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Now, there are some schools of programming that lean heavily into try/catches. Me, I find them mentally taxing. Whenever there is a try/catch, we now have to worry not only about what the function returns, but what it throws.
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by kmoser 2y ago
You don't have to know everything about everything. You just have to RTFM enough to understand what you're doing and what the ramifications are of doing it wrong. If you're not sure, ask a more senior dev for guidance.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Expecting developers to know that 512 bit RSA is insecure clearly doesn’t work. They’re not cryptographers. This is not their job. The failure wasn’t that someone used 512 bit RSA. It was that a library they were relying on let them. I
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by kmoser 2y ago
Yes, if it's your first day on the job and you don't know that CSI is a driver. Yes, if GetCSINameFromInTreeName ever gets renamed to something less obvious.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Assuming there is a compelling reason for a large file to begin with: with all due respect to VS Code and JetBrains, if the tools chokes because the file is too big, use a better tool. As for long lines, there is sometimes value in consiste
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by kmoser 2y ago
Generalizations like that are theoretical, and don't always align with reality. There's nothing wrong with comments summarizing the "what", and in fact doing so is a good thing because it can describe anything from the i
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by kmoser 2y ago
Back in 1986 I worked for $BIG_BANK where we replaced humans, typewriters and carbon paper forms with Xerox laser printers (conveniently leapfrogging daisy wheel and dot-matrix technology). These beasts were the size of a large microwave ov
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by kmoser 2y ago
The flip side of this "burden" is that it prevents you from returning an arbitrary data structure that is not expected by the caller and may cause errors further down the call stack if you return the wrong type. The whole point of
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by kmoser 2y ago
As a traveler, I already know the airline name because it's printed on my boarding pass, so I don't really care what two-letter prefix they use; to me it's just another part of the opaque handle they call a flight number.
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by kmoser 2y ago
It can definitely lead to under-optimized code, but on the flip side, prematurely optimizing can waste time and lead to overly complex code that is difficult to maintain. The key is to know how much to optimize and when. The point of the ar
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by kmoser 2y ago
Copyright law says otherwise. As for enforcing the law, you're right, it may be difficult for individual authors to move the needle. But that that doesn't mean it's ok for scrapers to violate the law. As to what constitutes f
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by kmoser 2y ago
Many shareholders aren't in the business of managing a company directly. They simply want to invest in companies that are run well. Just because they have the power doesn't mean they know how to wield it correctly, let alone want
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by kmoser 2y ago
That's a nice theory but in reality many things could conspire to prevent you from hiring on schedule: lack of qualified applicants, changing business strategy, reduced budget, etc. It would be hard to tell from the outside whether lac
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by kmoser 2y ago
A majority shareholder might still decide to sue, hoping that any short-term loss would be offset by long-term gains if the lawsuit served to dissuade future malfeasance on the company's part.

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