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Klobuchar targets Big Tech with biggest antitrust overhaul in 45 years(arstechnica.com)
29 points by kody 6y ago|6 comments
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by kody 6y ago
I second neatze; I started around your son’s age by modding games (Morrowind). My younger brother got into Roblox, which is still popular. My main driver was creating stories and cool new stuff for other people (Dad, brother, forum users)
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by kody 6y ago
Edit: the no-fly list as a DHS entity, which I just learned about, is absolute horseshit. I assumed no-fly lists were per airline and I stand corrected. Terrorism is an over-applied label that is used to stoke FUD and expand executive power
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by kody 6y ago
Terrorists are usually added to no-fly lists, yeah?
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by kody 6y ago
I wrote a Python script to post Markdown files to Confluence but ran into similar problems with retrieving and editing existing documents.
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by kody 6y ago
Very nice! I've tried to switch over to a terminal-based workflow but Qt Creator, VS Code, and Firefox for Atlassian products have been the main holdouts for me. I can't see myself moving away from Qt Creator, but I would kill for
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by kody 6y ago
If I could change one phrase in the developer vernacular it’s MVP to <Justifiably/Actually> Useful Product. MVP so often manifests as “a product that we need to deploy NOW, definitely won’t scale, but it exists and therefore is s
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by kody 6y ago
Right. I grew up hearing that COBOL and Fortran devs would become extinct and extremely valuable in my lifetime.
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by kody 6y ago
The Economist and Real Simple. Great recipes in the latter.
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by kody 6y ago
As someone who has never used an Adobe product (other than read-only), you get used to it and learn to love it.
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by kody 6y ago
The first time I downloaded the GIMP was when I realized that MS Paint wouldn’t cut it for making convincing Runescape “fakes”. I was too chicken to pirate Photoshop but knew that I needed better tools to do what I needed. I went on to use
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by kody 6y ago
Anecdotally, all of my father friends felt the exact same way.
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by kody 6y ago
My wife and I are working from home and raising our 6 month old daughter, and the -only- distraction that brings me to a grinding halt is my daughter's crying. Even with noise-cancelling headphones, if I hear any crying at all I feel a
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by kody 6y ago
I don't see "so and so Liked this tweet" in my feed, and I only see get a handful of promoted tweets, so it feels like they've eased up on adding noise to our feeds. I also set my location (arbitrarily) to Cook Island
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by kody 6y ago
I have found marriage & kids to be a good litmus test for character quality. If you say 'no' to a request and they blame the 'ball and chain', red flag.
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by kody 6y ago
So the first term I searched was "cognitive". Search for it yourself, and click the first result. Go back and click "cached". That was a cool experience.
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by kody 7y ago
By choice?
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by kody 7y ago
Great point. I hadn’t considered that at all.
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by kody 7y ago
Yeah, in my experience the difference between 8 and 10 hour workdays were negligible (except certain times of year where I'd get to my desk before sunrise and leave well after sunset). Anything I'd do with my "extra" 2 h
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by kody 7y ago
Oh for sure. I'd bet that people working 4x9s or even 4x8s are equally/more productive as 4x10s and 5x8s and are happier. But if I'm choosing between 4x10 and 5x8 I'd take 4x10 any day.
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by kody 7y ago
Yeah that sounds way too inconsistent on a weekly basis for me
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by kody 7y ago
I agree that it's hard for some people (managers) to see a relaxed, happy person and believe that they're also totally productive. I don't blame them either; I feel like the image of overly-caffeinated, stressed-out people is
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by kody 7y ago
I worked 4x10s when I worked for the Army and it was awesome. 3 day weekends take off so much pressure, and come Sunday night I was starting to feel the itch to get back into work rather than the dreadful feeling that I 'wasted' m
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by kody 7y ago
Do you have any recommended reading on the 'history of packaging'? That sounds really interesting.
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Lobste.rs: Mitigating Content Marketing(lobste.rs)
8 points by kody 7y ago|1 comments
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by kody 7y ago
I just tried searching for a file with Spotlight and it found the file by name.
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by kody 7y ago
It's also interesting how most of the comments disagree with that one, yet it still has positive upvotes.
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by kody 7y ago
Or are trying to follow fads so they're more employable (resume-driven development?) Which is a strategy I am not criticizing in the slightest. It can suck when it means the whole team has to learn the fad framework, though.
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by kody 7y ago
"Don't feed the trolls" has been my strategy for as long as I've been on the web, but what disconcerts me the most these days is the doxing and death threats. A reporter can simply retweet a news article and instantly
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by kody 7y ago
Good point. I was framing the conversation with 4chan as a whole, not just /b/. Big difference.

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