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by lucumo 5y ago
I use people zoning out as a sign that the topic is not a good fit for this meeting, and should be discussed outside of it with a smaller group. That seems to work well to keep meetings quick and on point.
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by lucumo 5y ago
> What is up that you need someone else to have a camera pointing to their face that you can't have with their voices? Smiles, frowns, nods, glazed looks, puzzled looks, surprised looks, I-want-to-say-something-but-I-can't-get-
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by lucumo 5y ago
> following a day of virtual meetings I've done full days of real meetings. Those were exhausting and very draining. I'm surprised that anybody would expect anything different from virtual meetings. I have noticed that it'
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I'm not sure it's entirely entertainment vs. information. Books are my primary form of entertainment too, and I do like a good story. I can see how the artform of the written word could be part of it, as I'm generally unappre
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I've seen tweets that contain more relevant details than some Atlantic articles.
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I read a lot of books, and let me tell you: there's quite a few that should've had an editor telling the author exactly that. On the other hand there are books that just have a lot to tell. That's fine. Take the words you nee
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Most don't even.
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Not just the license costs, but also the license itself. The Office license is a known quantity, whereas alternatives would require a new license review. Especially important for companies that are worried about their data, for competitive
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by lucumo 5y ago
But in those cases you are creating for other people. The point was made about software that didn't have any use for any people. In those cases, only the creation itself has a use, not the end result. By definition.
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Well, you could create software as art. Basically to create it for the fun of creating it, not to use it. But yeah, the end result is useless then, and can be thrown out.
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Presumably a 1x programmer is an average programmer. The type who does his job acceptably. He doesn't create huge problems, nor solve them. He is a fine team player and team member, but not a leader. Nobody despairs when he leaves, and
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by lucumo 5y ago
Thank you. That made it click for me. I get it now. It's still weird to me, but it's weird in the same way other collectibles are weird to me. It's undeniable that they are valuable to others.
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by lucumo 5y ago
Most decisions don't require that much thought. They're low stakes and can easily be changed. To build on the professor's metaphor: don't spend a week in the library in it'll only save you a day. If it's a bit
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by lucumo 5y ago
> I suspect it is a mix of cognitive science, linguistics, and anthropology. I agree. Creating a solution that is clear to navigate for future developers is valuable, as is one that is flexible for future modifications. These things depe
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by lucumo 5y ago
That's all just protectionism. Or an attempt at it, because it's clearly not working in the software industry. I am a graduate of such a school and it is a pain to even use that (earned and legally awarded) title in an internation
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by lucumo 5y ago
That sounds like a beautiful example of letting perfect be the enemy of good. Just like your design choices have trade-offs, is it important to realize that there's a trade-off between finishing sooner and making a better solution. Dim
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by lucumo 5y ago
> It's a way to create global variables scoped to the current thread. That's not a global variable; that's a thread-scoped variable. (It's also not (really) mutable. It gets initialized at the start of the scope and g
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by lucumo 5y ago
Yes, exactly. It's just so similar to forum spam. Free speech absolutists were far less in favour of free speech when it came to banning viagra-salesmen. Like the forum moderators, it's perfectly okay for Google to just not want t
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by lucumo 5y ago
We absolutely were like this 10 years ago. 10 years isn't that long ago. All those sites were around then, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News... Even the topics changed only a little bit. GamerGate was 7 years ago. 4chan and 8chan
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by lucumo 5y ago
The Dutch Stemwijzer tends to have these stupid questions where they put a premise in the question. Something like "We need more red lights in the world, so all traffic lights should include red lights." Two parties can arrive at
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by lucumo 5y ago
Voxility has some very aggressive cold-sales department. They've approached me many times to sell their product. I've ignored the first few mails. Still they kept coming. I've told them curtly but politely we weren't int
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by lucumo 5y ago
I worked on one this year. You need Java 8 for it and an insanely old browser. They didn't mention the applet part in the job description. That was my shortest tenure ever, including Summer jobs and internships...
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by lucumo 5y ago
GP explicitly states that it is their experience. They do not need a peer reviewed paper to describe their experience. That's ridiculous.
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Thie Harper's Bazaar article it references has three maximalist photos: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/lifestyle_homes/a35...
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by lucumo 5y ago
There's also the desire to just see something new. Style is typically something that people like to change up every few years. There's individual differences of course. Some people will live their entire life in a house that never
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by lucumo 5y ago
Do you have any examples? I'm kind of interested in other web design styles than the Ikea-and-Apple kind.
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These are two different things. There's minimalism as a life philosophy, and there's minimalism as a design style. They go well together, but, as you point out, you can also have one without the other.
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That actually has a certain kind of charm. The patterns fit together well and the accents support the overall feel of the room. This can go awry very fast if done with less care, but then again, so can a minimalist room. Minimalist rooms ca
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by lucumo 5y ago
> > That boolean assignment operator was addressed. > Where and when? Because I was the only person alluding to it, and the replies to my post. The words "boolean assignment operator" are in the first sentence after the c
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That boolean assignment operator was addressed. Whether or not C++ has them (it doesn't) is exactly the point of that code snippet. They do exist in other languages. ES has it in exactly that form. Java has it in the |= form, not to be

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