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by masto 4y ago
I feel that way about anything that tries to explain concepts with cartoons. “why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby” as a prime example of something I can’t look at for 5 minutes without wanting to burn it. Yet I know that lots of people are
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by masto 4y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136984781... “In sum, this systematic review found little to no support for the hypothesis bicycle helmet use is associated with engaging in risky behaviour.
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by masto 4y ago
Mine was when the iPhone SDK was released. I’d made a small Mac thing and gone to a few WWDCs, and really wanted to be an app developer. I brainstormed some dumb ideas, but one day I was meeting up with some friends in the city and while wa
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by masto 5y ago
I'm reasonably good at computers, and I even have a small understanding of electronics and radio, but I bought a HackRF One about 6 years ago, and every time I try to use this stuff I get hopelessly lost. Most of the time I can't
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by masto 5y ago
Knowing nothing about P or modeling distributed systems, I wish the author had shown their code and an example of how the model checker found the problem.
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by masto 5y ago
And then it doesn’t work, so after half an hour of staring at a grey screen, you give up and hold down the power button.
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by masto 5y ago
I have had multiple Mac laptops that were burning hot when I pulled them out of my bag. My iPhone also occasionally tries to melt my pocket. These are not issues that Apple is immune to.
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by masto 5y ago
The title seems to have been truncated. Presumably it meant to end with “, according to a Google Analytics competitor”
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by masto 5y ago
Some of this language: “a smart fifth grader would”, “a good student would”, stuck out to me. I have experienced people talking like this at work and I think it can be harmful. I watched a group humiliate one person by saying “how could you
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by masto 5y ago
I think they are actually trying to be slightly funny about this, maybe it’s not coming across because corporate. But read some of their statements again in a different intonation. I mean, “We prefer to call it the B. 1.617.2 variant since
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by masto 5y ago
I don’t know, at this point my guess is that most people just don’t care, so those that can be bothered to comment are a bit fringe. When Go first came out, it seemed interesting, but when I checked it out it felt more like throwing out the
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by masto 5y ago
Apple was never pro-privacy. Apple has always been pro-Apple. They will do whatever benefits them the most at any time. It just so happens that with the failure of their own attempts to start an advertising network, they saw an opportunity
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by masto 5y ago
Lots of discussion of tabs and bookmarks and how to solve them once and for all with a new ontological hierarchy or server or service.. I get that, we’re nerds, that’s what we do. But if, like me, your tab clutter is more a problem of psych
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by masto 5y ago
I used to have trouble starting tasks. I still do, but I used to do. There’s a line from the movie Ghostbusters that I like to quote when I need to get started: “Type something, will you? We’re paying for this stuff!” https://you
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by masto 6y ago
I'm apparently not most people. I watch far more hours of YouTube every day than I'd like to admit, but I never even notice the like/dislike counts, let alone rely on them to provide any meaningful signal.
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by masto 6y ago
Here’s an example from real life just last week. Clorox ToiletWand Refill. Go look on Amazon, I’ll wait here. You’ll find many different sellers, some obviously “third party”, and some that look original but when you delve into the reviews
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by masto 6y ago
Google Calendar.
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by masto 6y ago
I understand the point of the original article, since I agree that most people are entitled whiny jerks much of the time, myself included. I’m not here to argue that anyone should be obligated to provide help or fixes for their open source
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by masto 6y ago
I have to agree, but I wouldn’t be a dick about it. Lots of people enjoyed this book. For me, I can’t get through the first 30 seconds. My brain just rebels against this style. Partly because there’s something wrong with me, I can’t underst
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by masto 6y ago
I had to come back and re-read this. I saw all these comments last night about Workflowy and figured I’d give it a try today. Within 5 minutes, I’ve gotten completely lost and frustrated by what should be a simple outliner. The desktop site
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by masto 6y ago
I’ve never used this piece of software (and their web site is remarkably uninformative about what it does, besides transform my enterprise), but from the comments it looks like some kind of search engine. It wouldn’t be too surprising to ha
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by masto 6y ago
It pops up a big scary per-app dialog ( https://mobiledevmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image-1... ) that the app wants to “track you across apps and websites owned by other companies”. I just wish pe
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by masto 6y ago
So now that you’ve posted that, does Hacker News face a €600k fine if they don’t delete your comment?
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by masto 6y ago
Sometimes people do things for fun.
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by masto 6y ago
In all that time, have you strictly been writing code, on computers that came set up out of the box, that runs on computers managed by other people? This is not an insult, I’m aware such things exist, but I seem to travel in different circl
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by masto 7y ago
Nobody tried what, generative design? https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/generative-design/manufac... Or did you mean the way the model is specified?
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by masto 7y ago
Don’t ask the lawyers. They’ll want your document retention policy to apply to source code...
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by masto 7y ago
Where is the lock picking lawyer when you need him? A little click on 3, some counter-rotation, and there you have it!
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by masto 7y ago
I appreciate the response. I hope my story didn’t give the wrong impression. There are a lot of paths to enlightenment, and who knows what 8-year-old me could have done with an interactive book. I could only view it through a mobile device
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by masto 7y ago
I don’t want to be a jerk with this comment.. this looks like a great resource, and it obviously represents a lot of work by a lot of talented people. But the premise seems to be the same premise that kept me away from a fun and practical h

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