maxehmookau

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by maxehmookau 2y ago
I should say that I've not been using Rails _exclusively_ for that period. But it's the one framework that sticks around in my toolkit no matter what. It's what I reach for in any new project by default.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Been using Rails professionally for 13 years (currently at GitLab) and I still don't think anything else beats it for developer happiness and productivity. It cuts through all the mess of modern web development so well and makes turnin
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
I want a dumb TV. A TV that I can plug my Apply TV in to and watch TV. I don't want it to be smart, I don't want Roku built in, I don't want it to know what I watch and sell me ads. It's really hard to find this. > La
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
This is gross, and should be illegal. Absolutely get in the bin with this nonsense.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
I'm curious where you find the time to apply to 500 jobs. You're not alone, I know, but is quality not better than quantity? Are those applications tailored to the jobs you're applying for? Admittedly I've not job hunted
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Absolutely. Airbnb is great if you want a really unusual stay. Like a treehouse in the Scottish highlands. It should corner that market. But if you just want an apartment, go stay in a nice hotel. I stayed at https://another.plac
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Guess it depends where you want to travel. I tend to use hotels in Europe now when I travel. My experiences are just as good, if not better, in hotels most of the time. But Europe's a big place, so I can accept that it's not the c
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Airbnb has made me really appreciate a good old-school hotel. Find a nice one, and it's so much nicer than any airbnb I've stayed in.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
I hate when companies do nothing to help their customers, unless a national newspaper gets involved. Looks even worse than doing nothing.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Firing someone during their parental leave is a special kind of messed up. The fact that it's not completely illegal in any reasonable country is horrifying.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
"Our fact checking wasn't good enough, so we're outsourcing it to the public." This is insane and clearly a political move. Maybe we just don't require social media as a species. That might be nice.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
> Calling his ex-coworkers NPCs and believing he's qualified to streamline the US government - all because he built a glorified screen recorder? Have some humility LOL. This is basically Elon Musk's MO. Except it was shiny car
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
I quit FB 3 years ago. It's already riddled with bots, AI generated "content" and ragebait. If this doesn't push you away from it, what will?
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
I'm a native British English speaker that works for an American company. I use y'all much to the dislike of my friends and family but it's friendly, and very inclusive. I quite like it.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Is it because corporate profits are put ahead of the living standards of the masses? I bet it's that.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Ever since they decided to spend hundreds of millions on Rogan whilst also gouging artists, I've been looking for an alternative to Spotify. This might be the push I needed.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Rising up violently to protect my child's right to scroll mindless on TikTok for hours? No. Social media today is unrecognisable to the internet that you, or I grew up with. Children will always network, and share ideas and form commun
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
I'm troubled by the premise that further right on the "demanding" scale makes parents "wise". At some point, an increase in demanding things of your children seems unwise to me.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Maybe the world would be better if we just didn't have a service that allows everyone to shout whatever is on their mind in to the internet void? I'm glad X is dying; is a replacement really needed?
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
This is so freaking cool. What a fantastic idea and a great write-up.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
> Some of us look forward to that future where you mostly just interact with AI. What is it about that that appeals to you? I'm genuinely curious. A world without human interaction feels like a world I don't want to exist in.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Apple is absolutely in the wrong here. What on earth are they doing using a taxi firm to deliver $3000 equipment?
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Hard agree. It's our generation's smoking. Zuckerberg's recent PR glow-up is just this generation's Marlboro man. An acceptable face on something much more sinister.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Social media that tech workers in the 30s and 40s were exposed to was never any more intense than a bulletin board or a chat room. Social media now is a very different beast. It's designed to be addictive, and it generates engagement t
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
Find a niche community that wants something like that, who typically have disposable income. (Photographers) Make a privacy-first Instagram-like social network and (here's the important part) charge for it. https://glass.pho
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
The US is the outlier here though. I don't think any other country's political norms would describe the US Democratic Party as "far-left". Describing any policy of the dems as "far-left" is just nonsense. It&#x
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
The idea that America has a far left party, let alone that the democrats are a "far-left" party, is hilarious to the rest of the world. The democrats, by european standards, are about as centrist as it gets.
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
> the real problem that got Trump in office was normalcy bias. what we're dealing with is so bad that if you tell people who don't already know, they assume you're exaggerating. This is understated IMO. In almost every oth
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
> I have always thought that it would be interesting to see an "Ordinary people party" that focuses on the silent majority There is no silent majority. Turnout was >60% in 2020, so by that measure there's a silent minor
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by maxehmookau 2y ago
This is probably partially cultural. My experience is with the UK admittedly.

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