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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but if your premise for the article is "This thing in my field is a lot like Nixon's politics", I'd expect you to not get Nixon's politics wrong, specifically because a lot of people may not know it enough to
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by noirbot 4y ago
That's not really a rebuttal though. 90% of all UX can be bad, but it's still notable if 99% of OSS UX is bad. Actually needing to sell your product eventually/get people to use it seems to be a fairly necessary part of endin
603.
by noirbot 4y ago
I'm always worried that the spammer just uses "unsubscribe" as a sign that the email actually got through the spam filter and a human saw it? Aside, I've been having a TON of very similar spam emails getting through Goog
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by noirbot 4y ago
I was really into it until I hit some bug/corruption where it just stopped accepting my password to unlock it, and then I had literally 0 recourse and had to spend hours recovering it, since they wouldn't even let me just delete t
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by noirbot 4y ago
Around the time you expected to be able to work as a software developer for most/all of your life? Sure, I'd prefer to pay $20 for something I'll get free updates for for the rest of my life, but I get why that's not a v
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by noirbot 4y ago
That's not how Wine or Proton works in my experience. As OP said, Steam and Lutris both have tooling to easily set up Wine prefixes per-game, including specifying specific versions, including custom compilations like GloriousEggroll&#x
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not asking why you'd update the game, I'm asking why you'd update Wine if your game "is constantly broken by updates". It's one thing if the game keeps updating and then you have to hope it works on th
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, I'm not contesting that Wine breaks things with updates. So does a lot of stuff on Linux. The amount of times I run an apt update and some config file is now obsolete or just gone is a lot more often than I'd like. The advan
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by noirbot 4y ago
As someone who's been gaming on Proton or Lutris + Raw Wine, I'm not sure I agree. I regularly update Proton or Wine without seeing major issues or regressions. It certainly happens sometimes, but I'm not sure it's any w
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but that feels like an equivalence of just saying "people without a college degree are less mentally developed than those who do." Memorizing the street system of a city the size of London is obviously hard. But is it import
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by noirbot 4y ago
I think a lot of this ends up behind how you learn navigation. I love GPS as a way to build up heuristics of how to get places in a new city/from a new location. I find I mostly learn routes by visual memory and not by street names&#x2
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by noirbot 4y ago
Because the point of it decidedly isn't sinister? Having someone watching you and learning from you shouldn't be creepy, it should be exactly what people in a high-pressure job should be trying to foster. Just because someone is w
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by noirbot 4y ago
Oh sure, but then as the interviewer, your take-home is also likely to be gamed by someone cramming for that too. Motivated people can always do too much work for a project. Whether it's a live coding thing, a take home exam, or a whit
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by noirbot 4y ago
I think it's a mix of both - I'd kill for anyone at my current job to spend more than a bare minimum of time on their acceptance criterion so I don't just feel like I'm writing code and hoping it does vaguely what the pe
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by noirbot 4y ago
Or, you know, you don't cram for the interview and just do as well as you can and let them evaluate on that. If you give me a meaningless take-home assignment, I have to actually write working code for it that looks good. If there&#x27
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by noirbot 4y ago
I don't even know what you're trying to say here? If anything, the "decor" in my hotel room metaphor was a metaphor for... decor? I could make a timer that outputs ASCII text for the countdown, but if I put that as the f
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by noirbot 4y ago
I just don't think this meshes with any of my experience talking with people who work at places like Google. Your argument keeps being "but Google is bad and what it makes is useless, therefore the code behind it is terrible and m
618.
by noirbot 4y ago
I am honestly confused how people have so little experience and empathy for engineering, even on a forum like this. Do you actually work somewhere where you're providing one of the most-used services in the world and it's held tog
619.
by noirbot 4y ago
Because the complexity isn't in the timer, but in adding it to an otherwise massive pile of code that makes the rest of everything run. It's like if you're building a hotel with hundreds of rooms and you decide every room sho
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by noirbot 4y ago
That doesn't seem to contravene what was being said? The assertion was that the US (via higher prices) is what pays for the R&D. Not they they exclusively spend all the US profits on R&D. If the companies suddenly made 20 billi
621.
by noirbot 4y ago
Or you just assume that's part of the structure of it. Doing a study and pointing out something that obvious feels weird. "I know you asked me to play this clearly terrible game, but it's a terrible game" feels like odd
622.
by noirbot 4y ago
Who do you need to justify it to? I'm sure your work would accept you offering to get paid multiple times less if you were prefer that. Or otherwise, do what you can to advocate for giving raises to the equally competent people on your
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm really suspicious of that study, even if I mostly think it's emblematic of the real-world effect it's supposedly studying. Was the difference in rules/situation communicated to the players? What exactly were they ask
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by noirbot 4y ago
Isn't that because calories aren't really directly relevant to how people shop for food or consume it? I can't just replace a hamburger with 10x that amount of grain, or even 1/10th of that amount of grains and get the s
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by noirbot 4y ago
I feel like that entirely depends on where you're traveling to. NYC or SF that feels highly normal even in "cheap" hotels.
626.
by noirbot 4y ago
I'm always curious for some of these how much it's just a problem of round numbers. Something like the vet visit, I totally believe, but marking down the $1 increase in airport parking cost feels like it's less a percentage a
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by noirbot 4y ago
Odd that what you call a "luxury industry" is essentially something that poor people have been doing for over a century. I generally agree that trying to eat less meat, especially beef, is a fine idea, but farming, ranching, and B
628.
by noirbot 4y ago
Isn't some of that skewed though? Most of the people who fought and died in WW2 were 18-40 year old folks in the prime of their life, or minorities killed in atrocities. My guess, and correct me if it's wrong, but a lot of people
629.
by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, not unless they're giving 150k+ in fairly stable equity. Like, I'd take a pay cut in raw salary if they were matching it in 1-3 year RSUs for a public stock.
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by noirbot 4y ago
And for the most part, even if it's a lot of money, I can't pay my bills with RSUs or options. I may be willing to accept a bit lower cash salary if the equity numbers are huge, but I still need cash in my bank account to pay for

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