ottoflux

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by ottoflux 4y ago
my thought is just "why not"? 0 is a number, and just because the west ignored it for quite some time (read: "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea") we have these odd built-in aversions to it but in the end it makes p
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by ottoflux 4y ago
while likely correct (confirmation bias) i’d add that none of this prevents poorly designed systems from having partially potentially lethal (at scale) unintended consequences. we (developers) need to be far better at second-order/seco
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by ottoflux 4y ago
quite simply no. fast fashion is not a requirement for decent inexpensive clothes.
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by ottoflux 4y ago
I love this. One tiny thought - perhaps use a conditional when setting the string percentage/completion value to prepend a 0 of it's < 10? like: completion_string: str = '0' + str(self.completion) if self.completion &
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by ottoflux 4y ago
A useful conversation. I majored in CS 24 years ago (am I old now?) and have had my fingers and toes just about everywhere in the last few decades. I think your definition is pretty good but I think the primary question/problem is that
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by ottoflux 5y ago
or, you know, work hard when it's work time and take a life balance. your company isn't going to come to raise your children (if you have them) when you die, nor are they going to live a happy life for you. we have to stop thinkin
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by ottoflux 6y ago
But does it still whip the llama's ass?
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by ottoflux 7y ago
TL/DR: Book appointments on your calendar to get work done and stick to them. Shut off notifications while you're in there. I've been working from home for a decade now, and basically I think this is bonkers (no offense, I se
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Clickbait headlines beginning to dominate Hacker News
3 points by ottoflux 9y ago|1 comments
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by ottoflux 10y ago
It still needs cleaned up, but I thought I'd put it out there anyway. Been fiddling with it, but I find it useful. [2016.12.10 12:38:13] - ottoflux
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Show HN: Time stamps for your phone or computer(copypastetime.com)
3 points by ottoflux 10y ago|3 comments
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by ottoflux 12y ago
True - and hopefully you'll keep that up with your new site/app once marketers, CFOs, and investors get involved, I think that's when things start growing walls and controls. As soon as someone mentions "monetization,&qu
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by ottoflux 12y ago
wow. hope --Maemo--, er... --Meego--, er... Tizen can gel, or I guess we can wait on Firefox OS to show up on a device that isn't terrible in the US.
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by ottoflux 12y ago
Shit happens. Refactoring options and shifting things around may suck, but it may have been a requirement of them getting the seed funding. 100% of your options at Zero worth are worse than N% (not a terrible N%) at an actual positive valua
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by ottoflux 13y ago
How does this fix the fast food problem? 1) Who will clean the machines well every night? 2) Really? Try to answer 1 honestly. 3) How will keep the tables clean, as well as the messes from terrible idiot customers who no longer believe th
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Inadvertently finding my way to the truth behind Apple two-step authentication(medium.com)
1 points by ottoflux 13y ago|0 comments
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by ottoflux 13y ago
so? seriously. it does a better job than an old n x mbox, or other technology. i'm not trying to say it's not better, it's just amazing how impatient we've gotten in the last decade, and how much we've bought into
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by ottoflux 13y ago
Back up.
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End DST - SignOn/MoveOn(signon.org)
1 points by ottoflux 14y ago|0 comments
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by ottoflux 14y ago
1) Yes, Apple is closed and lame. This isn't new. 2) I almost fell over laughing when you mentioned a whole "40" hours. I think if I went through that whole process with Apple, I'd be happy if I got it out of the way in 40 hours. Apple "use
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Scotland to hold independence poll in 2014(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by ottoflux 15y ago|0 comments