outsidetheparty

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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
It’s absolutely accurate; I made a pretty good living for a while there helping companies transition away from Angular after the framework got rewritten out from under them. Original Angular had some performance flaws that probably really
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
I still don't get it. Yes, certainly some managers (at every level!) add no real value, but I don't see what about remote work is supposed to reveal those managers as useless.
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Maybe it’s just because I’m a teleworking middle manager, but I’ve never understood this argument that telework threatens middle management. Middle management doesn’t magically become unnecessary when employees are working from home instead
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Advice based on nothing but a numeric age will be necessarily generic and largely inapplicable.
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
It's interesting that you're making a both-sides argument while complaining about people making both-sides arguments. I mostly hear "both sides, both sides" coming from one side in particular. The other side just bla
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
It's an idiom that's maybe past its expiration date in the era of "I can see my mailbox from space, if I zoom in on google maps enough"
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
That's where I draw the line: if someone has responded, I should stick by what I wrote and address any "edits" as a followup comment. If there are no responses then I feel like it's fair game. Correcting simple typos an
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Do UK cars not have odometers?
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Midsize SaaS here -- we switched from feature branches to feature flags a couple of years ago; major improvement in our process. Once or twice we've been tempted into foolishly "just this once" working on something out of a
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
While I see what you're saying, to be honest it seems pretty reasonable to me for Apple to contribute work that helps Apple. Many OSS contributions are "scratching your own itch", no?
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Yes, that appears to be the point of the site.
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
The "working with small local clients at all is the mistake" part is already well-covered, so I'll add a secondary rule: Don't custom-build complicated websites for small local clients. Just don't. Most of them won&
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
This may be a “it’s different from what you’re used to” rather than a “real mess”. Personally I much prefer using different shortcuts to do different things, but that’s likely because I’m engrained in the Mac-style habits instead of the win
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Mine came out kind of overdone, yeah; I was trusting the little plastic popup thermometer doohickey that came with the bird. Guessing those are designed more with safety in mind than flavor.
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
And HTML begat DHTML and DHTML begat XHTML and in woe and SOAP calls HTML5 was born
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
I worked in this space for a loooooong time (mostly in higher ed; I have less knowledge about the corporate or k-12 segments.) The short answer is: It's surprisingly complex to build a good LMS at all; it verges on impossible to build
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
This doesn't do much of anything to support its thesis.
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Labor's share has been stable because it's been kept artificially low while capital profits soared. "Stable" is a misdirect here.
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
"In the popular imagination workers’ share of the economic pie has room to grow at the expense of profits. But recent research suggests that labour’s share of the value created by firms has in fact been fairly stable in most rich count
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
"Things that resonate in proximity to each other will, under certain conditions, achieve a shared physical resonance, and thereby a combined consciousness." Or in other words: https://www.norrag.org/app/upload
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
The Washington Times is an explicitly partisan broadsheet owned by the Moonies, and this author is a retired university admin turned talking head. Are you maybe confusing them with actual journalists? (I mean, seriously, "Small Pox an
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Headline: “why all printers suck” Body: “There’s not a good reason for this”
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Does this actually give us a “ better idea why athletes who did objectively better, as in won silver versus bronze, might appear less happy” as claimed by the marketing professor running the study? How does this test the upward/downwar
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
On the face of it I’m not understanding the instant dismissal of the idea — what’s objectionable about this?
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
I don't understand what you mean by "the cleverness of connecting the dots" or why you would feel personally attacked. My point was that I, a potential customer -- this really is directly relevant to my current life situation
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
I was honestly intrigued by the startup this is an ad for -- this subject is very relevant to my interests -- but their website just has more marketing copy, a YouTube video demonstrating features that don't appear to exist anywhere, a
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
Personally I tend to find the "Tales" less interesting -- the creative constraints imposed by writing everything in terms of containment procedures are where much of the fun comes from in my opinion -- but in general I can't
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
The author explains the Keter classification in the discussion: "It's a slightly meta nod to the old days (and the coldposts that ape them) where every spooky murder monster had to be Keter. I imagine there was a similar tendency
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by outsidetheparty 5y ago
SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years s
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by outsidetheparty 6y ago
My silver bullet: always end the day with a task in progress. Makes it much easier to jump in the next morning because you have a clear place to get started.

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