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by polotics 4y ago
You're looking for the German verb "Verschlimmbessern" :-)
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by polotics 4y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908576
963.
by polotics 4y ago
At this point I don't trust TV shows to be anything but sprinboards for subsequent creativity: you know the show's going to go rotten sooner or later, mostly each new season is a step down in quality and consistency. So the best t
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by polotics 4y ago
Word up to Neil Gaiman for having had the savvy to buck that ugly trend with Good Omens... I am now very weary to watch anything that not based on an already-finished book.
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by polotics 4y ago
with "is a right of passage" you definitely meant: "is a rite of passage"
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by polotics 4y ago
for example what is "though-stuff"? is it thoughts, or tough concepts, or did you mean something else?
967.
by polotics 4y ago
Neologisms like "simplisti’fy" are maybe ok in certain nerd circles, but they make the write-up less readable for the most important target audience: actual users of these badly designed "playground IT" systems.
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by polotics 4y ago
A sentence like: """they change their minds and mess up the clean code ...that a Playground dev already imagineared with him self.""" should be rewritten, for example: """...that a "Playgro
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by polotics 4y ago
Well you can only swallow repeated empty promises of progress on the technology front for so many years before you have to confront the blatant lies. Excuse me: "forward looking statements"
970.
by polotics 4y ago
so sad to see some of the grammar being really off in this otherwise pretty insightful piece: "them selves" instead of "themselves" is but one of many examples. I would otherwise forward it more...
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by polotics 4y ago
Don't feed the trolls! Case in point, this is a quote: quote_from_user_ihatepython == """ ihatepython 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Moscow Metro launches longest metro circle line Y
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by polotics 4y ago
This article is pretty spot-on. I've recently showed a Javascript React dev what can be achieved with Jupyter/Voilà/Streamlit/Dash and he was totally oblivious to the toolset's existence. Also I think he gulped. Onl
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by polotics 4y ago
If claims are made, those claims must be verifiable... Same as eg. for medication, snake oil much?
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by polotics 4y ago
Yanis Varoufakis playing at military expert, and for the evil side at that, was an utter horrible disappointment. Many lefties like eg. Jacobin mag also voicing inanities related to the Putin war. Luckily the Musks and Thiels are still imme
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by polotics 4y ago
Wow so the victim is guilty because they were not clever/awake/focussed enough? How does this logic work for victims of other crimes and misdemeanours?
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by polotics 4y ago
How is it legal? If you mislead a customer by assuming an identity that is not yours, how is this not identity theft? (not legal) The fraudsters' website says "Kiin Thai eatery - Official Website". Anyways that is for a judge
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by polotics 4y ago
In this instance isn't Google guilty of fraud? They put on their website something that defrauds, it being called "search" makes no difference IMHO. Isn't there in the US a small claims court for the restaurant to seek
978.
by polotics 4y ago
How is requiring staff to spend hours of unpaid time in commutes reasonable? In practice since working 70% from home I have more energy, more ideas, am less tired at 5he end of the day... Looks reasonable to me.
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by polotics 4y ago
Hug Hefner's intuition was the famous formula: age of the male divided by two, plus seven... So the ideal same-age relationship is between two adolescents of 14, and a successful 40 year old male would, all things considered, prefer pa
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by polotics 4y ago
...and are unknowingly sharing some studs.
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by polotics 4y ago
The main difference between Some-planning-up-front and big-A Agile IMHO is that responsibility for failure of delivering on the plan can be shunted away from the leadership to a slow-burn failure of delivering on quality after many iteratio
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by polotics 4y ago
Well come on it's not a big story, it is a "fat" story obviously... The disconnect between the reality of kids being subjected to shaming like never before thanks to social media, and the desire to remove the word "fat&q
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by polotics 4y ago
The law of least-surprise disagrees with you I am afraid: firewall rule override is clearly stepping off the limits of what containerization should provoke.
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by polotics 4y ago
Just wait until some ML produces a half convincing Frozen 5, 6, 7, 8. This is when the big guns from Disney come out...
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by polotics 4y ago
Peter Thiel's infamous "competition is for losers" indeed comes to mind.
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by polotics 4y ago
A manager that has no clue what tasks are on the plate fir their team, and what effort these roughly represent, needs... - this odious software - to get fired for incompetence
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by polotics 4y ago
Funny, I find this syntax very obtuse: it looks to me like "print" is being defined as, well, the print function, through a very roundabout name collision. What happens if there is a typo and the code says: let {ptint} =... What e
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by polotics 4y ago
Hi recuter. You wrote: "Some may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make". That is super weird: in what way would some person dying involve you making a sacrifice? - Do you include yourself in the list of the persons th
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by polotics 4y ago
Well I meant "or worse": costs baloon quickly if you have to be repatriated by flying ambulance...
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by polotics 4y ago
Insurance: if you break your leg, or worse, in Thailand, you're going to cost a lot more than if you're in the next town over.

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