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by popularonion 2y ago
The problem is society doesn’t allow normal people to enforce boundaries or consequences against those “aggressive angry people” in any meaningful way.
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by popularonion 2y ago
If only Snapchat didn’t lose cultural relevance, how different things could have been
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by popularonion 2y ago
I was born in 1985, we got dialup around 1996 I think? I did teach myself programming in the 90s, after my friend loaned me his floppy disk with all his QBASIC stuff. Then dabbled in PHP, MySQL, etc. We had one computer programming class i
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by popularonion 2y ago
I got put into some “smart kid” activities in grade school, but as a poor kid with zero advice from parents, I really had no idea what to do with it. No one told me that math is really 90% about writing proofs, all those homework problems I
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by popularonion 2y ago
The app is a Twitter clone (The name is literally a pun on Twitter) and this type of writing has been an ongoing meme for a few years. I’d say it’s more of an example of jumping on a trend at a good time.
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by popularonion 2y ago
Soft layoff/encouraged attrition
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by popularonion 2y ago
> You have a dozen people that would give you emotional support, maybe once, but you are too afraid to burn the single emotional support coupon until its more important. This is real. I went through an emotional crisis last year and rea
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by popularonion 2y ago
> What will replace Internet data for training? Curated synthetic datasets? Enter Neuralink
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by popularonion 2y ago
I read https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/ but I’m still not clear on the endgame for this language. Is the plan to kill both Rust and Go?
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by popularonion 3y ago
That’s a great point that everyone else is overlooking. The comparison is obvious if you have a little experience with frat culture. (I was never in one, but I went to a college where fraternities are a huge deal, and I never felt comfortab
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by popularonion 3y ago
Thank you for expressing what myself and so many others can’t put into words.
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by popularonion 3y ago
It’s to push you into using the app. The fast food conglomerates really, really, REALLY want to shut down dine-in service for good and transition drive thru to an app-only business model. It’s their #1 strategic imperative. I would go so fa
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by popularonion 3y ago
These days more big companies are implementing anti-workcation policies limiting your freedom to travel, allegedly due to tax/immigration liabilities. The model they’re pushing for is that your primary residence address is your “Home O
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by popularonion 3y ago
People forget how much of an outpouring of anger from users there was over News Feed when it came out. The public reaction to the original News Feed in 2006 would be a good topic for some 20-something to research and go viral posting about.
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by popularonion 3y ago
I take Elon at face value when he recently said “We kind of dug our own grave with the Cybertruck”
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by popularonion 3y ago
Fertility rates in cities are far below replacement and falling every year. In every country, religious or secular, liberal or conservative, socialized healthcare/education or no. So they are proving simply not capable of sustaining hu
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by popularonion 3y ago
I actually hardly ever see thirst trap posts, my feed is pretty much just an endless wall of memes. Maybe it’s because I signed up with a burner phone number and I avoid (as much as I’m able) giving Meta any scrap of data to link to my IRL
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by popularonion 3y ago
If you live in North America, you can buy an “EV” or you can buy a Tesla. And if you buy a Tesla, you probably won’t have any of the issues with “EVs” that journalists love to write about. If you won’t buy a Tesla, there’s no point in buyin
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by popularonion 3y ago
Unfortunately, our interview system is working exactly as designed for the people with control over it.
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by popularonion 3y ago
I thought scales were phased out everywhere years ago, I use self-checkouts a lot and I can’t remember the last time I had to deal with that.
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by popularonion 3y ago
This whole “controversy” is because of Americans collectively stamping their feet and throwing a tantrum refusing to install WhatsApp or Signal. It’s really quite incredible. But I share your view about Discord, I think it’s one app positio
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by popularonion 3y ago
That's what I did at my last job, now I mostly feel like that was a mistake. I was the guy contributing 90% of the wiki knowledge, for no real appreciation or incentive. And when something I posted inevitably become out of date and ca
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by popularonion 3y ago
> Sounds like your current/previous companies have heavier weight release processes that reduces how often releases go out? Yes, that probably describes 98% of companies. So what?
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by popularonion 3y ago
Well, nobody is really comparing WFH to "in-office", as in employees having a physical office with a door, they're comparing it to open offices which is the worst possible option for software development.
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by popularonion 3y ago
Even just the map of nearby parking is a huge help, it’s so rare that meetup organizers even bother to write a description of where parking is.
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by popularonion 3y ago
Seems like the author independently discovered the concept of conceptual integrity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#Concept... That reminds me of a comment on HN that I had to bookmark when I read
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by popularonion 3y ago
I have 15 years of experience working on boring tech stacks, no social media presence at all, and I’m doing okay. I’d suggest hitting up some tech recruiters and downgrading your past job titles. As far as your job search is concerned, you
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by popularonion 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_belief
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by popularonion 3y ago
I’ve run into this with a niche but fairly popular open source program. It had been used by big tech cos for years, while the maintainers moved on one by one until the last guy who seems to have thrown in the towel in 2020. I considered pic
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by popularonion 3y ago
Bit rot in third party dependencies that never get updated is a real problem

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