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by progman32 7y ago
I'd say that extends to most generations, not just boomers :)
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by progman32 7y ago
This rings true, and will be useful to introspect and more clearly explain concerns to colleagues. Apart from the short article[1] linked from the submission, are there similar pieces written from the POV of a manager or designer? Aside: Pr
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by progman32 7y ago
> "People don't do concrete things any more," he says. I (dev) and my team certainly do. To that end, I've started putting a standard caveat at the end of all my team meeting reminders on chat: Everyone is optional, b
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by progman32 7y ago
Yes I was a unclear. I meant "our" to imply the language being used in this very conversation. I should have used "this". My first language is Italian. Even though almost everything is gendered in that language, gender t
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by progman32 7y ago
> conflicting self expression Hm, yes! That's indeed a tricky part. My specific proposal oversimplifies the situation. The term "chosen mode of respect" is cropping up recently, perhaps an amicable solution lies the direct
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by progman32 7y ago
Codes of conduct tend to be driven by (and serve to protect) the group's intended purpose. Gender is a big part of our language for many reasons, some better than others. We should be aware of our goals when dictating what is and isn&#
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by progman32 7y ago
Every android phone I've owned can install apks just by opening them in the file manager. Not all Android phones allow this, but many do. On top of that many brands (asus, oneplus, even some Chinese brands) let you unlock the bootloade
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by progman32 7y ago
I see a lot of people here having success with goal-setting and gamification, but sometimes it's a struggle to come up with concrete goals. This is especially true if there's no obvious problem to solve at the moment (OK weight, g
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by progman32 7y ago
A similar fate claimed a YouTube maker and old timer, aussie50. Rest his soul if such a thing exists. The scary thing about some suicides is how "sudden" and "unexpected" they can be. I use scare quotes because I strongl
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by progman32 7y ago
https://prusaprinters.org is not gcode only. It supports all sorts of formats like STL. Personally, I will only run gcode I've generated myself on my machine, but it's a fair experiment to run. I haven't run acros
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"About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra Of course, all this is to be taken with a grain of salt :) I
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If you enjoyed this, http://apollo13realtime.org might be of interest to you as well.