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by quanticle 4y ago
And yet, KDE, XFCE, even Gnome forks like MATE and Cinnamon manage to handle having loads more customization options than Gnome, despite having equivalent or inferior time and financial resources. I have very little patience for the, "
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by quanticle 4y ago
The normal annual increase, according to Meta's own plan, was on the order of 20,000,000 additional shares. The board of directors authorized the issuance of 425,000,000 additional shares for RSUs and stock grants on top of the 20,000,
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Meta authorizes the issuance of 425M shares for stock grants [pdf](say-prospectus-documents.s3.amazonaws.com)
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by quanticle 4y ago
By that logic, Windows is the best operating system. After all, there are millions of PCs out there running Windows, and the vast majority of those people don't switch.
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by quanticle 4y ago
You genuinely don't see what Gnome has to offer power users because the Gnome developers removed all the configuration and customization options that would have been helpful for power users. Gnome 2 was just as customizable as KDE. T
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by quanticle 4y ago
Valve doesn't want the Linux desktop to become mainstream. They want a viable Linux gaming ecosystem. That's a different task than ensuring that Linux is a viable alternative to Windows for the millions of HP/Dell/Leno
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by quanticle 4y ago
If they did that, then there would be no incentive for customers to choose arbitration over filing a dispute with their credit card.
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by quanticle 4y ago
The fundamental problem with Gnome is that it presumes that "the masses" (however defined) will use a GNU/Linux desktop. They will not . Insofar as the masses use Linux on the desktop it will be in the form of ChromeOS (or s
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by quanticle 4y ago
Why do you believe Prime Air is shut down, when it just started making actual drone deliveries to customers in College Station TX, and Lockeford, CA [1]? [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/amazon-beg
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by quanticle 4y ago
@dang It looks like HN's URL truncation is mangling the link in the post above. I think it's meant to go to https://is.gd/hneoxB (using a URL shortener to work around the bug), but when the full URL is posted, (
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by quanticle 4y ago
If you're coding for someone else, rather than coding for yourself, why is this a trap? It might be satisfying to deliver a hyper-optimized end product, using optimal algorithms everywhere, with everything tuned so that it delivers t
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by quanticle 4y ago
Along this theme, Hillel Wayne has a series of blog posts [1] [2] [3], where he argues that programming and engineering aren't really that far removed from each other, and, surprisingly, in some ways programming is more advanced than &
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by quanticle 4y ago
I think the perception that programmers are less attentive to failure modes than other engineers is an artifact of two things: 1. Computer programs are far more complex (and complex in a hard to analyze way) than mechanical systems 2. Progr
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by quanticle 4y ago
Steve Jobs put it more succinctly: "Real artists ship". At some point you have be very honest and ask yourself, "Do I really need to revise my outline once again before I start writing?"
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by quanticle 4y ago
I like the sentiment, but, as with all advice, moderation is key. The failure mode here is "analysis paralysis", where you get so caught up doing the preparation that you forget to actually do the work. A good example is writing.
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by quanticle 4y ago
Most big FOSS projects do have corporate sponsors, but what about their dependencies? And the dependencies of the dependencies? Eventually you end up with a situation like what you have with OpenSSL or NTP, where an obscure but important co
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by quanticle 4y ago
I presume this is the passage you're referring to: The problem is that I’m not getting much better at unprompted creative work. Observing problems and solving them, coming up with ideas and executing… those opportunities
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by quanticle 4y ago
None of those things translate into a specific word count goal. That's the thing I'm specifically pushing back on here. Word count goals for a journal or blog or some other personal writing project make no sense. If you have to fi
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by quanticle 4y ago
I disagree. One can also want to write more as an end itself, simply to become a better writer. You've contradicted yourself. Writing to become a better writer is a goal that's different than writing as an end in its
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by quanticle 4y ago
This author’s specific goal is 500 words a day. There is nothing vague about that! It's extremely vague. It's like saying, "I wish to turn a screwdriver five hundred times today." It's reasonable to as
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by quanticle 4y ago
Ryan Holiday talks about this a bit in "Success Is A Lagging Indicator" [1]. The way he puts it, "writers block" doesn't exist. What people call writer's block is a symptom of not having done enough preparation
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by quanticle 4y ago
I guess my reaction is more about the fact that writing more is an instrumental goal, rather than a terminal goal. Writing is a tool . It is not an end in itself. Saying, "I want to write more," is like saying, "I want to bu
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by quanticle 4y ago
Just for once, I'd like to see some prominent (or even not so prominent) person embark on a New Year's resolution to write less .
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But would management approve of spending time on reporting and possibly fixing design issues? Well why not because if the knowledge of the issues exists only in the head of some developers, it is not really owned by the c
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by quanticle 4y ago
Is there a difference? A decentralized protocol that can be DOS'd by a reasonably successful criminal gang isn't all that useful.
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by quanticle 4y ago
But, y'know, regardless of the environment, what does it say about your abilities that your employer didn't consider you essential? I think it depends on the company. If you're laid off from from a small or medi
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by quanticle 4y ago
From the Clipboard "User Experience Manifesto" [1]: Clipboard does not have any configuration. Note that I said "have," not "use." That's because Clipboard cleverly picks up on certain settings t
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by quanticle 4y ago
Capitalism responded to market forces and the needs of the customer. Did it? When? I can't name a single era when "capitalism" (a fuzzy term) actually responded to consumer demands in the way that the parent poster
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by quanticle 4y ago
Were these bureaucrats just waiting in the wings for an excuse to pounce with regressive policy? Yes. American culture has always been a tug of war between puritanical norms and libertine norms, and we're seeing the lates
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They are young, inexperienced and incompletely developed intellectually and emotionally. College is supposed to be the place where they can gain that experience and develop intellectually and emotionally by doing things, inclu

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