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by rabidrat 6y ago
The whole discussion was about how 'expensive' this particular software was, at $4/mo. $4 is the price of a cup of coffee. If the software makes you more productive than one cup of coffee per month would, then it seems lik
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Do you create/release/maintain any free software? Or do you just feel entitled to have all the software that individual people do create for free?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
What kinds of habits or practices have you found that help with this?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
How tall are you? Do the monitor and the keyboard sit on the same surface? Do you disassemble your setup and take the top table off and reassaemble it when you want to sit at the table?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I hear what you're saying but you can't tell someone's day-to-day soft skills from an interview. They're either on their best behavior or nervous and/or trying to impress you with their skills within a limited time
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I'm 45 and have been working in the evenings at this "perfectly fine" desk and chair for 20 years now. However, it turns out that 12 hours a day this "perfectly fine" setup is already aggravating previously-identif
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by rabidrat 6y ago
"exclusively for business" is the hard part. Unless you've chosen your home to include that dedicated work room. it's going to be difficult to have a room that you're not using for non-business.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I just bought a sit/stand desk, and an ergonomic chair. That's $2k+ I've paid directly for equipment that was previously provided. In addition, our utility bills have risen about 50% as now we're at home for 8 hours mor
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but in this industry which has exponential growth, the number of people in it doubles every 5 years, I think. So if you've been working 20 years, there are now 16x as many people as when you started...so yo
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Up or out, amirite? Likewise, if they've spent 20 years in industry and haven't saved enough to retire, what have they been doing? There's a lot of growth that can happen in 20 years that will be invisible to you in an inter
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by rabidrat 6y ago
This is not a "foreigner" or "broken English" problem. I agree with the parent that this was a low-effort post. No details were included, neither emotional nor technical nor interests.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I just gave this a 15-minute try. Their overall design and marketing is pretty good and hooked me into seeing if I could give it a go. $300 Lifetime isn't too bad either. - the initial tutorials are video-only, and the videos have a
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Pretty sure it's a joke straight from r/outside :)
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by rabidrat 6y ago
That's not how it works, at least not in 2009. If you don't have enough equity, the bank is not interested in letting you short-sell your house and thus won't approve it (they would rather you default on the loan!) People w
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by rabidrat 6y ago
IANAL but UI design is not copyrightable. Also let them send you a C&D and then you can get the internet to send MSFT some online hate, which would be a much more effective fuck-you than keeping your project hidden out of fear of their
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by rabidrat 6y ago
This word does exist (though not with the given definition): backtick back·tick an act of greeting or greeting someone or something with a quick facial tick "we were greeted with a backtick"
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by rabidrat 6y ago
How do you get people to read things? I've also written plenty into the void, and have no idea how to get people to actually read things (without being a jerk about it, which is not the culture I want to shape).
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The expression "all but" means "almost but not quite".
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Of course, there have always been bad businesses. The difference between pre-1970 and now, is that we've not only socially legitimized the maximization of profit, we've also all but legally mandated it. Now even "decent&quo
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Pre-1970 or so. Before Milton Friedman, there was a general sense that companies existed to fulfill some mission, with profit as a means. The CEO of Kellogg commented on this in an interview ca. 1980, that money for a business is like a g
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Seems like it only takes a few minutes...did you try it? How did it affect the headache?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> spend the other 8-10 hours a day doing things you actually like to do How many hours are in your day? I don't even have kids and I don't even have 4 hours in a workday doing things I actually like to do.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
It's a reference to a scene from Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FSV8w1UoZA
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I did a project back in 2013 that made unikernels for really old games. One was a bare-metal z-machine interpreter to instantly bootup interactive fiction game. Another was a Linux+C64 emulator+modded game (one of the first graphical adve
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Modern video games are a focus hack that works within the game but does not translate to non-dopamine activities. Meditation would be cleaner, but if you want a game for focus, I would suggest Go (the classic board game). Moreso than I th
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The key word is "attempt". It is observably a poor result, but nevertheless the intent is there (among other intents).
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Who installed the CDC leadership and gutted their budget? It's easy to foist the blame on some faceless TLA govt org without digging just one level deeper to figure out how the gross incompetence was able to manifest.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
This was published in April 2020, but I'm guessing it wasn't written in the last month: > Spend as much time in person with your prospects as possible. That means demos, as well as conferences, dinners, coffee, whatever you ca
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by rabidrat 7y ago
yeah they get 31*4, but they can only make it 17 days with that. I doubt I could make it even 17 days with only $127.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
"An economy" is not the same as "the" economy. It seems like it should be possible for an economy to be able to contribute to the welfare of society as a whole, and most individuals within that society. However, "

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