randomtwiddler

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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
They are excluded by the fact that we have minimum wages. That provides a lower bar to the required value an employee creates. As we raise this lower bar, we exclude more and more people, generally in this lower intelligence bracket. I ha
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
> For a SW person, heck, there is always something that must be mastered, and pronto. Unless a SW person can kick back and write COBOL all day, there is much more to learn and apply to problem solutions. SW is fundamentally more demandin
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
I've noticed that often in sports, it's the guy who reacts to a foul that gets called instead of the cool, collected, nefarious originator. What movements/teachings/oppressions in society are causing the pressure that re
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
The notable difference is that historically the ownership of the outlets was widely varied. Now it is consolidated under the control of very few. That doesn't seem like a positive change to me.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
There has been growing violence and intolerance. Ignoring the issues on your own side to blame the other is part of the polarization. Such positions are symptoms of what is coming.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
I'm, unfortunately, familiar with hospitals. It's not as bad as you claim here, that anecdote seems wildly wrong. What does happen is the hospital bills you $50 for what amounts to a bottle of Tylenol. The insurance provider say
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
There is also an individual or plan maximum, beyond which they cover zero.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
> You're subtly conflating "native app" vs "app" by using slightly different terminology. For the purposes of being exact, I'll assume you mean "app" - regardless if it's a hybrid with a webvi
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
> This doesn't explain why PWAs are still a rarity on Android though. You'd think that the ability to target both desktop (web) and Android (web/PWA) would've attracted more developer interest. I can only guess, PWAs
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
> The majority of traffic is mobile and apps still rule that platform due to both a superior experience and better interfaces. There is no evidence of your second claim in the link. Only that mobile, as a platform, is more popular than
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
I'm very senior these days. Most of my job appears to be unsticking people. But even I get stuck plenty, and while I can quickly unstick most problems the other devs face I can't solve all of them. Getting stuck still happens.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
The web browser is the least closed most open distribution for software services ever. Anyone anywhere can publish and billions can access it without numerous gate keepers in the way. It isn't the only solution out there. You can pub
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
We looked for a xamarin dev last year and couldn't find one. I'm not surprised listings are awkward.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
The general definition is, theft is when nobody is home. Theft is to steal stealthily without the owner the wiser. Robbery is to steal under threat of force. Give me your wallet or I break your knee caps. That's a robbery. You don&#
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
4 hour technical assessment is a bit heavy after I've already invested 1.5 hours into the process.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
> I wonder how anyone can question this. Some developers and teams don't need the crutches. Type systems are also an encumbrance that comes with a non zero amount of issues. They slow development velocity down for a theoretical tr
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
1) That's a totally different number... Apples and oranges. Conversation in this case is getting an icon on the users phone as opposed to sale. Mobile stores have really really low conversion rates. 2) Assumes facts not in evidence.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
Ahh yes, the infamous Facebook failure. Anyone can write a bad app. That's not necessarily a technology failure. But it's easier to blame the tech than to admit they did something badly. Everyone wants web apps to help sell har
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
I'm curious, how does adding notifications effect security negatively exactly? Performance? All this functionality is already available for apps including the security model. Nothing new is happening here. App security is an issue,
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
Also need to add, no big tech gatekeepers. Probably the biggest boon.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
Why does a native app have to be better than a web app? Quite the assumption. The snark keeps me from even wanting to engage you...
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
The "browsers aren't operating systems" ship has sailed long ago, exhibit a: electron apps. Think of it this way. When feature parity of browser sandbox closes on everything a desktop app might want, you no longer need to bu
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
Kind of a narrow view. Not all of us who want this are building messaging apps.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
Pricing is different for large customers, they can get special discounted rates. For the small guys, that's the ballpark as I understand it also. And I agree with you. That's the #1 item when building online infrastructure.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
Good examples. We still struggle with all of them as a society. Porn is arguably more impactful than all of them with it's ability to destroy marriages.
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
There is a lot of money in porn. A lot of motivation to attempt to carve out an innocent seeming narrative. I was addicted to porn for decades. I didn't always look or watch it but it was tied to lust which I fed and fed. Crawling ou
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
BTW, nice to have these kinds of pro and con conversations about random tech. I don't get it at work as much as I'd like. A lot of open source projects die when their corporate investor closes shop. The community is often just d
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
Google doesn't have a track record of long term support for their projects. They readily cancel them when they want to. I would hate to invest precious years into tech and apps to have the rug pulled out from under me because flutter
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
It's interesting how you can look down on front end for being new and naive while suggesting that Google is a fine reliable tech stack provider. I'm the opposite of everything about this post. A very experienced dev (>20 years
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by randomtwiddler 4y ago
It helps to identify the useful parts from the destructive parts of the philosophy. Hard work and effort is good and helpful for the individual and society. Pride, which can be an artifact of such work, is harmful to the individual and soci

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