rdiddly

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by rdiddly 6y ago
Scroll bars are a position getter and setter. Content is king, but kings have all sorts of people supporting them. In fact you can immediately tell who's the king not by how solitary and unencumbered he is but by how much clutter and
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The model aspect is a good addition, because that's one of the things that differentiates engineers from pure scientists, or mathematicians. Engineers design to the model, which in some cases may not represent reality with complete acc
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I don't mean to suggest for one minute that this is a technical problem. It's a voting-with-your-feet problem.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Look, do you use specialized knowledge or techniques to design things , to achieve or cause a specific outcome within certain limits or constraints ? Then you're doing engineering. Whether to call yourself an engineer, well i
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yeah, I was going to chime in and say "I bet Doppelganger would make more money than GlacierMD." Cynical content warning: Precisely because it's not geared toward helping others, which no one gives a shit about, and is all ab
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Edit: If you read the following as "vote with your feet" and not "go live in a tent" you will have better results. It is written: 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 "𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓶𝓮" / 𝓓𝓾𝓶𝓫 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓼 [For screen readers: They "trust me"
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Essentially our response to [every issue] has devolved into people shouting memes at one another... That is the unfortunate state of public "debate" in the US today. Questions never get settled, and as a result, very little ge
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by rdiddly 6y ago
$70K ÷ 500€ ($603) = 116 months (almost 10 years)
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by rdiddly 6y ago
If the easy part is the implementation and the hard part is convincing people of its value then I can say one or more of the following are true: - Your solution is not sufficiently great as to be self-evidently great. - People (i.e. the vic
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Well, name one error that persists despite not making the error, and you can definitely say I'm wrong. But that wasn't the point. The solution is to go to the right site. You were supposed to use your imagination to come up with w
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by rdiddly 6y ago
2FA absolutely will protect you from a phishing site using the password it stole. Not if it also steals the 2nd factor. My response would be more like "2FA is good but not for this problem." This problem is about going to the wr
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The word flattery might be useful here.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Just as often, the disillusioned are perfectly open-minded. Especially in cases where the dissent from former colleagues centers around the very issue of open-mindedness, as it does with Greenwald. In general and in this case it behooves us
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I found it a bit rambly and got annoyed at the "wow these are tough questions no one can ever answer" sentiment. Glenn Greenwald a.k.a. "the guy who helped Snowden get the word out" and could be described as a disillusio
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by rdiddly 6y ago
raises hand
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Before raising capital, ask: 1) What exactly will raising capital do for this business? What will we use the money for? And when you've answered that, ask: 2) Is it worth giving up some autonomy to get that? Many people over-value the
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I actually can't believe anyone says "etsy." If they ever do, I'm gonna be confused momentarily. And I'm not gonna follow suit, I'm gonna say E T C. If I ever get a friend. PS I also say "libe." As if
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I almost hate to say it, but the answer to your last question might lie in instituting the kind of standards, credentialing, mentorship and licensing that exist in the "real" engineering fields. Stuff that will correctly be called
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I do agree with you, but I also think an appropriate measure of skepticism should be applied to all "emergencies" as well. People do all sorts of stupid counter-productive things when they're all freaked-out and not thinking
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Well that's about as varied a pool of replies as I could want, given the question, so thanks! - my official title includes it but I don't use it, to ease the competition - use it when you're smart and fast enough to help &amp
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Ask HN: When and why did you start calling yourself a senior dev/SWE/etc.?
10 points by rdiddly 6y ago|14 comments
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Windows 10 is better for another reason, maybe an ironic one: you can easily run Linux on it without spinning up a VM!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
We would also have accepted: Duplo
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Ah yes, the so-called Metro apps. I believe they were part of the half-assed attempt by Windows 8 to work well with tablets and such.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I just started doing this, but using 30-minute blocks, and fewer categories. "Keep it simple." The goal is to make sure certain activities receive at least a minimum of attention, and others don't exceed a maximum. The rest,
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I dunno, before I try a drug I usually scan the app store to see whether it's okay! heavy sarcasm
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I love this little sub-thread. I don't know what it is about piano in particular that brings out the nail-biting. You don't seem to get that with guitar for example. What I like is that there's a lot of concern-for-others vis
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by rdiddly 6y ago
wtfhappenedin1971.com Question answered.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Treating our kids like hostile adversaries, like criminals... what could go wrong?
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by rdiddly 6y ago
This looks well done. Although I have to laugh that it exists or needs to exist. It's like a fireproof suit for venturing into a dumpster fire!

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