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by rdiddly 6y ago
Don't care, sorry.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Given how overrated it is to be the smartest person in the room, on the team, etc., I would say the same!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I wonder if anybody involved knows that David Letterman did this on TV in 1984!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
As a former New Yorker the thing I can't wrap my head around is how the Post ("Headless Body in Topless Bar") is now apparently being referred to as a respectable publication.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The main thesis I'm hearing here, which I think I agree with, is that a work ought to be planned out from beginning to end, and it simply is as long as it is. But then I picture some cigar-chomper type dude who thinks it's more
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Eh, I feel like the Mandalorian can be objectively "good" though. Just in terms of, you can tell the people are talented who were assembled to work on it. There are lapses from time to time though, for sure.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Moreover, the obvious response when you see the poor company is in such distress from too many customers, is to do them a favor and stop being their darn pesky ol' service-wanting customer.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Heh, thanks, hope it helps somebody!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
For me it has to be the right kind of junk. There's junk, like in a junkyard, and then there's a toxic waste dump. Stick with the junkyard. The stronger a show's resemblance to your current reality, the more likely you'l
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by rdiddly 6y ago
If vehicles are traveling meat containers, apartments and other buildings are meat storage.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
An opportunity was missed to mention that al-Khwarizmi not only invented algebra but also is the namesake of the algorithm. Another opportunity was missed to even breathe a word about the Crusades whatsoever. Finally even I was insulted to
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Quick fix for me was to "select all" which for you might be Ctrl-A, or Command-A, or a comically annoying ordeal of long-pressing and dragging selection handles around...
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Came here to say that. If your system relies on an external system like someone's email, and that gets breached, your system has been breached. You don't get to brag that the successful attack was indirect; most of them are.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but one big problem is that there is no "adult world" on the internet. If you can't function without a school teacher and aren't ready for the "adult world," you can nonethele
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Which sadly, is what I want to tell them too!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
You can't discriminate against certain protected classes, but yes, it boggles my mind a little bit that someone could think "a corporation" is anything other than one of the most authoritarian, top-down governance structures
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It says fix "my" depression, neatly sidestepping any question of what other people should do and who's responsible for it.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Guilty as charged; if I could still edit it, I might remove the word "butthurt."
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by rdiddly 6y ago
"If we want to complain that MySQL has an utterly useless TIME datatype, and separately they really should have an INTERVAL datatype, then let's do that." Uhh, done? "The issue" is that MySQL has a TIME type that
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Reminds me of the band Fugazi who used to charge $5 admission to their shows, and if you were causing problems and asked to leave, you would be escorted out and handed an envelope with $5 in it. In other words, anyone not "comfortable
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by rdiddly 6y ago
What a great phrase - "administratively incompetent." Gonna steal that. Just the idea of administrative competence in general.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
That was my immediate first thought - maybe by 2020 the founding Boomers who rose to editorial positions have retired.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
At least they chose the heaviest & most metalish place to dispose of the ashes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiKz7r86aT8
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yeah. Summing it up in just 3 words: "Greatest for whom?"
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I love articles like this, just because I can't wait to see them satirized on n-gate.com. My favorite moment was when they said radio allows only one person to talk at once (like that's a bad thing). But yeah, how did you get from
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I wouldn't call that cynical, just a recognition that the "missing ingredients" in any plan usually turn out to be leadership, courage, compassion etc., not technology.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I'm sure it's not helping, let's put it that way. If they have, as some suggest, any ambitions toward nation-state-hood, they are proving daily that they're not cut out for it.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
All depends what you're doing, right? Is it a small stupid app with a short lifespan? Is it "just" a proof-of-concept? Is the company likely to survive long enough that technical debt matters? (oblig. HN/SV/startup
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yes, I've heard about that. Definitely important, though for the record I was talking more about things like the hundred-degree temperatures, bone-dry humidity and the unusual wind event last week (kind of like Santa Ana winds except i
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by rdiddly 6y ago
HN loves to downvote any comment about grammar & spelling, but now we see it in its proper context as a cybersecurity measure. If I'd seen "vocher" (i.e. voucher) on a big blue button I would've applied the brakes on

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