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by rdiddly 7y ago
Most books don't age well, you're correct. Which is why you should read old books. Old books that are still around today are actually the few that were good enough to keep around. The crappy books from back then have long since ag
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I liked this "my startup failed" story more than many, not least because of all the gratuitous wry allusions to SV culture.
903.
by rdiddly 7y ago
The Amazon policy seems pretty similar to ones at other companies - if you're being asked to speak as their employee, you're supposed to refer all those inquiries to the corporate PR office or what-have-you. Because talking to the
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Today I'm working on a project in which I was brought in late to rescue it, where they're extracting data from BIM software (which fits the definition of a no-code database-backed GUI app) using (low-code) MS Access and pushing it
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Ha! Well your current relationship with a bank is probably a scam too, but they're smart enough not to bleed you too quickly!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I know you probably asked yourself this, but could that call also have been a scam? I mention it because (and this is I think a good contribution to the thread) "getting upset" correlates strongly with "hiding something"
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by rdiddly 7y ago
That's why your local storage is the single source of truth, and anything you put "on the internet" is just a copy of something from there. I mean that's how you did things riiiight? No biggie if not. As someone said els
908.
by rdiddly 7y ago
In the fine tradition of debunking click-bait headlines, I would like to make a somewhat unusual entry. All parts of this headline are true. The fires are big. They generate clouds/storms. I only call attention to a mere connecting phr
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by rdiddly 7y ago
A long time ago somebody told me and I sort of agree, that the smartest people have no problem shifting between the two perspectives. I don't remember too well, but he may have even gone so far as to define or distinguish smart people
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Yeah but the beginning of any relationship with anyone who's in any way different from you, is going to be awkward. If you push through that, you start to learn and get better at relating to that person, and they do the same. If you cu
911.
by rdiddly 7y ago
Inertia seems a good metaphor too, although that too lacks a bit of the specificity you're getting at.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Nice to see the recent burst of writing activity from PG. Also nice to see people here putting it through the paces. Would expect nothing less.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
As with most things people do, it's a matter of doing it, and then justifying it afterward.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Ideally and in my fondest wishes, you're right. In practice however, I think it has become a game only people with vast sums of money can play.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I see what you did there. Is it related to Americans' love affair with the car? snort snort
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Neither is better, they're just different sides of an adversarial relationship. I think maybe the problem (and I don't know if this articulates the point well or not) is making the relationship or transaction adversarial in the fi
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Maybe if you charged them less they'd sweat the details less?
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by rdiddly 7y ago
From watching nature with a dispassionate eye, you would tend to get the idea that the meaning and purpose of life is nothing more than reproduction, i.e. making more life. Well, why would it be different for humans, other than the exquisit
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by rdiddly 7y ago
The perfect knowledge she claims to be burdened by is anything but. The actual problem here is imperfection of knowledge. What do you know, when someone tells you a glove is soft? What do you know, when they tell you it's waterproof? W
920.
by rdiddly 7y ago
"War led to the institution of slavery, especially for the women of the defeated side (defeated males were usually slaughtered) and stamped the entire female gender with the stigma attached to concubines and domestic servants. Men did
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by rdiddly 7y ago
That stood out for me too. It sounds kind of improper to the point of being illegal. Or at least, "It oughtta be illegal." Edit: Well I said that before someone dug up the context. Makes more sense that way. Still leaving this com
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Lots of databases much more secure than Excel are less user-friendly than Excel. That's a feature, not a bug.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Sometimes when you're having a hard time getting through a piece of writing, it's because the writer is so masterful, each word so rich with meaning, each turn of phrase so unusual and yet so apt, that you have to acknowledge a sh
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Not too bad either: The 2012 remarks of Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) before being sent to prison: https://eng-pussy-riot.livejournal.com/4602.html
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I would think almost every acquisition ever has been voluntary, among companies that aren't publicly traded. But we were talking about Github's/Microsoft's acquisition strategy. The companies being acquired don't dr
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Great post, although I'm a little meh on lazy-loading images. I like when the whole page is finished loading the moment I think it's finished loading. But more to the point, lazy-loading can be a crutch just like AMP is, for s
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Funny, my opinions/biases are such that on first reading, I read your comment as "We have Ring cameras" (i.e. most people in Albuquerque), and "I feel so much safer when I leave town" (i.e. away from all that survei
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Though of course it would be less than 40 hours if you spend part of it protesting your employer instead of working. Those who work from multiple locations might understand this better, independent consultants maybe best of all: Work is a
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by rdiddly 7y ago
In this case, yes, yes you can. Although note that the value flows in the other direction. We're getting Facebook content (worthless), they're getting our attention (valuable).
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Avoid the whole question of why they didn't do something; that's where the criticism is coming in, and nobody actually gives the slightest shit about that answer. Just say "Did you try...?"

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