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by robbyking 5y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I first moved to San Francisco in 1998 for reasons unrelated to tech, and despite becoming a software engineer I cheered the effect the dotcom crash had on the city. The people who made the city great were being forc
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by robbyking 5y ago
Absolutely! I wasn't into building with Lego growing up, but my 5yo is and we often go to an aftermarket Lego store to buy bricks in bulk that aren't part of a specific kit.
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by robbyking 5y ago
My team was ride or die with (pre-Macromedia) HomeSite! Oh God and MS Visual Source Safe.
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by robbyking 5y ago
The comments on this page are very clearly divided between people who at the time were professional web developers and people who were teen code explorers, and I love them both. I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for that time in my li
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by robbyking 5y ago
Ours was called 0.gif
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by robbyking 5y ago
I loved when I figured out I could get rid of the underline and add a dashed or dotted bottom border instead, it looked so cutting edge at the time.
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by robbyking 5y ago
I recently came across an image I wasn't able to download using dev tools and was shocked. I wish I had had the time to figure it out.
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by robbyking 5y ago
I worked at homeshark.com (later rebranded iown.com) in the 90's, and we absolutely did the spacer gif trick to size our tables.
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by robbyking 5y ago
I very very rarely watch TV, but when I do it's usually on my phone. I don't have a television, so when my wife and I watch a movie together it's on our laptop, but when I'm by myself I prefer my phone.
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by robbyking 5y ago
As a songwriter I really suffer from analysis paralysis, and what kinda helped me was to write a song a day for a month. I'm still not a prolific song writer by any means, but it helped me learn that perfect is the enemy of good enou
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by robbyking 5y ago
Absolutely. I work at a well known tech company, and when we give potential candidates coding tests we give them the option to code in any language they'd like (including pseudo-code), and to use Google if they can't remember the
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by robbyking 5y ago
Objectively they do - they rolled back years of minimalist design on the new MBP: thicker body, more ports, HDMI, card reader, etc.
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by robbyking 5y ago
I recently picked up a copy of a magazine from a Little Free Library and ended up reading it cover to cover. It made me wonder if someone younger than me (I'm right on the line between GenX and Millennial) would have the same experienc
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by robbyking 5y ago
Absolutely. Most engineers who work with sensitive data already know that there are tiers of data sensitivity (Public, Personal, Private), and that info like SSN and CCN are more private than, say, gender or marital status.
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by robbyking 5y ago
If I were given a 15% chance of survival (at best) where the most I could hope for was having a poor quality of life, I wouldn't be interested either. Even it at 2:1 it'd be a tough decision for me.
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by robbyking 5y ago
It's the year of the Linux desktop!
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by robbyking 5y ago
> I intentionally decide the kinds of BS that I'm willing to subject myself to This was my experience, too. My father used to playfully needle me about our political differences, but after 2016 it was difficult to discuss anything
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by robbyking 5y ago
There's a setting in Slack to disable this! Settings -> Messages & Media -> Convert my typed emoticons to emoji
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by robbyking 5y ago
Thanks! Small world!
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by robbyking 5y ago
In my opinion, this is absolutely the right way to go. I know it's a completely different field, but I moderate a fairly large mountain biking forum, and I often have to remove comments that recommend techniques that could result in in
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by robbyking 5y ago
I may be being a little more optimistic than some other people here, but I agree with you. There's a history of larger companies acquiring smaller ones only to ruin them (ahem, Yahoo), so hopefully Prosus understands what makes Stack O
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by robbyking 5y ago
One of my biggest complaints about Firefox is how much work I have to do in my userChrome.css to make it look nice. My current one is almost 400 lines and it's mostly adding separators/element padding, changing border radiuses and
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by robbyking 5y ago
I was in a similar situation with email. In 2005 or so I was migrating to new computer when I found a directory of photos I forgot to back up. Rather than burn them to DVD or upload them to my domain, I decided to just email them to myself.
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by robbyking 5y ago
I sometimes prefer subtle product placement. It looks weird when a character asks for a "beer" at a bar or a "pack of cigarettes" at a bodega. It would feel much more natural they just asked for a pack of Camels.
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by robbyking 5y ago
This is really interesting! I did the test you linked, and for all but one I picked the lowest bitrate version. I'm using WH-1000XM3 headphones and am a lifelong musician with pretty mild tinnitus.
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by robbyking 5y ago
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by robbyking 5y ago
> These policies drive users to very predictable passwords I used to do a lot of contract work for the Clarke County School District in Athens, GA. For "security" reasons they weren't able to create domain accounts for p
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by robbyking 5y ago
I moderate a reddit community with ~200k subscribers, and I really wish I could disable downvoting. Automod takes care of most posts that violate our community rules, and I usually catch the ones that slip past within an hour or so. On the
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by robbyking 6y ago
"They need to do way instain mother who kill their babbys." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-i...
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by robbyking 6y ago
> I think they suffer from that same phenomenon that makes cities on a whole, less friendly than smaller towns and communities. There is data that shows the opposite is true[1]. While the pace of life is faster in urban areas -- which ma

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