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by sbarre 2y ago
I've had Wiby in my bookmarks bar for years. It's delightful, I click it at least a few times a week when I want to read something fun.
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by sbarre 2y ago
I wish this existed for international news.. It's very cool, but also very US-centric (which is totally ok, just not what I want).
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by sbarre 2y ago
100% agreed.. But I still believe that over a long enough time horizon, enshittification will take those companies down. Value extraction is by nature a limited time strategy. Most companies who choose to do this are taking advantage of
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by sbarre 2y ago
Fair enough! I see your point.. But then I would submit that this is too narrow of a view to take in a complex interconnected enterprise, and that anyone who works this way will end up more behind than ahead. I'll stand by my first
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by sbarre 2y ago
Sure, take a worse-case interpretation of my words, this is the Internet after all. We're all posting short messages here, not essays.. There is so much room for choosing to interpret each other in different ways.. So it's inevi
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by sbarre 2y ago
They have pretty small cars in Argentina...
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by sbarre 2y ago
I work at a big company now. Of course there are exceptions to the rule.. Let's reframe as "trending up" and "trending down" based on customer happiness then.. Over a long enough time horizon, and generally speaking
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by sbarre 2y ago
Yes of course there are exceptions to the rule, always.
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by sbarre 2y ago
> Yes ok great, how do you get their attention I'll tell you my own personal experience here: Go talk about it! Depending on the culture and rituals at your company: - Ask for a spot at an all-hands meeting so your team can showcase
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by sbarre 2y ago
Like everything else, writing code doesn't exist in a vacuum.. There will always be interconnected constraints and requirements, and you simply cannot "deliver a spec" and think that's all there is to it. And that has n
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by sbarre 2y ago
That's a very good question
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by sbarre 2y ago
Sadly I don't remember the name of the business, but I'm sure something like it exists.. A quick web search doesn't show anything obvious of that scale or type though.. I think what was so interesting about that place was t
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by sbarre 2y ago
Some do have fans on top of them but they don't work that well because no one wants a noisy fan blasting in the office..
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by sbarre 2y ago
Those things are fart boxes, and they get unusable by lunch time.
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by sbarre 2y ago
In 2001 (or 02?) I remember visiting a clearance warehouse like this in Ottawa during the post-dot-com-boom crash and it was where all the west-end startups and network tech companies had dumped their furniture after either going completely
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by sbarre 2y ago
Stemroller[0] has been around for a while too, it's free and based on Meta's models: 0: https://www.stemroller.com/
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by sbarre 2y ago
You are correct! It was. Thanks for the correction
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by sbarre 2y ago
Does anyone have experience with Dataquest as a learning platform? I'm looking for some self-paced learning on data science for developers.
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by sbarre 2y ago
Yeah one of the first open-source recommendation engines I ever worked with was called Voogo[1] and I believe it was based on k-means. This was back in 2008 or so? For someone who had never been exposed to any of the math behind this kind
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by sbarre 2y ago
Yeah I tend to use ease of install for community editions of hosted paid open source projects as the leading indicator of how seriously they invest in (and support) their free/community version..
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by sbarre 2y ago
Sounds like it was a hard problem!
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by sbarre 2y ago
I did a bit of digging and it seems this was generalized into CSS System Colours at some point: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color/#css-system-colors And all these old colours were deprecated: https://drafts
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by sbarre 2y ago
I don't know if anyone else remembers this but in the late 90s, Microsoft had built-in CSS named colours that matched the Windows desktop theme/colours. I have no idea if these still work (my IDE seems to say they do not, because
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by sbarre 2y ago
Insurance is always a gamble. Up to you to do your own math on the risks..
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by sbarre 2y ago
Have you tried the chat mode? The autocomplete is somewhere between annoying and underwhelming for me, but the chat is super useful. Being able to just describe what you're thinking or what you're trying to do and having a bespok
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by sbarre 2y ago
I think it depends on the stakes of what you're building. A lot of the concerns you describe make me think you work in a larger company or team and so both the organizational stakes (maintenance, future changes, tech debt, other people
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by sbarre 2y ago
Sure yeah, you can always find edge cases and arguments against a general position. I wrote a 3-line post, not an essay. Let's try again... Generally speaking kids should be learning about finance at school, not from their parents,
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by sbarre 2y ago
Not all parents are good about money.. My parents taught me things about money that turned out to be terrible advice... This is like saying "parents should teach their kids to drive".. There's a reason driving schools ex
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by sbarre 2y ago
I think this also highlights the lack of financial literacy and education that people get at a young age. So much hindsight clarity in that article. I know when I was in high school and in early adulthood I didn't understand much about
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by sbarre 2y ago
I'm calling it content because that's what it is. And it's the term that we use for it today.. I don't call it that because of Google, I call it that because that's what it's called. Language evolves. Conten

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