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by sgustard 8y ago
To me a "script" is a piece of code that runs in response to a thing to do a thing. Either manually or automatically. Arguing that it's "basically the exact opposite" is completely non-illuminating.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Pink is a "light tint of red", not a different hue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_red
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by sgustard 8y ago
I don't know why people will happily carry a cell phone (which is a microphone attached to a transmitter, with location tracking to boot) but recoil at an Echo device in their home. Both are equally capable of surveillance, but the pho
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by sgustard 8y ago
Do you see any scenario in which a 4-way yield would be more dangerous than a 4-way stop?
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by sgustard 8y ago
I agree it's convenient for the biker, but it's confusing for cars. As a driver making a 4-way stop I see a biker approaching from the side. I know he's planning to roll through the intersection. I can either wait for him (yi
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by sgustard 8y ago
This is an interesting argument, given that my phone over the past few years has moved from passcodes to Touch ID to Face ID. Most apps and sites on my phone that want to prompt me for a password are intercepted by the OS, which generates a
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by sgustard 8y ago
Firefox 63 on Mac works fine for me on this page. Spacebar, page-down, and scrollbar all work (i.e. the content moves a page at a time but horizontally).
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by sgustard 8y ago
You concluded all this from horizontal scrolling?
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by sgustard 8y ago
This seems cynical and wrong. I've never written a line of code for the purpose of "resume padding." Trustworthy code is absolutely useful to a development team. But writing that code is HARD. Training a growing team to write
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by sgustard 8y ago
All of the reported incidents were "unwanted sexual contact" or "sexual coercion" or "sexual badgering." I would propose that asking someone on a date should be considered none of those things, unless you'
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by sgustard 8y ago
Exactly. The highest paid tech workers are certainly in sales, from an outlier perspective, when you include commissions on those million-dollar deals. The fact that the text "sale" does not even appear in the article makes the wh
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by sgustard 8y ago
Next sentence - "the average age of entrepreneurs at the time they founded their companies is 42"
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by sgustard 8y ago
It's easier for VCs to take advantage of inexperience and ambition. Most suicide bombers are young too.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Let's suppose they were lobbying to reduce the minimum wage instead. They would receive a lot of well-deserved abuse. So it seems clear they're in a no-win situation. Beyond that, it's a truism that any company lobbying for a
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by sgustard 8y ago
Or replace the table with a bowl.
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by sgustard 8y ago
I don't "know" as a viewer how ad-based business models work. In fact I generally assume that ads have to be clicked on to make money. Since I haven't clicked on an ad in years, does that make me a freeloader? I'll
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by sgustard 8y ago
When you're done hiring you've surrounded yourself with people who are good at estimating urban fenestration, but are poor listeners who blame others when they fail.
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by sgustard 8y ago
I used to love my stick shift, now I love my electric car. It has the same lack of creep and built-in engine braking.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Most people have tax withheld from their paycheck then are delighted to receive a refund the next year. I don't think that provides any meaningful awareness of how much they are really paying, any more than if the process were entirely
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by sgustard 8y ago
If your company's motto is "move fast and break things" then you can't punish the developers for bugs.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Completely agreed. I could continue by comparing it to the amount of bandwidth in a 30-minute CNN broadcast, all to read a few thousand words at me.
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by sgustard 8y ago
There's a whole "Is vs Was" discussion on the Talk page, for anyone tempted to re-litigate the matter. I'll just point out that other extinct items are often worded like "The dodo is an extinct bird..." [1] ht
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by sgustard 8y ago
Since the record player analogy was mentioned, I'll just quote the relevant entry from the Index of GEB, page 772. If the potential wonderment of the curiosities and untapped frontiers teased herein don't explode the mind of your
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by sgustard 8y ago
Tivo, based in California, is clearly in violation. https://www.tivo.com/contact-us "Please note: At this time, it is not possible to use chat to cancel" ... and same for email, leaving phone as the only option.
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by sgustard 8y ago
On the one hand, "web developers constantly moving to new frameworks" sounds like a myth. I'd suggest "periodically" instead. I've been a web developer for 20 years, and the first 19 of those years were miserab
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by sgustard 8y ago
What's the implication of this article? Is it that Google did not do user testing? Or they did user testing and found the icons work fine? Or they know labels work better, but intentionally chose to use icons anyway? "I don't
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by sgustard 8y ago
PG&E customers can already purchase 100% of their electricity from solar sources. What's the rationale to force people to generate their own solar? [1] https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/solar-and-vehic
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by sgustard 8y ago
Being an app company and not a company that gives rides is a strange rationale for investing in self-driving cars. Will the robots be considered independent actors too?
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Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s(arstechnica.com)
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by sgustard 9y ago
Some coverage from 2016: https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/05/orkut-founder-launches-he... Today's news burst seems to be that Hello has launched in India.

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