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by shantly 7y ago
Basically irrelevant on platforms other than the web—no iOS user will think you app is dated because it looks like the apps Apple makes, ditto Windows, Android, and so on—and even there I’ve seen this repeated as folk-wisdom but have never
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by shantly 7y ago
The more exposure I get to folks way “above” me in business, or riches, or whatever, the more convinced I am that very few people at any level are really much good at what they do and most of what goes on is just very serious role-playing a
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by shantly 7y ago
I know we’ve been busy declaring victory over all those old-timer print designers who’d transitioned to web & software, and hailing the rise of the “digital native” designer for like the whole past decade or so, but to me it looks like
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by shantly 7y ago
My experience is a lot of money gets burnt making designs match some on-brand design that looks awesome in mockups but is worse for the user than just using the platform default GUI widgets with maybe some light color theming. Worse if they
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by shantly 7y ago
God, if pay for all jobs were equal I'm not sure software development would even make my top 100 list of jobs I'd like to do.
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by shantly 7y ago
What's unstructured about HTML form data format?
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by shantly 7y ago
If they're trying to shame or chastise others, while being wrong, seems fair to me. Then again, I subscribe to the "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" school of dickish behavior correction. Or, to defer to the ever-wise Go
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by shantly 7y ago
I just like how lightweight they are, and (this may be silly, I know) I like how good-looking and useful the included templates are. Also they rarely crash or do anything weird, which you'd think would just be normal by now, but very m
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by shantly 7y ago
Google's the only of the big tech companies where my every interaction with their products leaves me thinking they must let the interns do everything while the presumably-brilliant FTEs eat free snacks and play Smash Brothers all day,
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by shantly 7y ago
Apple's office suite is really nice, if you're in that world. I dunno if they do collaborative editing, but Notes does, so they might. If it's gotta be in a browser—IDK, it bugs me having a document editor or spreadsheet prog
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by shantly 7y ago
Probably just fastmail. I have trouble justifying the higher expense of maybe-more-secure options like Protonmail when really 99% of my use of email is transactional stuff or (product, job) alerts or updates. I've trialed them a couple
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by shantly 7y ago
Just tried Links, doesn't work. They let you try, presumably because they like fucking with people, but then block you when you successfully log in. Time to get off my ass and switch email providers, finally. [EDIT] incidentally, is th
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by shantly 7y ago
I used an IBM Thinkpad from 2003-2008 or so, but never got used to the trackpoint despite several attempts. Was always wildly inaccurate with it. The trackpad, though a god-awful rage-generation device, was still much more usable.
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by shantly 7y ago
Personally—I think because I've seen so little of the code I've written actually live long enough to seem worth the time it took to make it, including a bunch of small-potatoes projects for huge companies that took months of my wo
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by shantly 7y ago
> I have it great; I make a 6-fig salary, I work remote full time, and never more than 40 hours. I feel guilty for complaining, but the work is just damn boring. I would rather be a janitor than code anymore. Some days I sit and just sta
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by shantly 7y ago
The thing making me want out is having to change jobs every few years not to fall way behind on current pay, and having, for interviews, to prep for a series of goddamn pop-quizzes in a high-pressure environment, which could cover material
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by shantly 7y ago
I think spending about a third of my waking hours thinking about stupid computer shit is already plenty. If an employer doesn't want to help me use some of that time to get better at what I do, I bet someone else does.
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by shantly 7y ago
Company won't help you advance your career = they don't think you can, or for some reason don't want you to = you should start interviewing elsewhere.
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by shantly 7y ago
They were total jokes at my (admittedly) second-rate-at-best state school. Most of the gen-ed courses failed to go beyond material we'd covered back in 10th grade or so. The English courses were probably the nearest to being remotely &
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by shantly 7y ago
I'd be surprised if any one of the 500ish English-language books on my shelves could be typeset entirely in ASCII without some compromises. Most are just fiction, too, and few could be characterized as "hyper specialized".
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by shantly 7y ago
I think a powerful, centralized, and stable (across transitions of power, especially) state is likely a necessary pre-requisite to focused economic development across larger kingdoms. Otherwise there's too much temptation to treat part
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by shantly 7y ago
Everything's a "double tax", but people only care sometimes, for whatever reason.
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by shantly 7y ago
> Today (2019) we are at an average of ~500KB This. Stuff like this is why the modern web feels so slow and eats absurd amounts of memory. Think how big that is in memory once it's turned into some data structure that can be queried
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by shantly 7y ago
My recent java experience is that you end up having to tune it and keep multiple versions and screw around a bunch if you’re doing more than one thing with it. Stick to Android dev and it’ll be fine after the initial config, but switch to s
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by shantly 7y ago
> On the other hand, which Early Modern countries had institutions aimed primarily at "economic development"? It's probably debatable in the cases of the Netherlands and England. IIRC Spain was the first major European cou
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by shantly 7y ago
> Maybe if they had _some_ cartographers in the maps team perhaps google would understand the importance of a having a scale shown on a map _all_ the time. Missing scale in online maps—and Google is a frequent offender—drives me fucking
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm guessing long-term unsecured debt in five to six figure amounts is ordinarily really hard for an 18- to 22-year-old to get, no matter what they're spending it on, and if they somehow manage it the interest rate would be ver
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by shantly 7y ago
Yes. Being rejected by an employer in the typical case hurts a prospective employee more than it hurts the employer doing the rejecting. I mean, look at who applies to whom and who’s usually perceived as being the stronger party in interv
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by shantly 7y ago
Why shouldn't they find a way to negotiate from a stronger position and gain a higher price for their time, if they can? Wouldn't you, negotiating a contract for your businesses services with another? Entitled's got nothing t
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by shantly 7y ago
Am I to understand that you see labor as systemically privileged under Capitalism?

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