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by shantly 7y ago
The scariest thing about being a parent is that the only thing that keeps your kids from wrecking your life and running everything is that they're too short-sighted and impatient to do it. They have a lot more power than they realize—f
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by shantly 7y ago
I wondered when our first one came out and looked pretty damn good from, literally, minute one, just how powerful those my-own-kid-is-cute hormones must be. I mean even cute kids are a bit ugly for the first week or two, right? Certainly th
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by shantly 7y ago
Worth noting that the ability to indulge practically any idle curiosity ("who was that guy in that one movie again?") with almost no effort is very new . Unless you happened to have the relevant book of trivia, or maybe a good en
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by shantly 7y ago
> RSS is a fixed format and JSON not JSON isn't, but REFL.ME+JSON appears to be.
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by shantly 7y ago
Proxy them, add the key. [EDIT] damn, beaten to the punch.
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by shantly 7y ago
Gul dern, then, if you prefer.
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by shantly 7y ago
No, "got damn" is perfectly cromulent.
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by shantly 7y ago
As pointed out elsewhere by Andrew_nenakhov, we have that already—it's RSS. Or Atom. Or JSON Feed if you really must have JSON for some reason.
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by shantly 7y ago
He's really only got three other books, and only one of them's a novel, the others being a short story collection and a pair of novellas/novellettes. I read Catcher first and found it just OK. Franny and Zooey was my gate
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by shantly 7y ago
As long as companies keep expecting experience in very specific technologies (only at work—400 hours on a hobby codebase don't count for as much as 40 hours writing something at a job for determining competence in a language or framewo
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by shantly 7y ago
It mostly makes me sad that I can't come up with any good ideas, and when I do I find it's already a thing and they're charging so little I can't figure out how to even cover costs at twice the price. So there's tha
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by shantly 7y ago
If you have a good, repeatable, accurate, cheapish way to measure team output you should start a consultancy.
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by shantly 7y ago
Anyone on macOS who values battery life and system responsiveness.
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by shantly 7y ago
Preview is amazing. I’ve never used another PDF reader that didn’t make me sad every time I had to use it. It’s nice to like PDFs. Signing and moving pages between or to new PDFs are my most-used features. And it’s the best basic image vi
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by shantly 7y ago
> I checked with contractors and the recommendation was "just do it and don't complain or they'll make your project a living nightmare". > So, we did. > They still made the project a nightmare to complete. They
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by shantly 7y ago
School administration operates under a not unjustified terror of having their careers ruined if anyone successfully accuses them of "letting something happen", whether it would have been reasonable that they stop it or not. Wher
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by shantly 7y ago
Starting with kindergarten at my kids' school, they send home photos of the kids every so often during the day and also periodically have the kids post assignments they're working on (on their iPads—yes they give the kindergarte
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by shantly 7y ago
I guess the main thing I missed in my pithy assessment was the way they'll update you on "industry best practices" (=your competitor's processes that are working better than yours). So they're also a kind of mix of
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by shantly 7y ago
If google tag manager doesn't load, the links on your site do nothing.
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by shantly 7y ago
> If first past the post voting is the worst system possible, why is the US the most powerful country? Having a well-functioning system of representative democracy isn't as strongly correlated with "powerful country" as a
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by shantly 7y ago
The funny thing about consumer cloud storage is it's only useful if you aren't using all of it. Stuff just automatically showing up there is the point. If it's full, that doesn't happen.
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by shantly 7y ago
Last I checked it was looking like they would now be as "good" as Chrome, which is much worse than Safari. Hopefully that improved or will soon improve.
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by shantly 7y ago
It's basically therapy for corporate executives, delivered via powerpoint, with a healthy side of blame insurance. And yeah, it's expensive.
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by shantly 7y ago
The Witness, mentioned up-page (at time of writing—will probably stay there, given the author) is great and a bit Mystish, though with a very different sensibility re: puzzles. There's also The Talos Principle, which is kinda Myst+Port
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by shantly 7y ago
Anonymous people saying shitty things on 4chan is nothing compared to surveillance capitalism. If anyone regulates 4chan out of existence and declares victory, they’ve missed the point.
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by shantly 7y ago
Operating systems increasingly seem to be expecting an SSD. Windows is unreasonably slower on an HDD, extremely frustrating to use at all. IIRC that started with Win8, but might've been 10. Linux DEs, heading the same way. Wouldn&#x2
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> Also, checking behind you has minimal value for drivers. I think I'll keep tracking who's behind me, how close, whether anyone new has appeared, whether anyone looks likely to pass me soon, and so on, because it's sure a
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by shantly 7y ago
I once interviewed a guy who listed an academic paper on his résumé. I skimmed the paper, and asked him a soft question about it in the interview (I was just curious about some non-essential detail). He looked surprised said no-one had ever
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by shantly 7y ago
The usual counterexamples are sports player and actors' unions. Even in less glamorous areas, union doesn't always equal salary cap or salary bands or whatever. Usually their main concerns are setting a pay floor and stopping abus
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by shantly 7y ago
We were on track to retire comfortably by 55 without even trying very hard, 45-50 with some effort, without even FAANG money or any sudden jumps in income. Three kids starting just before age 30 and now retirement ever is... iffy, and it&

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