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by shantly 7y ago
It's batshit crazy to ask workers to "sacrifice" for their job. Unless they're co-owners. Talking 5%, minimum, of the company, and even that seems low to me to start asking for ownership-level commitment, which is to say
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by shantly 7y ago
I still can't understand why Perl is easily dismissed as "LOL line noise" but Haskell's apparently fine. At least dipping into Perl you can take on the line noise slowly so you have time to absorb each new technique, and
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by shantly 7y ago
What I kept bouncing off of was all the stupid as shit "sally sends a BUY message to Tommy's bagel shop" crap. I just needed about two to four pages worth of text & diagrams demonstrating how objects and structs are prett
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by shantly 7y ago
I wonder if, by the time we factor in all the costs of putting everything on a computer and online, securely, it's going to look like it would have been a pretty alright idea to leave most of it the way it had been in the distant pas
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by shantly 7y ago
Last I saw the favorable comparison for the upcoming performance improvements was "now uses as little battery and performs as well as Chrome"... so I'll try it—I mean I do use it pretty often anyway in short bursts—but there&
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by shantly 7y ago
Anything but Safari takes an hour or two off my laptop's battery life and harms systemwide performance more than Safari does. Yes, still. I open FF or Chrome for specific purposes then close them as fast as I can. It's bad enough
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by shantly 7y ago
Justify some exec's paycheck. "I run a 100-person department!"
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by shantly 7y ago
Experience matters (much) less than being able to survive a day or more of whiteboard algorithm questions. The other option is sliding into something development-adjacent that's paid better than developers almost everywhere except FA
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by shantly 7y ago
> I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. Purely from a commercial stance, team cohesion has a positive impact on people and product. Why do anything
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by shantly 7y ago
Haha, no problem, but it's mostly just practice. The key thing seems to be recognizing that there's anything worth picking out in a piece of art to begin with—those with little practice don't notice it anywhere, or else will
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I've had stuff freeze at the back of top shelves, never on lower ones.
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by shantly 7y ago
I favor storing chilled any produce that's chilled when sold, which includes most green vegetables, at least around here. Plus berries because I'm desperate to keep them from going moldy inside 48hrs, assuming they aren't alr
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by shantly 7y ago
Oh, yeah, to be clear I think that, given public information (you never know what secret crap's going on, same for Trump's moves, so we have to work with what we know), intervening in Syria to begin with—by which I mean encouragin
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by shantly 7y ago
I think the lack of "enforcers" of any kind throughout the episode is key to understanding it. The closest thing we really see is the Cuppliance drink. The stage hands hesitatingly start to step in near the end, but are waved off
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm (USA) left on just about any position you care to mention, and am worried more by the Kurd/Turkey thing's apparent ineptness and failure to fit any foreign policy plan whatsoever. Bumbling incompetence is less appealing t
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by shantly 7y ago
I agree with your assessment for most of "flat". Apple does it OK but there are still dialogs and such that look entirely lacking design, in the worst way. On the plus side the typical case of design along these trends looks ind
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by shantly 7y ago
I used to be able to find specific pages on the Web by googling for unusual words I expected would be used to link to them, not on the page itself, to pick an extreme example of the sort of triangulation one used to be able to use to trac
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by shantly 7y ago
If it hasn't already ID'd you by gait as you approach.
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by shantly 7y ago
Fifteen Million Merits is one of their episodes that's not about the future at all, the way I read it. More of an allegory about now (or, now in 2011, anyway).
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by shantly 7y ago
Like voice assistants, it's amazing tech—if there's some way to use it that doesn't make me a data-collection appendage of a spyvertising company. Their data collection & hoarding activity is quite dangerous and this ju
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I saw that. If they are both 1) not equivocating, and 2) if actually telling the entire truth, don't switch to Hoovering up data if/when these become widespread (gen 2, say), I'll eat my hat. Given the company we'r
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by shantly 7y ago
> Most companies are out to make as much money as possible now or in the near future. The company in the abstract, sure. Not managers and VPs and such. Not even the C-suite, necessarily, or at least they likely have other concerns in add
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by shantly 7y ago
Plus a stationary or semi-stationary version only lets them collect data from wherever you place it. Put it in phones and pretty soon you've got whatever sort of data this thing picks up from damn near every room, every street, every t
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by shantly 7y ago
Gonna require "the cloud" so they can collect free machine learning model training data and spy on us, I assume?
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by shantly 7y ago
> Do you ever start to feel alone, isolated, and mis- or not understood too? Reading literature helps. It largely deals with the big, sad themes & topics of life and existence. Yes, the "stuffy" "canon" stuff. At
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by shantly 7y ago
The quality of American produce is surprisingly mixed. For a lot of it, you've got to shop around and maybe pay a little more to get the same as baseline normal quality in large parts of Europe. I don't know why, but that's h
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by shantly 7y ago
Worst pizza I've ever had was from a shop just off the Metro at the foot of Montmartre in Paris. Just a normal pizza, no weird toppings. I managed two bites (I was very hungry or bite two would not have been attempted). Second worst wa
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by shantly 7y ago
Probably just more used to those sorts of discussions. May've been in certain clubs earlier in life, or just had the kind of friends who debate ethical hypotheticals when chilling.
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by shantly 7y ago
As in Buster Keaton's "One Week", which also features one of the greatest and most enviable marriages in all of cinema. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6ddOlbKp8
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by shantly 7y ago
The request part looks like something out of Cialdini's Persuasion . Which doesn't mean it isn't effective, mind, but it definitely sets off "someone is phrasing things like a car salesman, beware, you may be talking to

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