shruubi

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by shruubi 5y ago
I never really got into Twitter. I could never understand the point of posts limited to 140 characters and my severe lack of self esteem means I live my life believing that nothing I say is worth hearing or in any way remotely interesting.
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by shruubi 5y ago
Sort of, it's a space where someone who is trained to help you can do so. And I'll admit that it may be a case of I'm not understanding the details of what the original article was meaning, but I read it as "support netw
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by shruubi 5y ago
From the perspective of a straight white man who constantly deals with severe mental health issues, I don't want some kind of space or forum to have my issues heard. I recognise that my thought process that leads me to conclude that pr
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by shruubi 5y ago
As someone who has worked in a lot of languages and now works in PHP, I think that while PHP still has some of the same warts it did in the old days, I am also understanding that given PHP is, for better or worse, a fundamental piece of web
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by shruubi 5y ago
Looking at the comparison examples between TOML and YAML/NestedText, I fail to see how anyone can look at the YAML/NestedText and think "yeah, this is way easier to read and reason about than TOML". I'm not even a R
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by shruubi 5y ago
If the company can afford to offer competitive and attractive salaries to its employees, why would they offer equity? If I am a business owner and can afford to pay my staff well, why would I give up a portion of my company to the employees
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by shruubi 5y ago
I don't use twitter, in fact, I deleted my account and created a new, blank account in case I got sent anything on Twitter. Twitter is, to me an ugly place dominated by cliques with everyone else trying to shout the loudest in the hope
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by shruubi 5y ago
Beyond cryptocurrency, how many other applications have either been built around or shifted to primarily function off of blockchain? This isn't meant as a gotcha question, but it is something that I can honestly say I can't think
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by shruubi 5y ago
This exact situation has been something I have wondered about for a while (what would happen if a professional athlete just flat out refused to engage with the media) and I think it's fascinating that an athlete is being punished becau
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by shruubi 5y ago
Maybe I'm being overly negative and conspiratorial, but with all the stuff Elon Musk has done around Dogecoin and the amount of effort he has put into pumping it up makes me wonder if this was some kind of ploy to devalue Bitcoin. I al
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by shruubi 5y ago
As a fellow Australian I have to agree with some of my fellow countrymen when they say that compared to the US, our tech industry is much more conservative and focused on banking, insurance and real-estate. From my perspective, we have a nu
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by shruubi 5y ago
Less than two months ago NASA landed a rover on Mars which is powered by Linux. I struggle to see how git (as important as it has been), can really do better than that. And sure, Rust is great. It's lowered the barrier-of-entry to syst
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by shruubi 6y ago
I'm amused by certain "big names" coming in and responding with arguments about how front-end wasn't that great back when either. This idea that modern front-end has failed is not some absolute statement that means that
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by shruubi 6y ago
So, after reading all this (and boy, I understand it's to provide context, but it is a slog), my general takeaway is that Donald was making good and accurate points, but perhaps for this audience probably should have considered and mea
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by shruubi 6y ago
I've more or less removed Twitter from my life. From my perspective, Twitter turns people into the worst versions of themselves and in some ways has gamified social interaction to the point of making toxic behaviour and witch hunts the
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by shruubi 6y ago
I'm glad that Facebook is standing its ground compared to Google, who ended up capitulating to Murdoch's sock-puppet government. For those who are outside Australia, it bears mentioning that Murdoch-owned media in Australia by far
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by shruubi 6y ago
It reads to me as though Google blinked. I'm sure somewhere, Rupert Murdoch is popping champagne bottles paid for by his ever increasing media in the Australian media bubble.
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by shruubi 6y ago
Everything makes sense if you go into a job with the mindset you are not a human being, but rather a tool that the company has to give cursory maintenance to, to ensure that you don't break down. HR is just the department that oversee&
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by shruubi 6y ago
I honestly thought when they said "rising stars" they meant new, awesome projects. Instead it's the same old stuff everyone knows ranked on a metric that is tenuous at best.
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by shruubi 6y ago
Some part of me feels like a ban on social media during an election period is not all that bad. The US has proven to the entire world that people can't be trusted to act civilised and honestly discuss issues, and that lack of trust ext
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by shruubi 6y ago
I appreciate my loneliness. For me, even though I feel bad, that feeling of loneliness has become my normal and it feels like I'm in my "safe space".
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by shruubi 6y ago
I agree, and this leads into a wider point about political discourse in the modern era. To me, as a person who doesn't live in America, the US has gone absolutely crazy over this idea that policy doesn't matter so long as a person
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by shruubi 6y ago
As someone who lives outside America, the obvious answer to me is unless your product is directly related to politics, a company as an entity should have no public stance on politics. From the outside looking in, American politics has long
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by shruubi 6y ago
I've always thought the struggle of people not wanting to pay for software or expecting you to go out of your way for free comes primarily from the fact that for things like software (but this also applies to art) there is no physical
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by shruubi 6y ago
"Does Coinbase just stand for making a profit? No, we stand for accomplishing the mission and for creating a great place to work." My god, you're a business, you're entire existence is predicated on making a profit, don&
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by shruubi 6y ago
How can this claim to be "all over the world" when your examples are "Los Angeles, Baltimore, Portland, Minneapolis, and London." Last I counted, four of those five are in the same country. The world does not begin and e
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by shruubi 6y ago
To fully understand this, it would be a good idea to understand the degree of influence that the Murdoch media has on the Australian landscape. Murdoch media owns the vast majority of newspapers across Australia and is also more or less the
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by shruubi 6y ago
I make a deliberate effort to not involve myself in any communities, either online or in person. Social communities from my experience are nothing more than a small group of people, or even a single person using the community for their own
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by shruubi 6y ago
The big thing for me was discovering JetBrains products and how much care and thought is taken in building a product that provides the right tools when you need it.
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by shruubi 6y ago
I've tried blogging in the past, but have since given up on it. I found that I was putting in a lot of time and effort to have my work read by maybe 3-5 people and came to the conclusion that I had nothing interesting or worthwhile to

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