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by sidlls 5y ago
Why on earth would I labor for free on someone’s vanity project, no matter what utility it provides otherwise? And why would a company pay a person who has already shown he or she does not value their own labor in that way?
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by sidlls 5y ago
Open source is most certainly broken, and not just due to the various financial, freedom and security issues these two articles focus on. My biggest peeve: documentation is often minimal (e.g. API docs only) or filled with useless toy examp
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by sidlls 5y ago
"once-in-a-lifetime" for an individual is more than 100 million (current US population divided into roughly 3 generations) times in aggregate over the course of a given generation (again, roughly speaking). What fraction of those
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by sidlls 5y ago
It's the "superhero" complex so many software engineers have. The dopamine hit they get when they resolve some outage or thorny bug or whatever (and the ensuing accolades from their peers) interferes with their ability to rea
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by sidlls 5y ago
The last section about generalizing the treatment is a bit underwhelming. Have they seen any evidence it can be used outside this sort of repair? What about for neuropathies, as from diabetes or surgeries? Stroke? Other dysfunctions (e.g. e
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by sidlls 5y ago
Yes, touch typing is a thing, for many people who aren't "[b]usy Wall Street types". I can still dial on an analog button phone faster than I can look up and dial a person on my iPhone, and I haven't done the former in 2
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by sidlls 5y ago
I don't see how doubling down on the ageism brings anything to the discussion. Old people aren't "only...willing to see what was there decades ago."
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by sidlls 5y ago
That's more than a little ageist. Age has little to do with it. I've worked for--and been managed by--thick-headed, egotistical 20-somethings and stodgy older folks alike. Youth who think they're forging new territory usually
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by sidlls 5y ago
Things like Matthew Shepard[1] were--and are--a thing in America. That was middle- or high-school or undergrad for some of us--times when we're exploring our sexuality and how to be in relationships. Imagine wanting to be with someone
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by sidlls 5y ago
Absurdist and dark humor have been around as long as humans have lived. They’re all around you, right now.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Well that’s too bad. I had a lot of fun trolling D&D and participating in photoshop Fridays. I remember loading that up and watching 9/11 footage set to the Benny Hill theme practically the day it happened. The forums were just bru
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by sidlls 5y ago
The programming language and any platform SDKs (like Android) are the least interesting aspect of this. The history behind any existing applications, libraries, and customized frameworks is far more important to consider. Someone who is eng
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by sidlls 5y ago
I've always been amused at this comparison. You're not wrong. We wouldn't tolerate or excuse a group of people attempting engineering based on 19th century practices. Why should we excuse software engineers (if, indeed, thei
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by sidlls 5y ago
Not understanding what the abstraction is for or what it is abstracting can be problematic when the abstraction breaks. Wrong abstractions and too much abstraction can definitely both also be very bad.
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by sidlls 5y ago
The immediate technical root cause and the true root cause (often down to poor decision making among the senior technical staff and management) are two different things, and I suspect the public and internal post-mortems both will focus
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by sidlls 5y ago
Just one million? About 6 months, as I currently earn over $2MM per year from my options alone at the company I work for thanks to their IPO. Once those dry up it's going to be a hard sell for me to stay. Maybe I'll coast for a ye
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by sidlls 5y ago
I know everyone has to start somewhere, but this just sounds like a sure way to have a platform blow up impressively.
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by sidlls 5y ago
It's been over 72 hours now.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Roblox has been around for 16 years. I would be shocked to learn that 16 years ago they planned the architecture of their system so meticulously as to account for dependencies and problems you describe for the long term future. Odds are som
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by sidlls 5y ago
Just one more reason I don't take the "engineering" part of "software engineering" seriously. Hardly surprising given the admiration of tinkering and hacking that runs through the industry.
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by sidlls 5y ago
It points to it being a serious infrastructure issue really. You don't have a hugely popular platform be dead for two days unless there is some fundamental issue with the infrastructure. Likely some stupid misconfiguration in some over
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by sidlls 5y ago
The parents birth and raise the kids to make those choices--this isn't a difficult concept to understand. "The only basis for saying that the parents deserve compensation for the kids' economic activity would assume that pare
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by sidlls 5y ago
No, it's not really a personal choice the way you mean--which essentially makes "balance" have no meaning. It's detrimental because it's unhealthy for you (c.f. consciously choosing to smoke tobacco products) and it
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by sidlls 5y ago
It means prioritizing working over one's non-work life, i.e., ignoring the "balance" in "work-life balance" in favor of doing work for someone else.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Who do you think provides the economic activity that supports our civilization? It's human beings. Who makes these things? Parents, and at great sacrifice, given how abusive and demanding employers are. Single people benefit from havin
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by sidlls 5y ago
Not to suggest it means anything, but one parent (very privileged Gen-X, male, white) to another: I sincerely admire your perspective and confidence. I really am disappointed in how so few of our peers (regardless of gender or generation) h
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by sidlls 5y ago
Raising the next generation of people who pay singeltons' salaries and make their lives possible is different from indoor rock climbing and slamming avocado toast, and relatively at least it very much is special.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Even if parents require accommodations the way you suggest, considering that we (parents) are subsidizing the lives of single people, it isn't an unfair ask. However what you suggest is the exception rather than the rule. Instead one o
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by sidlls 5y ago
It often is easier to just split up. People grow and change, and often that growth and change between two people isn't compatible.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Attractive people generally illicit more empathy and cooperation in work settings, and are generally more successful in their careers, than those of average or below average physical appearance. It's not the mark of an "incel&quot

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