silveroriole

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by silveroriole 6y ago
You don’t need product adverts for ‘ethical’ functions 1 and 2. Honest aggregators and reviewers which the buyer can seek out when they need something would fulfil that. I think that would also be much more convenient for the buyer (though
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by silveroriole 6y ago
But does it really help communications, or does it just make people less anxious? When two communication styles conflict, this ‘blunt’ writer says to a less blunt coworker: “I told her I wouldn’t want her to change her communication style t
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by silveroriole 6y ago
And the female octopus. So intelligent, but after they reproduce they stop eating and die. (Apparently they sometimes eat their mate beforehand, which I didn’t know until now). It seems like such a waste. I count myself lucky that humans do
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by silveroriole 6y ago
And if the calorie count upthread is right, that’s 4550 calories per day purely from potato, not counting any added butter, milk, beans, meat etc! I know people did more manual labour back then, but something seems wrong with that figure.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I’d say rather that they’re coupled to the behaviour of the object.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Hmm, if I’m having to write tests for my tests, I feel something has gone wrong in my life ;)
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Yes, good point, that’s true. Personally, I know it’s not the ‘right’ ethos, but I see the mock test failure as a bit of a bonus. My change intended to stop calling ReadOne and start calling ReadMultiple. Having to change the test sure tell
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Mocks are essentially just “calling this function on the mock object during this test returns this result”, though, right? At least, the ones I write are. No state, no logic, no real ‘behaviour’. As soon as you introduce a fake that really
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by silveroriole 6y ago
The fatal flaw is that you’re really introducing a new class which may have its own behaviour problems. Now your test is implicitly testing the test class. I also prefer to see explicit mocking than just trust that the fake does what it say
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by silveroriole 6y ago
What’s so bad about bubble tea? Never had it, but I thought it was just iced tea with some starch in.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Speaking of UK/Europe, the cookie notice on this site (one of those “if you continue to use this site...” ones) should be changed. Because it’s annoying and a dodge, but also because “This does not represent valid consent, even if the
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I think these accounts are ridiculous and counterproductive. However, they’re obviously different from the type of content that the woman in this article posted. The conflation of the two is part of the problem; this woman cannot show her f
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Sorry for sniping your reply with an edit. Part of why I don’t like people asking what I was typing - I’m a compulsive redrafter of posts!
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I don’t mind this behaviour. It can be difficult to coordinate when you don’t know whether the other person is done yet or not. Back in the old days we used to, as the end of the article says, send lots of little bits of text to deal with t
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Yeah, mine will show an entire section for Scottish romance novels (huh??) but won’t have the classic title I’m searching for. Internet Archive almost always has at least one copy of what I’m looking for, so I don’t bother with Libby much (
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Wouldn’t go as far as ‘garbage’ but they do tend to be filled with soy and grains, which far more people will be allergic/intolerant to than meat.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Your figures are obviously wrong... tax is not 40% over your entire earnings and VAT is not taken from your salary. So this “omg, government take 75% of my earnings!” thing is alarmist. e: in fact if you earn 80k and spend ALL your takehome
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by silveroriole 6y ago
As the page says, this would affect 4% of people in the country. Seems like an issue HN will assign disproportionate importance to but would not really have been a decisive issue for the country.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
But also the biggest party membership in a long time, the Tories quietly ‘adopting’ some of their policies post-election, the derided free internet idea seeming weirdly prescient when Covid hit, the number of people who voted Tory to ‘get B
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Try Cornwall to Newcastle by train, more like 9-10 hours :) If I still have to pick remote jobs by which ones are close to my physical location, or pick my living area based on where jobs are, I don’t feel like the promise of remote work is
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I’m in the UK which is objectively tiny, but going from the south to the north wouldn’t be a day trip. And if you basically spend 1 day travelling up, 1 day doing whatever team guff the company wants you to do, and 1 day going back (i.e. ~2
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by silveroriole 6y ago
These “remote but actually not” jobs are my pet hate. They clog up remote job listings and can never offer an actual reason why the employee must appear in person every week/month/quarter. It’s the worst of all possible worlds! No
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. It’s interesting and goes some way towards explaining why everyone I’ve met who extols the benefits of meditation is just as prone to mistakes, ineptitude, emotional reactions, pissing people off, etc as everyone el
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by silveroriole 6y ago
The conflation of administration and leadership is a really good way to put it. I’m frequently amazed that people who seem to be doing the work of a secretary are actually highly-paid “managers”.
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I see your point, but I personally hate the time wasted on phatic meandering like “... unless anyone disagrees”, “hmm, what if...” etc. I’d much rather people concisely said things they were quite sure of. Plus, it’s hard to disagree with p
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by silveroriole 6y ago
I wish people would just use text more instead. I agree that video conferencing calls are hard and people overlap a lot - but the bigger issue is that most of what people say in meetings is pointless! Maybe it’s just me, but I find it impos
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Isn’t the clue in the name? :) I feel like it’s almost a mind trick. Ask anyone off the street what the difference is between a queue of people and a stack of plates, and they’d get the right answer pretty quick - but ask a tech person in a
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Out of poverty, but probably not into the incredible wealth that American software work can generate. For example, see the commenter saying their house is paid off and they can live off passive income. I’m not in a third world country so I
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by silveroriole 6y ago
Sorry for the harsh feedback. As a new starter, I’d expect you to be making it clear how you’re useful to me - not the other way around! It seems fairly clear that your motives are self-directed (how can I connect to talented people? What
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by silveroriole 6y ago
You joined as an engineer, not a manager. Why are you asking people how you can help with their challenges when it’s very unlikely you have the power to do so? I’d find this entire email process very bizarre, demanding and power-seeking (yo

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