skuxxlife

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by skuxxlife 7mo ago
If you see programming purely as a means to an end, then yeah, I get this perspective. But to many there is enjoyment in the _doing_ and the craft of it beyond the end result. It’s why people get into woodworking or knitting despite the fac
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by skuxxlife 1y ago
Purikura is not just taking photos of yourself in a photo booth. There is a strong cultural aspect to it, especially for school-aged girls, and I’m honestly surprised hasn’t really made it over to the US in any big way because it’s pretty f
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by skuxxlife 1y ago
Proclaiming LA as “the center of the world’s creative and cultural output” feels like a very LA opinion to have. Literally billions of people exist outside of LA, and while LA does have a lot of cultural influence generally, you might be su
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by skuxxlife 1y ago
But the process _does_ matter. That is the whole point of life. Why else are we even here if not to enjoy the process of making? It’s why people get into woodworking or knitting as hobbies. If it was just about the end result, they could ju
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by skuxxlife 1y ago
This is an extremely simplistic take that ironically ignores the human cultural context around these technologies. For one, you, like many, misunderstand the Luddite movement. They didn’t break weaving frames because they were against techn
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
My current Bosch dishwasher that I bought almost 10 years ago does almost all of this (no eco mode or self-clean, though it does have a sanitize cycle which I would guess is effectively the same) with physical buttons and a 7 segment displa
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
Part of the problem is that when ops is doing their job well, nobody notices. You get a party when the regular devs ship a big new feature, but no-one really celebrates when you have five nines of availability for the year. Personally I’m a
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
Beyond Panic, there’s even a surprisingly large community of Mac/iOS developers making their living selling “premium”software with traditional licensing models. Rogue Amoeba, Omnigroup, Flying Meat, along with a bunch of one to two per
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
The current best practice is to keep the token in memory only and store a refresh token in an HTTP-only cookie. In my experience though, if you’re only doing web-based auth and don’t _need_ to use JWTs for a specific reason, just use regula
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
Have you honestly heard any male colleague described as “too bitchy”? How did you listen to your female colleagues’ genuine experience of being unfairly labeled and come away from it thinking it was their fault? And the solution is “don’t b
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
Claims that there is no gender pay gap based on clearly biased sources irks me. So firstly, you don’t know what the NYT tech guild analysis looked like, so why assume they didn’t control for other factors? It is plausible they could have, g
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
Wow I can only imagine how unwieldy that was to use. Was it just one big list by date published or did they did they try to order by title/author/publisher? Books in Print nowadays is tens of thousands of (mostly garbage) records
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by skuxxlife 2y ago
As someone who has subscribed to Bowker’s Books in Print data for the last four years, I’d take any stats based on their data with a huge grain of salt. Bowker does issue ISBNs (and the BiP data has tens of millions of them), but they do ve
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by skuxxlife 3y ago
For US/UK/NZ/Aus/SA, ISBNs are granted through Bowker who does maintain their "Books In Print" data set that, in theory, contains metadata for all of the ISBNs they've granted. In practice though it's
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by skuxxlife 3y ago
This is super cool! I actually have been working on a new book recommendation site ( https://braincandy.com ) that has a similar-ish (but much smaller scale) visualization for book similarity. It is really interesting how certain
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by skuxxlife 3y ago
Like another commenter said, many people are willing to put up with a lot just to work in games, even in a low prestige role. Also the bar for support/QA jobs in pay and treatment is very low across pretty much every industry, so payin
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by skuxxlife 3y ago
I unfortunately also have had the experience of being pushed towards management, even though I'd say I have only slightly above average social skills. At a former job I was told I could be promoted to a senior software engineer in &quo
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by skuxxlife 3y ago
The general consensus is it is at least somewhat due to socialization and gender norms for women, which strongly encourage agreeability, friendliness, and deference to authority (at least in the western world), which are not advantageous in