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by slingnow 5y ago
Editing your post to whine about the downvotes will surely get people to stop downvoting you. Well played.
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by slingnow 5y ago
OP made none of the claims you stated. Only that THC/psilocybin had more in common with each other than THC/stimulants.
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by slingnow 5y ago
You're right. I think we should start referring to all phenomenon that include water as "tiny drops of water" just to be safe! E.g.: Did you hear about the tiny drops of water that washed away that small coastal town?
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by slingnow 5y ago
Colloquially, no one would interpret "tiny drops" as "relative to the size of the Earth". Unless of course they were trying to defend an incorrect comment on HN.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Engineers aren't going to be able to stop anything on their own. Someone needs to FUND engineers to solve the problem. We don't magically conjure and implement global-scale solutions.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Sounds like a lot of people are fiddling with their AC settings and causing accidents.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Having the article state that you "shouldn't use it as an excuse" is probably about as effective as the surgeon generals warning on the side of a pack of cigarettes. What makes you believe that quick disclaimer would discredi
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by slingnow 5y ago
The original topic of this post is someone who is well liked by their coworkers and by the sounds of it plenty productive in the eyes of the company. So your idea that you have to conform at all costs is pretty shaky at best.
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by slingnow 5y ago
In what way is yelling at yourself to get excited going to work? How can you _really mean_ to get excited? Who on earth is in such masterful control of their emotional state that they can do this? I personally think that we've taken so
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by slingnow 5y ago
These are the types of "studies" that drive even more people to skepticism when it comes to climate change and even science in general.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Precisely. They would leave this "toxic" place behind and go somewhere they feel warm and cozy.
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by slingnow 5y ago
I think I agree with you in general, and to be fair I didn't downvote your original comment. My takeaway was that you were taking the unpopular opinion (programming is uniquely hard/creative/etc) and attempting to reinforce i
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by slingnow 5y ago
It might be thoughtful, but it is incredibly dismissive of what it takes to be creative in other disciplines, i.e. painting. It effectively reduces the work of the artist to simply the state of a canvas. As if what's on the canvas enco
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by slingnow 5y ago
It's a community of people with thoughts that sometimes differ from yours. It doesn't seem that confusing.
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by slingnow 5y ago
What would drive you to the conclusion that a complex, specialized mechanism was developed before literally the simplest solution anyone could imagine (a stick you pull on)?
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by slingnow 6y ago
Could you imagine a hiring a general contractor for your home renovation business with this sort of attitude? This person would be an instant liability. I can't imagine any instance where I would want them doing free work for me, bounc
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by slingnow 6y ago
I think you're taking a very black and white view of this. For example, ANY shop, of ANY size, is going to have issues with tricky-but-hard-to-reproduce bugs. The parent comment is highlighting the fact that they can't be sure if
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by slingnow 6y ago
Sounds like your issues are with your particular company and not with the office life in general. Life in my office is absolutely nothing like that and I don't dread the return at all. If my office were like yours I'd be job hunti
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by slingnow 6y ago
Not only did the language change significantly in 9 years, your skills as a programmer likely did as well. How can you evaluate the truth of the original statement given these factors?
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by slingnow 6y ago
No, but no one is going around making blanket statements (or in the case of the article, tweets) about how easy tennis is and how everyone can and should pursue it as a career path.
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by slingnow 6y ago
I went to the comment section looking for the first person to take issue with that statement. I wasn't disappointed. Why is it unrelated to the general thesis?
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by slingnow 6y ago
Either you're being purposely obtuse or you honestly believe the accident rate between walking and riding an electric vehicle is the same.
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by slingnow 6y ago
Yeah, it's a shame there was no one to share the most well-known way to relate words to the alphabet that likely many of the guards would already be familiar with. Had you considered they chose these words for good reason?
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by slingnow 6y ago
Except that there are millions of scientists being ignored every day in just about every field you could imagine. Being ignored doesn't make you wrong or right. It's part of being a scientist. It's in the noise. I would bet g
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by slingnow 6y ago
Move fast and break things _absolutely_ implies unsafe. It doesn't guarantee unsafe, but it most definitely implies it. The word "break" is in the phrase...
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by slingnow 6y ago
Why are you comparing advice meant for _solo projects_ to a 10 year old legacy codebase written by many different developers?
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by slingnow 6y ago
I have a hard time reading this website with the amount of text fading and/or sliding in at all times as I scroll. I immediately closed it even though the product itself was interesting. The <blink> tag was removed from HTML for
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by slingnow 6y ago
The subject stated that while he was receiving these questions, he was "dreaming that he was asleep in the lab". Isn't is just as plausible that he wasn't lucid dreaming at all, and was instead in a half-asleep, half-awa
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by slingnow 6y ago
JSON is mostly for people and not machines in that it is meant to be easily readable and editable by humans. If you wanted a something for machines you would store your data in a compressed/binary format.
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by slingnow 6y ago
If you want something human readable why limit yourself to printing the raw JSON with different indentation rules? Just write a JSON "visualizer" that does something smart with the data. Your final example is just approaching a JS

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