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by smoe 6y ago
Sure, but almost all the times (I'm not specifically referring to person in the comment I'm responding to and should have been more clear on that) people were making it fundamentally an sql vs. non-sql argument. As in you need to
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by smoe 6y ago
I never understood the appeal of the JSON to SQL columns workflow. At least with the ORM(-ish) tools I worked with, it always felt much more straightforward to just change classes within the application code and automatically generate the r
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by smoe 6y ago
Sounds to me like the problem is, that the company taking out the cannon to shoot at sparrows and that nobody seem to have bothered to provide working dev environments? It feels common that people think they their every problem requires a p
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by smoe 6y ago
This reminded me, when in the beginning of my career in the mid 2000s I spent hours trying to figure out why some css did not seem to get applied in IE6 (Well trying to figure out why x didn't work in IE6 was what people were doing 30%
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by smoe 6y ago
I think we agree. As a wrote in another comment, where visual programming shines in my opinion is as a way to interact with an underlying complex system. An alternative to scripting languages. To take the Max example further. Ableton Live i
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by smoe 6y ago
It doesn't have the be 100% visual programming or not. Same as a program does not need to be entirely written in one programming language. Where I think visual programming shines is, as a way to interact with an underlying complex syst
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by smoe 6y ago
Don't think it is that simple. For example the visual programming languages for music and multimedia Max/MSP and Pure Data. While you could use them to create a stable form, they are in my opinion much more useful and interesting
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by smoe 6y ago
Ha, as a Swiss, from the Bern region, I was thinking whether this strange sounding Ovaltine has anything to do with Ovomaltine and was about to look it up. In Switzerland, Ovomaltine is among the products with highest brand recognition ever
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by smoe 6y ago
Yes I realized after posting, that most of it is probably self-censorship of Google, Facebook and co. But as I understand it public access television is quite heavily regulated in terms of profanity and nudity and you will get fined for vio
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by smoe 6y ago
I guess it is "weird" in a sense that in various places in Europe online platforms are (and have been for long time) liable for user generated content. E.g. if a Swiss news site has a comment section where users violate anti racis
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by smoe 6y ago
I think I was/am one of the students that would have benefited from more cross-pollination of topics and a mix between self direction and directions. I never enjoyed math for its own sake when I was in school and my grades where pretty
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by smoe 6y ago
From the article linked: "[...] phenomenon-based learning requires students have strong self-discipline and initiative. They also require students to be independent, focused and flexible." I'm not a teacher nor do I have chil
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by smoe 6y ago
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett
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by smoe 6y ago
Accessibility should fine if screen readers haven't changed a lot. They skip or are not even aware of display:none blocks Does the above honeypot work well with bots using headless browsers? Or is actually rendering the page not common
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by smoe 6y ago
I think we completely agree. Discussion like this, just reminded me that the "left" worldwide has somehow managed to loose huge swaths or the entire support of the working class in the last decades and are now often considered ivo
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by smoe 6y ago
Actually, one of the guiding and most famous principles of the working class movement since the mid 19th century in Europe was/is: "That the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.&
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by smoe 6y ago
I think it is important to separate different aspects of design. E.g. you can have a great user experience in terms of the users being able to fulfill tasks efficiently with an unappealing visual design, and you can have a visual design tha
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by smoe 6y ago
And did it stop because people felt bad about themselves doing so or because some people were pointing fingers at them? Look, I absolutely agree that something can be and often is immoral, unethical and "blameworthy" before it is
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by smoe 6y ago
If the law sufficiently formalizes and enforces a societies moral compass, acting under its umbrella would be, by definition, moral.
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by smoe 6y ago
I think, putting acceptable conduct above barely legal conduct for corporations is how they get away with pretty much everything. A bunch of people on internet being mad at them has in my opinion not proven very effective at changing their
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by smoe 6y ago
If you are in a position of power, why should you care whether people hate your guts? And only people that don't depend on you or that don't benefit from a good relationship with you will treat you like a monster. There is quite t
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by smoe 6y ago
I always think it is a bit odd when a company wins a case like this, but then people blame the company, not the court or the law. Not saying, that you don't disagree with the courts decisions, but I keep getting this feeling especially
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by smoe 6y ago
Seems to be this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-ru... https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-433_5h26.pdf
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by smoe 6y ago
I wouldn't put the threshold at basic necessities. There are lots of people that are just barely better of than living from paycheck to paycheck for whom it is not easy to take the risk to quit a secure job. But after you can afford ha
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by smoe 6y ago
> Is there hope for me? Yes, but you might have to adjust your expectations. It is not quite clear from your question whether your gripe is with having to apply for a junior role or that the pay is bad? If it is the former: Why do you e
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by smoe 6y ago
Looks to me like it is basically a sitemap to their website with some additional info sprinkled in. I'm not really involved much in VC so I don't know how useful and reliable that information is or how hard would be to come by oth
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by smoe 6y ago
Swiss here without a licence. I agree that a licence would be useful at times but in the 15 years I could have had one, the perceived value of it never outweighed the cost of acquisition. When I was 18 and wanted a licences, I didn't h
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by smoe 7y ago
Ha, so I learned two things about Moloch today. I didn't have that strong of an association of Moloch with big cities as it felt like when I looked it up for the above answer, so I googled a bit of its usage on news sites and it looks
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by smoe 7y ago
Interesting, newer knew the word is of biblical origin. In German the word Moloch is in somewhat common use to refer to an abstract merciless, all-consuming or all devouring power. E.g big cities might get referred to as molochs the way the
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by smoe 7y ago
I spend significant time looking for new music and exploring genres and regions new to me. I love doing that and sharing discoveries with friends. But I also think, whether music gets dull, has more to do with ones consumption behavior than

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