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by snide 3y ago
I appreciate your comment and think it's very truthful (speaking as someone who has worked in a bunch of different environments). I think your last point though is the most important. There's still personal agency in the situation
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by snide 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing a core piece from this article, but it leaves out quite a bit of agency from the employee. I never understand pieces like this that rail against employers, but also seem to cast the employees in such a helpless light.
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by snide 3y ago
Yes! Speaking as a heavy Reddit, but non-sub user, this is exactly what would have gotten me to pay them $50 a year. Not NFTs, stickers and avatars. I think the problem is that the API concerns are more around LLMs having easy access points
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Finding My Own Voice(rogerebert.com)
2 points by snide 3y ago|0 comments
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by snide 3y ago
Just about any application in a team is going to require you to run the application locally so you can work on it. That immediately means you need to understand how to navigate your terminal, run commands and install software through packag
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by snide 3y ago
That's a lot of words. I'll counter with my own shorter list for those without the stamina. 1. Become very strong at raw CSS. 2. Learn how to use your terminal. 3. Start making "polish" PRs in whatever site / app yo
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Ben Franklin: The Thirteen Necessary Virtues(fs.blog)
2 points by snide 3y ago|0 comments
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by snide 4y ago
Have been hiring designers and developers for nearly 15 years. The easiest way around this is to just make a website that shows your work. Put up a small project on Github (even if it's a small hobby). A resume tells me nearly nothing
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by snide 4y ago
If you're nearby, I highly recommend going to California Extreme at least once in your life. There's a great collection of old Pinball and Arcade games you can play for a nominal weekend charge. It's always filled with knowle
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Show HN: We added ChatGPT to our documentation to make them fully portable(xata.io)
7 points by snide 4y ago|1 comments
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by snide 4y ago
I feel this one. Short story. I'm primarily a designer that 10 years ago decided out of boredom to use Vim. Next thing I knew I was using fish as my prompt and learning a lot more about my command line. 2 years ago I made the switch to
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by snide 4y ago
Controversial opinion: ignore it and keep building. This happened to me years ago when a Russian website copied a website I was running. We had an API that helped them get not just the design, but the data. Google is pretty smart (sometimes
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by snide 4y ago
This is solid advice. In large, technical companies you'd be surprised at the number of technical writers that aren't actually technical. Having someone that acts as a source writer, rather than as an editor for developers that ar
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by snide 4y ago
- WSL: I had to do some work on windows boxes this years and was pretty impressed I could get Arch running with my usual setup and have extremely easy communication between Windows and the Linux env. - Buku: Continues to be a fantastic litt
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by snide 4y ago
The Data grid does support virtualization. You can see it in the menu of examples. It's only the default example that does not use it.
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by snide 4y ago
I don't want to get into the drama of why this might be useful, but I used this service to delete 15,000 of my tweets over the last decade. I also want to mention that Twitter's archive service is a fantastic piece of engineering
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by snide 4y ago
I've used buku for years now. It stores everything in a simple db that can be version controlled and exported to json. I sync across multiple machines, but usually only care about bookmarks on my desktops. I search it through FZF and a
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by snide 4y ago
Hard to take credit for that as the "one", but I did work on the site as a community manager near its launch. The idea (which wasn't mine) was that in a world where digital downloads existed, there would be no one store that
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by snide 4y ago
Ha! Thanks!
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by snide 4y ago
I think that's valid. I guess then what I'd look to create is something akin to Stripe Atlas + a content delivery platform for non-profit communities. I think it's a lot easier to just say "make it non-profit" witho
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by snide 4y ago
OG founder of Giant Bomb / Comicvine / Whiskey Media here. I was also at CNET during the acquisition of Metacritic and helped build large portions of Gamespot and TV.com. I'm 10-years removed from these properties so I feel O
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by snide 4y ago
Read the entire document. There's a big section on UX and Research.
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by snide 4y ago
Read the entire document. There's a big section on research.
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by snide 4y ago
"I'm also learning Javascript" "There is nothing terribly complex about this algorithm — an understanding of basic trig is all that is required." "After a 30-year hiatus, back to writing shareware, ha ha."
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by snide 4y ago
My entire linux Desktop feels this way! It's my favorite part of working in a barebones Linux distro like Arch. I've got to build everything from the ground up. Need a screenshot program? OK... let's pull in Flameshot. Where&
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by snide 5y ago
For me because in these sort of bespoke Linux setups I've found that temp / mem usage needs to be watched for spikes a lot more than something like my Mac. I run a fairly large typescript monorepo, and when I'm also running a
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by snide 5y ago
I've shifted to Airbase for pretty much anything data sheet related. The ability to have more typical data-flow joins with an easier to manage UX that teaches folks along the way is pretty phenomenal. It grows as you need, but still re
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by snide 5y ago
I don't get the hate on Electron. Is it often bloated? Yes, sure. Has it allowed some of these excellent third party apps to make the move to Linux? Absolutely. I've been utterly surprised and excited by how much better 1Password
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by snide 5y ago
Author here. I agree with your caveat wholeheartedly. You've expressed it better than my "don't get in the way" comment. Don't take on critical path work is key. By all means fix things on the edges that are not tim
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by snide 5y ago
For those interested in dystopian works on this subject I always recommend Super Sad True Love Story[0] by Gary Shteyngart. It's a little closer to the "Her-style" near future that is a lot more mundane. What if you walked in

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