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by sonicshadow 3y ago
If a music producer starts showing you Excel spreadsheets you need to fire their ass
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I wasted too much of my time arguing that crap. This site is full of book-smart people that are not as smart as they think they are. They just happen to find a bunch of neckbeards who also haven't touched grass in the last week.
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Because this is HN and it's more important to launch definition critiques than to discuss substance ever. I think half of HN came from the horrible world of high school policy debate
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
The Agile shop I currently work for treats UML as mandatory before any code is written. Then we proceed to ignore all designs until the next time someone has to look at the design doc again
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I tried installing and using it. At the “Deploy” screen, I get stuck at “Deploying…” and then just returned to the previous screen.
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Pretty sure this whole thread is a lesson in subtle racism
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
> You’re incorrect Good argument
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
The difference is that Microsoft Excel is more important than dancing, and we won’t stop until all of humanity is subjugated to the wonders of Excel 24/7! /s
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
The difference is that a bottom 20% developer can make 6 figures after a few years of experience, while even a top 10% musician can barely make rent in a major city
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
How about the consideration that making an item less easy to service incurs more complaints? That's a metric too right?
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
So more cameras to catch you slipping up once or thinking you have the "right" to do something, when in reality you don't because it's an airport. If I miss my flight I'm more motivated to catch the next one, not te
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Clickbaity article. The question really is, why should I care about resource optimization for a tiny program when the total available resources on my computer is hundreds of millions of times greater? Now multiply that by thousands of tiny
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
This is the second time today on HN I've heard someone claim that the brain is an "interpreter". Someone even went as far as to cite Wernicke's area, followed by a sly winky face, as if they're not supposed to know
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Learning to read and write regex was one of the first things that made me feel like those programmers you see on TV reading indecipherable symbols and knowing immediately what they mean
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Seems to be the fatal flaw in capitalism. Companies will do anything to get an edge, including playing with the meta-rules of the system. They'll do anything else first before benefitting the customer
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
It must have been one of the few well-made smartphones back then. It's still hard to make a perfectly waterproof seal that last for years and is inexpensive enough to use on a smartphone. Some team has to sit around designing it, so wi
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Makes sense, given the massive security theater in the US and the fact that it's so off the beaten path of the rest of the world that most flights probably don't just "transit" through the US on the way to somewhere else
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Thank you, I was waiting for someone to clarify the word "detain". You're right this is more nefarious than an official police detention
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Because that's a premise of a fair market? I realize there are plenty of examples in other industries of companies suing their way into dominant market share, but it's a practice that's just antithetical to a free market. If
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Do you think there's a situation in an airport, of all places, where you refusing to comply with a security guard's orders goes well for you? I comply with everything an airport official says because a) I'm brown and b) I&#x2
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Another way to fix it is to accept that a better product (i.e. skiplagged) has entered the market and attempt to improve their own (shitty pricing UI). Instead they're intimidating minors.
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Not that I disagree with you but I've heard of sushi restaurants doing this
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I guess the burden of proof lies with the person writing the story, so if you want to believe it's all wrong then go ahead.
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I think some observation and a little engineering thinking makes this clear. In the early 2010s one of the biggest issues with smartphones was battery life. The packaging of the battery is limited if a requirement is to make it removable (i
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
Alright the first paragraph: > A teen traveling solo for the first time from Gainesville, Florida to Charlotte was taken to a security room by American Airlines. There he was interrogated – and forced to buy a new ticket – according to t
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I specifically referred to fraud - lying and cheating to get ahead. If you support that kind of thing then I don't really know what to tell you. That's the kind of mentality that's fucking up this world.
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I think that's exactly what they're condoning.
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I would agree that some of the companies that "faked it til they made it" don't really deserve to be around, but I wouldn't go so far as to say "fuck all those companies"
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
I would love to know of another service or product where NOT using the product results in being detained. Airlines sound more and more like a cartel than anything these days.
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by sonicshadow 3y ago
You sympathize with creating a fraudulent medical business?

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