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by stemlord 5y ago
Important context at the end of the article: "Author's note: Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote th
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by stemlord 5y ago
>The community was mad at Doreen because they held a vote on whether to send someone to the Fox interview, and the consensus was NO. Anyway, it doesn't really matter whether Doreen stood for the original ethos or the newer sterilize
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It's the original pay to play/win gaming model, back when arcades actually had people in them. Anyway arcade is a unique genre of games often characterized by more fast paced chaotic gameplay, "infinite" levels, extra fo
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There's also rateyourmusic.com which has a forum that I always thought of as the online hub for those who enjoy having petty arguments about all things music
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That can be done with bandcamp but ironically bandcamp is the one place I'd rather pay because they are a rare platform that's actually pretty good for the artists and listeners alike.
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There is maybe 1 in 50 jobs that I'd actually want, so I imagine bulk applying to would guarantee I land something awful.
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Director of marketing after one year in the field is wild. Congrats to her.
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Well it's a net negative for the end user, which should have been the priority for everyone involved, and what you're describing sounds like a corruption of this system. So I wouldn't call it an engineering thing, it seems fa
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Well he did do the work of helping to make The Beatles what it became, so it's not entirely unfair.
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Really cool but I'm not sure what's to be gained by it being 3d? If I were to use this as a daily utility it'd happen on my phone while out and about, so I imagine all the rendering could be a critical loss of performance for
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by stemlord 5y ago
I use flickr as a member of a community that is a very niche subset of photography which still has a home there. The best thing about flickr as a user is that it's somewhat low-profile these days. However there are numerous aspects of
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There likely won't be more to the lives of those in deep loan debt after receiving a visual arts degree, except that their jobs may be less than solid
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I care. I've grown very embittered by big tech I want people to continue call out their bs.
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I just had the opposite happen to me where I asked for a raise and my manager asks if I've considered annual inflation compensation. It was both funny and depressing
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Nice. Lisbon is also notable for its staircases.
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Uber and Lyft are both far more expensive than yellow cabs ever were in NYC, and it's now usually very difficult to hail a yellow cab. I'd say Uber royally fucked up that system.
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It completely bears resemblance to the proposed final product, no? Market validation or tech validation, both different things to prototype for.
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This is called a prototype
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Neither your very strict, seemingly religious-based and ethically dubious idea of an "upstanding citizen", nor anyone else's, should ever justify someone's reputation being irreparably compromised by a professional phone
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Anyone else remember digitalblasphemy.com? Good times
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I feel like people don't care because they expect the experts in that domain to care for them... that's us, probably.
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The form factor and noise cancelling aspects of the airpod have nothing to do with it being wireless though. Wired phones could have those things too.
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Same here, so many of us have been eagerly waiting for this bs to unfurl for a very long time now.
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>as a meme or to bully / pile-on It was an effective form of harmless electronic civil disobedience, a simple and albeit entertaining but still meaningful message of solidarity from the masses to a corporate entity.
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I just spent the last couple days on a business trip, trying to do dev work while mobile and even though I have all the latest, common tech it's still death by a thousand cuts. If I'd be doing this kind of thing with obscure dist
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Right, many seem to have forgotten that Getty Images exists and is still probably more foolproof than NFTs at regulating ownership, at least in the commercial space
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The tech industry has been gleefully imitating scifi horror for a while now
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Hey I recognize that metro station https://www.discogs.com/master/6164-Convextion-Convextion :D
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I remember borrowing my sibling's iBook G4 battery while sitting at the airport back in the day. You'd just push the grey button on the bottom face and it popped out.
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>you need to have a constant evolving product in todays market Isn't this a self-fulfilling prophecy? Only needed because everyone thinks it's needed. I bet at this point "our shit just works and we won't change it un

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