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by strict9 4y ago
> The only advice I can give to designers is this: try not to add to the problem. I agree with this a lot. But one difficulty in adhering to this lies in our ability to process the additional cost beyond initial implementation. It seems
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> RSS feed can't limit only to subscribers. This practice was common when RSS was popular and is still used today by newspapers and other media outlets. An individual feed provides only a snippet view of the article which encourage
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by strict9 4y ago
I still use it on a daily basis like many others. But a revival isn't dependent on the technology or the type of apps that can consume RSS. It is the lack of outlets publishing on a regular basis. Social media's grip on attention
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OK, but what I quoted was specifically advice on being an employee: >Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter. There you go And I'm saying the language/stack absolutely does matter
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They are definitely the outlier and the version of php that fb uses can barely be called php when they more or less rewrote how it works under the hood. But this isn't a dig at php, just stating chosen languages/frameworks matter
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>You are not defined by your chosen software stack: I recently asked via Twitter what young engineers wanted to know about careers. Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter. There you go.
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True. I remember a video editing class in college and we had to use the cheese grater Mac Pro render our work. I don't remember all the details but I know I didn't want to try it at home on my white MacBook. The gap between laptop
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by strict9 4y ago
Not just VW. Others including Subaru having touchscreens that have lag between press and response. Most cars I've looked at use an infotainment screen instead of push buttons for functions like climate control. This is why I'm sti
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by strict9 4y ago
It is odd how in past fraud cases (Enron, Bernie Madoff, others) the media focused on the victims and how much they lost. But this case the focus has been on philanthropy, effective altruism, and things other than fraud. Just about zero men
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by strict9 4y ago
After 10 years I still use soundcloud. It's the easiest way to find hour long mixtapes in whatever genre you like. Plenty of non-vocal electronic genres which I find useful for programming. Can filter to ones added recently and over 30
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by strict9 4y ago
> Meanwhile, the global energy crisis of the 1970s incentivized architects and engineers to design buildings that were increasingly airtight — why pay money to heat a building just to see that heat escape out a crack around a window? Tha
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Gold coins hidden in 7th Century found in wall(bbc.com)
2 points by strict9 4y ago|0 comments
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Just about any time a competitive product is swallowed up by a large company that product is left to wither for a year or so before riding off into the sunset.
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There is a solution to the problem of sending videos or collections of photos via SMS from iPhone to Android: go to a video, and click 'copy iCloud link'. Send the link to the Android user, and it's an easy process to downloa
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by strict9 4y ago
This article is interesting as a lesson, and resonates with the ways I learned about computers and technology in a rural area. But something else is happening now which is also interesting: rural broadband. As a result of actions taken by P
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by strict9 4y ago
I think it's safe to assume most anything you delete from a web app gets a deleted boolean or timestamp field set and the content persists in the database indefinitely. In my experience I've found it rare that user content is ever
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by strict9 4y ago
Yet the massive trucks that obstruct the driver's vision to pedestrians, kids on bikes, and everything else are experiencing YoY growth. The Challenger and Charger are terrible in terms of fuel efficiency but safer to people as drivers
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by strict9 4y ago
What is it about threes? - The rule of thirds for visual imagery [1] - Three-act structure for storytelling and plays [2] - Three-part setup for stand up comedy [this article] Rules for content often fall into a rule of threes, and I'd
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by strict9 4y ago
Not a surprise. When senior devs leave an org due to mismanagement or other reasons, it creates more work for those left behind. And it's become extremely difficult to find replacement for the seniors that left. Senior devs are nowhere
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by strict9 4y ago
I'm not sure which is harder to imagine: 1. Programming without google 2. Programming (a web app) without webdev tools When I first started learning development in the early 2000s, it was php, jquery, html, and css and very few search
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Inbound container volumes to the US are reverting to pre-pandemic levels(freightwaves.com)
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Flags are not the way to define a language preference. This design decision assumes 1:1 parity with flag and language which is just not true. This move makes language preferences less ambiguous or potentially less offensive and I applaud Ap
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by strict9 4y ago
FormKit (formerly VueFormulate) team is the most responsive to issues I've ever encountered. Superb documentation and easy to understand apis. If only all third-party packages/apps were as pleasant to work with as the ones put out
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by strict9 5y ago
OSINT community on twitter is best place (just search for accounts using that term). Outside of twitter this is a good start: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/
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.su(en.wikipedia.org)
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An 'Extinct' Crystal May Help Explain the Origin of Earth's Oceans(vice.com)
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Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones resigns after AL.com report on traffic trap(al.com)
41 points by strict9 5y ago|6 comments
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by strict9 5y ago
Insightful article but surprised at the recommendations. Teamwork is important, yes... but smaller task sizes should have been mentioned too. > Finally, after several weeks, the engineer shares an update, and one (or many) of the followi
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by strict9 5y ago
You misunderstood my argument. I'm not comparing NFTs to video games for ownership purposes, but it's "contribution to society." The statement that NFTs "have no societal or cultural value" has been historicall
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by strict9 5y ago
> NFTs are comically bereft of anything we would associate with social or cultural value. This subjective opinion is frequently trotted out to describe digital items that people pay money for. The arguments used in this piece can just a

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