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by tarkin2 4y ago
I know this is sarcasm but this is the plague of the industry. It's mostly why we have poor software and why a lot of economic activity consists of adding cool new techniques one year, and then removing it again four years later.
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I find TikTok and Instagram primarily about vanity, show-boating and moral crusades than creative expression. Of course, the internet of old had those negative elements in it, but now those seem to have become the bread and butter of such n
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Because Google is the gatekeeper to what you see, and Google prioritises the boring and bland and CEO-friendly websites you see.
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Thanks. I've not read it all, but it seems like emotional exhaustion through manufactured fears, failed agency and isolation resulting in hopelessness of which a charismatic someone can take complete advantage by offering to replace th
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Thanks, it doesn't give a succinct definition, but the parts about knowing the "truth" and being under constant attack seem essential parts to "conditioning", and how such are applied to some sketchy religious sects
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He mentioned “conditioning” often made him discount his skepticism. What exactly do we mean by conditioning in these circumstances?
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I can only get the conversations working in chrome. They cut out in firefox after a few seconds.
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Yeah definitely. My comment came from my understanding of what the author wanted the union to do rather than how unions could operate. As an aside, I’m slightly skeptical about unions in the US. The US’s economic model seems to be based aro
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by tarkin2 4y ago
It sounded like unionisation was an attempt at pushing back the ills of VC funding, especially taking back some control of the company’s direction, rather than concentrating on fairer pay and working conditions. I support unions but I’m not
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If bitcoin does crash and burn a lot of money with it, and is seen as the industry of scams and empty promises, then you may be tainted, sure. Look for other jobs. It can’t hurt. And keep your skills and any side projects diverse too. Shoul
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More things to go wrong?
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The web and search seem massively broken if we need things like this. It feels like there's a massive opportunity to again make the web more person-to-person rather than corporation/advertisers-to-person.
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Framing conversations and discussions and disagreements as poison is troubling.
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Why must we use the loaded term 'toxicity'? It starts your argument with: "Those who disagree with me are poison".
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Haven't the initial designers of Go stepped back? I was under the assumption that Rob Pike, for example, wasn't overly convinced, but was happy to watch what happens.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Choose two. Try to mix them. Always be curious. But realise you only have so much time alive.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
I generally get about five interviews when I look for new jobs. There’s a recruiter/hr phase, a project manager interview, a lead dev interview, engineering lead interview and often a coding challenge. You’re talking about 6 hours per
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Power is controlled by democratic oversight
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When those requirements change, and they can very, very quickly, you need to rewrite your tests--fine if you don't mind spending that time.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Changing and newly-discovered requirements, rather than tests, drive your code.
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Google promotes advertisers. Reddit promotes shills. Popular platforms will be bought. The problem is trust vs the appeal of corruption—that is, some people will always want to deceive the masses for profit. At scale, reliable human trust o
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by tarkin2 5y ago
So a distrust of Oracle made someone more than half a billion? Those Oracle lawyers actually did create economic value then. Who would have thunk it.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
"Clean code" is just a buzzword that people use in interviews, on blogposts aimed at employers, and to make programmers believe they are good programmers, since they already bought the koolaid. If you break it down to its principl
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Chit chat shows you’re at least trying to show interest in the other person, and is thus seen as polite by many.
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Darkstar takes me back. I never knew it was from the Grateful Dead either. In the age of personality-less distributions, corporate jargon, it's nice to see random bits of Pat's tastes and personality finding themselves in server r
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Slackware was the first linux distribution I used, and it taught me everything I know about Linux; and, thanks to how low-level it is, I'd say it's taught me a lot. I think it was the last linux system I enjoyed using, too, the la
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Rather than being systemd hate, the diversity is good for the ecosystem.
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Smalltalk has the unrivaled ability to explore and change your environment graphically, and for the changes to persist. Only the web with the developer console comes close, and the changes aren't persistent. Binary image-based developm
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What's the usecase?
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by tarkin2 5y ago
Thanks, I was inspired by your post and looked at irc servers. The main problem, vis-a-vis slack, was the channel history. There are modules but they have timestamp and limit problems. And irssi in gnu screen would only work while screen is

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