thisisweirdok

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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
AWS? The dude literally owns one of the largest web services on the planet.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Hah, you think that's bad just look at all the sites that use Hotjar. Some entry-level UX person at thousands of companies can see you typing in all your credit card data.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Sounds simple in theory, but try it. What people need is vastly different from what they want. It's a sea of people who want complexity for $100. They just go to fiverr and get someone to throw together hacky shit templates.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
We're talking about entry-level folks here, not devs
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
World's richest man uses Medium to post an article? OK.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
>Why isn't the entry point <Ctrl-shift-c> into devTools, for example? Open dev tools in any major web platform like Facebook and you'll have your answer. The DOM of many major sites is increasingly less readable to humans
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
You would be incredibly hard-pressed to find a long-term job that only wants HTML and CSS skills without a huge additional career-level skill like visual design or various JavaScript frameworks. It's doable if you're freelancing,
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
You can easily get banned for simply posting something in the wrong place.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
That's why I called it a favor. You only get so many favors before you've burned through trust. Then you're cut off. An employer who burns through trust with their employee is going to perpetually have staffing issues.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
As soon as people start rolling out "free speech" in a conversation about business policy the entire conversation is lost. Free speech does not apply to private business. Enforcing free speech to a private business is closer to a
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I think this stance tends to be too harsh. The company isn't your friend, but people can be. I've done personal favors for employers that have helped my career in major ways.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Just because someone's an asshole doesn't mean they're autistic. I've read the book and had a visceral reaction to it personally. It is called "How to win friends and influence people" after all. Seems to b
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
The Dale Carnegie comparison threw up a red flag for me because that book is all manipulation. I have an ex-friend who read it and swears by it, but she's just become completely insufferable and fake. It's like she's constant
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Business has one number they want to increase: app usage (easier to track users, serve ads, make money) The dev team A/B tests a bunch of options until that number goes up, and then double down on the success. They don't really ca
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I think the tiny house trend is the symptom of growing wealth gaps in many places (especially the US). People are finding themselves unable to afford traditional housing, and therefore want something that doesn't require a large amount
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Most shops I've seen are small boutiques rather than auto manufacturers and they're priced accordingly (no economy of scale). Seems hard to get something that isn't a literal golf cart (i.e., has no cargo space or doors) for
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
You could get by with 28 MPH in some cities. Boston for example has a 25 MPH speed limit city-wide, unless posted otherwise. It wouldn't work in some places, but I wouldn't mind using a fancy golf cart there to run errands. That P
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Yes. 100% this. Someone's just pushing pixels around looking for some numbers to increase without actually dealing with the experience like a human.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
You do realize that they didn't hire me because they preferred a young developer... right?
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Maybe, but that seems kind of crazy as I had tangible proof of age discrimination. It's not like they'd say someone who was 38 was too old and someone who was 42 would suddenly not.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
When I was in my upper 30s I was mistakingly included in a reply-all email from someone who interviewed me and said I seemed kind of old for the position. I was ready to lose my shit on them but my wife made me wait a day before responding
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
That's pretty wild. I can't imagine coming even close to doing something that big.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Sure, but are they backed by the FDIC or anything equivalent? (no) What happens if they are compromised? (your money is gone forever).
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
wait... do you own an island now?
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
>Wouldn't the volatility of cryptocurrency be a reason that companies wouldn't want this as a primary method? Correct. There are so many cryptocurrencies out there, and scams are so widely perpetrated that it's absolutely
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
If a company wants to face the worst Streisand effect they've ever experienced they can go ahead and try to put me over a barrel because their shitty sales tactics make it incredibly difficult to cancel their service. It should be ille
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Yeah this is why I'm quick to use paypal. If I can't cancel it online I'm just going to deauthorize that shit.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Unfortunately this only exacerbates the problem as ridership declines. I know students in Boston who have literally never taken public transportation. 5 years ago this would be unheard of.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
We keep climbing this stupid mountain and I keep wondering where the peak is.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
It's not meant to add to the conversation, it's meant to get people to shut up about giving advice on becoming successful. There's no trick to it, you need to work and get lucky. Emphasis on the getting lucky. We don't n

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