tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
Nooooooooooo, you're supposed to back it up to the cloud and pay some startup jerk $XX/mo for the privilege! [/s]
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by tomc1985 5y ago
But it isn't. Circumstance molds you. The Great Depression did untold psychological damage to entire generations. I don't think they could just will the anger and resentment and destitution away
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The Pirate Bay under Peter Sunde's management comes to mind as an example of a small team working mostly autonomously to create a large project. Though I think they worked as such to minimize exposure to legal liability and to keep the
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I have fond memories of working in an environment where we sometimes resolved differences with heated arguments. Ultimately either the better idea or cooler heads prevail, some people are just stubborn and take some coaxing.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yes part of it is difference in organization side. And if I have to go back into the industry I am definitely seeking out a smaller org, as I have learned that larger companies aren't for me. And to their credit, my last team was actua
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Externally, with customers, sure. I agree that we are ultimately doing this for people. But internally, I do not think that having requirements filter through ever-growing and increasingly specialized teams is a net positive. Early in my ca
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It is though, and it will confront you when you least expect it. It should be seen as a wake-up call, not something to be afraid of.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The thing is software doesn't have to be a team activity. It goes against the current grain where everyone seems to want to build large teams of sort-of-competent nice guys, but you can have one or two really smart guys, and pay&#x2F
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Not sarcastic. I am now software-adjacent, working solo. Got sick of the people aspect and the fact that my employer takes 99% of the value I create and then forces me to practically beg for a 5% raise each year Fuck that industry. I became
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by tomc1985 5y ago
This sort of crap is why I left software. Niceness over competence. I didn't enter this (at the time) largely solitary profession to have all the best, juiciest parts of the job get taken over by these people-oriented idiots. There nee
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You're being snarky but the rise of video for basic info transmission really bugs me. You even get these clowns making videos of them typing into notepad! Like ffs get a gd blogger account
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You can thank gen Z and their enthusiastic refusal to read for that
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Do you really buy into that
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> do you designers use some extra special screens where light gray on white looks readable? Not a designer but I am a photo nerd, and yes these screens exist
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Why do we need an account anyway?? How about ... no accounts.
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Huh? Calling up your local shipping exec for a meeting is most definitely not forming "expert panels"
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I do this with my several-years-old Samsung as well. Inputs, menus, TV tuner, and the OTA program guide all work. No smart apps and no ads.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I really don't like working for those 100 darts people. They are a royal pain in the ass. Much better are the folks with a solid vision who can drive folks to execute on it, successfully.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Is it not stupid that someone's sins should stain every single unrelated thing they've ever done? What kind of moral fascism is it where the person must be good and holy in order to not invalidate every single thing someone has ma
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Who are regularly awash in the random detritus and scraps of paper left behind by our priors While I agree they are interested in everything, I think they are more interested in sampling insignificant works, as opposed to archiving all of
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> If you want action, > recommended [...] for building your combat skills. Or log onto a 32-man running CTF-Face][
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Idunno I feel like most of the arena games did a decent job of holding your hand and providing a single player campaign that is good enough to level up skills with a bit. Also back in the day there were a lot more LAN parties, and with the
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I want it to be a more-simple Linux without so many competing choices or moving parts, and it largely succeeds on that front.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It still sticks pretty close to BSD. I am seeing a ton of (entirely natural) similarity since I started seriously playing with FreeBSD
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> I personally found Fortnite to be a huge slog to play I think that applies to the entire battle royale genre. Unless you're good, it's 20+ minutes of downtime (between waiting for the map to set, load, and for you to complete
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It strikes me somewhat oddly that one might pay so much for something that literally half the people on this planet is equipped to provide You're paying for looks, ease, simplicity, no strings, and so on... I get it. But idunno, that i
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It's wild that I was able to read that in my head at full speed, with the correct word pronunciation (except the last word... wonder what the upper limit on that is anyway?)
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I keep seeing Axboe as a typo'd version of Adobe and it's really bugging me edit- It's someone's name, I thought it was a company or product
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I can clearly see the pixels on a 13" or 15" laptop display at 1080p. It doesn't start looking seamless until 1440p or so. The advantages of 4K depend heavily on the quality of your eyesight
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Like the other replies here, I disagree. I am in coastal Southern California and we enjoy a fair degree of water independence, but even so up until recently drought conditions affected us greatly. I am thankful that my municipality got a de

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