tomc1985

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by tomc1985 4y ago
It takes a lot more than lots of people saying "I enjoyed that" to make a great film. Giving people what they want as a primary objective is the fast-track to mediocrity. "Good is the enemy of great," as they say.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I think they are trying to roll back the quantitative easing (aka unleashing the money printers) that staved off a massive recession right when covid lockdowns began. The fed blames current inflation rates (the highest they've been sin
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by tomc1985 4y ago
At this time, that would be a complete 180 as the Fed's messaging all year has been about how they will be raising rates, even if it means sacrificing markets. On an accelerated timeline, no less, compared to what they had floated in J
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I don't see how some HTML and a bunch of serverless code is going to fix the problem of instagram constantly indulging me in vanity and emotionally manipulative bullshit. The only thing it will do is lock me into a cycle of maintenance
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Yes, let's remedy the problem by throwing in another solution in an already crowded marketplace. Burning thousands of hours grinding away at something that most likely won't take. Hollywood has thousands if not millions of peopl
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by tomc1985 4y ago
My point is that a casual "just change your feed settings," answer, which signals an implicit approval for a shitty status quo, doesn't work. What I want is for people to change. For society to stop navel-gazing. For people t
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by tomc1985 4y ago
With ads every other or third post or so, you don't get nearly as much control over your feed as you think. > Just follow the accounts you like, mute the ones you don't but 'need' to follow (friends, etc.) If I had a
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Funny, I thought this was Hacker News, not Reuters. What are facts, in this day and age, anyway? I guess 'objective reality' doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Why can't it be about sharing cool photos you took? People need to stop pointing the camera at themselves. The world is so much more beautiful.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> I get the innovator mentality of sweeping away the old but there seems to be a fine line between innovation and ignorance. I think that this is the "innovator mentality" insofar that, as a group, we tend to idolize/cargo
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Funny, I hated the color scheme back in the day. It reminded me of Fischer-Price children's toys. My very first customization was to always set it to the silver theme.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I looooooove this feature of the MX Master mice, but I went through 2 of them in two years. They do not seem particularly well-built.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Yeah I have been looking them over and they seem very interesting. Have not tried them yet. Would love for there to be One True Way(tm) without the framework question.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Oh god, Backbone. I absolutely hated that framework. It didn't even seem to do anything, it seemed like I had to implement all of the logic myself. Except I had to do it their way, for some reason, and practically nothing made sense. (
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I miss the days when jQuery reigned supreme, and all the tenderfoot magpie developers didn't yet have the twinkle of React in their eyes
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I think GP is referring to the obnoxious type-A personalities that dominate management where everything has to be the best (or at least be presented as such) and virtuous (hah!) competition weeds out the weak. They like to see themselves as
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by tomc1985 4y ago
That doesn't seem like anything house rules and code reviews can't fix. "No fancy YAML bullshit allowed" aaaaaaaand done.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
OK Zoomer. OF COURSE you're going to deny the generalization and blame the accuser. That's generational warfare 101. Doesn't make their thoughts any less valid. There are clear differences between the Facebook demo and the Ti
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The problem with paying to not see ads is that now you have made yourself known as a juicier target for advertising -- they know you have enough money to buy frivolous things like a 'no ads' experience. Which makes them want to ad
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I actually had one of those cards! The only games I could get it to work with were Half-Life, glQuake, and Jedi Knight, and the bilinear texture filtering had some odd artifacting IIRC
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by tomc1985 4y ago
"Framurary" is kind of fun. Though lamework also describes my experience with it
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And my point is that over the last 20 years or so, I found myself spending a lot of time wishing there was more cyberpunk content out there. Also I'm pretty sure Star Wars and Star Trek were as big, if not bigger. Yes, The Matrix had a
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Why not give the user a login then they can access their content indefinitely? Time limited codes fucking suck.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
They were practically the only cyberpunk movies with any significant impact. And what have we had over all these years on the gaming front? CP2077? Deus Ex? Shadowrun? And a handful of indie games? Sure there were a bunch... in the 90s. So.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
My former employer, a large lumbering fortune 500 trying to play in the agile pool, made extensive use of those specific features...
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So that people can look as ridiculous as possible, it would seem
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Yeah this article seems to have a really poor understanding of 'cyberpunk' and it's motivations. He also calls an underground, generally unpopular aesthetic "tired". Cue my eyes rolling to the back of my head so har
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I've always thought it was pronounced like 'techniques' and at first thought the author was talking about the turntable/hi-fi brand
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If their project is said product, then yes; because they are, in a way, architecting the final deliverable. And that recognition goes up the chain, in an increasingly diluted form, until it reaches the top.
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Nowhere does my post indicate that I think I'm the "sole reason" the company makes any money. We are all just cogs in the machine. But, as with anyone who makes the product, we are a huge part of the reason the company is i

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