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901.
by tomcam 2y ago
To answer this and another comment, I think of it being able to manage social interactions reasonably well as a life skill. Without it people can have a really bad day if they have to deal with aggressive salespeople, unpleasant customer se
902.
by tomcam 2y ago
Well, check out their username
903.
by tomcam 2y ago
Is its poor safety record due to software failures?
904.
by tomcam 2y ago
Did you… did you, ah, raise spiders on the family farm?
905.
by tomcam 2y ago
Asking the important questions
906.
by tomcam 2y ago
Very interesting. Did you build magicloops using this tech?
907.
by tomcam 2y ago
I didn't get that the article is black and white, but... I do have a sincere question. Isn't it good that we be forced to socialize a bit more than makes us comfortable? Analogy: in middle school I, an overweight non-athlete, was
908.
by tomcam 2y ago
LOVE those stories
909.
by tomcam 2y ago
I’m going to claim that lesson alone made it a success Small wins are still wins
910.
by tomcam 2y ago
Fun idea, open source for maximum learning value, seemingly flawless execution, vanity-free and clear writeup—what a lovely contribution to the world. I feel privileged just seeing things like this.
911.
by tomcam 2y ago
Great game. It was always broken.
912.
by tomcam 2y ago
Wait, so how well did it work?
913.
by tomcam 2y ago
You're wel--hey, wait a minute!
914.
by tomcam 2y ago
That makes much more sense to me.
915.
by tomcam 2y ago
UB means undefined behavior Somehow it took me long minutes to infer this.
916.
by tomcam 2y ago
> So whenever he does anything there is a colored line around the screen that slowly shrinks while it counts down. That might literally drive me crazy. Watching with dread as the line disappeared would disrupt my work completely. Eventua
917.
by tomcam 2y ago
Sounds like an excellent business opportunity for a hacker with your skills.
918.
by tomcam 2y ago
wtf Is this documented somewhere? Can one notify them ahead of time?
919.
by tomcam 2y ago
Working at Microsoft in the late 1990s with the creators of MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Typescript/C#, and Visual Basic was unique and definitely the best perk imaginable.
920.
by tomcam 2y ago
What a relief! Thank you for sharing.
921.
by tomcam 2y ago
Sounds rough. Sorry you had to go through that.
922.
by tomcam 2y ago
Your question answers itself. It's growing in popularity in every year and has apparently suffered exactly zero scandals or embarrassing gaffes of any kind. Just not fucking up is huge in making any serious enterprise successful and
923.
by tomcam 2y ago
One reason I consider it so good
924.
by tomcam 2y ago
IMHO Go has been one of the best-managed open source projects ever. Hats off to Google for supporting it.
925.
by tomcam 2y ago
> the company claims the machine can take care of business safely "even in the most movement-heavy conditions," and that dry run testing on moving humans has all been successful. So many questions
926.
by tomcam 2y ago
I abide by these principles precisely. Didn’t always. I have a couple extras. 6. On the rare chance I offer advice without being asked, I always frame it as “here’s what I learned the hard way. Do you mind if I tell you how I screwed up in
927.
by tomcam 2y ago
> All unsolicited advice is taken as criticism. But there's no rule that you can't offer the opportunity to solicit advice. So true
928.
by tomcam 2y ago
You apparently fail to understand the humility of stating what one has learned vs telling someone else what to do. They are very very different things.
929.
by tomcam 2y ago
If advice “worked” all the the time you’d be able to control other people. Advice fails because people either don’t want it or aren’t ready for it.
930.
by tomcam 2y ago
Ahem. Thanks

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