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by ufmace 4y ago
I'd counter that only on Hacker News would you find somebody who insists that a single person must be right about everything about a complex subject because he has some fancy titles. In other words, appeal to authority. Yeah no. All of
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by ufmace 4y ago
Yeah no I don't buy that at all. This is so completely at odds with my experience and that of every single person I have ever met that I won't accept that this one dude supposedly knows better.
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by ufmace 4y ago
I've become extremely skeptical of this type of study. IMO, sleep needs and patterns vary so much between individuals that it's basically impossible for highly generic advice like this to be meaningful.
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by ufmace 4y ago
It's true that if nobody you want to talk to is on it or willing to install it, then it's not of much use. It's also a bit harder to find really compelling features for direct messages. Though even for DMs, outside of Apple&#
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by ufmace 4y ago
I use it for something like 90% of all my social interactions with real-life friends. IMO, Telegram has by far the best UI/UX of any internet chat app. In terms of stuff like group management, working perfectly on any type of device wi
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by ufmace 4y ago
To be fair, it's a lot easier to deal with tax board says you owe $X but can't physically take anything, so you get a chance to make your case before actually handing it over, than tax board says you owe $X and just grabbed it out
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by ufmace 4y ago
I suppose it's possible that might happen at some point in the future, but I don't think that's ever happened. Humans are about the most vulnerable thing out there. Yet nobody suggests that we should get rid of the infantry b
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by ufmace 4y ago
Yup. The key point is, a weapon system becomes obsolete when something else does its job better, not when it becomes more vulnerable. When something valuable becomes more vulnerable, you protect it better. When it becomes less valuable beca
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by ufmace 4y ago
I wouldn't necessarily fire an intern for not knowing it, but they should have been more closely watched by someone with more wisdom. Anyone who's been around the block a few times knows it's not a good idea to put potentiall
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by ufmace 4y ago
You're right about our existing OSS ecosystem being a marvel. I'm doubtful though about the merits of requiring software to be open-sourced after some timeframe though. IME, much proprietary software has very complex build and dep
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by ufmace 4y ago
> Don't do anything different. You had one company pull out on you. That happens all the time for a multitude of reasons. Don't be discouraged. Apply for jobs at a range of companies, from start-ups to profitable SaaS companies
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by ufmace 4y ago
A point I found interesting along the lines of perceived British ambivalence, my understanding is that the Emancipation Proclamation was a brilliant piece of diplomacy. It was anti-slavery enough to make it possible to convince Britain that
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by ufmace 4y ago
I suspect that part of the problem is that, as measured by actual purchases, people don't really prioritize small size and displays that much. Look at how long all of the requirement lists posted around these threads are. Some people r
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by ufmace 4y ago
Programming-related stuff seems to have gotten a lot worse in the last couple of years. Now most terms, at least for common things, return a ton of blogspam, when the official docs or SO are usually the best source.
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by ufmace 4y ago
Maybe I've gotten something wrong here, but as far as I can tell, Wix and Squarespace are entirely closed-source hosted solutions. This might be a small and hard to verify decline, but it still makes me kind of sad to see more things m
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by ufmace 4y ago
It does get abused, but IMO the abuse of perceived scientific authority is far more important. At the end of the day, who really cares if some random college friend doesn't believe in the scientific consensus on black holes? His opinio
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by ufmace 4y ago
If they're really generating "insane profits", how do I invest in them and get myself a chunk of those "insane profits"?
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by ufmace 4y ago
I don't know that I'd go that far. It's something that does need to be accounted for though. On the other hand, if we ever manage to build an AI that's sophisticated enough to intentionally troll us, well then mission ac
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by ufmace 4y ago
Marginalia search engine is worth a try: https://search.marginalia.nu/ It's a search engine meant to be biased towards long-form content with minimal marketing and javascript trickery
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by ufmace 4y ago
Might be cheeky, but actually insightful too - all of these experiments share the assumption that the human/intelligence involved has chosen to cooperate with the experiment and do its best at the assigned task as written. So how do yo
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by ufmace 4y ago
I do find it plausible that there are fewer things being posted in RSS-able blogs than 10 years ago, but if so, you wouldn't be able to tell that way. Especially if what you're following is a lot of individual blogs, it's pre
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by ufmace 4y ago
> The destruction of RSS greatly damaged the Blogging ecosystem. Since when is RSS "destroyed"? I still use it every day. Okay Google Reader specifically died. But honestly it wasn't all that great. There are dozens of oth
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by ufmace 4y ago
True, and worth remembering why. Most of us are constantly getting warned about the dire potential consequences of huge numbers of things, most of which are either massively unlikely to ever happen or not actually that bad, or both. It&#x27
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by ufmace 4y ago
I have a decent amount of Tommy John's stuff. I personally think it's substantially higher quality than any of the Fruit of the Loom stuff that I've been able to find. Maybe it is 10x the price, but it's still cheap enou
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by ufmace 4y ago
I'm not sure if "Not owned by Elon Musk" is a sufficient hook to get people to sign up. I mean that literally - it might be, or it might not be. But seeing as how technically Elon Musk doesn't actually own Twitter yet an
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by ufmace 4y ago
I actually haven't had good experience with most of this on the graphic design and UI front. If I'm building, say, a Rails web app, I want my front-end stuff to integrate with Rails reasonably well. Which means ERB or HAML templat
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by ufmace 4y ago
I share at least some of the author's criticisms of Go. But it neglects to mention a few of my favorite things - the massive and mostly capable stdlib and the easy cross-compiles. How many compiled languages can you be on any of Mac, W
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by ufmace 4y ago
Seems to me, it's a lot tougher to make all of this stuff always work right in the face of buggy or hostile programs. If you have a super-serious hardcore owner lock on a file that only the opening process can release, what happens whe
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by ufmace 4y ago
There have already been a lot of alternate Twitters built, including the federated Mastodon network. If you haven't heard of them, why not? That answers the question. For any Twitter competitor to work, they need a hook to get people t
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by ufmace 4y ago
> Who’s agreeing that it has such power in the first place? > Who takes Twitter so seriously? All of the people flipping their lid about it being bought out. If it truly has no power, why would anybody care who owned it?

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