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by unsui 5y ago
The reality for many is logging in to MS Teams or Zoom to have virtual meetings even within the office. That is what a significant number of my professional colleagues did even while at the office: many of them would just dial in from thei
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by unsui 5y ago
> Nobody is ruining anything for anybody. yes they are. I quite like my employer, but their return-to-office policy is non-negotiable, so I am going to start looking for a new employer. This literally ruins an otherwise wonderful working
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by unsui 5y ago
agreed. brain-as-a-radio-antenna is a common trope amongst those who would believe that meatspace isn't capable of generating consciousness alone (always looking for some sort of elan vital, to equate with another pursuit for the magic
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by unsui 5y ago
The vitriol is well-deserved. While there is no such thing as a perfectly-ethical company within a Capitalist framework, there are degrees of ethical behavior that rightly influence a company's reputation. Would I choose to work or sup
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by unsui 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious why this dream pattern seems to be quite distributed across many people. I still regularly have the dream where I realized after graduation that I had missed an entire college class or test (often varies depending
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by unsui 5y ago
scrolled down too far to find this. yes, google/visa/xxxx probably deserve their own discussion on the merits of breakup or regulation. But that shouldn't be a primary reason why this specific discussion regarding Meta should
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by unsui 5y ago
agreed. This was, and continues to be, a momentous accomplishment. The fact that it happened at all is a herculean task in constraints management, not only on the engineering side, but also on the political and zeitgeist-management side (e.
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by unsui 5y ago
Those are simply incidents where the scaffold foothold temporarily slips. A true counterexample is pure interaction without words, akin to what dogs and other animals do (excepting things like recognizing their name), or meditative state wh
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by unsui 5y ago
This is actually a much better reason for boycotting than taking on some quixotic initiative based solely on principle (however honorable that may be): the market has decided that FB is now the poster child for bad business behavior. That i
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by unsui 5y ago
2, if not 3, of the examples you provided are generally considered amongst the most difficult NES games, and in fact led to the trope of "Nintendo Hard" https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ni
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by unsui 5y ago
> This divisive rhetoric is what got us here in the first place What you're doing is called "pearl clutching", and is not adding in any constructive way to the conversation. The way we got here is intentionally by using di
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by unsui 5y ago
Fun fact: Steve Jobs' demo for the original macintosh was actually done with a bit of cheating: "Once we integrated all the pieces together, the demo didn't come close to be able to run on a standard Macintosh. Fortunately, w
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by unsui 5y ago
they exist, although I imagine they are becoming rarer as typing skills are becoming part of the standard elementary/middle-school curriculum. My dad was a hunt-n-peck programmer all of his life. Electrical Engineer PhD, often programm
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by unsui 5y ago
yet. That's the whole point of getting in early (to the mass-consumer-market), to make it the standard. It's not a necessity yet, but neither were smartphones (now just called "phones"). FB is banking heavily that VR w
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by unsui 5y ago
You're thinking like a HN reader, rather than the intended audience for the chrome omnibar (i.e., non-specialists) They don't want the abstraction punctured to see the inner workings... Anything less than that creates a Norman Doo
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by unsui 5y ago
> believe that people should have a basic knowledge of the tools they are using The whole point of intuitive design is to realize that you shouldn't make your users "think", insofar as making effortful cognition (i.e., Ka
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by unsui 5y ago
whataboutism... those deserve their own attention on their own merits. But not directly relevant to this discussion, particularly if it defers or interferes with the FB discussion specifically.
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by unsui 5y ago
This is textbook ad hominem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem > attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument its
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by unsui 5y ago
I don't think we're going to agree here, and that's fine. There is one interesting outcome of this discussion, though: Given our discussion, one of us has to bite the bullet on a particular point: Artifact A: > Those &quot
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by unsui 5y ago
replying to this comment, even though actually applies to multiple replies to my parent comment. > This is categorically false. The unvaxxed aren't the ones preventing you from doing anything. They don't have the power to do so
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by unsui 5y ago
yet we force our children to be vaccinated in school in order to be part of society. we also force other things that impinge on personal liberty, such as wearing seatbelts, getting car (and medical) insurance, etc. I can see the argument th
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by unsui 5y ago
This video on how the game Miegakure is being developed helps to break down what is actually happening when a slice of a 4d space is being seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZp0ETdD37E Same dev who also created 4D Toys
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by unsui 5y ago
the whataboutism is strong with this one...
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by unsui 5y ago
The question I'm interested in a corrollary of the above question: What's the use case for microsecond-precise timekeeping, that is of interest to (i.e., benefits) FB?
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by unsui 5y ago
agreed. The virtues of pair/team programming really took a hold for my team when WFH forced us to do screen-sharing rather than just sitting next to each other. Now, we regularly do screen-sharing for development and demos, with the p
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by unsui 5y ago
transcript, since the meat of the article is the podcast (not the article text itself): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1018915121
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by unsui 5y ago
OP's comment is a vast simplification of what's happening underneath, but nonetheless still tremendously valid as a useful heuristic. Valuable work, like many things in the real world, is not normally distributed, but skewed or fo
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by unsui 5y ago
I've found the opposite. As a developer, WFH actually facilitates things like pair programming and peer review. Especially for introverts like myself, it is much easier to do a screenshare of your IDE and review code in a group than tr
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by unsui 5y ago
I don't think this is accurate. Some professionals, notably those whose work culture encourages self-determination, can be allowed to bring in their own hardware or request custom hardware. These are usually the outliers, rather than
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by unsui 5y ago
The kinesis advantage (now Advantage2 LF) has been my mainstay keyboard over the last 20 years, both professionally and personally. I too adhered a trackpad, although mine is an Ergo Mini touchpad: https://ergonomictouchpad.com&

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