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by victorstanciu 3y ago
That's just consolation fiction in the same vein as "bullies are cowards". I think the parent comment's take was better: It just is what it is. I'm happy with what I have, and I don't feel the need to imagine s
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by victorstanciu 3y ago
The article lists a couple of caveats already, but to me the real hurdle is the lack of a proper alternative to Docker Compose.
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
Shame on Twitter for turning on its allies. This is yet another sobering reminder on why you should think twice before building a product on someone else's platform. They can--and will--pull the rug out from under you and leave you in
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
Hey, thanks for commenting. Your comment actually got me thinking of something I've been meaning to get deeper into for a long time, so I wrote another post about it: https://tegowerk.eu/posts/death-of-the-author&#
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Death of the Author(tegowerk.eu)
4 points by victorstanciu 4y ago|1 comments
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
I swear tech people have such a loathing for middle managers that it's no longer even funny. My unpopular opinion is that we're more likely to replace half of us programmers than managers, and that's because management is 90%
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
Yes, it's weird, because it can actually be joyful. We need to break apart lowercase stoicism from uppercase Stoicism.
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
> I'm not sure how you'd describe the best mindset here. Pessimistic stoicism? This is the question I asked myself as well. In my own life I've settled on Stoicism as a philosophy of life (though I am far from the ideal sa
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
I do agree with you, and that's exactly what I meant when I said that we have overcorrected. Thank you.
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
This is what I meant. It's a harsh word, but--at least in my case--the truth is harsh too. I'm lazy. I have a huge array of benefits and privileges laid out in front of me, but I don't take advantage of them, even though I ea
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
That's one of the main tenets of the Stoic philosophy. The hardest too.
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
Is that where the bar for stamping a label on a fellow human being is? On the text formatting of one paragraph? That's a pretty low bar, I'm not sure Hermes Conrad himself could limbo under it.
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
Thank you very much for your kind words. It makes me incredibly happy when I hear that something I write resonates with others, if only because it validates my own feelings.
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
Come on, that is dishonest and (I hope) you know it. You weren't reporting statistics, you were making a thinly veiled accusation. Hiding behind "reporting statistics" is no different than "just asking questions":
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
Sigh. Did you read the footnotes though? Because in them I explain that I haven't read Berlant's book, but I did look up--in multiple sources--a rundown of what they meant by "cruel optimism", and as I mentioned in the s
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
On an individual level? Probably not. As a group? Of course, just like it's been done many times before: through activism, building a movement, gaining momentum and critical mass, eventually culminating in regulatory intervention. We&#
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
I've mostly seen it used for PSA-type posts, from dang but also from regular users.
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Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism(tegowerk.eu)
216 points by victorstanciu 4y ago|190 comments
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
This is the same Liskov of the Liskov Substitution Principle, the L in SOLID.
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Look Ma, No Hands(tegowerk.eu)
4 points by victorstanciu 4y ago|0 comments
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
As shlip already mentioned, the title is misleading, and not what the study concludes at all. That being said, I can put in my own two-cents-worth of anecdote on the subject. Since I converted[1] my bike to an e-bike, it's way more fun
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
I feel like you might like one of my previous posts too ( https://tegowerk.eu/posts/serendipity/ ). The trajectory of my life has also been shaped and defined by a series of decisions and events which didn't se
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by victorstanciu 4y ago
First of all, congrats on finishing the novels. That's a huge accomplishment in itself! Writing sits comfortably in the territory of hobbies which require neither money nor storage space to perform, so I can totally understand how some
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Monetizing hobbies(tegowerk.eu)
161 points by victorstanciu 4y ago|93 comments
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by victorstanciu 5y ago
For me, all I cared about was not loading their script. I'm not at all attached to my tweets, so I'm not really willing to put any effort into preserving them for posterity. > That of course still leaves open the matter of whet
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by victorstanciu 5y ago
Hey, sure, I set up a repo just now. Lemme know if it works for you or not: https://github.com/victorstanciu/hugo-tweets
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by victorstanciu 5y ago
"Functionality aside embedding random scripts from twitter seems like a big risk for security and privacy." When I started blogging again, I wanted to render my Twitter feed on the homepage, as a sort of bitesize alternative to
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by victorstanciu 5y ago
> Any advice? Introspection. There's no way to force the companies to tell you the actual reasons they decided to pass on you, so the only avenue left is for you to think long and hard about what you think those reasons might be.
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by victorstanciu 5y ago
Hey man, I believe most of us here know how hard it is to bootstrap something and lift it off the ground. From my side, I admire your product, and I admire the hell out of the fact that you've open sourced it. Which is why I would have
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by victorstanciu 5y ago
My nonadversarial action was to ignore the first email, that's all the consideration I am willing to give. The onus is not on me to politely ask to be removed from anything.

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