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by vinyl7 5y ago
This was posted a few weeks ago: https://mitchellh.com/writing/contributing-to-complex-projec...
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Programmers like to overengineer everything, so there's a lot of unneeded complexity slowing down development time
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Maybe it's time we don't allow children on the internet. Same way we don't allow children to wonder around in the city by themselves
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Wonder if these are the same people as the 33% of home buyers who bought as investments. I too would be worried buying at the peak of a bubble realizing nobody can afford to buy the flip at the extremely inflated prices with mortgage rates
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by vinyl7 5y ago
> piracy is a service problem for me. I know where to get music/games/software, I have no idea where to get the movies and TV I want to watch, they're spread over 20 different services, 90% of which are not available in my
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by vinyl7 5y ago
I guess the question is then, would VCs give money to startups who say "We're using JQuery and PHP" or to startups who say something like "We're leveraging AI and machine learning to deliver product via MERN stack o
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by vinyl7 5y ago
I've noticed this for many many years, and it's part of the reason why I changed to registering as an independent. Listen to the candidate's campaigns, their goals, their views...it all sounds great. Then they get voted in an
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by vinyl7 5y ago
In my experience of having touched components and had static discharge, modern components (at least on PCs) are designed to handle it. I worked for a systems builder and none of the assemblers used grounding straps and had no issues. It see
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Games that take 6+ years of development are more often higher quality than the ones that take 2-3 years to develop. So yes, I'd be willing to wait half a year or year for updates that are not garbage.
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by vinyl7 5y ago
I like how as a people, we exploded with technology and capabilities, and now supposedly need to return to living like a cave man. I just hope that people who decide to live that way can cope with the fact that all the rich people and polit
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by vinyl7 5y ago
The fed admitted a few months ago that inflation is not transitory, ie not due to supply chain problems. So this is to help stem inflation, and hopefully fix the insane housing bubble going on right now.
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Great way to destroy your immune system
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Sucks for all us millennials who haven't yet been able to buy a home, and probably won't be able to going forward
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by vinyl7 5y ago
> What's wrong with debating ideas with a 50/50 weighting of left/right topics for discussion Because of the crazy political polarization where "everyone who doesn't agree with me is literally hitler"
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by vinyl7 5y ago
It's hard to argue against it when I see companies becoming more and more consumer hostile (cheap products that break in a year or after warranty is up, slow buggy software, incomplete game releases, ads crammed into every open space,
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Here is a similar project: https://medium.com/@ericsimons/introducing-realworld-6016654...
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by vinyl7 5y ago
It doesn't have to be written law passed by a government for something to be "legally required". Just like the government doesn't have to pass laws or implement systems for surveillance when they can just rely on FANG to
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by vinyl7 5y ago
That's basically what AA games are, and are sometimes somewhat successful...but usually not as successful as AAA games. Then you have the indie and solo developers flooding Steam with mostly low-quality games with a few gems...making i
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Watching the fall of Rome would be fun if I didn't live in Rome
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by vinyl7 5y ago
Programmers love to find solutions to problems that don’t exist
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by vinyl7 5y ago
GIMP really needs to go the Blender route and overhaul the UI. As great as it is having an open source "photoshop", the UI was definitely designed by programmers, not artists or photography people. I get stressed out just thinking