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by virtualized 9y ago
Who pays Sisyphos? Another Sisyphos who is just doing his job or following societal norms once created by Sisyphoses who are now long dead. Every individual Sisyphos is rational, but the whole system is not. I am not saying that such a syst
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by virtualized 9y ago
Does OpenSSL have useful documentation yet?
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by virtualized 9y ago
"Company X will give us a lot of money if I promise them we can do a thing for them." - Boss is considered very successful "We cannot possibly do that in the time frame you promised." - developers are obviously at fault
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by virtualized 9y ago
At least there were code reviews where you worked. In my current job such a thing would be considered a waste of time.
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by virtualized 9y ago
It's a cycle: Boss: "Please do this one small thing for me immediately!" Boss' reward center is stimulated and they forget about the one small thing shortly after. The other ten one small things get pushed back. Bos
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by virtualized 9y ago
I hate being the framework, library or programming language guy who has to Google things for his coworkers. I'm good enough to do their jobs for them, but my advice is often times ignored when they didn't explicitly ask for it.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Today I was invited to an indefinite series of phone meetings with four+ people two times a week because someone has one or two questions he can't be bothered to ask by mail.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Developer: "This is a difficult problem that requires careful planning and cooperation between people in different companies." Product manager: "Yeah whatever it will be fine" (no planning nor help in cooperation between
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by virtualized 9y ago
That would explain why Google's products often have very obvious flaws. The developers who know that the issues are fixable are being ignored.
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by virtualized 9y ago
I wonder how Microsoft employees react whenever that happens in their own meetings. Do they just laugh and forget about the issue? Do they ignore it and quickly grab another computer? Do they use undocumented settings to fix the issue?
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by virtualized 9y ago
Cave walls are massive distractions to children, especially in a school context. When it comes to young children, I am sceptic to the use of painting in education in general. School should help incorporate good habits into a child's ro
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by virtualized 9y ago
Learning the right things, in the right ways, is entertaining. I'd argue that school is neither about learning nor about entertainment. School is that experiment with the monkeys and the ladder. Its original purpose was making mindless
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by virtualized 9y ago
I'm sure it looks "beautiful" on the designer's MacBook Pro.
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by virtualized 9y ago
The chance of a hit is even lower: 1 - (0.99^50) ~= 40%
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by virtualized 9y ago
Unfortunately unreadable because the scrolling is broken.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Email. I work at a software development shop and most of our internal Email-like communication happens face-to-face or via phone. "Will you be available for a meeting two weeks from now?" "I just wanted to tell you that I che
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by virtualized 9y ago
Solid State Drives. In 2012 I did not expect that you could still buy $2000 laptops with spinning rust in 2017.
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by virtualized 9y ago
That is called programming. It works better with a simple language instead of English.
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by virtualized 9y ago
That's the type of user who would never read the help content even if it was good.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Game developers don't write tests. They pick up habits along the way and keep them for a long time. The code might be crap, but they know their crap very well and can debug it. There is less need for tests because most code never rarel
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by virtualized 9y ago
For some reason most people like bad user interfaces by default. They randomly decide on a layout and are immediately too proud to consider anything else.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Bombing civilians and giving weapons to terrorist organizations really helps to support civilian governments and the rule of law.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Most "mobile" versions of web sites are objectively worse than their "desktop" versions. Actual advantages of mobile devices are: * High DPI, handheld. You can look at a mobile screen from different distances for differe
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by virtualized 9y ago
What the hell is a "bookmark bar"? That's the first thing that goes away when I configure a browser. It's like a permanent sticky header.
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by virtualized 9y ago
It almost seems like ad-hoc text formats like command line argument syntaxes are difficult to use correctly.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Google could have published a letter that addresses the issues mentioned in the leaked memo in a diplomatic way without firing anyone. Google's immature reaction damaged the perception of the diversity ideology instead of defending it.
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by virtualized 9y ago
I see another problem: If you can't be openly sexist (or whatever you call it), you will still be in secret.
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by virtualized 9y ago
When I open a video for watching it later, I pause it immediately when I expect the initialization of the player to be finished. The player has a bug that makes it resume playback when the initialization has actually finished in the backg
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by virtualized 9y ago
Is draw.io actually Gliffy or is it a clone of Gliffy?
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by virtualized 9y ago
If a backend process is slow, you buy another server, install Hadoop or something and call the whole mess "big data". Mobile apps are known for taking ages to load and for taking too much space. They usually block on network reque

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