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by wryoak 11mo ago
Native apps are always better, but having a web page syncing your feeds made it easier to access them, eg from the library or work computer. Not to mention nothing to install (or update) reduces friction. I didn’t have to stop using RSS, bu
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by wryoak 11mo ago
Google is widely faulted with effectively killing RSS by pulling the plug on Reader (I, for example, haven’t used RSS since), so I don’t think they’re missing the big picture, I think they just prefer a different picture
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by wryoak 11mo ago
If you want someone on your team, give them what they’re worth. Don’t base it on what you think you’re worth, but rather on what you think they are worth to you If you think he’s overvaluing himself, showing him the door is the best way to
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by wryoak 11mo ago
> I'm not saying serverless is bad for everything Title is clickbait
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by wryoak 11mo ago
Oh no! I’d been noticing an unusual amount of em dash discussion recently, but hadn’t investigated why. In college my professors would accuse me of plagiarizing my essays because I wrote so much more competently than I spoke. Now I’m going
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by wryoak 1y ago
They didn’t postpone season five of Slow Horses despite being exactly the same content
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by wryoak 1y ago
Wow you’re right I reckon there’s a flotilla joke, in the poorest of taste, floating around here somewhere…
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by wryoak 1y ago
If children are sponges when it comes to learning why do we wait until high school to let them learn eg calculus? And why censor anything from them? Seems like MORE exposure to ideas is better than less. The kids’ll sort out the truth for t
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by wryoak 1y ago
(2021)
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by wryoak 1y ago
I never had strong feelings between microservice architecture and monoliths. It was always monorepos that bothered me, and their tendency towards brittle, highly-coupled, incestuous code.
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by wryoak 1y ago
Just the opposite. The good dates I’ve had are treasured memories, but the bad dates taught me about who I am. I wish I’d dated less selectively while I was in the dating pool, to achieve more self awareness.
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by wryoak 1y ago
Exploiting and debugging are not the same thing
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by wryoak 1y ago
What kind of tools are the users familiar with for such tasks? It’s best to make it look like something the users already know, not something HN tells you is their favorite
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by wryoak 1y ago
I almost exclusively read newest posts. I’ll check front page weekly or monthly but it updates so infrequently, the dialogue is saturated, and only highly popular (not necessarily high quality) things make it there. I prefer to act as my ow
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by wryoak 1y ago
That’s a lot more topics than your title indicated. I guess in reverse order: to hell with age gap critics; you never mentioned wanting kids so idk why you’re worried about the when; if you don’t have a partner in mind then why bother think
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by wryoak 1y ago
> A recent study from the Hass Avocado Board reportedly found that the average millennial household spent $24.99 on avocados in 2018, which was 5 percent more than non-millennials households. That is, they bought on average one more avoc
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by wryoak 1y ago
It’s funny how one dev’s pain point is another’s salve
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by wryoak 1y ago
So you know when China is telling you to compromise with the world that it’s serious
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by wryoak 1y ago
Having lived on the west coast, east coast, and all over the in between, you’re not right. But you’re not wrong either. The truth is far more complex. Consider the fact that most food in the Midwest is shipped from the coasts - everything t
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by wryoak 1y ago
> In virtually any industry you should be able to work your way into something much closer to $75k-100k within 24 months if you exhibit any significant agree of professionalism, attitude, and work ethic Okay boomer. In which fields or in
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by wryoak 1y ago
Ugh. This article is so bad (in that it echoes so many misunderstandings I see reflected across popular culture) that I don’t think a comment is going to be enough. I’m going to have to write a damn article. I will put out its one strength:
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by wryoak 1y ago
> In other words, even if the total time to complete a project increases—as the report claims—the amount I can get done per unit of time also increases. I’m sure your product manager will be happy to hear that you’re more productive even
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by wryoak 1y ago
Recently I considered trying to find a position for myself just reviewing code part time because I find that the funnest part. I find writing (significant amounts of) code quite tedious. Hearing people say that code review/reading is t
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by wryoak 1y ago
I think that’s where you’re misunderstanding the intention of this. It’s not about money or customers, or even engineering for that matter
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by wryoak 1y ago
I don’t see any option for you but to give your boss the finger and take back control of your life. Better to be broke and pouring your blood, sweat and tears into something that matters to you than sitting idly, like a dog waiting to be le
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by wryoak 1y ago
It looks like Bicha did his time for the crime. So I don’t care about his guilt anymore. He paid (still pays, via the registry) his debt to society. Author should have led instead with Bicha’s harassment of people forking open source projec
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by wryoak 1y ago
Did you manage to avoid benefitting from subsidies in establishing your array such that you could live up to that principle?
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by wryoak 1y ago
There are many, many jobs out there demanding PHP. They’re not generally glamorous, but if you’re looking for stability over social status, which at some age everyone starts to be, PHP is good experience to have in your back pocket.
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by wryoak 1y ago
I’m all for more options as long as it doesn’t impact my ability to watch it all in one night. I do wish they would bring back intermissions for films exceeding 2 hours in length though. I’ve got an old man’s bladder and restless leg: I nee
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by wryoak 1y ago
Having been primarily a web developer, complex url param orchestration is one of those phenomena that makes me think someone chose the wrong tool for the job. In this case, the browser platform itself. Neat tools discussed tho

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