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by zem 8mo ago
if my experiences at google are any indication, when it comes to "regular user" facing features management pays very little attention to negative feedback from the engineers. it always seems to be assumed that we are atypical in o
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by zem 8mo ago
yeah, it's fine that people are experimenting with new gui toolkits from scratch but I wish gtk integration got a lot more love.
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by zem 8mo ago
sorry to hear it :( I have friends in the same boat.
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by zem 8mo ago
sounds like a very positive move! good luck with the new merged community
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by zem 8mo ago
also people developed debilitating brain fog, chronic fatigue, and increased risk of heart trouble.
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by zem 8mo ago
go had a similar early trajectory where c++ programmers rejected it due to the gc. it gained traction among python/ruby/javascript programmers who appreciated the speed boost and being able to ship a single static binary.
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by zem 8mo ago
it's more like "this function is crashing with an inconsistent file format error. can you figure out how a file with the wrong format got this far into the pipeline?". in cases like that the fix is usually pretty easy once yo
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by zem 8mo ago
that is really impressive, both the project and that fish lets it work without having to fork and patch
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by zem 8mo ago
wow. I never cease to marvel at the companies that make you jump through hoops in order to give them your money. chesterton had a good passage on that in his father brown mysteries (highly recommended to any fan of the genre): The Vernon Ho
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by zem 8mo ago
haha it's amazing how over time there's so much going on on the screen but all you really look at is the little upgrade button
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by zem 8mo ago
that's a grad student topic
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by zem 8mo ago
it doesn't answer the first question I have, which is basically "why". not in any sort of hostile sense, just that it would be very interesting to hear the back story behind this move.
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by zem 8mo ago
and also there is the deeply ingrained attitude that your kids are your problem. there is very little help from the government to offset the negative effects and opportunity costs of having and raising children.
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by zem 9mo ago
agreed, slack channels can definitely have the "lived-in space" feel to them (which is feel is the key point to the GP's comment)
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by zem 9mo ago
I've seen a lot of cellular sandbox simulations but this one really dials things up to eleven!
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by zem 9mo ago
another way to look at it is that management is a job with a set of skills, challenges, and rewards, just like any other, but as a civilisation we seem to have tied it to power and hierarchy, and made it something you need to be promoted in
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by zem 9mo ago
> And it happens to be a case where a lot of people see the benefits of test: before refactoring. it's also very nice if you have a test-last working style, that is, develop the code first using some sort of ad hoc testing method, t
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by zem 9mo ago
doesn't even need to be "smarter than you", just realise that as a manager your job is not to build the product, it's to build the environment in which the people building the product can thrive and build the best produc
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by zem 9mo ago
"oh hell!" is another great trick taking game for multiple players. it's lightweight but lots of fun.
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by zem 9mo ago
I was away from home without my laptop one night when I got an email from a friend I was collaborating on a project with. saying he needed some data crunching done that night if possible, because he needed to send the results out. I was abl
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by zem 9mo ago
wow, that does look like the perfect companion app to termux! thanks for the pointer.
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by zem 9mo ago
"native" is used for different things, from "use the platform's default gui toolkit" to "compile to a machine code binary". the former is a bit of a mess, but the latter is strictly better than wrapping a
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by zem 9mo ago
it's sleazy because the intent wasn't to be properly credited, it was to use a loophole in the CC-BY-SA license to sue people for minor typos or mistakes in the exact form of the attribution even when they had clearly intended to
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by zem 9mo ago
yes that was me! I love that quote (it's by samuel johnson), so it's really moving to hear it made an impression on someone else too. here it is: What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in
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by zem 9mo ago
ah thanks, that makes a lot of sense.
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by zem 9mo ago
I am honestly flabbergasted that his pictures weren't expunged with great prejudice. what is the value they add to wikimedia that makes being associated with this sort of sleaze okay?
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by zem 9mo ago
this is already the case with scrabble; there is a strictly defined scrabble word list that determines whether a word is acceptable or not, and it often leaves out words that you might find in some other dictionary that is not the official
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by zem 9mo ago
still working for me
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by zem 9mo ago
squirrel: http://squirrel-lang.org/
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by zem 9mo ago
perhaps, though also "humans are the plague" is a popular trope in science fiction. e.g. this one is from pratchett, in a conversation between rats in "the amazing maurice and his educated rodents": You will have worked

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