Zippogriff

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by Zippogriff 6y ago
> You still haven't stated anything other than your opinion. That's all either of us have been doing. [EDIT] and an opinion can be a reason ! They're not mutually exclusive. Do you need an itemized list of problems I have
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
> Because not everyone agrees with you and web apps have many advantages over native. But I don't care about those advantages (to the extent that they exist for users they're secondary effects of webapps being very cheap to mak
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
To make things a bit more fair I'd definitely allow that plenty of business-types do get it, but I think enough don't that treating them all like they do before you know them fairly well is probably a bad move, career-wise, espe
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
You explicitly claimed it wouldn't be worse. Consider applying your own standards to that claim. Consider also that it's possible to assert something without perfect knowledge of its truth. Usually context is sufficient to gather
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Yeah, I get that and name narrower ranges in a business context (trying to keep the upper bound from getting too much lower) because most biz-school types don't get that, and tend to think you're full of shit, being passive-ag
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Ah, right, I've always taken that effect in software estimation to be a result of business people hating how wide an actual "90% accurate" estimate is. Not many managers will accept "8 to 30 months" as a 90% estimat
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
> Perhaps that's because you want the wrong thing for some reason. I can't really parse this but from the best sense of it I can get, I reckon the most correct response is, "no, u". [EDIT] Oh and also: > You have
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
What's supposed to be the take-away from this? Is it to prove that knowing one or two bits of trivia and maybe a formula, by rote, can make your (unaided) estimation of related things vastly more accurate? That's all I'm gett
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
I don't know whether it accounts for the entire "housing's more expensive everywhere" perception, but it sure seems like the only houses that exist near good schools and are cheap on a per-square-foot basis are giant, so
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
1) I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp, nor to have to go disable them. I just never want them. 2) Generally I'd rather none of the software I use be webtech, so anything that makes it easier
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
You can put the .git directory outside the working directory. Might be helpful. Sync the working dir with a sync service, but the .git dir with... git.
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Indeed, there must be some reason no such thing has materialized from the market, despite ongoing problems caused by its absence. I'd guess it's one of those things where network effects make it hard to get off the ground, and giv
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
I believe that individual teams believe that, and I believe that some decision-makers are interested in doing enough to keep from losing those users too fast. Looking at the home page, though, it's very clear where the focus is. The on
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
I think where that's a losing proposition for them is that other ecosystems are more tightly integrated and generally a better deal, if that's what people want. Apple user with more than one device of any sort? $2.99/mo for t
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
> Herein lies the problem, of course, as Dropbox is having trouble justifying their value-add when storage is becoming a commodity, and is obviously searching for a new angle. From what I’ve seen before, this is usually a precursor for m
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
You're not alone. Overwhelmingly the most common reaction when the topic of modern Dropbox comes up, among people who pay attention to it at all, is best summarized as "ugh". I think the only thing keeping people on it is ine
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Exactly. It's a terrible tool for that job and wasn't designed for it, but there's such a great need for something like that, that businesses and governments have grabbed onto it anyway, for lack of something better. Despite
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
I suspect some significant percentage of applicants may not have a disability, exactly, or always totally flub an interview in this way, but may do so often enough that it looks like the level of competence in the industry is much lower t
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
I think any expensive, unnecessarily-rugged-for-what-you-actually-do outdoor clothing counts, but yes, that name comes up a lot. I think it should be regarded as a mid-prestige brand to wear, for tech fashion, above, say, REI store brand, w
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
It's a class-segregated sport in the US (not sure about elsewhere). This is called out in the tongue-in-cheek-but-mostly-accurate Official Preppy Handbook. For some reason it is "higher class" than racquetball, and, sure enou
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Mark my words: if that even looks like that might happen, the advertising behemoths (chiefly Google and Facebook) will spend every last dollar trying to get some kind of human Internet ID program passed into law. If our weapons (programs,
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
The right jeans and sneakers (and hoodie, and "tech pants", et c., et c.) can even help. There's definitely a techie look, and it's not the same as poor-people/low-class clothes (which some of the same categories
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
> They seem to think they will be working class for the rest of their lives and there's noticeable hate/resent for the rich. Told to me by an Irish person: You know the difference between an Irishman and an American? The Americ
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Exactly, I think it's a problem only if it leads to lower "engagement" by humans. I kinda doubt it will. Most reading and writing that occurs on the Web, by a large margin, is already very low-value, not noticeably better t
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
The value of much writing, especially on the Web, is being what the reader happens to have found rather than whatever better thing they might instead be reading on the same topic. That is, if your cheap knock-off article is what people end
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
For whatever reason, I like the flat edges on phones but not on tablets. I've got a gen 4 iPad Pro with the flat edges and a 1st gen with rounded, and rounded both looks better and feels more comfortable to hold. Meanwhile I wish my iP
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Imagine if we did this for other things. "Why do you want to sell me this apple?" "Be... cause... I grow apples? To sell? And you said you want one, and are holding money?"
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
I'm 100% sure I've come off in a couple interviews like one of those "phew we dodged a bullet there, guy can't code at all" stories. Meanwhile actually I can and many employers have been very happy with my ability t
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
I find Apple Books to be the only way I can read ebooks consistently. It seems dumb but I think the ability to freely fiddle with the "page" without turning it is what does it for me. I've got an e-reader but I kind of hate r
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Not doing so at least shortly after switching over their MacBooks has been really annoying. We're back to playing "which adapter and which charger this time?" USB-A + other-ports macbooks and lightning for iOS devices was bet

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