al_ak

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by al_ak 3y ago
I think you're underestimating the draw of para-social relationships. That's what powers the "social media" part of TikTok. I think it would be disingenous to suggest that TikTok is anything other than social media.
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by al_ak 4y ago
It's literally not the job of consumers to provide for your income. That may be a harsh lesson, but it's true.
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by al_ak 5y ago
> the truth is that with AMP the pages load faster, and are slimmer - with no exceptions I'm not sure this is as universally true as you think it is
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by al_ak 5y ago
What happened to all the AMP defenders that used to flood the comment section?
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by al_ak 5y ago
Reddit literally does not care about the usability of their mobile site: https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/o7wo1s/this_subr...
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by al_ak 5y ago
It'd be great if there was a music service that somehow incorporated the metadata in something like the Allmusic database. Say for example, while listening to an album, you could click on any side member and easily access any other alb
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by al_ak 5y ago
Procrastination is largely an emotional management issue. Strategies like this can still be helpful for many people, but this doesn't really address the core issue
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by al_ak 5y ago
Orwell's Lie: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992
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by al_ak 6y ago
I would somewhat disagree. While I don't think the factors you mention can be ignored, putting too much emphasis on them starts to feel like anxiety. It's a lot easier to cede personal time to your employer when you've alread
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by al_ak 6y ago
That sounds pretty great actually. I just know what for me, none of this really "clicked" until I had someone to work through these emotions with
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by al_ak 6y ago
I really do hope your page helps some people with their procrastination issues. But I can't help feel like your whole approach suffers from engineers disease. But maybe that's what will resonate with some folks. A compassionate th
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The Evolution of Music Production Software User Interface Metaphors (2015)(arpjournal.com)
1 points by al_ak 6y ago|0 comments
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by al_ak 6y ago
I'm still bitter about their Indiegogo campaign. I did get half a refund, so that's better than most failed crowdsourced projects.
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by al_ak 6y ago
Research seems to agree with you: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dont-delay/202003/ne...
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by al_ak 6y ago
This is very typical in an enterprise shop where you have end users connecting directly to the database for reporting purposes. Being able to take advantage of your existing directory structure and security groups is huge.
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by al_ak 7y ago
Yet formal correctness is about "getting things 100% correct 100% of the time" to the greatest extent possible (you can mathematically prove the "correctness" of a program using formal methods, but it still has to run on
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by al_ak 7y ago
I know Alaska used Lotus Domino (a web framework with Lotus Notes as the development stack) in the late '90s to put some of their services online (job postings/electronic applications is the big one I remember). It worked pretty w
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by al_ak 9y ago
One of the hosts of that podcast is an evolution denier. Not someone I’d expect to get valuable insight from
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What happens when the Internet goes out in Southeast Alaska?(juneauempire.com)
37 points by al_ak 12y ago|4 comments