dieterrams

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by dieterrams 8y ago
Jesus Christ. Suppose he is being treated unfairly by the mods. Is that not worth complaining about? I don't give a crap about some silly "downvote every comment complaining about downvotes" rule. Complaining about downvotes
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Well, someone's having a party.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
PSA: one man's pedantry is another man's pro-tip.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
One imagines they do. I'm not sure that's what's going on here, though.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
I vouched for (undeaded) your comment, since I think the flagging/downvoting runs contrary to the principles of discourse we're (at least implicitly) celebrating here, smelling of tribalism/favoritism. Just because you view s
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by dieterrams 8y ago
> Combine sugar and sugar and sprinkle with the sugar. What is this quote from?
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by dieterrams 8y ago
This is almost certainly the result of how popular articles/books by Malcolm Gladwell, etc. have been, which goes back a long ways (The Tipping Point was published in 2000), rather than a prevalence of journalists who were creative wri
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Source re: motivations?
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by dieterrams 8y ago
I have a design background myself, and frankly, you're not going to do much better for flat screen-based UIs than buttons, scrubbers, tables, lists, scrollviews, etc. This has little to do with touch, and everything to do with 2D desig
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by dieterrams 8y ago
I'm not sure why you'd expect a radical reimagining of UI for touch. Touch UIs look largely the same as WIMP UIs because there isn't a radically better way of presenting information and affordances on a screen.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Mobile OSes haven't been ready to accommodate desktop-level use cases. Apple is moving in that direction with iOS on iPad. Once they get there, convergence makes a lot more sense.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Agreed. I think it makes perfect sense to have a phone that can plug into a tablet or any other form factor. The thermals might not let you run an iPhone-in-tablet as fast as a dedicated iPad, but given how fast their chips are getting, it&
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by dieterrams 8y ago
...which was submitted by the same account.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
There used to be. Not sure what happened to it.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
>I didn't know that the US military budget is a third of what it was 60 years ago. It's a little over a third of what it was 60 years ago as a percentage of GDP . And this is in line with most other developed nations. As a per
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by dieterrams 8y ago
I think you're absolutely right that fear is the biggest problem a writer has to overcome, and that many of these products appeal to the fearful writer. At the same time, I do remember what it was like writing on a typewriter, and in D
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by dieterrams 8y ago
You’re rather dismissive and uncharitable, aren’t you?
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by dieterrams 8y ago
I was merely giving you the clearest possible examples, since you seem to be confused about what possible harm nepotism could cause. Sure, in some situations, it may be ambiguous who is actually the better pick. For argument's sake, le
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Suppose it is clearly the wrong business choice for your friend's company to acquire your company. Suppose a friend promoted you over someone else who was vastly more qualified, and worked much harder than you for that promotion. Etc.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
I was saying her categorizations are cartoonish, as in overly simplistic morally and sociologically.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
> It's so interesting to me that your critique went to group politics and identity, though. Rand was consistently negative about groups and big government cronyism. She treated her archetypes as equally noble whether they were break
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by dieterrams 8y ago
The fundamental problem with Rand's ideology is her cartoonish categorization of everyone that isn't Galt-esque or an enthusiastic, hypercompetent support person as evil looters/parasites. Iirc, Galt is basically trying to co
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by dieterrams 8y ago
> The problem isn’t the fluff we read online. The problem is that when you go long periods without reading novels, it’s harder to pick up a novel and enjoy it. Reading fluff online doesn’t make you stop reading novels, though, any more t
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Do you have a short list of book recommendations?
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Jobs’ approach is to inculcate a deep-seated insecurity that drives people to do better work. This is quite a bit different from dissolution of the ego, because it very much depends on the subject having an ego to manipulate.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Watch Whiplash.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
Some of the arguments I’m reading in defense of digital search point out that the things luggage search was originally supposed to find would now be stored on your phone. I accept that argument in principle, but practically, since it’s so e
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by dieterrams 8y ago
It was a couple years ago, but I spoke with one of their engineering managers about Swift adoption within the company. His response was that it was being used for new apps/projects, but not so much for existing codebases. Having worked
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by dieterrams 8y ago
To be fair, GP didn't say they wouldn't hire someone who didn't code for fun in high school, or whatever. Just that hiring was more difficult if you're trying to hire people who actually care about their craft.
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by dieterrams 8y ago
> Do they think the world will run out of low-skilled jobs because AI learns how to perform current ones? History doesn't back this up, I don’t have a well considered opinion about AI’s impact on jobs, but AI isn’t exactly like the

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