grundoon

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by grundoon 3y ago
Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your
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by grundoon 4y ago
Am I the only one who looked at the site & thought "this can't be for real"?
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by grundoon 4y ago
"I'd be fine with removing all the LinkedIn examples from the website, but I'd like to continue building Browserflow..." -- my advice is to do just that. IANAL but you will be in the right (not always the same as being o
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by grundoon 4y ago
You're not off base. Paul Ehrlich was right, the population bomb has exploded, the Earth's resources are stretched and breaking. That's the trouble at the root.
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by grundoon 4y ago
You are begging the question.[1] The question wasn't "what is the cause?" but rather "what is the solution?" which you fail to answer, as in: how can we prevent "the media" from pushing faux moral intellec
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by grundoon 4y ago
thegrayzone.com seems like it could be a front for Russian agitprop
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by grundoon 4y ago
If you can't remain patient for 40 hours to learn HTML, I recommend NOT trying to become a developer. Patience is necessary for a developer, imo.
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by grundoon 4y ago
I worked with two other devs, they both seemed nice at first. But the one who was nicer left, and the other one turned out to be an alcoholic, with accompanying mood swings.
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by grundoon 4y ago
burning fossil fuels for energy, leaded gasoline, Facebook
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by grundoon 4y ago
I can relate. My strategy for work/life balance has been 1. get hired; 2. work hard while learning new stuff; 3. slack off; 4. get fired (layed off); 5. goto 1 Not that I recommend it, just fwiw. Contract work with time between gigs mi
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by grundoon 4y ago
"It seems like this forum is full of people who have traveled a similar path: starting with big ideas and hopes for their future, sometimes being able to achieve those but through a tremendous amount of time and effort. Or, have realiz
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by grundoon 4y ago
no.
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by grundoon 4y ago
...Twitter ... a place for public discourse..." lol
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by grundoon 5y ago
The story I heard (I worked at Borland briefly in 1999): Microsoft would send a limo to the Borland HQ to pick up engineers for interviews on their lunch breaks. Borland sued, Microsoft settled for many millions, but basically instead of bu
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by grundoon 6y ago
"computers are already better at identifying traffic lights from street view images than you are" -- I'm still better than they are at identifying traffic lights IRL though :-)
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by grundoon 6y ago
The thing that really ticks me off about those captchas -- besides that it seems I'm more likely to have them forced on me when I'm on a VPN, so presenting an AWS IP to their server -- is that sometimes they think I'm wrong a
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by grundoon 6y ago
you mean morale