handrous

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by handrous 5y ago
You seem to be assuming I don't consume a bunch of content that could be replaced with Snake Game or Solitaire at ~0 loss of enjoyment, because it's incredibly low-value entertainment, so am somehow looking down on others. What
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by handrous 5y ago
> It wouldn't just be 'non profit', it would be 'considerable loss'. You can't provide a service like YouTube or Google without incurring enormous expense, even if you're only counting the infrastructur
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by handrous 5y ago
> It came out the summer before 9/11. It is petty and weird and, maybe I’m pilled, but it’s pretty good. I remember thinking it was OK when I watched it when it came out. I watched it again just a few months ago, for the first time
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by handrous 5y ago
> This is all well and good, but then we need a serious alternative funding model for websites. Why? Without competition from free-but-funded-with-$billions ad-supported services, most of the valuable stuff would probably be replaced by
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by handrous 5y ago
> is more experimental protocols to enrich the web, New protocols are DOA until we significantly nerf the incentives to "own" the user. IOW it's not gonna happen until we outlaw anything that resembles spying on users. A
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by handrous 5y ago
C. 2000 I was able to match state-of-the-art web designs, solo, without much difficulty, writing raw HTML & JS. And get paid for it. I was in high school. That was the best time to build websites. (Though at least "flat" tre
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by handrous 5y ago
Follow up: which one's the most fun if you're onboarding to it and aren't already very very good at, specifically, the underlying tech/framework? That's where a lot of the fun-for-greenfield ones are way less
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by handrous 5y ago
Those of us not in elite circles have a little trouble getting worked up over the difference between something that looks like it's scummy, immoral cheating, but is legal, or the same, but illegal. Same played out with the college entr
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by handrous 5y ago
I wonder: what's the average age of a worker whose wages would increase if the federal minimum wage increased to $15/hr? There's "supposed" and then there's what's actually happening. I suspect most peop
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by handrous 5y ago
Besides, given how necessary cell phones are now, perhaps especially for the low-income, spending a little more for one that works really well and is very reliable isn't crazy.
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by handrous 5y ago
Affording Internet access and a cell phone is no problem for me, but the only reason I have either is because they're de facto required for my work, for my spouse's work, and for our kids' school. I do use it for other st
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by handrous 5y ago
> I would compare Tiananmen Square with the Tulsa race massacre. How many Americans don't know about it? I'd never heard of it until I watched Watchmen. So, I'd lived nearly half my life before hearing of it. I spent my en
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by handrous 5y ago
Our economy seems really good at producing cheap garbage that's hardly worth even their low prices, expensive shit that actually works (expensive in part because the cheap garbage eats into its economy of scale by taking market share),
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by handrous 5y ago
I like Redux because it's portable—you can easily rip it out of a React project and use it anywhere—and because it provides a really nice way to separate backend-talking-stuff from frontend-rendering-stuff, if you're dividing up d
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by handrous 5y ago
> Because if not, aren't you just adding another attack vector onto all your employee/contractor laptops when you use 'Drata' to check a policy box on your SOC2 application? I have bad news: gaining security certifica
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by handrous 5y ago
They need to send you a machine if they want you on some kind of special network or to have their monitoring tools or whatever on it. That's it. Period.
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by handrous 5y ago
10 is also quite bad. It adds very little useful over Win7, while making several built-in programs worse and infecting the whole thing with spying and ads. They're on a bad streak.
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by handrous 5y ago
I know folks in non-tech office jobs who say it's easy to exceed typical metrics for their department in, at most, two hours of actual work per day. Doesn't even require that those be especially frantic or hard-working hours thems
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by handrous 5y ago
HN, obviously. The only way this site stays so busy is lots and lots of people doing this instead of working. It'd be much quieter if there weren't plenty of people like OP.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Battery life doesn't matter, just plug your damn laptop, it's throttling itself if it's not plugged in anyways. Counterpoint: battery life and, for the first time in my life, being able to treat my laptop as actually po
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by handrous 5y ago
Not "nothing else". They're the only half-decent vendor if you don't want to have to think about your computer very much, and also want it to mostly work well and do useful things automatically or very easily (especial
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by handrous 5y ago
Usually has to do with security requirements, often dictated by the industry they're in. Health care and military contracting are both huge , and are both areas that large companies tend to end up serving even if they didn't set
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by handrous 5y ago
Not that poster, but I am over 35, and I hate computers. Fucking around with computers without being paid to do it is just about the last thing I'd want to do. They're miserable time-sinks unless you've got a strong need fo
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by handrous 5y ago
It hadn't occurred to me that this might lead a whole bunch of people, who didn't previously, to regard the employment relationship as fundamentally coercive. Hm. I'm now torn on this.
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by handrous 5y ago
What does this have to do with the actual topic of the parent post?
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, good old Watergate-gate.
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by handrous 5y ago
Maybe that's what I was looking for. FFS, way back in the mists of time I'm pretty sure I had a hat that read "COPYLEFT". You'd think I'd be able to get it correct.
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by handrous 5y ago
Makes it much less likely someone will accidentally define a type as "any".
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by handrous 5y ago
It's the exact opposite of weird. Tons of people still end up in relationships with people they initially hit it off with at work, despite a well-publicized increase in risk and efforts at shifting norms so we think it's "wei
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, even after all these years I get tripped up on which terms only apply to viral-license open source.

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