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by kastagg 10mo ago
The mixture of motivations includes a desire to contribute something to humanity, a desire to make a mark or achieve recognition, or a desire to gain experience that might enhance your ability to get hired. It can be a hobby like model trai
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by kastagg 10mo ago
If a maintainer complains about slop bug reports, instead of assuming the worst of the maintainer, it'll often be more productive to put yourself in their shoes and consider the context. An individual case may simply be the nth case in
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by kastagg 10mo ago
The text and context of the complaint can be used to steelman it, adopting the principle of charity. From that perspective, the most likely problem is not that bugs are being reported, nor even that patches are not being included with bug r
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by kastagg 4y ago
Nobody is proposing ignoring what people will buy. What I said is that literally thinking "this banana is delicious" does not achieve anything toward the actual delivery of any bananas for consumption. It is the end of the product
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by kastagg 4y ago
Capitalism is what it is in reality, not just in our fondest hopes. The problem with the phrase is the assumption that any day now, something else will inevitably come along to replace it and make everything better. That "replacement&q
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by kastagg 4y ago
You didn't have an unlimited sick policy. You had an undocumented limit. Documenting it lets people know where they stand and protects them in the event they need to take sick time but the boss wants to punish them for it anyway. It al
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by kastagg 4y ago
There's no value in thinking all day about how bananas are delicious. Before you can eat the banana, it has to be produced and shipped. That process does not even involve thinking that bananas are delicious, so that kind of thinking is
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by kastagg 4y ago
People customizing their own machines to suit their needs is in fact a good UX as long as they enjoy it
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by kastagg 4y ago
What seems sinister or manipulative to you about Skinner boxes? Do you feel the same aversion to training dogs using treats or praise?
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by kastagg 4y ago
In this metaphor, are the printing presses private property?
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by kastagg 4y ago
On one hand, there are people who say "flood the zone with shit" and regularly signal boost memes from Stormfront. On the other hand, there are people who think that the New York Times is a newspaper of record and want to fight mi
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by kastagg 4y ago
Did you mean "it's not only about GPL"? I said "licenses like GPL"
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by kastagg 4y ago
What is the overall end goal of the entire game?
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by kastagg 4y ago
The Sims has only very weak goals and scoring and functions perfectly as a sandbox.
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by kastagg 4y ago
Doing some calculations at compile time is useful. What sucks is when the language for expressing this is difficult to think about and interacts poorly with normal code.
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by kastagg 4y ago
The people who designed the first submarines had relatively specific engineering problems and applications in mind. They could bypass any philosophical interrogation of the word "swim" because they didn't define the problem
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by kastagg 4y ago
Carmack joined Oculus before the Facebook acquisition, so it's misleading to say he attached his brand to Facebook's.
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by kastagg 4y ago
That's misleading. Oculus wasn't originally Facebook, and it wasn't Facebook when Carmack joined. Carmack was working on the Oculus hardware around the time Oculus was founded in 2012. He joined Oculus in 2013. Facebook didn&
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by kastagg 4y ago
1. What is your alternative? 2. What is your definition of the problem?
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by kastagg 4y ago
Is it slower?
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by kastagg 4y ago
Related question: are there any alternatives which respect licenses like GPL? If I simply copy-paste code from a GPL project myself, I'm normally expected to preserve the license. It should be possible to indicate what license you&#x27
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by kastagg 4y ago
An investigation is not an attack. Are Senators above the law?
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by kastagg 4y ago
To illustrate how far this discussion is from PKD's frame of reference, PKD didn't need encryption when VALIS used a pink laser beam from space to trigger anamnesis so he remembered that he was a secret Christian in ancient Rome,
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by kastagg 4y ago
This piece shows little awareness of Philip K. Dick's work or the circumstances of his life. PKD wasn't on the typical agenda of a sci-fi author, so it won't really work to analyze his work that way. PKD's fiction doesn&
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by kastagg 4y ago
Not everyone is working at whichever shop offers the highest salary. There are many smart people who are willing to take a pay cut to work on interesting problems. There are some smart people who are already financially secure so that they
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by kastagg 4y ago
If everyone using Linux should use one distribution, which one should it be? Who gets to run it?
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by kastagg 4y ago
There are situations where "abruptly stops working" is not just inconvenient but catastrophic. To make intelligent decisions about these trade-offs it's necessary to consider possible outcomes in detail. That depends on how s
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by kastagg 4y ago
If you know you're throwing two away, you won't even really start in earnest until the third one.
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by kastagg 4y ago
What is the right thing?
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by kastagg 4y ago
How do you know there is no cost/benefit analysis?

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