lastangryman

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by lastangryman 3y ago
> Meta-meta-comment, but "horrible" is your value judgement, which isn't shared by everybod > I do feel Rakuten's website is "horrible"
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Sorry to hear you're in that situation. Having been responsible for hiring at a few places I would stress to keep yourself busy and your tech skills active. If you have a big gap with no explanation or activity it's hard to justif
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by lastangryman 3y ago
> Say “please” and “thank you” a lot. I remember a previous role the team leaders all went on a management training course. Everyone came back and started adding "please" to every request. I found it really patronising and felt
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by lastangryman 3y ago
100%. That's the first thing I want to see after a brief intro.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Amazing. I would absolutely love to sit down with the Secretary of State and test their knowledge of what does of does not consist of of computer.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
This makes me hyper sad. Seems Amazon are just making things worse with everything they do. Ever tried to buy something like a USB hub or charge cable off Amazon? Endless suspect brands you've never heard of with poor quality. Now they
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Full disclosure didn't even read the article. But if you wanted to know what programming as a game would look like, play Factorio. Refactoring, decoupling, debugging, it's all there. I played it intensely for 3 weeks then had to f
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by lastangryman 3y ago
> Also from a store perspective, any game where shortcuts like this are used tend to be shit games. They don't want spam games to be pumped. There's already enough indie trash platformers that nobody wants. I find this hard to
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by lastangryman 3y ago
I chuckled at: > NewsGuard has a clever way to identify these junk AI-written websites...For example, one site called CountyLocalNews.com had messages like “Sorry, I cannot fulfill this prompt as it goes against ethical and moral princ
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by lastangryman 3y ago
I find it extremely upsetting that `networkQuality` is the only command that is not entirely lowercase. How did this get through PR??
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by lastangryman 3y ago
I actually feel embarrassed for Amazon when I'm trying to checkout and can see all the deceptive tricks they implement to make you sign up. This is one of the richest companies in the world acting like dodgy internet scammers. Good to
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Apologies, I'm not up to date in this space, so probably a stupid question but how does this differ to docker compose? My understanding of the value of codespaces was instant start up, literally zero to download locally, and centralise
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by lastangryman 3y ago
You should try Godot. Open source and extremely lightweight compared to Unity and Unreal. It's pleasure to use, none of the baggage of the other engines. I'm a patron contributor. Fantastic for hobbyist tinkering and also viable
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by lastangryman 3y ago
With all the those leetcode-style interviews and dynamic programming problems in the interview process, surely the genius "Googlers", the worthy few, that make it through this process wouldn't need to use AI to generate code.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
There is such a small market for 4 player local co-op indie games, I think you need something really special to grab people's attention. It was an interesting deconstruction though. The bit about the different trailer variations they n
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by lastangryman 3y ago
On long enough timescales, capitalism destroys anything good. The root cause behind all of this drama is Reddits need to maximise their valuation, and the impact that has on their decision making.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Thanks - I'm sure there are other uses cases, I didn't mean to imply there weren't, just for me I always associate AOP with a time in my career where nothing useful was ever shipped, but there was lots of pontificating and ph
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Ah this takes me back to my first job. Medical start up, working on a very long term project that the company was completely unequipped to deliver. I was young and keen so didn't appreciate the context, I just did stuff. For some reaso
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Wonderful story and very inspiring. Is programming the only field where you have this strange mix of people coding "as a job" with literally no interest beyond that, and projects like this? It's hard to explain stuff like thi
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by lastangryman 3y ago
How nice to read a long-from piece online, simply and clearly formatted, with no adverts, popups, affiliate links, or such nonsense. Just genuine writing. > The work was the only thing that kept me out of my anxiety. I know it's a t
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by lastangryman 3y ago
I got sinking feelings of dread and despair reading that, a terrifying insight in to the internal Microsoft mindset.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
All these detailed, complicated arguments. Why is homelessness not the same level of problem in the UK? Maybe think about that then consider why it's such an issue in the US.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
That API pricing, for what is mostly static content, is just insane. I've created pricing models for write heavy APIs that come out at a fraction of that, while still maintaining a margin. If that's a genuinely "fair" pr
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by lastangryman 3y ago
It's a digital Tragedy of the Commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Surely a simple solution here is for Glassdoor to show removed reviews with a simple placeholder text and a reason for removal. Glassdoor could also account for these in its overall rankings, and show a graph plotting number of removals aga
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by lastangryman 3y ago
I read the article more as: take the leap, but recognise when to step back reassess.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
I took time out to work on a personal project that sounds a lot like this article, a lot of what's said here resonated with me really strongly. It's funny how the spark of an idea and excitement can fade once the reality sets in a
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by lastangryman 3y ago
Once Chat GPT comes with a realistic avatar and human voice, I wonder if pleasantries will become the default. I'm just thinking of K walking through the police station in Blade Runner 2049 and the other officers telling him to "*
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by lastangryman 3y ago
That really sucks you were put in that position.
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by lastangryman 3y ago
I see what you are saying, but susbscription according to OP was for "HP Instant Ink". I also assume the cost of the subscription was pretty much to cover the cost of the Ink. In my eyes, OP has already paid for the ink. If they w

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