normloman

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by normloman 11y ago
Yeah but that convenience is very useful. I think we're just talking past eachother. Remotes make watching tv way easier. The question is whether some of these internet enabled devices make things easier or not.
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by normloman 11y ago
Yeah but in order to reach that conclusion you have to abstract too much. We can all agree that devices are and will change how we live. But now we're not talking about VR, Smart TVs, or the Internet of Things anymore. Because the trut
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by normloman 11y ago
I agree that the chips could be cheaper with the right killer app. It's a matter of time. Tech "thought leaders" think that time is now. I think it's still a few years off. But what solves the issue of being useless? And
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by normloman 11y ago
Remember in the 90s when everyone said virtual reality and smart TVs were the next wave of high tech? And how all the big companies started putting money into R&D for said technologies? Remember how it never materialized? (Well, it&#x27
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by normloman 11y ago
Was your last landlord a jerk hellbent on ruining your life? Good luck being anyone's roommate. - The Future
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by normloman 11y ago
Then how come half the blogs today show black pages when javascript's disabled? Not just applications.
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by normloman 11y ago
No, the point is, people without a password manager tend to use the same password for every account. So you steal the bank password, and it opens your email, facebook, and everything else. Hundreds of failure points. With a password manager
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by normloman 11y ago
But only the abusive employers are going to buy the technology. Because the excellent employers will realize no good can come of this.
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by normloman 11y ago
> I'm not going to lie, the social pressure is non-zero, and it is indeed another lever for micromanagers to pull, but I think you're being overly pessimistic here. Anyone who's ever worked a job in the US and seen the tox
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by normloman 11y ago
Even believing in a lie? Not saying our choices don't matter, but we often attribute too much of our own success to our choices, and not our circumstance. Gives off a distorted view of reality. Coming to terms with the truth would be e
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by normloman 11y ago
"go out and find a new gig. " Isn't that exactly what he's trying to do? "If you ARE a programming fool (like me for example)" You must have a huge penis.
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by normloman 11y ago
I'm sick of everyone shaming the guy for having 4 kids. It's not like he can reverse time and stop them from being born. So saying he can't afford kids only serves the purpose of making the guy feel bad. Besides, you don&#x27
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by normloman 11y ago
Thinking out of the box is not mutually exclusive with having a social life. I know many artists and musicians who are doing truly groundbreaking stuff. They all violate the social norms, and have unusual lifestyles. But all of them are ver
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by normloman 11y ago
But not everyone can afford to have a business fail. And most do.
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by normloman 11y ago
Why do we need another paradigm? Stop designing websites to be identical.
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by normloman 11y ago
Key word: Material quality of life. So we're saving money on plastic deck chairs and pringles cans. But the cost of health insurance, real estate, and higher education has gone up.
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by normloman 11y ago
" I can't imagine someone like Steve Jobs or Warren Buffett actually wanting to keep people from resources or excess wealth if they had no use for it." 1. Na, some wealthy people would totally do that. It's their hard ea
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by normloman 11y ago
More standardized testing will mean more parents pushing their kids into test prep.
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by normloman 11y ago
All the shitty things we do to websites is to make money. We stuff them full of ads because ads make money. We load 10 megabytes of JS trackers because it helps the ads make money. We paginate articles in order to show more ads, to make mon
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by normloman 11y ago
This doesn't work for Esperanto. Fiku vin!
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by normloman 11y ago
I don't think we have to give up libraries and interpreted languages. Just stop writing shit code because your boss needs it done in 5 minutes. Of course, thats our bosses fault, not ours. And its a symptom of a larger cultural attitud
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by normloman 11y ago
> It's almost impossible to force cultural change on a country. A few decades ago, a majority of Americans didn't support gay marriage. Now it has majority support, and is legal in every state. This didn't happen by accid
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by normloman 11y ago
The difference between reading a novel and writing a business plan is that you have to write the business plan. That makes a huge difference.
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by normloman 11y ago
How many YC start ups are so successful that the founders can retire after 4 years? Hardly any. PGs trying to dupe us.
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by normloman 11y ago
"That's just not how it works" isn't a reasoned argument. Tell us the real reason why you insist on working yourself to exhaustion despite solid evidence that it makes you less productive.
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by normloman 11y ago
I've noticed that some designers are really copyists. They can't create an original look for a website. They merely copy whatever style is popular. They moved from faux wood finishes to completely flat, and now they seem to think
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by normloman 11y ago
You shouldn't put an emphasis on gender. But the numbers and stories like these prove that most people do, even if unconsciously. All of us are subject to biases, and pretending like you're above this reeks of hubris.
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by normloman 11y ago
That's why there are multiple stories. So someone reading can see the whole range of women's experience in technology. I'm sure there will be some good, some bad.
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by normloman 11y ago
I HATE when people split up a long paragraph into tweets like this. It's absolutely the worst format for reading long text. You can only read one sentence at a time, and you have to read them backwards! If you can't fit an argumen
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by normloman 11y ago
The artists have no right to complain. They were the ones asking for money in the first place. They promised the public they would deliver on the "toy." They underestimated what it would take to make the game. The backers are not

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