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by obedm 5y ago
Free content drivers people to the paid version. Is not like this model doesn't work. It's on every SaaS out there. Having a big paying community will drive more free content, as both the paying and free customers benefit from it.
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by obedm 5y ago
That problem could be attributed to the tragedy of the Commons. Claiming you don't work well in an open plan office and being taken at face value would lead to literally everyone saying that, because surprise, most people don't wo
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by obedm 5y ago
Gorgeous. I'm a strong atheist but Buddhism has always been the religion I've respected the most. At least the philosophical aspect of it. I used to struggle with this too. To this day I use a box to pick up spiders or mosquitoes
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by obedm 5y ago
I strongly disagree. A senior engineer that has always worked in the backend won't be able to be up to speed with a complex frontend app quickly and be as effective as a senior frontend. There's just too much to know about browser
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by obedm 5y ago
This is one of the best selling points to me. Most console games are designed to be played like this. I can just leave the game and come back tomorrow. For PC games I have to open it, make sure it's saved, close it. And so on. Sitting
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by obedm 5y ago
Poker players not necessarily. The point is that the market has been going up in the long term for as long as there's been a market. So you're better off just investing and forgetting about it rather than investing made from your
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by obedm 5y ago
It's perfectly fine to enjoy a day job. I truly love mine. I enjoy working at it, and I enjoy the freedom it gives me to do other stuff after work. I enjoy the monetary reward but also the act of solving hard problems every day.
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by obedm 5y ago
Isn't everything a rat race if you boil it down enough? Working for yourself? Rat race Working for others? Rat race The human reward system works in a way that doing something repetitive, that is just novel enough and just challenging
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by obedm 5y ago
This is the reason I switched from Roam Research to obsidian. If Roam goes bust, so does my data. If Obsidian goes bust, I'll just have a bunch of markdown files I can import elsewhere. Not to mention Obsidian seems to try to add as fe
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by obedm 5y ago
Thank you for bringing joy to my evening. This was hilarious
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by obedm 5y ago
Sure thing. But I always give reasons. That stuff builds trust. Even silly things like "hey I'm tired and feeling down, gonna take a couple of days off" builds a lot of rapport. And unless you're dealing with a huge assh
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by obedm 5y ago
The author exactly says this "two engineers with the same experience". I'm sure there are engineers that can create an architecture 10x better than mine. But show me someone that can create UI 10x faster and I'll admit t
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by obedm 5y ago
Knowing that so many things are being changed for good is amazing. "climate change is forcing everyone's hand" Everyone should see it this way. Like, there's no leeway, just do whatever it takes to tame climate change.
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by obedm 5y ago
Well... This is an idea I never had lol.
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by obedm 5y ago
I love titles. They're made up bullshit but people assign value to them. If I meet someone with 8 years of experience that is not confident to tell me they're a senior engineer, I won't hire them. If I meet someone with 2 yea
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by obedm 5y ago
Was going to comment the same. What kind of city would need that? I'm always amazed at how people think their little part of the world is an accurate representation of reality.
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by obedm 5y ago
I lived in cities all my life, until two years ago when I moved to the very green suburbs of Budapest. Now, Whenever we go to the city, I notice how much it stinks. It's so weird because I never noticed that before. My nose for used to
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by obedm 5y ago
This is the best video I've watched on nutrition in ages. Backed by real science while acknowledging the things we don't fully understand. The idea that not all calories are the same is something I've known for a while. But u
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by obedm 5y ago
This perfectly encapsulated why I LOVE web development. You can debug one of the most complex softwares in the world (a browser) so effectively you can understand what you did wrong and fix it.
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by obedm 5y ago
Comments are documentation. I've never seen or heard of a team that keeps documentation for their complex algorithms. It's just not done. And if it was, I'd bet that they get out of date very fast
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by obedm 5y ago
I find this incredibly sad for many reasons. Taking time off to work for the company that doesn't let you work for them during normal work hours. The irony is so strong but I understand the sentiment and why you'd do it
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by obedm 5y ago
Can someone explain to me what does IPv6 offer that's IPv4 doesn't? Apart from way more addresses. A good article would suffice.
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by obedm 5y ago
Haha I shouldn't have included it, it was petty.
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by obedm 5y ago
Sucking at what you do != not being passionate. Passionate people can also suck at their jobs. I did some terrible things when I was inexperienced. There's nothing special about software. It's like asking the builder of your house
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by obedm 5y ago
Been there. But what I try to do is just invite them. Like literally tell them before hand the food is on me. Or find some stupid reason to pay for them. Even if it's just two pizzas, but it's at my place, I'll just pay and s
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by obedm 5y ago
Why? You don't need to be passionate about your work to be a great employee. Many days I don't feel like working and I'm not motivated. But I still do (I think) a great job and try my best. Passion is bullshit. Passion is use
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by obedm 5y ago
Being a good engineer goes beyond being good at coding. Many great coders suck at communication or are just not nice to be around. I've seen amazing "coders" not being hired because they can't have a good conversation du
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by obedm 5y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I'll read more on the subject. History is god damn hard. That's why it's useful to read the source material whenever possible. I don't know how many times I've seen The Parable Of th
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by obedm 5y ago
Yup I've tried to deal better with me frustration in these cases. Hah my wife has been shoving off the lab leak thing at me, she said it was like that and I said nah at the beginning of the pandemic.
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by obedm 5y ago
This is true. I struggle with the branding iron myself. For me a big part of it comes from frustration that I (we, science) know the answer to things, and someone refuses to accept it. We don't know everything of course. And most of th

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