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by rovek 1y ago
I love this article and the pluralist worldview harking back to 2015/16. I'd love to tell my team "Hey we're going to build this small separate use case in Svelte". But the evaluation checklist, which is pretty accu
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by rovek 3y ago
Fun but I prefer the previous version about a bridge building team https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks - Second section
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by rovek 3y ago
Nothing soured my (already negative) opinion of Crypto as much as regular conversations with a Crypto VC. Every time we spoke they were either sceptical or very excited about something that, to me, was obviously a trivial example of 1 or mo
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by rovek 4y ago
I would suggest because the sentiment is a trite misrepresentation of people's experiences across multiple facets. Throughout the summer you'll smell weed constantly if you're out and about and never see anyone so much as app
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by rovek 4y ago
We drive on the left, which means we walk on the right (to see traffic coming), so I guess it stems from the latter
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by rovek 4y ago
Depends what you mean by "the remainder of the world". Most mid-tier companies I've worked at or know people who work at in London started moving on from microservices some time ago. So I guess, unsurprisingly, no.
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by rovek 4y ago
Leaving them in the room to complete the tasks was an early red flag here. If you have no insight into how people think about and complete tasks then you are testing the product of their time, not their approach to problem solving. You then
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by rovek 4y ago
This is great, I would upvote it more if I could. Also very accurate on the lack of required empathy. The combination of your last points and "hard work does not pay off" are something that it took me until 32 (and arguably then o
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by rovek 4y ago
I feel a bit of this every time there are pushes to get everyone to code, it's very weird. Sort of related is the expectation that you should just be able to switch into a programming career in a few weeks. You can't do that with
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by rovek 4y ago
Consdering the state of learning materials for the remainder of my educational (and professional, I'm looking at you compliance courses) life, it really is mindblowing what they achieved with Encarta in the '90s.
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by rovek 4y ago
My experience of two games going free to play, PUBG and Rocket League, is that in the former 100% of games now have cheaters in and in the latter ~25-40% games have people playing on fresh accounts to keep their rank artificially low.
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by rovek 4y ago
For me the biggest negative to F2P is in competitive games, so especially Rocket League in this case, because being F2P means that the competitive element and matchmaking system is 100% worthless.
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by rovek 5y ago
It feels like some of the more agile publishers reacted to this sentiment some years ago, in that they started publishing 5,000 word articles about EVERYTHING and subsequently even long reads are self-indulgent garbage. I personally would e
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by rovek 5y ago
It's so satisfying to see these streams getting massive attention and loving it when they must go through insane peaks of traffic but mostly trundle on with a smaller dedicated core. The raw passion is refreshing
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by rovek 5y ago
I'd be interested to know what drives these differences, whether it can be measured, and why there seems to be limited crossover of "circles". In the UK, I've had WhatsApp for about 12 years since the Nokia N900. If some
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by rovek 5y ago
I think it would be charitable to assume the author meant "fulfilling" by "cool stuff". I am looking for a company right now that fits into either "cool stuff" or "positive impact" but the latter is F
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by rovek 5y ago
Cheaper for sure but the underlying complexity is completely hidden on consoles. There are many justifications for why PCs "can be simple" if you just buy pre-built, but that only solves your problem for an unspecified amount of t
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by rovek 5y ago
This article seems to present a strange collection of information. "Young people and porn" as a heading really came from nowhere.
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by rovek 5y ago
I'm no expert in anything relevant, but this comment and the parent strike me as great examples of Western Individualism and Eastern Collectivism; the idea that da Vinci as an individual creates some view of the world through his being
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by rovek 5y ago
Your second quote conveniently chops out the main point of the article, which is that Apple abuse their dominance to force developers into having no choice.
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by rovek 5y ago
Analogies tend to remove any meaningful detail from a situation, as in this case
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by rovek 5y ago
I feel this about anything I read about empire in the last few years. I enjoyed Paxman's book Empire for the very reason that he mocks the self-righteousness of the "heroes of Empire", their "divine mission", the wa
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by rovek 5y ago
I don't see that anything in your comment precludes reciprocation of unnecessarily conservative limitations on one's life. It could be argued that keeping everyone home instead of just those at risk was irrational.
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by rovek 5y ago
Seems like a question of reciprocity and solidarity. I'm not sure if I agree with the sentiment of OP but I do understand frustration that those of us who had an inconsequentially small probability of falling ill to this virus have los
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by rovek 5y ago
I always try this if I accidentally press a button, or enter an empty lift with a few buttons pressed. One glorious day in a hotel in Penang, I double-pressed a button and my dreams came true, lights out. That one experience will be enough
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by rovek 5y ago
I'm excited about this. I've used Excalidraw as a simple, lo-fi interviewing tool at a few companies for when we want candidates to draw something without having too many tools to get bogged down in making a masterpiece. For me it
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by rovek 5y ago
I don't know if this is a cultural difference with cryptic crosswords in general or if it's specific to NYT crosswords, I used to do NYT crosswords with my American partner (I'm British) and the wordplay never made sense to m
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by rovek 5y ago
> And the whole blue/green bubble pretentiousness Honestly, reading the rest of the comments in this thread to this effect, it's terrifying that the runaway success of a single company can so degrade the fabric of personal rela
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by rovek 5y ago
> That is despite the Daily Mail writing multiple stories a day about his comments around that time and employing him as a columnist. Sounds like they take a manual approach to manipulating their search ranking; spam is worthy of downran
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by rovek 5y ago
> The UK is infamously known for not appreciating programming skills. Not sure what the basis is for this. I'm a SWE with 10 years experience and I've been shopping around for countries to escape to for more than a year, I didn

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