shaggyfrog

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by shaggyfrog 3y ago
Louis Rossmann is a well-known figure in the maker/hacker spaces. He has been making top-notch instructional videos for a long time. Amazon is one of the largest tech companies in the world. Amazon's hostile relationship to their
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by shaggyfrog 4y ago
I hear that 2023 is going to be the Year of Linux on the Desktop!
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by shaggyfrog 4y ago
There’s a great video by NativLang on different kinship systems: https://youtu.be/YOi2c2d3_Lk
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
> The system is designed so that most of the staffing budget goes to new hires, not to reward existing employees. Organizations undervalue their employees, encouraging brain drain, and then wonder why retention is such a hard problem. It
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
"Because I paid for the game, and despite the fact I was happy to pay for it and I enjoy playing it, I think everyone else should need to pay for it, too. Otherwise all that enjoyment I had will be undone." c.f.: sunk cost fallacy
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
What would happen if the Colorado state legislature passed a law that said you can't sell goods or services to people in Colorado if you refuse employment to people in Colorado?
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Don't use the Zoom app. Load meetings in an incognito/private/whatever browser window, and cancel the automatic download it prompts you with, then click Join In Browser. Nothing about this company's attitude towards priv
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Based on my personal experience of automated testing in AAA games, even if you "only" count the overlap with the actions humans take, it's a huge overlap in practice. And while there are edge cases only humans find, automated
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Asking for money from candidates as a pay-to-get-hired scheme is evil for the same idea that unpaid internships are evil. Taking it to the next level, it's offering jobs to people with wealth who have networks with wealth. Hyper-discri
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
It's the most crass, base form of rent-seeking I've seen from a YC company. No wonder they got funded...
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
> (I wouldn’t hire again but they did a fine job) This alone makes no sense to me. It's a contradiction. So I assume the website/author thinks they're a kind of mega-hustler 1000x developer or something.
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Facebook is a massively evil company, a true net-negative to life on earth, a destroyer of personal privacy, responsible for facilitating genocides, constantly lying to its users, the most egregious example of how corruptive a monopolistic
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Everything/whatever. Most recent: Python (Django), Kotlin, Java (Spring), JavaScript. Before that: iOS/OSX/Linux/Windows (C/C++/
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Create a firewall between your personal and professional time. Another name for this is “setting healthy boundaries”. Always create new accounts for anything work related -- GitHub, Apple ID, whatever. Don’t install work apps on your person
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
> looks like someone with the same name as the author? that seems kind of unlikely Unlikely, yes, but not impossible. > I mean at that point you’re advocating for the author to not have any identity I am not advocating that at all. Pl
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
> That way nobody gets hurt and you can move on. Until you generate a photo that actually does look like someone, and that person becomes targeted as a result.
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Shitty article by a shitty user with a shitty submission history. How has it lived for so long on the front page? Who upvotes this ?
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
The poor pay a disproportionate amount of taxes for what they get back. They certainly pay more than the billionaire class does. Perhaps the lack of funding has to do with power structures more than some subjective measure of utility.
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Why don't we talk about raising taxes when we want to raise spending for ("subsidize") the police, or the military? Why does it only seem to be a concern when we're talking about services like public transportation? Wher
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Why would public transportation need to be paid for by "boosted commerce" to be beneficial? Why does it need to be profitable? As a public service, do we ask fire departments to be profitable? What consequences happen when we try
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
This is a textbook non-apology and is just further reason to keep this researcher (and whoever else was involved) banned from ever contributing again.
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
The classic American story of condemning a child to a life of incarceration and criminality because a family is too poor to afford to replace an accidentally broken school laptop (and has no other computer)...
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
Foreign ownership has been shown conclusively to be a major factor, if not the most important, in real estate pricing in Vancouver.
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by shaggyfrog 5y ago
The foreign buyers tax and the speculation tax had a demonstrable effect on the market here in Vancouver: https://twitter.com/ianjamesyoung70/status/13712123551708323... Meanwhile, real estate prices are up for th
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
This has always drove me bananas, too. I still have 10.14 but `defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always"` has worked for me for years now. Does it work in 10.15?
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
This argument is as predictable as much as it is done in bad faith. No one is calling for this person to be erased from history. They are asking that he no longer be honoured as a consequence of what he said. Indeed, teaching people what he
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Egads. The term is "generalist", and has been for decades. No one would or should say "short & fat". And yes, generalists are undervalued.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
As a Canadian, Vancouver resident, and software developer, I certainly don’t approve of the discount all software companies get here, including ones based here. Not only do companies pay out 60 cents on the dollar, they can also qualify for
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
This article has almost as many upvotes as that one you’ve linked to, so the criteria doesn’t seem to be very clear.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
There might be a brief back & forth between users flag/vouch but yes, it seems to be getting shitcanned simply because it's about PG. With 22 upvotes currently, I would hope @dang can keep it on the front page for a while.

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