softwarebeware

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by softwarebeware 2y ago
of course it's a concern because kids don't know that there's going to be a big gap between what they create and what they envision so it's disheartening for them
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by softwarebeware 3y ago
Update: Today 01/05 the account was finally reactivated with no explanation. I only ever received templated emails from their support department demanding “proof of all payments made in the last two months”. I repeatedly emailed that t
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Another Google Ads account suspension for no reason plus no reply from support
1 points by softwarebeware 3y ago|2 comments
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by softwarebeware 3y ago
Funny how Brooks’ Law is still something people are learning: “ And counter-intuitively, adding more people to an early-stage project doesn't make it go faster.”
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by softwarebeware 3y ago
Shouldn't you feel "bad" for Meta then? They apparently both "picked the name out of the dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist" _and_ knew about Threads Software Limited before they put the name into
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by softwarebeware 3y ago
Hear hear. I've been a Premium subscriber for awhile.
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by softwarebeware 3y ago
You're talking about this right? > I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software? Are you really opposed to "a class" on writing sof
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by softwarebeware 3y ago
The headline is dismal. Now writers can’t even be bothered to write what the improvement is? 40% of ______? “…Just trust us, 40% of something is ‘shaved’ …it’s good we promise.”
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by softwarebeware 3y ago
There is r/ExperiencedDevs but some people join with a definition of "experienced" as two or three years.
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Doesn't that have the drawback, though, that you aren't able to share the playlist? My biggest complaint about Airplay (and also Bluetooth) is that someone might put their music on but when I want to put "my" music on I
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
> Pareto's law really isn't a law. No "law" of software or business is technically a law in the same rigorous sense that a scientific law is. But that's not why we call them laws and it would be nitpicking to cal
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Shout out for the open source option: Snapcast - https://mjaggard.github.io/snapcast/
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
I'm unclear of the exact problem. Are you having a problem with powering two passive speakers from the same amplifier? Or you have two active speakers (each with its own internal amplifier and plug into the wall) and you have a problem
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
MPD works great for non-tech-savvy friends over, you just need to install a web-based client and they can point their smartphone browser to it. To make it even easier for friends and family, I set up a dynamic DNS with a friendly URL like m
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Donald Knuth was such a surprise!!
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Another reason is that imperative languages are all that's necessary for many (maybe even the majority) of business use cases. Really a lot of it boils down to if this else that, and little more.
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
And yet today we only have partially-OOP languages being mostly used in procedural ways.
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
> why make a free DDNS service? > because we can, because before we started we couldn't, learning is fun That last line about learning has the right spirit!
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Taxes on cigarettes, in the US, at least, are not driven primarily by Christian moralists. I was part of a prominent US non-profit that is behind both higher cigarette taxes and laws that ban smoking in public areas. The motivation is healt
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
> I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money. > It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it. Yes, but a public good has costs whether or not you want to ackn
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
This is old news, right? Did they not change this yet?
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
> This is like claiming David Beckham uses advanced physics to kick his free kick David Beckham is in a highly-specialized field (professional soccer player) and this is about things everyday people use, so I guess I don't follow th
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Totally! Reminds me of Foundation by Isaac Asimov where scientists turn into the equivalent of priests in some cultures.
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
> The point of the question is that it's posed by the people who aren't going to go on to create weather reports, credit card payment systems, video games, etc. I don't think so. If you're in high school and you ask t
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Correction: his tone is adjacent to personally attacking people who USE Java :P
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Someone help me understand what I'm missing. It sounds like in this article Steve Yegge is describing a tool like Atlassian Fisheye or grepcode and talking about it like it doesn't exist. These tools are out there. I don't se
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
I'm sad to see this because we literally do use calculus every day of our lives. We just don't often recognize it. The weather report is made using calculus. The calculation of the minimum payment on your credit card bill is made
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Yeah, Vancouver BC actually is creating policies like taxing unoccupied housing at a higher rate, instituting a tax on the sale of homes to foreign buyers, and further regulations around real estate "commoditization" and these ar
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
Same here. Particularly the windowing. On a dual-screen setup, Zoom controls go off to other places and do not stay where they were left. I've had multiple experiences of not being able to find the Zoom buttons while I'm on a call
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by softwarebeware 4y ago
"You don't need" anything. You can walk to New York from San Francisco. But of course you'd rather fly. You may settle for driving. The power of a concept isn't in the need but in how well it optimizes the process.

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