Sevrene

While I can agree there are 'real' rockstar developers that act like the original article mentions, I don't think whether Rick was or wasn't one of them is what matters here. What matters most here is how management dealt with him and their lack of responsibility for Rick's work for the last two years(!) and the end as their result.

Other industries seem to get this better than ours. I've worked in quite a few places that assign too many projects or tasks to key developers and then reprimand them for lack of quality or quantity, which ever you will inevitably buckle under first and it's never the manager's fault for assigning too many tickets or not prioritising their tasks correctly (we're not mind readers) but yet it's always the developers fault for the perceived lack of skill or lack of effort. Don't get me started on the arbitrarily shifting release dates that correlate with buggy releases that we developers get angry emails about. Maybe I've worked at badly managed busineses, or hey, maybe I'm just a bad developer, but this seems like the normal to me.

But if you're managing someone and they fuck up, it's also your responsibility because you were meant to be managing them. That was your job. Even if Rick was told to stop working, take a break, and he didn't it's still not up to him, it's up to the manager to decide what's best for Rick and best for the project.

The problem is that someone will tell you anything to stop you from pulling out their nails, so you can get a lot of really incorrect information.

Why did you link that, can you provide more context?

It doesn't seem like a massive deal according to what they state: he made a joke and it wasn't well received. They never say what the joke is or what about it was sexist.

That's what I do except I use TotalSpaces[1] to use the trackpad to swipe up, right, down or left to each workspace.

You can set applications to open on specific desktops, or any desktop. This combined with moom[2] really makes macOS a pleasure to work with and alleviates the need for multiple monitors.

There's been a lot of talk of people switching from macOS recently and while it's not unfounded I'd struggle replacing this setup.

1. https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/

2. https://manytricks.com/moom/

What!? I never would have expected this, quite a surprise. I hope it works out for them.

Honestly I feel the opposite.

I agree Dwarf Fortress is quite hard to learn and the UI plays a large part of that as it's completely keyboard based and requires a lot of upfront effort to learn, but once you do you become much faster than you would otherwise (much like text editors).

People often complain about Dwarf Fortress's graphics in the same vain and breath as the UI, but I think these are parts of the charm and instead of being weaknesses they are leveraged as strengths.

For instance, the lack of fidelity of the game allows any new character to be added in 2 seconds, yet Rimworld needs a considerable amount of time and effort developing each texture. To an extent I think the 'horrible' user experience cannot be divorced from Dwarf Fortress. Losing is fun, after all.

I think what you consider a 'horrible' user experience cannot be divorced from what we know as Dwarf Fortress today. Losing is fun after all. I love Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress, but they occupy different spaces within a similar genre in my mind.

Or a public bathroom, for example.

I think to some degree everyone is biased. Even if you say you don't care about age there's still some part of your mind that accounts for that when 'you' decide you like someone or not, whether that's negatively or positively.

Affirmative action isn't the solution either, because that's just introducing more bias into the equation. More discrimination cannot beget less discrimination in this case.

> after cleaning up my diet, my migraines were cut in half. I get a cock eyed look from doctors, when I say my treatment is this natural thing, or dietary.

If your 'natural' treatment is just dietary change, that is actually a very valid way to reduce migraines. Your doctor should know that.

Some chemicals in foods are known and some others just suspected to trigger migraines, for instance Tyramine is highly suspected of triggering migraines. For me alcohol has a huge impact on the severity of migraines or just triggering them all together. I've eliminated alcohol completely because of it.

Stilgherrian[1], a technology journalist and commentator from Australia has had issues with this, particularly the Google Plus name policy. He changed his name to his online handle because that's simply what everyone called him.

If I'm designing regular expression to parse a phone number, I make sure that it works on ALL valid phone numbers for the regions required. The same should be done for name policies that are used worldwide, to me it's actually insane and such a huge drawback; banning or blocking users because their name is abnormal yet valid, in the quest of what, removing trolling?

1. https://stilgherrian.com/category/only-one-name/

So what's the difference between this and the whole Mojang 'scrolls' debacle? Seems pretty strange Bethesda would let this fly compared to simply naming your name Scrolls.

I love OpenTDD, but I had no idea you could install it with package managers. That's awesome.

I agree that's it not really a big deal, but there are unforeseen consequences that can be mitigated by simply using the correct domain. So why not, what's to lose?

Thanks for the solid information! I like me some standards, might have to start using .test from now on.

Yeah I heard that bonjour messed up .local, although isn't that meant to be reserved for actual local nets or something?

Do you actually set the A record for it, or do you just set it up in /etc/hosts? Seems risky if it's the first.

Thanks for the input brudgers, I think you're spot on. After a few days there, it seems they are definitely in the first category.

Thanks, thought so.

If it works in other email clients, it should work in Mutt. Personally setting up Mutt was easier than most email clients for me.

Sure, don't see why not.

One time I went up to my local mountain lookout to do some night time photography. It was very dark and I was using long exposure.

During one of the photographs a huge white flash occurred. I turned around and couldn't see anything. It made no sense because I was up on a mountain, and the silent lightning appeared to come from above and behind me.

There wasn't even a cloud in the sky in any direction and it wasn't my camera flash because it was during a long exposure and I was looking at the camera. The photo I took came out over exposed even though it was the same length of exposure I had been using all night.

Don't think I will ever know what it was, but I've always suspected that it's probably something in similar to nature to what the article talks about.

I always felt it was from David's perspective of what is unimaginable to any human, and the scene is just his feeble mind attempting to make sense of something that his body can't. Much in the same way he experiences himself grow old and be reborn; he's being shown something he can't comprehend in a way that makes it easier for him to experience and understand. It's not meant to really be literal. At least that's my take, I could be wrong!

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I agree with you, but isn't this more of a problem with the implementation of body cameras, rather than the idea itself? Normally these sorts of places create bureaucratic systems to enforce common practise and a set of standards, which can be easily circumnavigated if you know the right people. I don't see why the police department can't create a system which requires police to have functioning body cameras, and use software and hardware to enforce it properly, rather than just relying on trust.

Having a healthy amount of suspicion suspends judgements in the first place.

I skimmed the article as I had already heard most of it. No need to be so righteous. You could save yourself time (and everyone else for that matter) if you just worded your original comment a bit better; that's all I wanted to say in the first place. It's ironic that your post looks like propaganda when that's what you are so concerned about in the first place.

This reminds me of what I saw from the Snowden leaks about HUMINT psyops: https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ and it doesn't surprise me that this is being used by election candidates.

Realistically, if they are willing to buy Facebook likes and twitter followers, what else are they willing to do to persuade public opinion to their liking? Companies also engage in a form of this guerrilla propaganda.

You are correct, it is very worrying.

If I was being charged with something and they offered the 'pretty mediocre' option for determining guilt vs the 'believe the victim' option, I know which I'd take.

The system isn't great, but it's the best we've got, sadly.

I didn't read all of your article, I didn't have to read it to see that your comment looks like propaganda; new user, highly politicised comments, abrasive attitude to questions, comments with very similar content, etc.

I don't really know if your comment is propaganda — I don't really care, actually. It's probably not. But we must be suspicious of suspicious acting narrators trying to lead conversations on sites like reddit and hacker news, no?

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but you are aware your comment looks like propaganda as well, right?

If a potentional employer cared more about my previous education history than they do my skills or previous work, than I personally wouldnt really value them either. Not sure if that's the 'correct' way of going about it.