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extrememacaroni··on Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
This is the weirdest thing but I get a sort of "uncanny valley" effect from all the screenshots, I try to parse them as Installshield Wizards but they're actually regular apps.
extrememacaroni··on Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
Anyone got a clue where they're gonna drop em?
extrememacaroni··on When 70M people visit your joke site
Ah yes, yours must be the snarkiest reply ever given.
extrememacaroni··on Arabian Nights
I have HN zoomed in to 200% on my monitor.
extrememacaroni··on Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python
uncle bob told me you don't wanna be good at using a debugger

print("here") till the day i die!!!

extrememacaroni··on Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
It's because you need to keep going from Beer 2 Beer to be able to overlook Teams' issues.
extrememacaroni··on The S in IoT is for Security
What an amazing solution, so simple and accessible to the average consumer. What's the next revelation, that you can prevent the IOT devices from reaching the internet by reverse engineering and rewriting their software?
extrememacaroni··on Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
why would anyone sing a jewel anyway
extrememacaroni··on CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand
the key issue is that they'll never reach a decent playing experience on some of the platforms they've released on: PS4 & Xbone.
extrememacaroni··on SpaceX says Starlink now has over 10k users
Superfast internet anywhere on the globe will intensify

video streaming, Smartphones, Wikipedia, Google maps, CRISPR, mRNA vaccines

everywhere

extrememacaroni··on I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
This reminds me of an idea I had days ago of using an AI to tell poisonous mushrooms from edible ones apart, from photos.

Then I realized I don't want to be responsible for anyone's death.

extrememacaroni··on Introduction to Window Functions in SQL
SQL is only secondary in my work but I'd rather go with the explicit and verbose queries rather than with stuff with surprises like how the last_value gives wrong results when used the way you'd expect i.e. the reverse of first_value.
extrememacaroni··on My Experience at Apple
isn't that you basically complaining about his complaining about his downvoting?
extrememacaroni··on Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years
I too think it's preposterous that it's somehow okay for companies to simply make disappear things you've bought/spent money on/anything like that.

This is the main reason I avoid games like this. It's just a trap, nothing keeps the developer from retiring the game whenever it feels like, nothing keeps the developer from releasing an update that completely changes how the game plays. If you like a game now, next week they can rebalance it and introduce microtransactions and that's... perfectly okay it seems?

extrememacaroni··on Pierre Cardin has died
Ah yes, the regret of being seen unfavorably by Hackernews, I'm sure he was devastated.
extrememacaroni··on PayPal introduces new fee for dormant accounts
there's my friendly reminder to delete my pp account
extrememacaroni··on Global nitrogen dioxide levels dropped since COVID: NASA video
were ded
extrememacaroni··on Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com
Isn't keeping history the job of the waybackmachine? Or an archival service in general.
extrememacaroni··on Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps
So we finally find out what a reployer does.
extrememacaroni··on Volcanoes on Venus are still active
> spaceship software runs on Electron
extrememacaroni··on Rare and hardest to crack Enigma code machine sells for $437k
Their first mistake was rolling their own crypto. Never roll your own crypto.
extrememacaroni··on Keeping bees means thinking about landscape as a system
Of course it's a general rule, you see it everywhere. All parents should keep bees for a proper education of their children.

Someone should make an app for spaceless people to find spaceceful countryside friends to help keep their bees.

extrememacaroni··on Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
oh no!
extrememacaroni··on Unity Technologies Targeting 2020 IPO
Yes, godot is exactly the engine you'd switch to if unity were not an option.
extrememacaroni··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
Your current correlation with the gender is forced, unless you exhausted any other possibilities. Which I really freaking doubt, because you know, real world complexity and all.

Assuming the one thing that I'd be willing to give at least A BIT OF credence to, that is in the gender-related sphere, that women more commonly have personality traits that make them worse at negotiating, I still don't see why we should try to fix that on the employer's side. Educate the women to negotiate instead, from a young age. Giving rewards to those who don't deserve them will lead to sloppiness and bad quality work, and the outrage of those who deserve them.

Sounds to me like "it has to be correlated to gender" was a quick solution to get some quick stats published.

extrememacaroni··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
There is no efficient negotiation technique that works consistently for men either, you need to understand that people need to look at their situation and figure out the optimal solutions for themselves rather than expect others to give them everything w/o effort, like a forced salary bump based on gender (that's one way to ruin anything remotely close to pay based on merit - hypocrisy much?) would.

Now I realize it's part of human nature to try and get as much as possible for as little as possible, but this takes it way too far.

You must be really daft if can you look at a bunch of stats like "women are paid 30% less than men" and then tell yourself "YES! this is a problem that I completely understand, I understand everything about this and what these people say is exactly what happens in the real world, we have to fix this".

What the hell does "as assertive as men" even mean. Is it some caricature of a man stomping his boss' desk to establish dominance? You're either assertive naturally or you're not, this applies to men or women. Fakes are easily spotted and ignored. Socially withdrawn/inept people or autistic people constantly draw the short straws when negotiating because there's no chance for them to be even close to remotely assertive even though in a STUDYYYYY the "scientists" could claim that "they were as assertive as others" just because they tried (unsuccessfully — a detail so easy to omit/ignore). You don't just go "ok now I'm going to be ASSERTIVE" and suddenly have everyone go your way, if you haven't developed that ability since childhood (or at least for a damn while), at which point you're using it by default.

Jfc, we live too relaxed lives, we have no problems so we invent some.

extrememacaroni··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
You're basing this off of statistics that ignore how these negotiations happen. Or really any sort of nuance that makes a difference in the real world. Like the quality of work the individual outputs or how much the company needs them, or how well they're perceived by their peers overall, or just how smartly they approach their employer when negotiating.

"Please give me a raise" is not a negotiation. To negotiate properly you need a trump card, "please give me a raise" doesn't show one.

extrememacaroni··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
Sounds like they don't negotiate efficiently. "Please give me a raise" is not efficient negotiation, no matter how aggressively or often you say it.
extrememacaroni··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
"So imagine if white women are underpaid - it is a lot worse for people for color."

How did you arrive at this conclusion?

extrememacaroni··on Bauhaus at 100: its legacy in five key designs
Why?
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