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I think it's really more about coping skills these days, as opposed to 'getting to the root of things and erasing them' https://blogs.psychcentral.com/practical-psychoanalysis/2015...

For cheap ^

If someone finds themselves chasing whatever streaming service has The Office, maybe it's worth dropping the $300 or whatever for everything on iTunes.

From my experience, with a bit of back and forth I'm helping these non-SW departments systemize things in ways they might not have thought of. Through the power of my business ignorance and having conversations, I'm rubber ducking these people to good systems.

I think that's what Slack is supposed to be - especially with Threads. So far it's just IRC with gifs where I work.

I wish people weren't so hung up on cemeteries. They are a waste of land and sentiment. I realise I'm in an extreme minority.

Unions were started in part as a response to indentured servitude. I'm not sure that would fly, politically.

The 'arguing grades up' I always saw students doing seemed weird to me. But I was paying for school and ultimately just paying for a job-entry ticket so maybe I wasn't in the right mindset.

At least you have a constant source of code for interviewees to fix.

I think making some waste opt-in would go a long way. Some stingy restaurant owners are doing that any way.

All you need to remember is IO is 'slow'/unknown. That will get you far.

It probably makes it easier to act like a professional. If you reduce the social gel at work, perhaps more work gets done. Maybe I've gained a morning of productivity today because a conversation didn't devolve into a Simpsons quote-athon.

>netflix has a lot of hidden marketing in their shows

I really believe there's hidden cigarette marketing. Maybe directors are just taking artistic license that they can't on cable, but it just really feels like there's a noticeable increase of on-screen smoking in a lot of their originals.

I wonder if async forum communication / semi-interactive celebrities can adequately replace the 'piece' of human interaction that makes prisoners go insane in solitary confinement. I'm sure we'll find out soon.

The Pixels have a phone squeeze gesture (Active Edge) that can only be used to activate assistant. It can be turned off but it's otherwise pretty useless. Of course if you root you can make it do other things.

If you order it from Google, it's stock Android, so it's the most un-locked-down OEM OS you can get. This may not be the case if you buy it from a carrier.

Yeah, that's DRM by another name. I'd be worried about doing it wrong and affecting customers.

It also misses the mark because they were probably already going for a play on words with Ajit. Only, you know, without the hatred.

I'm not sure if I'm being poe's law'd or this is going to turn into a recursive thread but... this is also describing a corporation:

> seeks to extract as much value as is possible/reasonable from the host organization, but not so much that they destroy it

Unions are just reverse corporations. They cannot be any more good or evil than a corporation.

Prams / baby dollies.

Vote for a lower drinking age.

I'd feel more comfortable with a Stripe branded off-site transaction if that's the case. Get that credit card field off of the seedy untrusted site.

By our collective grace are people permitted to be so successful. Not one of our most successful billionaires would be where they are today without the people around them. The fairness/absurd thing doesn't really fly with me because of this.

Not OP, but went through a similar situation and the feature was 'alert us about unintuitive correlations in our data so we can invent new KPIs'

They had that engineer who was able to stalk people. So, at the time, a failure of their internal security/privacy policies.

I've found myself thinking "I'm the kind of person who should enjoy adventure games" only to buy them and just not. At all. There needs to be more systems to keep me occupied, otherwise I'll just read a book or watch a movie. I think this latest cycle was buoyed by at least a few people like me.

Have you gotten any meaningful answers from your interns?

When I was a complete beginner, in childhood, I didn't understand why the code I copied from a random library book into WordPerfect was not 'running'.

That's what I think of when I read 'complete beginner' - and people seem to shy away from those very important tooling concepts.

There's that recent news about Mindfulness Meditation influencing people in similar ways. I don't think we should mourn the 'loss' of your boring, comfortable friends. You Only Live Once

It was called ThingieQuery and HN had a bit of a fit.

If you've ever followed a Hello World game building tutorial for UE or Unity, somebody has taken the end result of that tutorial and placed it on a game marketplace somewhere.

It was/is a bit taboo, but the gaming phenomena PUBG also used UE marketplace assets, although they added value by making an enjoyable game around it.