vikaveri

It's not that I'm incapable of having internal dialogue, it's just that it is putting in words others could understand a thought, or series of thoughts that happened in fraction of a time it takes to form a single sentence. The result of the thought process isn't something expressed in words, it's internalized knowledge, conclusion or decision

Definitely deserving a seat reservation on Ark Fleet Ship B

Most brick and mortar stores can not reliably tell whether any single person has visited the store before unless they track them in some way. Probably only case is the store owner who is also the only worker with excellent memory for faces and details.

Yeah, maybe he's holding it wrong?

Generally a slave is considered, by law, to be property and does not have most of the rights a free person has. You seem to suggest that any contract where a person sells his services to another person, institute or company, is slavery. Are most of us slaves since we sell our time to an employer? Are soldiers slaves? 'Selling' yourself on any terms you choose, should be possible, but unless you become property and lose your rights, it's not slavery and calling it that just diminishes the word.

International and national news are often important, but rarely immediate. By not immediate I mean that you can't affect it, it won't affect you and you don't have to do anything about it. Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe? Interesting, but nothing to do with me really. Ship stuck sideways in a canal? That might cause problems at work later and maybe I should get that bike I was planning on now rather than later, but I'll be fine. War between nearby countries that produce oil and food... I better check my emergency stocks are in good shape and that full electric car sounds good right about now? And so on, important and some of them will affect you, but usually with a delay or in a roundabout way.

Local on the other hand. Very immediate, but often not that important, at least outside your local area. Sometimes you can even affect things and if it's something that can affect you and requires action, it might be a matter of hours. Water main breaks, you won't have running water for three days? Fill up buckets, head to the store, right now! But that's a minor inconvenience compared to international news, if they end up affecting you.

Starting in a new role, or new company, often means that there is a period when I'm hard to replace, but since I try to automate everything I can and make the rest simple enough for anyone to do, I'm actively trying to make myself useless and out of a job. Funnily enough, it doesn't seem world is running out of undone work anytime soon and there are always more interesting problems to solve.

I feel that if you're expecting your 'whole friend' to be exactly compatible with your opinions, you're not really looking for friends, you're looking for confirmation for your own opinions. I fully expect to disagree with a lot of things my friends say or think, and that there will be arguments. When we do argue, sometimes they change their mind, sometimes I change mine but mostly we agree to disagree. What makes a difference between a friend and a non-friend is that even if we disagree on some fundamental things and a lot of trivial things, our core values more or less align, and both sides respect the other and realize that there is no way you're right about everything. If you are, you don't have friends. You have followers and sycophants.

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If you're not satisfied with the service of your current provider, you are free to take your business to the premises of another service provider who had chosen to implement plans that are more suited to your needs.

I don't mean to be snarky, but putting it in more business terms. For some services the service provider offers several alternative plans, some have only a single one-size-fits-all plan

I don't have an internal monologue, but I do have that board meeting. Kinda makes me think of that Pixar movie, Inside Out. The whole 'board' doesn't meet all the time, mostly it's very quiet and I get an impression or two, a feeling really, here and there, but when I'm excited or enthusiastic about something, engaged in the moment and I'm presented with a problem to solve, it feels like most of the time a solution just comes to me. Like the board meeting had gone over all the possible options, decided on the best course of action rejecting improbable or difficult solutions, gathered up a dossier with executive summary, schedules, workload estimates, problem analysis, risk analysis, the works, all the details I need to implement the solution to a problem and hands the dossier to me, wordlessly saying "Here's our recommendation". And a lot of the time I just know I have the solution, how to get from A to B without consciously knowing all the steps in between, but knowing all the steps have been figured out and it's in the "dossier". I just need to do it, put it in words and explain to others.

Interestingly enough, I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD, at least not yet, but after discussions with professionals, it seems probable that I may have it, to some degree anyhow

I couldn't be bothered to learn the new place for URL bar so I just went to options and moved it back to top

Web development is like the scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. You get to pick your poison and there are a lot of people who will choose poorly. Doesn't matter how good you are, chances are, on occasion, you'll choose poorly as well.

There's no point trying to read and understand every library and framework that comes out. HN has half a dozen interesting ones I skim over each week because what you need to know is what's out there, what's been done, so when you come across a problem you don't have the tools for, you can come back and choose the tool that best fulfills the requirements you have at that moment.

And those requirements will change from project to project. There's no cure-it-all. Expect to switch frameworks or libraries very often. You probably wont have time to learn all the intricacies of a framework before something else is more suitable for your needs.

It's not impossible or required to write bad code and have bad design, but it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot when you don't know what you're doing. You will see lot of bad design and poor code though, there are a lot of coders who are starting out with web development because it's an easy place to start with.

Sometimes you need just a spoon and sometimes you need a fleet of excavators and the hard part is knowing when to use what.

Now, when you visit bild.de with AdBlock and NoScript...

I doubt Lightning is that much bigger than USB that it helps handling it.

And I didn't say anything about whether Lightning is better or worse than USB, or more versatile or what ever. Just that can we please stop with the "But it's reversible" thing? It just sounds like something to say when people can't come up with better reasons.

Reversible always comes up when asked what makes it better. Always reversible. Sometimes there's some other thing, but you can count on reversible.

How hard it is to feel which way you're holding the USB cable? They are often asymmetrically designed, you know?

I can do it half asleep in pitch dark.

If someone can't plug in a cable in the right way, I seriously doubt they should be using a smart phone in the first place... or any technology more sophisticated than a pointy stick.

I don't always bookmark a site I visit...

But when I do, I use a command line to do it.

Technically trivial, ethically horrible, especially if it's not disclosed to the user.

Personally I'd rather format my text on a notepad and copy/paste it to the chat than let others spy on me like that and even then only if I was forced to use it.

Which, fortunately, I'm not. This is one of the reasons I use NoScript.

You clearly haven't tried GS2

I'm getting tired of hearing that same claim over and over again

"Apple’s second theory of exclusionary conduct claims Nokia falsely promised to licensepatents on FRAND terms, and that Nokia then breached this commitment by asking for “excessive” royalties during negotiations (ACC [DI 21] ¶¶ 68, 91). The sole basis for this allegation is that Nokia and Apple, years after Nokia made its declarations, were unable to agreeon terms. The counterclaim contains no plausible factual allegation whatsoever that, at the time that Nokia submitted FRAND declarations, it intended not to abide by them. Nor does it plead facts demonstrating any lack of obligation to or genuine interest from Nokia in negotiating a FRAND agreement. To the contrary, Apple concedes Nokia engaged in more than a year’sworth of negotiations with Apple and made a number of offers to Apple"

Starting at page 20

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28285432/Nokia-s-Motion-to-Dismiss...

I read that as "What? We're not going to pay that much for that. Doesn't matter if anyone else does. We're Apple. Screw you guys. We're going home."