It's sad that things like this have to be explicitly spelled out
I had such a problem with this. At my college, the professor I had for my entire calc sequence once said, in response to a question about applications, "My degree is in pure math. I don't care how it's applied."…
Yes, in fact. Whenever I've had these conversations with people, I always try to probe deeper to figure out why they are so angry about what should be common decency. And the answers are always the same. They think it's…
And what I've found, is that a vast majority of people lamenting "PC culture" are people who are pissed off that they can't call other people niggers and faggots in everyday conversation. Replace the phrase "PC" with…
But the key is that they should be able to seamlessly interact with one another.
The biggest problem, IMO, with the contacts system is how limited it is. You get two email addresses and two phone numbers per contact, that are pre-labeled "work" and "home", and that's it. It absolutely must have the…
> 5. Don’t show automatic pop-ups too early How about don't show automatic pop-ups at all? These things have become a plague on the modern web. I'm so fucking sick of every single website pestering me to sign up for…
It really needs to have the ability to add arbitrary numbers of physical addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers to a contact in the address book, as well as give each field an arbitrary name. Every other address…
> As long as it isn't very windy, it's easy to make 14 comfortable. No, no it is not. And I say this as someone who enjoys the cold. No matter what, if it's 14 degrees outside, I'm only going out if I absolutely must.…
Schooling is definitely a major issue. My nephew has to be at school by 7:15 am. It’s absolutley asinine to believe that pre-teens and teens can be functional or able to actually learn anything at such an hour. Not to…
> Part of the "why not" is a deeply ingrained belief in at least American culture that morning people are just "better" than night people. It's so ingrained that we mostly forget to talk about it and it's just assumed.…
I think it's because people think "morning person" is the default, and correct, way of being. And that not being a morning person makes you odd or lazy. So when someone comes in challenging late-friendly scheduling,…
I despise the fact that people think they need to have their phones in front of them the entire time, taking shitty pics and videos that they'll never look at again. However, I would never support an artist/performer…
I agree that the ideas aren't necessarily generalizable, but what if we shifted to an idea that people's individual schedules reflect when they specifically are most productive. Someone else who replied said they were…
>a lack of tastemakers in public society I would call this a good thing. I despise the idea of someone telling me what I should or shouldn't like, as though I have no mind of my own to decide what I do or don't like,…
What if I'm currently in college, having returned after 15 years. Currently 35, a junior, CS major. How is it _getting into_ the industry at this age, not just staying in it?
It also seems to remove the people who may or may not actually understand the fundamentals of the language they claim to have experience in, rather only knowing how to cobble together frameworks and/or copypasta code.
Putting examples in the entry fields in the questionnaire seems like a leading question to me. When it says, "Tech you prefer not to work with: e.g., javascript, c#, php", one is immediately going to thing, "Well of…
I think there's a massive problem in recent times of an over-zealous focus on procedures and the "how" of a particular process. I think process-driven management results in micro-managing tyrants, over-stressed,…
Reminds me of a quote I heard a while back, not sure the source, went something to the effect of: "Winners never quit, and quitters never win. But a person who never wins and never quits is a fool."
I've really been enjoying Black Powder
I think it's fascinating the change in how we view site navigation. Another commenter gave a link to an old Microsoft site that had links all over the place. But for the most part, it seemed like sites started to…
I absolutely adore that CNN 1996 site. Man, designs like that were great.
> If tech companies are seen to be diverse, welcoming environments, maybe more kids of all backgrounds will get interested in tech in the first place. Exactly. If there is no incentive, and no examples of diverse…
I evaluated it. I read the manifesto in its entirety. He starts off by saying he's not against diversity, but then spends the rest of the paper demonstrating the exact opposite, and then justifies it by claiming that…
It's sad that things like this have to be explicitly spelled out
I had such a problem with this. At my college, the professor I had for my entire calc sequence once said, in response to a question about applications, "My degree is in pure math. I don't care how it's applied."…
Yes, in fact. Whenever I've had these conversations with people, I always try to probe deeper to figure out why they are so angry about what should be common decency. And the answers are always the same. They think it's…
And what I've found, is that a vast majority of people lamenting "PC culture" are people who are pissed off that they can't call other people niggers and faggots in everyday conversation. Replace the phrase "PC" with…
But the key is that they should be able to seamlessly interact with one another.
The biggest problem, IMO, with the contacts system is how limited it is. You get two email addresses and two phone numbers per contact, that are pre-labeled "work" and "home", and that's it. It absolutely must have the…
> 5. Don’t show automatic pop-ups too early How about don't show automatic pop-ups at all? These things have become a plague on the modern web. I'm so fucking sick of every single website pestering me to sign up for…
It really needs to have the ability to add arbitrary numbers of physical addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers to a contact in the address book, as well as give each field an arbitrary name. Every other address…
> As long as it isn't very windy, it's easy to make 14 comfortable. No, no it is not. And I say this as someone who enjoys the cold. No matter what, if it's 14 degrees outside, I'm only going out if I absolutely must.…
Schooling is definitely a major issue. My nephew has to be at school by 7:15 am. It’s absolutley asinine to believe that pre-teens and teens can be functional or able to actually learn anything at such an hour. Not to…
> Part of the "why not" is a deeply ingrained belief in at least American culture that morning people are just "better" than night people. It's so ingrained that we mostly forget to talk about it and it's just assumed.…
I think it's because people think "morning person" is the default, and correct, way of being. And that not being a morning person makes you odd or lazy. So when someone comes in challenging late-friendly scheduling,…
I despise the fact that people think they need to have their phones in front of them the entire time, taking shitty pics and videos that they'll never look at again. However, I would never support an artist/performer…
I agree that the ideas aren't necessarily generalizable, but what if we shifted to an idea that people's individual schedules reflect when they specifically are most productive. Someone else who replied said they were…
>a lack of tastemakers in public society I would call this a good thing. I despise the idea of someone telling me what I should or shouldn't like, as though I have no mind of my own to decide what I do or don't like,…
What if I'm currently in college, having returned after 15 years. Currently 35, a junior, CS major. How is it _getting into_ the industry at this age, not just staying in it?
It also seems to remove the people who may or may not actually understand the fundamentals of the language they claim to have experience in, rather only knowing how to cobble together frameworks and/or copypasta code.
Putting examples in the entry fields in the questionnaire seems like a leading question to me. When it says, "Tech you prefer not to work with: e.g., javascript, c#, php", one is immediately going to thing, "Well of…
I think there's a massive problem in recent times of an over-zealous focus on procedures and the "how" of a particular process. I think process-driven management results in micro-managing tyrants, over-stressed,…
Reminds me of a quote I heard a while back, not sure the source, went something to the effect of: "Winners never quit, and quitters never win. But a person who never wins and never quits is a fool."
I've really been enjoying Black Powder
I think it's fascinating the change in how we view site navigation. Another commenter gave a link to an old Microsoft site that had links all over the place. But for the most part, it seemed like sites started to…
I absolutely adore that CNN 1996 site. Man, designs like that were great.
> If tech companies are seen to be diverse, welcoming environments, maybe more kids of all backgrounds will get interested in tech in the first place. Exactly. If there is no incentive, and no examples of diverse…
I evaluated it. I read the manifesto in its entirety. He starts off by saying he's not against diversity, but then spends the rest of the paper demonstrating the exact opposite, and then justifies it by claiming that…