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angersock

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About angersock

Engineer, coder, and all around cheerful human being.

Strong opinions, weakly held--sometimes, held weekly.

Contact me at: username at angersock dot com.

"The modern social web is a miracle of progress but also a status-driven guilt-spewing shit volcano." --Paul Ford

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20913555

    Piano keys for just the keys under two hands, or like a full keyboard with 88 keys?

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    Comment #20850796

    Damnedest thing, really.

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    Comment #20600529

    Is a plan 30-50 years out worth making given the state of the world today?

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    Comment #20486898

    Got the job with a firm handshake, and then everybody clapped. This is the most Boomer thing I've read in a while, and is remarkably tonedeaf.

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    Comment #20358369

    Interesting that there's a major penalty for "core parts" being outsourced, but also a major push for buy not build. (There are reasons for this, obviously, but it is good exercise…

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    Comment #20354495

    Natalists?

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    Comment #20342027

    When MS finishes trashing Windows all of the legacy users will only have ReactOS and WINE to fall back on. Frankly, they're doing a great service to the world, and maybe you should…

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    Comment #20315429

    Have everybody print 1 page summaries of their points, read them at the beginning, stick to a meeting agenda.

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    Comment #20256569

    This "laser focus" would just drive up the cost of healthcare for anybody not on a cadillac plan. Doctors need to learn how to exist in a world where there are a lot of patients wh…

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    Comment #20237547

    Yeah, it's taking up valuable space we could be using for content marketing, politics, clickbait, or startupcanistan circlejerking!

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    Comment #20188267

    Notice they said with not for. Maybe they were a consultant.

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    Comment #20183503

    Fear manifesting in extreme regulation, cost of insurance, cost of construction, court cases...the whole thing.

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    Comment #20155220

    Why would you help the police state?

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    Comment #20082842

    Well thank God that there are no practicing racists or ethnosupremicists using Islam or Judaism!

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    Comment #20079670

    Have you considered paying them better and tying compensation directly to profit?

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    Comment #20073409

    If the founder is smart they're using OPM anyways.

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    Comment #20008526

    People have said the same thing about queer folks. Forcing a worldview on somebody or "curing" them is usually a sign that whatever your stance is something is off.

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    Comment #19919462

    Decent summary here: http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Sinfest Tldr, he took the soul out of the comic and the characters to push an agenda, and devoted cycles to mocking …

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    Comment #19911383

    Any of you notice this seems to have been spiked from frontpage?

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    Comment #19911297

    > As bad as Chernobyl and Fukushima were, MUCH worse accidents are possible. [citation needed]

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    Comment #19799196

    Quit. Quit quit quit quit quit. Get out.

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    Comment #19546871

    First employee for a solo founder to do a lot of dev work below market? That's more like cofounder status dude.

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    Comment #19505214

    That "overhead" is essential to keeping a team running. Hiring means the right people get brought in and the talent pool grows and a positive culture (say, blameless post-mortems, …

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    Comment #19176409

    Number of times they've been banned. :^)