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benfortuna
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Comment #49229596
> [..] developers that simultaneously care deeply about the craft of software development and really empathize with the customer. I do believe they might want to see a professional…
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Comment #49169714
Speaking of flexing..
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Comment #49033680
I think it's fair to say that AI amplifies our abilities, but it needs to be in the hands of people that know what they are doing. If developers are producing garbage to begin with…
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Comment #48745972
Isn't that a bit elistist to say everything changed when more people joined? The point is not the consumers of the Internet but the producers are what changed it - primarily with a…
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Comment #48742084
The real answer is you should never build your business on ANY specific model. As usual avoid lock-in and switch when you need to.
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Comment #48567591
It's a commodity in the same way that making music is a commodity (i.e. using production tools to make it sound good). But music today is so much more generic and boring than it us…
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Comment #48364506
Requiring parents to police their child's every move is not going to end well.
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Comment #48364494
Who is this "they" you speak of? We have age verification for all kinds of things that can harm minors. Most of them have adequate penalties for breach such that operators of said …
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Comment #48354348
an age ban for meat would be interesting.. :-) all the rest have them so why not social media which clearly does harm to minors.
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Comment #48280574
httpd
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Comment #48209021
I think that's a lack of gravity. According to wikipedia antigravity is in fact impossible (under known laws of physics).
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Comment #47729245
You can make your own touch id pad if so inclined.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzB6m2VTxAg
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Comment #47659067
Why arbitrarily invent new meanings (for microservices) and new words (microlibraries) when there are already many adequate ways to describe modular, componentized architecures? A …
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Comment #45720120
This is exactly what he is proposing, because it is more "useful". But it hardly gives you agency to be someone you are inherently not. Authenticity is what we lack in the modern w…
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Comment #43923360
But you aren't just asking for edits to your code, right? Copilot will actively suggest code completion as you type. This is the real benefit over chat as it's like pair programmin…
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Comment #43903905
They went all-in on Teams just before the start of COVID, and MS don't typically support multiple overlapping products like Google do (although the number of task management produc…
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Comment #43866634
I tend to think standards are more about interoperability at the interface level - which doesn't specifically exclude innovation in non-interfacing aspects. So in that sense I don'…
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Comment #43866440
And standard sizing so they are both stackable and nestable with other tubs.
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Comment #43866428
You left me hanging - what salient debate?
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Comment #43866426
Regardless of the implementation challenges, the theory is sound and that is the point of the article I believe.
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Comment #43804441
>The other challenge is finding people, especially as you get older. I've posted this before, but as you get older you really need to seek out established communities. Sports, triv…
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Comment #43724894
>The modern internet feels so genuinely terrible The enshitification is real, but I would attribute that to being hijacked by advertising platforms. Social media algorithms are lit…
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Comment #43713893
if you stick with it the cycle will introduce new stuff. I have been using for months and still get new music (with occasional repeats)
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Comment #43713703
No none of those. Is a special dynamic playlist, starting to wonder if its not a standard playlist everyone has.. sort of like the DJ mix without the annoying voice. https://open.s…
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Comment #43713510
Does noone use the Spotify "daylist" playlist, that cycles between genres you have listened to previously? This regular plays music I have never heard (both old and new).