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·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Their schedules are clearly flexible because they’re already changing them twice a year under the current system.
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·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
They already change schedules though, we just launder it through the time “change” despite clear evidence of costs in both productivity and literal human life.
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·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Changing your working hours means a talk with your boss and maybe HR. If we didn’t have DST maybe it would be a box you check when you get hired.

We spend so much on engineering systems that handle DST changes, there’s an increase in sleep deprived auto accidents, people die from heart attacks… All to avoid individuals asking for different hours at work?

Sorry, “changing” time twice a year is not a reasonable substitute for scheduling work appropriately depending on the season.
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·6 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> Their legal challenges with Apple might’ve put a dampener

They started the fight, and I think it's safe to say they knew what they were getting into.
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·6 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I never asked for this quote.
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·6 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I've been watching the development of YouTube music for the last several years knowing my preferred platform's days were numbered.

YouTube Music fills the needs of some, perhaps many users, but it is not a 1:1 replacement and I'm not a fan of what they have to offer.

Also I hold a bit of resentment for YTM since the YouTube app no longer allows backgrounding podcast-style content or playing it with the screen locked. It tells you to go to YouTube Music instead but that's definitely not the right UX for watching/listening to that kind of content.
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·6 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> FInally, i'll point to my favorite post on the subject, Don't be a free user by idlewords: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/*

I used to believe this. Now Google Play Music is dead despite my $20/month.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I'm not talking about contacting people to tell them you didn't hire them.

I'm saying, you're taking 20%, claiming it's the top 20%, and saying they're the ones who will be successful in the role.

But if you're only ever talking to that "top 20%", then you don't know whether they're really the best.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> I can sift a pile of 20-30 resumes in maybe 10 minutes and determine with near certainty the 20% or so that are even worth contacting.

Devil's Advocate: Do you contact the bottom 80%? When you encounter a dud in the top 20%, do you consider that a potential failure in filtering, or do you say "thank god we filtered out the other 80% who must be worse than this candidate!"

It sounds to me like a process rife with feedback loops.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
You can also type on a smartphone without a physical keyboard...
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
If anything, I'd remap capslock to be escape.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> Whats with you guys and the ESC key? It's so far away do you actually use it?

You're joking. You realize this forum is filled with programmers and other digital creative professionals, right?
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Honestly if they're chained to this godawful scroll-based animation garbage they keep pumping out, I'd much rather the understated 2D graphics they're using here. The 3D looks incredibly amateurish to me.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Yeah AutoHotKey is surprisingly helpful for things that seem otherwise unautomateable.

> You weren’t even talking about that.

> The person you responded to wrote:

> > custom control board with specialized buttons and keyboard

> So we weren’t even talking about keyboard shortcuts in the ctrl-c sense, but that the specific action has a specific button.

> How, indeed, could that have been a surprise.

I considered typing keypad or array of buttons, but I figured keyboard conveyed the intended meaning closely enough.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
But I wasn't talking about onboarding. I was talking about the speed of people using your software to do work on either a touchscreen or a keyboard.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> Unexpectedly, it turned out to be faster for users too.

I'm not anti-touchscreen by any measure, but did you really find that surprising? It seems common knowledge to me that keyboard shortcuts are faster than touchscreens for most tasks.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> Culture fit does make a lot of sense though. I interviewed at a company where everyone was a gamer. Would I have fit in? Probably not. Another company everyone looked about 25 or younger.

I play video games. I have all of the last two generations of consoles, a smattering of older consoles I've managed to hold onto over the years (lost most of them for one reason or another) and a half-decent gaming PC where I prefer to play games if possible. On top of that I've done game development on the side, and have run multiple gaming communities for approximately a decade now.

If I went to go interview with a company and they talked about how they were all "gamers", I'd be running for the hills.

You know what I want to do at work? Work.

You know what I want to talk about at work? Not video games.

You know what I want for non-monetary compensation? Not a weekly autochess tournament or PUBG squad night.

You know what kind of people I want to be surrounded with? Not a bunch of clones who all have the same beliefs and values and (lack of) experiences.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.

Thank you for that, I am definitely stealing that phrasing.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

Please no. I really don't like that convention and would rather you just type out the whole word if that's the alternative. Worse yet, for some reason you've decided to end in `n` rather than `y`.

How can you dismiss the first four letters as an "unnatural" abbreviation, and then suggest inserting digits to represent the number of characters removed as an alternative? I'm not following that logic at all.
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·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
It doesn't matter what the actual requirements are, the issue is that it gets dismissed out of hand for the perceived requirements.