“only one person per file”
so we’ve reverted back to the rcs/cvs days?
“only one person per file”
so we’ve reverted back to the rcs/cvs days?
some programmer somewhere arbitrarily chose a number that they felt sounded reasonable
Did you miss the words “dark pattern”? it is a term for when companies misuse/abuse UX principles to trick people into acting against their own best interests. In this case, the bold “click me” looking button in the screenshots means “yes daddy, spank me and then sell my data to your friends”, which is the option that most people who see that box won’t want to click.
Unfortunately, a large swath of the general population are trained in their brains to “click ok to make it go away”. These UX decisions take advantage of those people.
Assumedly, the grayed out box will also not dismiss the banner, but instead lead to a more complicated experience where you then are forced to drill down into complicated options to decide which of the cookies to set, which will be confusing if you didn’t open the link at top in a new tab to cross reference which of the 27 data brokers “Technology Partners” to decide which.
It’s not UX, it’s abusive UI and the very definition of malicious compliance to EU regulations.
that still contradicts pictrs breaking the thumbnail
i always hated that the us version of this show felt like they needed to say this explicitly, that was one of the best things about the british version is that the points were a cute little joke that didn’t need to be spelled out
this one hurts
and now the theme is stuck in my head
having is less annoying way of not doing needless/bug-prone repetition. if you select someCalculatedValue(someInput) as lol
you can add having lol > 42
in mysql, whereas without (ie in pgsql) you’d need to do where someCalculatedValue(someInput) > 42
, and make sure changes to that call stay in sync despite how far apart they are in a complex sql statement.
most languages have some first or third party lib that implements a query builder
i didn’t crack til 42
General deep dives on random topics:
stuff about the animal world:
linguistics and how we communicate:
You just apply anyway.
Usually they’re not willing to pay anywhere close to doctorate money for doctorates anyway, and will end up settling no matter who they pick.
I’m not sure if i’ve ever known any engineer who has met the listed job requirements for their role. They say requirements, but what they mean is “this is my ideal”. Put another way: think of it like a dating app profile. dude may act like he only dates 10s in his profile, but you show him some attention and suddenly you’re just as good as a 10, because he’s lonely and needs affection from someone.
Basically, for most companies, they’re essentially the corporate version of incels. Way too high of standards, but will settle for anyone who is into them regardless of what they think their standards are, because they just need someone ASAP, and their standards disappear quickly once you make yourself available.
I’ve enjoyed a 20+ year long career as a programmer, and I dropped out of college 3 months in because i couldn’t afford it. That’s because early in my career i took a few shitty jobs until i had a decent enough resume that i didn’t have to take shitty jobs anymore. That took study and practice and passion in programming, but i did that for fun years before i even showed up on the university doorstep.
Same except i dropped out of college 3 months in and have enjoyed a healthy career for the last 20 years anyway.
so it was like every demo ever? k
It’s not really editing titles. They publish it with various titles that get split-tested at first, whichever version of the title gets more clicks then becomes the only title used.
well sure. i’m not saying people should be calling them lego bricks. it’s fine to call them just legos or lego.
but i think you missed my point, which was: don’t get all preachy about “you have to call them lego, you can’t say legos because it’s wrong”, when it’s equally as fucking wrong to call them lego. The company tells you to call them lego bricks, so if you’re going to go around telling people that one thing is wrong, you shouldn’t be telling them to instead use something else which is also wrong, because then you’re just being a douchebag.
The equivalent here is if you were to call the markers “sharpie” as a plural, and go around confidently telling other people they’re wrong for saying “sharpies” because “look the company calls them sharpie permanent markers, so the proper plural form is obviously sharpie, just like how it works with dice/die” (which, again, there is no way in which the lego or sharpie situations are similar to the pluralization of die).
i find it quite disturbing that there are bears in the alaskan military
I mean, i just say legos and don’t get all fucking judgy about what other people say.
I do also get all judgy about other people getting judgy about what people say in this case, but i feel justified in that behavior.
That was what was implied by my “don’t be douchey about it” suggestion :)
Fork bomb is actually a pretty fantastic cat name