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I think the biggest problem is they make you look like a douchebag but feel like a hipster.

That’s a wreckless combination the world isn’t ready for.

Don’t get caught in a k-hole or it might have some fast acting disadvantages for depression.

When I was younger, I programmed predominantly in Java and types were infuriating to me.

Then I found ruby and loved how simple it was to not worry about a type system.

Then I found out how infuriating it was to not have types.

Now I’m older and appreciate having types.

Cool story, bro.

Crystal looks cool!

Looks like a good product. Nice site. Two heads up on iOS:

- there is a “Contact” link floating at the top of the page off centered that opens Mail. Maybe link it to your Olark integration.

- 14 day money back guarantee runs over the text underneath it.

I know it as the portmanteau...

:/

Nice! This looks pretty good. I’ve been working on the CMS for a side project and have gone out of my way not to style or design anything (because I suck at it).

I was going to circle back around afterwards and find a good theme/template.

I did notice tables went off the side of the screen on iOS.

Looks swanky otherwise! I’ll see give it a swing!

MZ was getting grilled this AM about if FB would implement those GDPR features to protect US citizens and MZ said it would be available to all users.

Which is funny to me that a congressman (it was a man, I didn’t catch his name) would push for that since they obviously aren’t interested in protecting citizens data with laws or regulations.

Well, it does - or maybe I’m smoking hot baby boi.

I assume it probably wouldnt work for Sloth Fratelli.

It wasn’t a parameter but a trick.

This is a little fucked up:

You go through their rating game where you can rate people 1 to 5 stars.

(Optional): You rate everyone you find attractive five stars no matter how attractive because you’re going to need a way to differentiate later...

Go through and rate a bunch of ugly people four stars. A shit load.

When you get rated four stars or higher you get a notification. Those people usually come back and rate you. Hopefully four stars or higher.

So now you’ve crowd sourced ugly people to say you’re good looking but that ugly person is never going to get the feature turned on for them because nobody else is saying they’re good looking.

Now you show up to the hottest people and the hottest people show up to you.

I’ve done this a few times over the years with burner accounts to test it and new accounts just because I canceled an old one.

It takes a few hours of rating unattractive people. I usually just did it flipping through on the toilet for about a week.

If you don’t care about keeping track of the five star people you can just write a script to four or five star people at random And let it run overnight.

I dated on okc for a few years. I hate driving (LA) and so I frequently filtered my matches to 5 miles (if I recall that was the smallest radius).

5 miles in LA can be a long drive. So I wrote a chrome plugin to add additional drop down options of 0.1, 0.5 and 1 mile. I was surprised to see it work.

It was awesome.

There is also a hack to get the infamous “top X% of hottest people” feature unlocked... :)

I thought Woz had gotten a job there. Maybe “deactivated” is a better word.

Someone went and did this :D

https://gitlab.com/danso/derivejoy

You eediot!

Uh, your landing page kinda sucks on mobile. CSS is all a-wonk and you have a gigantic email collector right at the top

That’s perfect! Because then they would start removing me as a friend and the whole process wouldn’t be one-sided :-)

My “data” would be a cluster fuck, technically speaking.

That sounds human, albeit confusing. Very cool!

It certainly would I dont know what a Markov chain is but it sounds cooler than me dot rand'ing my way through random twitter posts.

Yeah, Oauth and events is the only thing keeping me on FB. Although, I believe they opened up their event system to non-fb users, probably so they could build shadow profiles.

I assume the did some sort of paranoid delete. I was thinking of getting rid of my Facebook account (once I deal with oauth) and I was thinking if it would be better to delete my account or write a script to flood it with garbage.

I was thinking of having it run as a cron on my laptop. Log in via chromedriver, accept a random couple of suggested friends. Download some random images and upload it tagging myself. Grab some random comments off twitter and post it as my own. Like random posts. Remove a few real friends. Repeat.

Maybe even Facebook Munging as a Service. :D

If you ever need a pick-me-up at my past selfs expense let me know ;) That place was full of stories!

Yeah I can’t remember what it was. Someone said laser link above, I feel like it was microwave - I do remember being concerned we’d cook birds.

Longer poles. It started out on I think 18”. Pretty much enough to clear the edge of the roof of the main building. We ended up putting it on a ten foot three pole stand.

That blew off during a hurricane the same year :)

Thanks for all the info! I’m generally not tired until nighttime. It started as a way to relax my thoughts when working. I’m going to bring it up at my next physical though!

Yeah the other building was a small one story office that was a at a lower elevation. The main building was a converted strip mall so it had a bit more height with the extra space from the drop ceilings.

We ended up putting the dishes on longer poles. :)

Oh so it could actually be narcolepsy and I’ve just been an ass making a joke about it for years.

I’m not familiar beyond the movie tropes (that I now know are misrepresentations).

Are there complications or other serious things that it can lead to?

Are people with narcolepsy generally deep sleepers?

I usually do it when I can’t figure something out or I’m flip flopping on a solution (software engineer).

I originally started doing it to try to take my mind off the problem to not overthink it. But then I’d find that I’d slept for an hour or so. Thus the timer.

Oh boy.

I had just joined a “subscription based social site” as a backend developer. I think it was PHP 4 and MySQL 3 at the time.

Someone had realized that it would be great to have database “migrations” in code instead of using phpMyAdmin to modify tables.

Thumbs up, forward thinker!

So there was an ONE BIG migrations.php file that had our DDL in it with if statements around each one to see if it had already been run.

The statements didn’t have a version number or anything super simple and trivial. It was a combination of all the worst ways you could figure out if a column had been added to a table in MySQL.

When code was deployed, someone would visit http://example.com/migrations.php real quick to migrate the site.

Oh man, classic.

Bookmarked in case I ever have trouble sleeping.

I have the opposite problem, I can just fall asleep pretty much anywhere and in any position. Just had a triple espresso or four cold brews, no problem.

I frequently take “desk naps” throughout the day. I’ll set a timer for 15 minutes and lay my head down on my wrist rest. I fall asleep in less than a minute.

Does anyone know if there is a name for that? I generally refer to it as controllable narcolepsy or “luck”.

Yeah so to my orginal point - I want a BMW, but I also want a fully electric vehicle. The later is more important to me.

Sure. I’m saying my degree was worthless.

You don’t need school if you don’t need a degree for your job.

Learning is my all time hands-down favorite hobby. If you put in the work you can learn all the things you learn in a CS degree on your own and in a much shorter time.

The problem is getting good text books since they’re expensive (when I was in school you couldnt google everything).

I realized I could social engineer my way to free books by appropriating college letterhead, pretending to be a professor, and writing to publishers asking for evaluation copies of books I wanted to read.