robbyking

I agree wholeheartedly. I first moved to San Francisco in 1998 for reasons unrelated to tech, and despite becoming a software engineer I cheered the effect the dotcom crash had on the city. The people who made the city great were being forced out and replaced by young tech workers who largely didn't care about anything other than their careers.

The app boom was similarly heartbreaking, only this time most tech workers didn't even need to explore the neighborhoods they lived in -- they could Uber to the front door of any restaurant they wanted, and take tech buses instead of riding their bikes or taking public transportation to get to work.

A few years ago I read that the average tenure of a business on Valencia was less than 18 months, which is nothing short of a death sentence for a neighborhood like the Mission. Long times residents no long feel connected to (or were able to take pride in) their neighborhood, and most new residents don't care to to establish those connections -- why bother if the upscale boutique that replaced a multigenerationally owned family business is just going to be gone in a year an a half?

I mourn what happened to the city I used to love, but I'm optimistic that the decentralization of tech will leave San Francisco a better place.

Absolutely! I wasn't into building with Lego growing up, but my 5yo is and we often go to an aftermarket Lego store to buy bricks in bulk that aren't part of a specific kit.

My team was ride or die with (pre-Macromedia) HomeSite!

Oh God and MS Visual Source Safe.

The comments on this page are very clearly divided between people who at the time were professional web developers and people who were teen code explorers, and I love them both.

I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for that time in my life.

Ours was called 0.gif

I loved when I figured out I could get rid of the underline and add a dashed or dotted bottom border instead, it looked so cutting edge at the time.

I recently came across an image I wasn't able to download using dev tools and was shocked. I wish I had had the time to figure it out.

I worked at homeshark.com (later rebranded iown.com) in the 90's, and we absolutely did the spacer gif trick to size our tables.

I very very rarely watch TV, but when I do it's usually on my phone. I don't have a television, so when my wife and I watch a movie together it's on our laptop, but when I'm by myself I prefer my phone.

As a songwriter I really suffer from analysis paralysis, and what kinda helped me was to write a song a day for a month. I'm still not a prolific song writer by any means, but it helped me learn that perfect is the enemy of good enough, and that iteration is a lot easier than trying to perfect something the first time.

Absolutely. I work at a well known tech company, and when we give potential candidates coding tests we give them the option to code in any language they'd like (including pseudo-code), and to use Google if they can't remember the name or syntax of something they want to use.

There's not reason to fail a candidate just because they can't remember the signature of a method in a library they haven't used in a while.

Objectively they do - they rolled back years of minimalist design on the new MBP: thicker body, more ports, HDMI, card reader, etc.

I recently picked up a copy of a magazine from a Little Free Library and ended up reading it cover to cover.

It made me wonder if someone younger than me (I'm right on the line between GenX and Millennial) would have the same experience, or if they wouldn't be as interested in a physical copy because they weren't raised reading them.

Absolutely. Most engineers who work with sensitive data already know that there are tiers of data sensitivity (Public, Personal, Private), and that info like SSN and CCN are more private than, say, gender or marital status.

If I were given a 15% chance of survival (at best) where the most I could hope for was having a poor quality of life, I wouldn't be interested either. Even it at 2:1 it'd be a tough decision for me.

It's the year of the Linux desktop!

> I intentionally decide the kinds of BS that I'm willing to subject myself to

This was my experience, too. My father used to playfully needle me about our political differences, but after 2016 it was difficult to discuss anything without it becoming a rant. Finally he yelled at me because I said I agreed with mask mandates, and I decided I had had enough.

There's a setting in Slack to disable this!

Settings -> Messages & Media -> Convert my typed emoticons to emoji

Thanks! Small world!

In my opinion, this is absolutely the right way to go.

I know it's a completely different field, but I moderate a fairly large mountain biking forum, and I often have to remove comments that recommend techniques that could result in injury or death. It's often new riders who find that Technique B works better for them than Technique A, but they don't have the experience to understand why Technique B is dangerous.

I can't imagine how much worse it must be in Dr. Lowe's field.

I may be being a little more optimistic than some other people here, but I agree with you. There's a history of larger companies acquiring smaller ones only to ruin them (ahem, Yahoo), so hopefully Prosus understands what makes Stack Overflow so successful and will be mostly hands off. (Also, I'm not sure when Prosus acquired Udemy, but as far as I know that acquisition didn't negatively affect that site.)

One of my biggest complaints about Firefox is how much work I have to do in my userChrome.css to make it look nice. My current one is almost 400 lines and it's mostly adding separators/element padding, changing border radiuses and disabling hover and focus styles.

I was in a similar situation with email. In 2005 or so I was migrating to new computer when I found a directory of photos I forgot to back up. Rather than burn them to DVD or upload them to my domain, I decided to just email them to myself. I sent a handful of images, then replied to that same email with the next 10, and so on, until the five dozen or so images were uploaded in a single email thread.

When I went to open the email on my new machine, the loading indicator just spun and spun until finally my browser crashed. When viewing an email conversation, Gmail will display previews of all the emails in the chain, including their attachments, which was causing my browser to crash. Next I tried connecting my Google account to Apple Mail, but Gmail's SMTP server would time out before the attachments were able to download.

After a while I forgot about the photos all together, until I randomly stumbled across them while searching my Gmail account for some other files I had sent myself around that time. At this point it was 2014 or so, and my browser was very easily able to open the messages so I could download the photos, which of course at that point I had zero interest in.

I sometimes prefer subtle product placement. It looks weird when a character asks for a "beer" at a bar or a "pack of cigarettes" at a bodega. It would feel much more natural they just asked for a pack of Camels.

This is really interesting! I did the test you linked, and for all but one I picked the lowest bitrate version.

I'm using WH-1000XM3 headphones and am a lifelong musician with pretty mild tinnitus.

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> These policies drive users to very predictable passwords

I used to do a lot of contract work for the Clarke County School District in Athens, GA. For "security" reasons they weren't able to create domain accounts for people who weren't full time employees, so I'd often have to track down the IT manager to gain access to servers I was working on.

He eventually got sick of having to drop what he was doing a dozen times a day, so one day he just gave me his password: a dictionary word followed by the number 23. Eventually the password failed, and he gave me his new password: that same dictionary word followed by a 24.

Fast forward a few years and I'm back installing some updates, and before I get to work he hands me a slip of paper, on which he had written Dictionaryword29.

I moderate a reddit community with ~200k subscribers, and I really wish I could disable downvoting. Automod takes care of most posts that violate our community rules, and I usually catch the ones that slip past within an hour or so.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, quality posts are almost always downvoted immediately. (I assume it's by self-promoters hoping that it will cause their content to rise in the rankings.)

Hiding posts scores has helped with bandwagoning, but I wish the two options were "upvote" and "report to mods."

"They need to do way instain mother who kill their babbys."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-i...

> I think they suffer from that same phenomenon that makes cities on a whole, less friendly than smaller towns and communities.

There is data that shows the opposite is true[1]. While the pace of life is faster in urban areas -- which may be jarring to people aren't accustom to it -- living in areas with high population density teaches people to be courteous and respectful.

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/news/are-new-yorkers-friendly/