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Gameplay engineer and designer with @capscollective.com, living in Brisbane, Australia.
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Beyond being potentially exploitative, it’s also a liability, and wrong to charge clients for the work of a pseudo-employee. Generally the intern should be getting way more out of the relationship than the business (who would be sacrificing time to educate them). Business work = junior or graduate
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On the point of different definitions, I would suggest that internships do not have to be a paid program, but they should not have the individual working on anything providing business value. It’s a teaching opportunity provided by the employer to reach out to students; not a source of free labour
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Must… resist… sudden urge to spend all weekend rebuilding Jekyll blog site with Bimbo
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Bimbo comments coming soon since this was literally the easiest thing to just drop in and get working bsky.app/profile/jonj...
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This is also very true. I once did a consulting job for a warehouse that was being held hostage by an 88 year old IT manager that refused to modernise systems from the Pick OS/language. The CEO was sweating bullets over finding anyone else on the continent that could take over if he kicked it.
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This is a big part of why you see ads for “Flask/React/Unreal/etc. dev wanted”, and part of what originally led me to leaving web and app dev work. It’s boring, you produce inelegant, factory line solutions, and actual engineering skills atrophy in service of compliance.
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As this proliferates, the solutions to “solved” problems all take the same shape and become less exacting in their form. Meanwhile, hiring and firing bodies to throw at the problem becomes highly expedient for businesses.
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I think the reasoning on corporate’s end is they don’t want to invest in the training. It also makes replacing staff on registers instant; if it’s a self-discoverable UI system, they can just lump anyone who walks in the door with register duty and tell them to figure it out.
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Worked at Kmart when registers were simple text terminals and we would just remember the key combos for all the sales commands. It was fast and never failed. The newer, fancier touch GUI systems they have seem to lag and take longer to get anything done.
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I could even imagine a 1st or 3rd party service with a nominal processing fee to ensure there is budget for a human in the loop system.
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Are labellers not their decentralised solution for verification and moderation? For all the reasons domains are not an equal solution, I would be satisfied with finding a trusted labeller for identity verification in most cases.
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I always feel so relaxed when going under. There’s this sense of nothing needing to be done and knowing you’ll just blink and it’ll be over.
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Beyond this kind of noise, I just want Signal to remain a messaging app. The addition of stories really worried me. Can we just have apps for different purposes?
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Hey Brisbane dev here. Mind adding me to the list?
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Glad to have helped!
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Yeah there’s a ton of public endpoints available to query - just depends on what you’re looking to display. I think the search one maybe? But I’d take a look at the HTTP ref and see if there’s anything that fits your needs better.
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Sure! I actually ended up doing a short blog post with examples here: capscollective.com/blog/bluesky...
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The split keyboard thing really is a novelty for some people. In the office I get “I think your keyboard is broken” about 3 times a day. Very cool wrist rest design though!
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I refuse to believe this is not satire. Flagship phones barely have 8 and this game is 20 years old!