FridgeSeal

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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
I was under the impression that most modern blockers (uBlock etc) simply block that request from the site to the adserver, so no they wouldn't count as an impression.
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
I would totally turn off my ad blocker if ads to restricted to a set maximum size, constituted only a static JPG and contained no tracking pixels/code or cookies and we no more targeted than the site they were on: I.e. technology ads o
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
100% agree: "Sets wtf is a set I’m not really going to get into set theory because I don’t know anything about it tbqh, but maybe it’s worth a mention? Wonder what would be a really good succinct but not wrong explanation of set
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
"I thought, “Hey, I’m a Web Developer™! I should use JavaScript for this because JavaScript is the best lol!” " While that's clearly meant to be somewhat of a joke (from a medium account called dailyjs as well), it's thi
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
Got a link?
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
Data poisoning is a fantastic approach: flood the captures with so much, and with so much trash that it becomes an increasingly large amount of work to just sort out the 'real' traffic (even before any advertiser analysis of what
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
No, they're not. The solution is getting strong, enforced laws that protect our privacy and punish those who break them. But for the moment, with advertisers viewing themselves as gods gift to the internet who think that all your infor
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
In the many years I've used the internet, I don't think I've ever seen an add where I've been like "I didn't know I wanted this", and the increasing invasion of privacy from advertisers is not worth the in
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
This strikes me as some kind of terrible vicious cycle: tradeoffs against performance (towards build speed) were made > users got used to slower software > users unconsciously prefer/select for slower software. When you do get to
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
May I ask what your background is? I come from a maths + stats background and the "impenetrable math notation" is literally second nature to me now: I can test and understand it with far more speed and ease than I do any programm
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
That's because, unequivocally, atom is slower. https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
For sure. Half the responses in this thread are people defending the stupid idea of "let's just use js everywhere, just because we can and fuck better suited tools". Js is not the be all and end all of tools, just because it
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
Are they really cutting edge? Or are they just an excuse to cram more javascript and web tech into unrelated areas. Just because js is good on web, doesn't - and shouldn't - mean that we should be doing that.
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by FridgeSeal 10y ago
VSCode faster than Sublime? Are you sure of that? VSCode is certainly nice and fast, but I've been able to do choke vscode a lot faster than Sublime. Plus, you can't even open files above what, 100(?)mb in vscode whereas Sublime h