Goladus

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by Goladus 7y ago
Everyone knows there are lines, and you just coincidentally made a Nazi analogy. Discussions about immigration (and the rhetoric of progressives in the US in general) is constantly plagued by inflammatory and inappropriate Nazi references.
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by Goladus 7y ago
It is an argument ad absurdum, which isn't an invalid argument though it can be emotionally charged It is not argument ad absurdum. It's true that sometimes, it helps to use an exaggerated example to illustrate a nuanced point.
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by Goladus 7y ago
My (and these developers) opinion of GitHub is tarnished by this. Have you considered the extent to which your opinion is influenced by the long-running political propaganda campaigns designed to villainize ICE as much as possible and dis
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by Goladus 7y ago
> I'm just saying the "it's not appropriate to pressure a company for political views, companies should be off limits from politics" You haven't actually presented a supporting argument for it, though. What exac
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by Goladus 7y ago
> If it was Boeing providing bombers to the PRC to use against civilian populations Of course, it's not... > Boycotts, strikes, sabotage, sit-ins, work slowdowns, etc has all been used to pressure companies to take actions becaus
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by Goladus 7y ago
The politics are external. The US-Mexico border situation is a controversial, hot-button political issue that has nothing to do with software except insofar as software is a generic essential element of operations at any businesses and gov
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by Goladus 7y ago
> It pretty much follows the definition of a concentration camp. No, it doesn't, and even to the partial extent it does, is HIGHLY disingenuous. Here is the definition of concentration camp: a place where large numbers of people,
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by Goladus 7y ago
It's not that the activism has spread, it's that the activism has become externally imposed on developers based on the politics of agitators, as opposed to internal industry politics and competition, and the tactics used have beco
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by Goladus 7y ago
funny but just in case anyone takes it literally, "yeah, right" requires some contextual indication of sarcasm to be negative. The same words could be uttered as an expression of impatient agreement rather than disagreement, and
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by Goladus 7y ago
> The sellers in this discussion are multinational organizations with very well educated people working with access to tons of data. And also likely with layers of bureaucracy, internal and external politics, complex business relationshi
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by Goladus 7y ago
It's definitely factually incorrect that all VHS tapes had macrovision. I know we did not have any kind of stablilizer or special copy machinery used to duplicate VHS tapes.
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by Goladus 7y ago
So, a point irrelevant to any part of the actual discussion.
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by Goladus 7y ago
> there is no “should be” price, other than the price a seller is willing to sell at and a buyer is willing to buy at. That's true in most markets, but also totally irrelevant to the point. If a seller has no idea what the market w
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by Goladus 7y ago
I'd have to go to my fathers house to find the stack of VHS tapes that were duplicated from rentals. Meanwhile I have my own modest stack of DVDs that I copied in the 2000s using whatever generic DVD ripper was available for windows a
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by Goladus 7y ago
Not true. Perhaps you meant to say that copy protection has existed for a long time. But plenty of commercial video has been available without copy protection.
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by Goladus 7y ago
> a la carte is always significantly more expensive True, but clearly not the case with most TV shows. It's not an a la carte premium . It's either targeting a niche market like collectors, or there's just no attempt to
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by Goladus 7y ago
> All those also apply to subscription services They quite obviously don't. Perhaps most notably availability at premier, which tends to matter a lot for TV shows if you have any desire to be part of the conversation about them.
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by Goladus 7y ago
> How many hundreds of hours of entertainment for $167? That's not relevant. The simple fact is that $167 for a season is well beyond the budget of the average person whose opinion you're considering. "Hours of entertain
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by Goladus 7y ago
Yes, consistently formatted code tends to be easier to read and tends to help teams be (slightly) more efficient.
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by Goladus 7y ago
> your others And yes I understand the value of linters :p
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The Insufferable Arrogance of Linters
3 points by Goladus 7y ago|6 comments
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by Goladus 7y ago
Not as typically as you might think.
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by Goladus 7y ago
Despite what it seems, demand for features is really NOT why enterprise software is (so often) bad. The problem is how easy it is to SELL fundamentally bad software simply because you can tick a box saying it has the feature. Yes, I too ha
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by Goladus 7y ago
They aren't, though. If the big "Enterprise Software" players like Salesforce and SAP sell to healthcare providers it's either not with their flagship products, or else it's with incidental business processes not r
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by Goladus 7y ago
No, it can just be one or two bad decisions that cascade and wind up being hard to get undone. The decision might have come from a committee or might have come from a single executive that turned out to be a bad hire.
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by Goladus 7y ago
> Any application which deals The problem here is putting the cart before the horse and expecting the software to implement policies for you. If you can't design a workflow to work and be compliant without new software, you probabl
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by Goladus 7y ago
Regardless, the purpose and core features of Word and Excel have not changed in 20+ years. MS Word is a Word Processor. Its purpose is to input and format text. Excel is a spreadsheet. It's purpose is to be an interactive way to or
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by Goladus 7y ago
When people say "Enterprise Software" they are not talking about shrink-wrap single-user office productivity applications like word processors and spreadsheets. Maybe there should be another term to help clarify for people who don
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by Goladus 7y ago
Exactly right, even to the point of bringing up a few specific industries that do in fact have specialized needs.
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by Goladus 7y ago
> The real reason enterprise software sucks is that enterprises have complex and unique workflows and would prefer to buy software that they can fit to their workflow rather than change the workflows of their profitable business with ten

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