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by LaGrange 7y ago
One does not exclude the other, in my experience.
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Don't panic. They're sheltered developers in a megacorp, it's most likely it's the first time they've encountered a 4chan psyop (or whatever tf this is), if they'd hear the term "nazbol" they'd p
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...actually 4chan regularly runs things remarkably close with this. Sometimes they _accidentally_ turn a previously innocuous symbol into hate speech (see: "okay" gesture, welcome to 2019, where seeing someone making it makes you
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by LaGrange 7y ago
I think it's quite different, because it used to enforce (past tense) availability of the source code, which was quite neat from the consumer perspective. Linux distros had a very different dynamic, so that enforcement was effectively
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> Thanks but no thanks. Lol, yeah. The HN headline is like "hell yeah, break up and/or nationalise Google/Alphabet," but the link is "get our product please think of us poor little oppressed advertising agencies&
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> It is pretty obvious that it does at times, even if we are aware of the biases. ...well gee, let's look what I wrote... > ...I'm pretty sure that "sex sells" as a general statement has been debunked a while ago S
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...maybe that's what the artists wanted to make. Also, "sex sells" is such gospel, and posting sex is such an ego thing to many execs, that I don't think the reality of its marketing efficiency matters much for network d
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Proof or it didn't happen. I don't know, the first two pages of Google if you enter "sex does not sell"? I could have linked contents, but I think I'll let you do the homework.
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...I'm pretty sure that "sex sells" as a general statement has been debunked a while ago, though of course sex sells when sex is relevant to the product.
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> I could say I'm surprised to see how many people don't know anything about the browser rendering pipeline and consequently produce badly performing interfaces. I mean, if you're supposed to be a senior front-end dev then
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...that's assuming there's some sort of meaningful liability in corrupting the data, either legal or from PR backlash, but sometimes it feels like many companies have discovered that's not really the case.
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Oh sure, but sad things happen. And they can be even messier: I had a Jenkins instance "made" public because a sysadmin new to a hosting provider forgot to remove the public IP that gets automatically assigned to new things. We we
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> It has to exist on a private network behind a firewall with ports open to application servers and other es nodes only. Running things on a public ip address is a choice that should not be taken lightly. Clustering over the public inter
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> Reporting and bi data might get hosed. > Account management might get hosed. LOL, if I read the data directly from the db instead of via the application's API then sure, I lose the application's guarantees. But, y'kno
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> Personally, I'd love to simply find a way to make "mass transit" more workable. It's very workable already. Give it priority and separate lanes where possible, consider giving them exclusive use of roads in some are
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Tooling. I don't think anything fully replaced it. OTOH, while not web things per se, I think Twine, Unity and RPG Maker scratch similar itches for many (but definitely not all) people potentially interested.
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I actually dislike Python, but this list ain't it.
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It doesn't work for deterrence either, but it's pretty clear by now that the function of most penal systems is vengeance.
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> That’s basic economics. Oh really. Because to me it sounds like a statement about human motivation patterns, and some huge assumptions about it that are, quite often, wrong. Just like cats, humans can be motivated by: * food (or food-e
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by LaGrange 7y ago
"Trust" isn't something binary. I trust them to do something and not something else; they may just be the ones I distrust the least as well. And assuming I _distrust_ someone just because I trusted someone is obnoxious.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Not "everybody" hates Google for it. People who don't understand the security implications inherent in allowing browser extensions that have nearly-unrestricted access to the user's behavior -- even if well-intended
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Yeah, it makes ad blockers less powerful. It also makes them less of an enormous security risk in that all of your web traffic is redirected through them, and a compromised extension could do whatever it wanted with that. This presumes
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> True that the European user should be able to opt-out just from tracking. No, and if that's how it's implemented by you then you're breaking the rules here. It should be opt-in. And yes, I know that at that point you cou
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by LaGrange 7y ago
There actually seems to be a bit of a battle going on in my upvotes right now.
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> RMS has called himself "borderline autistic". As someone actually autistic, he doesn't get to blame being a douchecanoe on being autistic. > His socially clueless black and white thinking makes it look like he is far
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Yeah, the unobtrusive scrollbars make sense only if you're using a multitouch touchpad or Apple's mouse — as soon as I have to use e.g. some office's basic mouse, chasing those unobtrusive becomes a major pain, to the point I
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by LaGrange 7y ago
I want to have embedded links, tables and images (but only ones that are attachments), which plaintext isn't sufficient for. On the other hand, I want _only_ that, and notably they all provide a nice and obvious client-side failover fo
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Why wound reparability not help with this? Why would it? > Especially since you note that we can't keep living like we do: Reparability is an active attempt to reduce the harmful effects of consuming by reducing waste. Or is it
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> The more you look at the e-waste that is being generated and dumped (often in developing countries, or.. out of sight of most westerners) the more you realize that increasing repairability/re-use/longetivity of devices is imp
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Replacing a battery on a 5S wasn't a problem — literally a trip downstairs and paying €20, if my memory serves me well. Done within 15 minutes. It would be neat if I could do it on my own, but that was good enough for me. And it means

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