LeonB

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by LeonB 4y ago
Yes please!
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by LeonB 4y ago
Perhaps he dresses up as Batman and fights crime at night, I mean, who can say?
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by LeonB 4y ago
There’s a saying “Beware of giving advice before you’re asked, or after.”
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by LeonB 4y ago
Same is true on Twitter, only you’re not earned about it.
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by LeonB 4y ago
The amount of crapware installed on a new laptop shows that even when you pay for a product, sometimes it still turns out that you are the product.
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by LeonB 4y ago
And an even newer account — https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exod983
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by LeonB 4y ago
The sentence referred to here: > All good so far. But then you say that it is a problem, and this is where I am lost. …Is not referring to a problem that has, at that point in the story, been revealed. It is being evocative in a sort of
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by LeonB 4y ago
I think they mean “There’s no ethical way to do this without informed consent”
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by LeonB 4y ago
Muphry’s Law
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by LeonB 4y ago
Directors in Australia can be personally liable for unpaid tax. So the limited liability is limited when it suits the right people.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Citation needed. Also - relevance? The tagline being questioned here is— “People don't change their minds” — the problem with which is not that it’s “simply untrue” but that it requires qualification, e.g. in the prose of the linked ar
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by LeonB 4y ago
This is called a “rhetorical device” and you’d struggle to find a lengthy article that does not employ rhetorical devices. It’s a big part of how communication works.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Bingo
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by LeonB 4y ago
Absolutely. I don’t trust the author one bit and I am that author.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Argh - ok I can fix this. (Or send a PR please… busy feeding the family right now)
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by LeonB 4y ago
Author here — I experience the same now too. When I wrote it I didn’t have any dark mode extensions, now I have them on mobile and desktop.
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by LeonB 4y ago
- Ubuntu VMs at digital ocean - Nginx webserver - asp.net / dotnet / c# - vanilla js
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by LeonB 4y ago
Yeh, it’s reasonable to assume this was the best move available to him, strategically. If he’s quiet: it’s for strategic reasons. If he play and forfeits, instead of not playing at all: it’s for strategic reasons. Etc. Saying it’s petulant
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by LeonB 4y ago
Unlike pretty much everything in Chess, this is an international news story. That’s quite significant.
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by LeonB 4y ago
They’re using hyperbole as a device. It’s not meant to be “literally” true.
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by LeonB 4y ago
There’s an article [1] from Ricky Gervais where he compares British and US culture/humor. At the end he says: > ‘for the record I’d rather a waiter say, “Have a nice day” and not mean it, than ignore me and mean it.‘ [1] https:&#x2
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by LeonB 4y ago
“A tiny MCU” in this case means Microcontroller Unit, not Marvel Cinematic Universe. Don’t expect to find Antman running around on your chip preventing fraud.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Some people say NYC is like a separate nation, but that’s naive, it’s a separate planet.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Do you work at a magnetron manufacturing plant?
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by LeonB 4y ago
When publishing an ebook, you set a different price (usually a multiple) for libraries.
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by LeonB 4y ago
I like the reasoning given above — how you tried to short circuit the unwanted discussion. A friend of mine used to make family friendly edits of films just for his own kids when they were little. Sometimes I try to make family friendly ver
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by LeonB 4y ago
I knew a pharmacist who wrote his own POS software in Delphi. It (and Visual Basic) had that position where they were so usable that even someone whose fulltime job was something else would be able to single handedly make a line of business
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by LeonB 4y ago
Here's a virus total report on the file. I find virus total useful (as a product developer) because it will help show cases where some smaller scanner is reporting a positive. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url&#x2
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by LeonB 4y ago
He was certainly influenced by Ted Nelson and I’d be shocked if he had no awareness of this. He’d have to have been completely naive about the field he was working in, and I don’t think he was naive.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Founder here… looking into this.

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