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by Sebguer 7y ago
Also the idea that corporate legal departments are just doing nothing all the time unless they're suing people is the tech equivalent of only caring about IT when something's broken.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
I mean there was literally a guy on the post from yesterday talking about how we're all paranoid and he's going to enjoy "exploring Boston and eating out while the lines are short".
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Ah, yes, washing your hands. The completely infallible way to prevent the spread of a disease. I don't want you to be afraid - I want you to minimize the risk that you get coronavirus and become another infection vector, endangering th
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by Sebguer 7y ago
You're incredibly selfishly increasing the risk to everyone else around you, but I get it. I was in the same camp just a few days ago.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Only 2% of the US workforce has a FEDERAL minimum wage job. Many states and cities have higher minimum wages than that, and something like 40% make less than $15.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-custom...
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Except no data wasn actually lost in that case? They got full access back to their account, and additionally, it wasn't a technical issue - they were accidentally flagged as a fraudulent / abusive account.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
"often still looking like it was designed in 1998" Apparently that's not a blocker, since Toast, built in the last few years, looks almost exactly the same: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHB
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Because the entire point of this exercise is not funding the company? It's not "fund the company AND build a team", it's offer this instead of funding the company, as a separate thing.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Where does the 600 million dollar superyacht fit into this all?
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by Sebguer 7y ago
This is one of the most relatable things I've ever read on this website.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
A fitness app that posts a map of its users’ activity has unwittingly revealed the locations and habits of military bases and personnel, including those of American forces in Iraq and Syria, security analysts say. The app, Strava, which cal
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Pocketcasts' redesign is another good example. It's at 3.3 and used to be almost unanimously positive.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
A lot of "bigcorp" has a computer science degree as a 'requirement' for their technical support roles.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
DigitalOcean Droplet bandwidth is pro-rated, you don't get the full pool when you create the Droplet, you get it over the course of the Droplet running across 28 days.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
The idea that these kind of jobs are meant for 'kids in high school' is a myth. The idea that the internet has leveled the playing field is perhaps not a myth, but wildly over-stated. I hope that one day you find some empathy.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
This is one of the most awful things I've ever read on this site, so thanks for that, I guess.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
As someone else pointed out, AWS does consistently upstream things to OpenJDK and is in fact regularly one of the largest contributors. Additionally, the entire thing, again, is open source and with a permissive license meaning nothing is s
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by Sebguer 7y ago
The same reason React is under Facebook's github org? https://github.com/facebook/react FYI, as I commented below, it's also available on Github under its own user and with a very permissive (GPLv2) license:
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Because it's maintained by Amazon? But it's entirely open source: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8 with a very permissive license (GPLv2)
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by Sebguer 7y ago
It's not an AWS system or service at all though... This is like saying that using React will lead you to be locked into Facebook?
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by Sebguer 7y ago
The requirements to double-render also force a cartoony style in a game at this scale.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
You can also cancel via live chat - or at least you could the last time I tried.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
The profit motive is helpful when it comes to providing incentives to innovate. There's no room for innovation here - it's purely a cash grab.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Convince people to give him a lot of money to set on fire.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Do you blame individual engineers for the business decisions that their companies make?
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by Sebguer 7y ago
I think you misread the person you're responding to. The average isn't 7.9k, 15% of the average is 7.9k - they are implying that the parent commenter makes far more than the average US household. (and further down, the OP states t
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by Sebguer 7y ago
https://www.saastr.com/your-1-sales-rep-should-be-driving-an... Embodied with all the expected toxicity in this article.
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by Sebguer 7y ago
You probably would care about how your butcher exerted his political will if he was worth almost a trillion dollars and had entered literally every facet of your life, including selling police surveillance equipment that's installed on
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by Sebguer 7y ago
Depends on the state. I believe in some states it's legal so long as you're not actively engaged in a crime, but becomes illegal if you get caught with them in a criminal act, even if they weren't directly related to the crim

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