VieElm

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by VieElm 11y ago
Sounds like you've come up with a nice comfortable rationalization for creating bad experiences for your users. How convenient for you. You don't seem to think very highly of your site's visitors. > Most (but not all) user
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by VieElm 11y ago
A recurring monthly payment doesn't track my activity does it. It just tracks that I've paid for something. Many sites offer PayPal so there's no personal information conveyed at all. I pay for a lot of Twitch subs. I am curr
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by VieElm 11y ago
This isn't true, I'm perfectly willing to pay for content. I just don't want ads and I don't want to be tracked. Thanks to browser extensions I don't have to no matter how much that hurts your feelings. You say I&#x
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by VieElm 11y ago
> uBlock blocks piwik all the same Good. I don't want to contribute to your analytics. I don't want ads. I just want to browse the web without being tracked. I don't care if that means you can't pay for your site, oth
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by VieElm 11y ago
Editorialized title should probably be renamed.
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by VieElm 11y ago
They don't make it easy, broadcasters just add a link in their profile. There's no information transmitted to PayPal about the donation being for Twitch broadcasting. In fact a lot of broadcaster use third party tools, tools not m
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by VieElm 11y ago
Aphyr has a great post about Redis: https://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis Recommends using it on a single server or if distributed as a cache or for data that can tolerate write losses.
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by VieElm 11y ago
Twitch doesn't make any money from streamer tips as most of that is done through a link to PayPal. Twitch has no tip system. Popular streamers like Lirik have said they much prefer getting a subscription through Twitch than a donation
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by VieElm 11y ago
Here's a similar case where a writer left her son in her car for a few minutes in a parking lot at a store: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/the_day_i_left_my_son_in_the...
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by VieElm 11y ago
I doubt your Passport will see an Android update even if they did this. Someone might have an unofficial Android build for the Passport though.
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by VieElm 11y ago
You can ask the interviewer to clarify what the question is or what the result should look like. You should always ask for more details ask if you don't understand the question, and sometimes people ask in a vague way to see if the can
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by VieElm 11y ago
To change the nodes to point the other way around. So if the left edge of N1 points to N2 and the right edge points to N3 you make it so that N1's left edge points to N3 and the right edge points to N2. It's a trivial problem of c
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by VieElm 11y ago
Well she made public comments about it. She basically said something about if people value the music they like they should pay for it. So it wasn't just the label, Taylor Swift was involved.
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by VieElm 11y ago
As an engineer I feel an obligation to know about these things and how they work. It might be appropriate for my work. For my own projects I am just going to start out with a Django or Meteor app and if I'm lucky enough to have to worr
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by VieElm 11y ago
Well these technologies are there to help bring Google type infrastructure for businesses that need it. If you're running a CRUD app just fine on Heroku you don't need to do any of this and you shouldn't. When your availabili
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by VieElm 11y ago
Someone should start a Kickstarter for a professionally done documentary of Terry Davis and TempleOS. He's such an interesting person. I'd watch it. It would probably be an amazing documentary if done well and assuming Terry Davis
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by VieElm 11y ago
That's a serious bash script. That's the craziest bash script I've ever seen. It's like a full program. It is terrifying.
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by VieElm 11y ago
I've read the Count of Monte Cristo in English, which is basically my native language and I wouldn't be embarrassed to say that my skills aren't good enough to even read that book's English translation. It's not jus
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by VieElm 11y ago
Using a lack of GitHub contributions as a way to disqualify candidates sounds like a really bad idea. Does anyone do that? Seems like a strawman argument.
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by VieElm 11y ago
If anyone is interested in a great single volume fantasy book, I recommend Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It's a very good book.
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by VieElm 11y ago
> I had to switch away from fish as well because of its lack of vi bindings. No you didn't. I use vim and fish just fine. Just put this in your .vimrc: set shell=/bin/bash
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by VieElm 11y ago
Why hasn't this been challenged in court? Seems like civil forfeiture violates the 4th amendment.
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by VieElm 11y ago
Are they planning on implementing a JavaScript engine in Servo as well?
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by VieElm 11y ago
You probably replied to a craigslist email which used your real email address via reply-to field and they were using gmail which stored this information.
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by VieElm 11y ago
Well if you end up with a vandalized wikipedia page maybe you end up misinformed. If you end up with wrong map data, maybe you end up lost or dead.
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by VieElm 12y ago
Well it's well documented that what happens is that the system ends up being gamed. For example managers hire people to fire so they don't have to fire the people they've friended. See Microsoft Stack Ranking. http:/&#x
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by VieElm 12y ago
You guys regularly fire some portion (3% to 5%) of your employees every year yes? I love what you're doing and I'd love to be part of it, but the press doesn't make it out like a great place to be an employee. It makes sense
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by VieElm 12y ago
Is there some way to opt out of these studies on Facebook? I don't use these services to be studied.
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by VieElm 12y ago
Techcrunch is usually accessed via unencrypted HTTP as a quick search for Techcrunch will show: Google offers the HTTP URL. Techcrunch is hosted on Wordpress VIP[1] which explains the SSL cert you get. In other words, nothing to see here. [
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by VieElm 12y ago
I imagine engineers at facebook get to use whatever editor or ide they like. There's probably at least a few using it.

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