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by _csoo 6y ago
>I really think that all of this DeFi stuff is playing with fire. If these tools scale large enough, it's easy to imagine breaking the right link in the system at the right time to cause catastrophic failures. Substitute "softw
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by _csoo 7y ago
"We'll empower you to easily sell your stuff" that leaves power and agency in the hands of individual companies. WordPress + WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento already do that. Drop $10 to $20/month on hosting on Digi
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by _csoo 7y ago
Shopify is just the next closed-source iteration of WordPress and Magento. WordPress has one of the largest platforms and they've taken over (and open-sourced) blogging, content management, learning management systems, and ecommerce. T
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by _csoo 8y ago
>My favorite conspiracy theory (which I totally believe) is that mattress stores are mostly for money laundering. No market can possibly support as many stores as there are, and every time I go by one, they're empty. Here's mor
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by _csoo 10y ago
feels like the old warez dayz
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Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry(oldgeekjobs.com)
538 points by _csoo 10y ago|379 comments
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by _csoo 11y ago
I found this to be the case when writing a Cucumber test for an Emacs package. You can see an example here: https://github.com/omouse/org-doing/blob/master/features/org... It was more helpful to wri
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by _csoo 15y ago
That's okay. Free/open source software in general is still considered to be utterly radioactive but there's enough developers out there willing to work with and on it that it isn't a problem. There's no reason why we should let corporations
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by _csoo 15y ago
If you're complaining about the legality of incorporating the leaked code, you aren't ready for a world where free software rules. The end game of free and, to a lesser extent, of open source software is to live in a world where copyright a
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by _csoo 15y ago
Along these lines, it doesn't fit to equate unpaid internships to serfdom. Serfdom involves effectively permanent, near total servitude to a landowner for most aspects of life. Uh, wage slavery? How much of a person's salary is spent just
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by _csoo 17y ago
double the expressions but they're simpler to understand perhaps.
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by _csoo 17y ago
he obviously hates dealing with regular expressions and I do too. It's only natural.
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by _csoo 17y ago
Jesus fuck, the first comments I see here are complaints about the code. What about the concept? Is it any good? Is it worth working on?
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by _csoo 17y ago
Reading it, it looks like a total hack job by a poor programmer. Unsurprising, most programmers are poor.
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by _csoo 18y ago
I only started to enjoy Pink Floyd after I realized I didn't need to be a stoner to like it. Stoners and their mindlessness ruin good things.
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by _csoo 19y ago
Agreed. Someone please delete this post!
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by _csoo 19y ago
Since when is Startup News synonymous with reddit?