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by _qulr 6y ago
What rdw said in a sibling reply. Also, it's all too easy to raise a troll's profile and turn them into an anti-hero or martyr by dunking on them. This is what happened with the POTUS. It's precisely the reaction he gets, the
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by _qulr 6y ago
There are millions of real tweets like this though. "++ [tweet]" "Thread. [tweets]" [downward pointing finger emoji, tweet]
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by _qulr 6y ago
Social network moderators are almost always low-paid, low-power, low-profile employees. It's not a great job. It's a high-volume job, like an assembly line. The highly compensated Twitter and Facebook software engineers are not do
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by _qulr 6y ago
Why do you think the pressure is coming from inside? There are billions of people watching these platforms. Even governments scrutinizing them. Unruly employees are fairly easy to handle, as long as there's not outside pressure too, bu
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by _qulr 6y ago
> If twitter disappeared, 5 copycat sites/apps would emerge from the ashes overnight. 5 is not necessarily a problem. 1 is a problem. :-) It's not easy to reach "critical mass" though. Many social networks have tried
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> Twitter is a community Twitter has 330 million monthly active users and 145 million daily active users. Is that a community? It seems more like an unruly mob. :-) I agree with the point that all online forums should have moderation, bu
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> the largest tech corporations are now more powerful than most countries I think this is fundamentally the problem, and not free speech. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are of unprecedented historical size. Nobody really worried about w
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by _qulr 6y ago
I'm not sure why Twitter thinks that quote tweets are better than retweets. Propaganda exists to be spread, and it's long been obvious that "This is wrong/bad [quote]" just serves to further spread the propaganda an
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Whereas [1] says among job board postings, C++ is about as popular as JS, and Java is 1.7x more popular than JS. I think it's questionable whether job posting are more representative of working programmers. Arguably they're l
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by _qulr 6y ago
Here's some data from the Stack Overflow 2020 developer survey: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#developer-pro... Only 17% of professional developers surveyed were age 40+. That vastly disproportiona
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> I do not see this around me at all. Are you denying the existence of rampant age discrimination in tech, which has been highlighted countless times by many people? Otherwise, I'm not sure what the comment was intending. > there
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I think the motivation is actually age discrimination. It's often much harder to find a job when you're older, so you have to strike it rich when you're younger.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> often forgotten Is it though? https://youtu.be/SwYN7mTi6HM?t=154
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by _qulr 6y ago
This was a specific comment about the Madison, Wisconsin area. Do you have specific data about mask wearing in Madison?
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by _qulr 6y ago
The reliability of licensed contractors is... questionable. ;-) In some cases it seems pretty silly. For example, beauticians need to be licensed, even though they make very low average salaries, so it's not particularly helpful to the
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by _qulr 6y ago
I think "Why is software different?" is the wrong question. Why is software the same? Most professions don't need professional licensing, and it's not clear that the economy would be served well by adding licensing requi
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by _qulr 6y ago
Different states have dramatically different taxes. Some states have no income taxes. So in one sense, it's a "solved problem", with the solution being that licensing requirements would be dramatically different based on loca
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by _qulr 6y ago
> plumbers, electricians, civil engineers, architects, structural engineers, etc. All these occupations have licensing requirements. These are almost exclusively local regulations, not US national requirements, and certainly not internat
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by _qulr 6y ago
I don't think doctors are a useful analogy for software developers. You mention doctors, then people are going to say "we need licensing for software developers" (which for the majority of programming jobs is silly IMO), and
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Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings(lapcatsoftware.com)
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's important to note that the checkra1n team have vehemently criticized this article for inaccuracy. https://twitter.com/axi0mX/status/1313665047768391680 https://twitter.com/su_rickmark&#x2
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by _qulr 6y ago
Yes, though Eddie's solos tend to get the notoriety, his rhythm playing was brilliant, arguably his best side. (I thought his lead guitar was kind of haphazard at times.) For rhythm work, I love the title track from "5150". A
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by _qulr 6y ago
I agree with you. Madison is a great college town, and it's a great place to raise kids, but the social life for non-college adults without kids is... not ideal. I've been trying to get out of here and move to a bigger city, but t
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Good area. Wish more people wore masks though. Huh? We have a mask mandate in Dane County. Everyone wears them, by law.
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by _qulr 6y ago
The "Midwest" is approximately 20% of the US population. Therefore, all generalizations about the Midwest are false stereotypes. The Midwest is large and varied.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Note that while still getting support, this is a legacy operating system What does this even mean, other than that 10.14 is not the latest major macOS version, which we all already know, indeed can't ignore in Software Update?
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by _qulr 6y ago
I'm an App Store developer, and every time that App Store downloads fail, users email me instead of contacting Apple, even though Apple controls the entire installation process, and there's nothing developers can do. It's s
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by _qulr 6y ago
The Supreme Court may be the endgame of this trial. Maybe that's why they don't care about the jury. It'll doubtless be appealed no matter who wins, so does the outcome even matter?
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by _qulr 6y ago
> continuing support for six year old phones is solely motivated by service revenue - just like consoles. No, because Macs are supported for even longer. And Mac App Store revenue is not even worth mentioning. (Literally, Apple has never
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Android OEMs don’t have the same incentives. Of course they don't. They don't make the operating system, and also the average selling price is lower. Not sure what this has to do with the App Store though.

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