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by abraae 7y ago
Spent several hours chasing up 5 chargebacks for our service today. The accountant did not recognize our charges so simply claimed they were fraudulent. What a pain in the ass for us.
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by abraae 7y ago
I hate big power. When I was an IBM engineer, power into the computer room was a big deal. Big diesel generators feeding into the main switchboard along with redundant mains connections. One incident I remember is when an electrician was wo
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by abraae 7y ago
Oracle's PL/SQL uses it. I believe it was based on ADA... googles ... Yes ADA uses it as well.
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by abraae 7y ago
There's a lot to be negative about wrt our climate crisis for sure. However overwhelmingly negative messages I believe can contribute to inaction through people moving straight from the denial phase to the "what's the point,
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by abraae 7y ago
> And it's annoying AF; there is no reason for a carrier to give a crap about tethered/not Put yourself in their shoes, and you'll appreciate their reasons. I was recently force to pay for a higher plan specifically to unl
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by abraae 7y ago
I certainly watched a lot of crap TV growing up. However entertainment back then was so feeble compared to today's high voltage stuff it didn't really command one's full attention, there was still time for socializing. By con
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by abraae 7y ago
Facebook.
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One of the many unknown and unforseeable ways in which the climate crisis might play out is that different countries have different imperatives. As temperatures rise, countries like Russia might well be net winners, as their frozen lands th
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by abraae 7y ago
Any search engine that was unavailable for 50% of the time would soon have 0% of the market, not 50%.
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by abraae 7y ago
It sure does, see Rangitoto Island for an example ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangitoto_Island ). A bare volcanic rock after its eruption 600 years ago, the island is now largely reforested. Lava fields contain no so
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by abraae 7y ago
No silver bullet
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by abraae 7y ago
It's absorbed by new trees, planted to replace the ones cut down.
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by abraae 7y ago
Coincidentally enough, we just got through writing a nest of regexps to retrospectively validate about 2K user entered addresses, and they turned out to be surprisingly well entered, probably about 98% parsable. In this case the user was en
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by abraae 7y ago
I've tried using that book to explain to people how "real" software development works. How the inception of the real cool shit, the stuff that spawns a company, is almost always 2, 3 or a small handful of people working late,
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by abraae 7y ago
I would say the opposite. Only gifted leaders and developers are able to keep things really simple, when working on complicated domains/problems.
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by abraae 7y ago
> Would there be limits on how much you could request from someone? Why? Are there limits on accessing your own bank accounts IRL? > Would bots spam everyone on earth requesting $50? No. Facebook would not allow that to happen. They c
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by abraae 7y ago
Nope you don't, it's just a tool allowing the world's biggest Bank ever to open its doors.
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by abraae 7y ago
I can see a use case. I'm Whatsapp-ing my son who is a student, and he tells me he needs money. A button pops up onto the screen saying "Give Michael $50". I click the button and the transaction is done. With our marketing ha
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by abraae 7y ago
Au contraire, raising heaps of money on a pure vapor product just might be the mark of a truly powerful pitch deck.
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by abraae 7y ago
We've been lured into being overly cautious about the science, in order not to feed any snippet of false information to the idiot hordes that would seize on it and use it to discredit/distort what's actually happening. Net re
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by abraae 7y ago
We watched a documentary on people living with minimal waste, which highlight an elderly couple who managed to live with less than one rubbish sack of waste per year. I was admiring their efforts until I noticed a smouldering rubbish heap i
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by abraae 7y ago
Except that Java is that 20 year old thing, and it has stood the test of time, it's not the new COBOL. I learned vi about 30 years ago, Java and SQL over 20 years ago, and they're tools I can still use every day to get stuff done.
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by abraae 7y ago
For the same sort of reason that Texas can't?
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by abraae 7y ago
I've experienced the office of about 6 people (mentioned in a post on Epic Games) as an ideal environment for software development, better than cube farms or single person offices. Maybe instead of struggling to apply management concep
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by abraae 7y ago
It's also possible that things that grow 50x tend to be newer, meaning less gradual accretion of cruft in the code. Being newer also means more remaining institutional knowledge in the organization about the technology. For 50x growth,
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by abraae 7y ago
Amusing story! But in some countries (not sure about the US) it is common to perform a criminal record check, credit check etc. on new employees. In high compliance environments (e.g banks) the checks may span any countries you have resided
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by abraae 7y ago
This is good stuff but in one case at least - jobs - add to your list the need to perform background checks during the application process, which does require an actual identity verification.
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by abraae 7y ago
Someone told me early on that dealing with small businesses was a nightmare. You'ld get Mom or Pop quibbling over a $75 bill, whereas enterprise customers will pay a $40K bill without batting an eye as long as the paperwork is in order
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by abraae 7y ago
Incredible. Bitcoin used to be a solution looking for a problem. Now it's at least a solution to it's own problem.
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by abraae 7y ago
I like it too and this site is beautifully created to that effect. I find it inspiring for our site. I only wonder if perhaps it's an approach that speaks more to techies.

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