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by acid__ 5y ago
Amjad has tweeted about this: > There is a difference between copying a feature and actually getting intro a contract, and access to the code, copying it and calling it open-source. > As a matter of principle, when someone goes into y
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by acid__ 5y ago
That's how you end up with crypto-mining sweatshops...
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by acid__ 6y ago
Same, hence the (!?). lol
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by acid__ 6y ago
evanw appears to be Evan Wallace, the cofounder and CTO of Figma (!?)
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by acid__ 6y ago
Anyone have a good explanation for why someone hasn’t built a true replacement? e.g. a good, widely used flash-like tool that compiled down to a HTML5 bundle of assets?
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by acid__ 6y ago
I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening
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by acid__ 6y ago
2FA that can't be bypassed with a password reset?
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by acid__ 6y ago
There is absolutely both a legal and a social contract in play here. That's not unusual, either. In almost any situation involving cooperation between humans, the participants are implicitly agreeing to a larger or different set of ter
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by acid__ 6y ago
Yeah, I agree that ghost likely hasn't violated any business/legal contracts. That said, they've certainly violated an implicit social contract for the behavior expected from service providers of their type. So to say "T
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by acid__ 6y ago
Excel may have failed in this specific task, but let’s not pretend like its functionality doesn’t run circles around Google Docs and LibreOffice. Excel is a “pretty darn good” tool for 95% of tasks. If your work has highly varied workflows,
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by acid__ 6y ago
Maybe it’s just because I was raised on this ecosystem, but in my opinion the sheer amount of incredible functionality you get from all this tooling (at the low price of $0!) is worth 10-15 set-and-forgot files that don’t even show up when
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by acid__ 6y ago
You guys do cool stuff! (If only you had been looking for hires a few months ago when I was looking for a new job :) ) To any developers who are interested in creative/artistic applications of code, give Active Theory a look if you hav
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by acid__ 6y ago
Have each child make horcuxes of their horcrux :)
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by acid__ 6y ago
There's also the externality of increased load on emergency services and hospitals.
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by acid__ 6y ago
Still no, since you’re not _generating_ the image at the point of clicking. That matters for two reasons, first because words and semantics are important, clear and correct communication is important. Second, the technology required to gene
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by acid__ 6y ago
No. They could've just said something like "get a new abstract painting in one click" and used phrases like "never before seen". But as-is, their claim is just not true.
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by acid__ 6y ago
Realistically though, CBP isn't going to come after you if you're buying a few hundred bucks of apparel for personal use.
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by acid__ 6y ago
Hm, maybe it's just the SRE in me talking, but if major chunks of the internet being entirely inaccessible doesn't count as an "outage", what does?
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by acid__ 6y ago
As one would expect, it says "degraded performance" instead of "down" lol
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by acid__ 6y ago
From my perspective at a smaller startup (so YMMV) after switching to Datadog; the first thing I noticed was how _fast_ Datadog was. The queries and graphing capabilities were also really powerful. Or maybe I just didn't know how to us
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by acid__ 6y ago
Yeah, amazing, incredible tool but the billing is obfuscated to the point you almost wonder if they're intentionally trying to make it impossible to understand. Though once you realize there are a tons of hacks to abuse their billing m
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by acid__ 6y ago
For sure, the hard part isn't building it, it's getting people to actually use it. The amount of effort involved of actually acquiring and transporting a hardware security key is well beyond what most "normal" people are
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by acid__ 6y ago
Seems like it would be a nice feature for security-minded folks, and would probably be pretty difficult to roll out to regular consumers. Does Mastodon have something like this? Sounds like something their userbase would appreciate.
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by acid__ 6y ago
How do you plan on managing the signing keys?
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by acid__ 6y ago
Okay, you're being sarcastic here, and I know this isn't your main point, but I think you're still underestimating how many of us actually have the time, resources, or know-how to make an 18 foot tall museum-grade painting
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by acid__ 6y ago
Yeah, that one word put a distastefully elitist spin on an otherwise excellent comment
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by acid__ 6y ago
Agreed, but I think it’s perhaps just an unavoidable outcome of human nature. (Apologies for the pessimism.) It’s my view that humans are most moved by emotion, and the easiest way to produce emotion as a politician is to play up a charged
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by acid__ 6y ago
Maybe a statement that we can all agree on would be: _selectively_ fact checking implies picking sides? I think it's a point of contention (colored by existing political views) as to whether or not Twitter is selectively fact checking
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by acid__ 6y ago
Agreed! I've started reading the actual laws and legal orders much more often recently. I'd already been in the habit of diving into source code when confused about how a (software) library/tool works, and I figured this wasn
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by acid__ 6y ago
Agreed, I'm always surprised to see comments like the one you're replying to, and how often they're upvoted. I suppose HN tends to attract a slice of humanity that tends to appreciate casual social interaction a little less,

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