adambyrtek

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by adambyrtek 6y ago
That's the whole point, OP is saying that for German press this is still a new and baffling concept.
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
No worries, I fully agree with the rest and just wanted to clarify things for others, not nitpick.
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
> They reuse shared data, similar to how Git only tracks the delta's between commits, rather than multiple, full copies of the file. I learned about immutable data structures at Rich's conference talk years ago, and the whole c
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
We developers sometimes struggle with the distinction. The point of laws and regulations is usually not to make fraud technically impossible, but increase the cost and/or risk of getting caught. People still use locks on doors even tho
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
The sad truth is that it's much easier to make money on people who are less savvy and not good with money. They are less likely to switch, more likely to take a loan or overdraft, and have to pay higher interest rates.
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
The world has changed a lot since 1987, so this post-colonial mindset might need revisiting. I don't know about cotton mills, but now the biggest steel manufacturer in the world is ArcelorMittal, an Indian company. On the other hand, B
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
Why? It has pretty much the same functionality as ag and comparable speed.
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
According to the post these quotes are from 7 years ago... I'm sure a lot has changed since then.
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
Let's assume that you're genuinely interested in having a conversation, not just shifting the definition to fit your argument, and I will give it another go: Most subcultures regardless of the generation (e.g. punk, metal, emo) us
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
Just a random example: I personally consider obsession with anime weird, but kind of cool at the same time. Are you sure that you cannot name anything you would consider both weird and cool?
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
It's literally in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia link above...
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The Norway Problem – why StrictYAML refuses to do implicit typing(hitchdev.com)
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Gnome Shell UX Plans(blogs.gnome.org)
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
Thanks for a thoughtful reply (upvoted), but have you looked at the library in question? The code is minified, but there is not much obfuscation going on: https://js.stripe.com/v3/ Most of your examples are quite low-l
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
Reddit can sell you virtual coins: https://www.reddit.com/premium
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
You might have some reasonable arguments, but your condescending tone is completely undermining the conversation.
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
Interesting question, since the web used to exist and work just fine before online advertising. I'm not saying that we should go back in time, but claiming that ads are a requirement for the web to exist is a slight overstatement.
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by adambyrtek 6y ago
There's no need to rely on "security by obscurity". Stripe.js is just a thin client-side library everybody can analyse, so they might as well be fully transparent when it comes to data collection. I don't see the point o
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
We had to incorporate in Australia anyway, so I guess you're in a different situation.
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
Most debit cards in Poland are standard Visa or Mastercard and definitely work online, sometimes you just need to activate them before the first payment for security reasons, but you're right that Blik seems to be getting more and more
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
IANAL, but couldn't you incorporate a wholly-owned US subsidiary using something like Stripe Atlas to handle USD payments and reduce your fees? By the way, my company has the opposite problem. Our Stripe account is registered in the UK
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
You can do that using Stripe test environment and test cards without any fees. Refunds can take over a week to get processed by some banks, so testing on live data doesn't sound like a great idea. But even if you have to do a couple of
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
I used to live in Poland (so just across the border from Germany) and now I'm a UK resident, and your question is really baffling, since in both of these countries people use (contactless) card payments for pretty much everything. Germ
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
In a way Wave had been that enabling technology by becoming a compelling demo of Operational Transformation that was later incorporated into many other products with much more focused workflows (e.g. Google Docs).
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
Enterprises love subscriptions for the same reasons why they prefer leases over capital expenditure. They look much better on the balance sheet and allow to spread the cost over time.
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
Do you really believe that Apple doesn't allow macOS on PCs because of "unpredictability"? I think it's pretty obvious by now that bundling is a great way to differentiate their hardware, charge a premium, and lock users
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
Sure, that's the classic "it's been a wonderful journey" scenario where the whole product is sunset, but shutting down just a single platform is not as obvious.
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
Well, it's not like they suddenly replaced the whole team overnight, but I guess I get your point. I don't claim it could change anything, but I still believe that it's important to (respectfully) let the team know how their
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
Let's not forget that it is/was a paid subscription on Android, so offering it for free on iOS and keeping paid on Android would still give them a significant edge. Somebody else in this thread mentioned that Shazam is still avail
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by adambyrtek 7y ago
I'm sending an email to tell them how disappointed I feel as a long-time subscriber about them maliciously (since there is no other more generous explanation) shutting down the service for Android users: https://darksky.net&

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