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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I'm guessing you're thinking about discoverablity? I think the comment to which you were replying was pointing out that you might want to serve different images out of different buckets (e.g. because they have different audiences)
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> that's the owner of said service problem Thus, at least indirectly, it's a potential problem for every user or customer of said owner's service.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Wikipedia and archive.org are supported by donations. That is possible for an image hosting site/service. "blogs, mailing lists, usenet, IRC" are all paid by someone and all tho their are free hosts for them (or similar s
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
They're still struggling to give away stuff that they've (somewhat implicitly) promised to give away, like their research.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I think a lot of site re-designs are make work for designers. I'm of two minds about it tho. I almost always personally hate re-designs; they're almost entirely extraneous for me. But what else are full-time designers going to do?
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> Why do I care about how a site keeps records of payments? I think you might want to care because that's a basic requirement of any legal business (or non-profit) pretty much anywhere. The service is also time-limited. Would you pa
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I think the grandparent comment was asking if you'd disable credit card payments for everyone, i.e. for your entire site.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I think it looks perfectly fine. I prefer simple 'lean' designs anyways tho.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Aren't you being insufficiently paranoid? No one should trust their municipal water authority but they can totally trust the makers of water testing kits? Obviously, everyone should reinvent all of the relevant chemistry and biology an
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Huh? They have to know where the scooters and bikes are so they can be collected to be recharged.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> I also switched to Zsh ... Wait, how hard is it going to be to keep running Bash?
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I find planned obsolescence to be fascinating. First-order, it seems obviously terrible, both of the companies that (deliberately) practice it and for their hapless customers. But second-order (and beyond), particularly from the perspective
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
That's very true but still, in my experience anyways, it's much easier (i.e. perceived as 'less risky') to buy SAP and attempt to roll it out than to convince others that custom software would be better. 'Custom&#x2
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I hope so!
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
All the "Freedom Markets zealots" I follow are cognizant of everything you mentioned.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I'm sure it'll show up on your shores soon enough.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I've seen proposals along these lines made many times. SE (the company) apparently isn't interested in that tho.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> NLEs Non-linear editing systems?
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
The problem isn't earmarking funds in general. Money has to be allocated somehow and it's good to do so explicitly. The problem is earmarking or allocating a variable set of revenue as funding for something unrelated, and in p
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Yes! This is a point I raise frequently. My go-to example is cigarette taxes being used to fund public schools. They should be used to cover costs (borne by the relevant government) of people smoking cigarettes! Otherwise, as has happened,
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
No, [2] is incorrect – exactly opposite. The included code was 'guaranteed to' (and did) work under the default OS configuration.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> Google should request from and/or work with Apple here, not hack around them Or Apple should implement all of those features and reach out to and work with Google so they don't have to hack around anything.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Everest specifically has some coverage nowadays.
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Well, yes, and un-ironically – during the development of a new airplane or bridge design. You'd obviously want a new, experimental, or prototypical design to fail ASAP so you can fix whatever the problem(s) are sooner than later. I&#
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
> This was how the MAX part of the 737 MAX was designed. Using a short iteration on top of an existing design. A lot of software (that's often written about) can be tested 'in production' with fairly minor consequences in
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Of course "anecdotal experiences" are evidence . Yes, they're messy, and may not be applicable to other circumstances, but they're certainly informative. I'm pretty sure airplanes and bridges aren't designed
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
In my mind, and agile approach would involve a series of 'tiny' incremental migrations from the existing system to the new one. I'd actually expect that to work much better than attempting to switch over everyone all at once,
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
I think agile could work just fine even for airplanes and bridges, and I imagine people are already doing it. Building the actual bridge on which people will expect to drive or walk or whatever is probably better thought of as deploying a
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Doesn't infrastructure have users too? Why wouldn't 'user story' mean something to them? All else equal, smaller or shorter feedback loops are better. And often shortening a feedback loop is worth considerable tradeoff
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by aeorgnoieang 7y ago
Pick one framework – any is fine – and finish the (or a) minimal version of a basic simple app. I'd suggest minimizing, or even ignoring, JavaScript. A really basic CRUD app doesn't need any.

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