besulzbach

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by besulzbach 6y ago
How does domain collecting even work? Don't you have to continuously pay in order to renew your domain ownership? Even if it's $5/year per domain, surely at some point you have to stop collecting.
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by besulzbach 6y ago
I think that was the owner being shortsighted. If the plugin was something that a reasonable fraction of your users would like to have, then very shortsighted. Not only you had a person that already knew much more about your product than th
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by besulzbach 6y ago
I agree. I am most annoyed by the use of maxims with something so subjective and context-sensitive as code. I've read and written code with 4 (and maybe even more) levels of indentation that made complete sense and code with 2 levels t
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by besulzbach 7y ago
Came here to say this. However, I wouldn't find it as problematic if the pictures had anything to do with interviewing at their company.
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by besulzbach 7y ago
> The reason cited for this was that "a supported file system is required as Dropbox relies on extended attributes (X-attrs) to identify files in the Dropbox folder and keep them in sync". Given that extended attributes are ava
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by besulzbach 7y ago
> The operating system is delivered in images that are created by utilizing the rpm-ostree project. The main benefits of the system are speed, security, atomic updates and immutability. The article never mentions speed (or performance) a
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by besulzbach 7y ago
I agree that JS is not substantially "worse" than some other languages. Despite these three languages giving far too much freedom to the programmers (which some might even like), high-quality code can be written in all three of th
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by besulzbach 7y ago
I enjoyed the article, and I know that writing these takes a nontrivial amount of time. So I think it would be wise of you to run these through a spell checker before publishing, as this is a less than a minute investment which pays off eve
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by besulzbach 7y ago
Even if I don't plan on using this anytime soon, competition is always welcome.
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by besulzbach 7y ago
> Google certainly doesn't seem to value feedback at all. As it is with most big companies that profit from ad revenue. They seem to consider performance indicators to be sufficient to know if a new feature is good or bad, instead o
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by besulzbach 7y ago
> But this only makes bigger the problem of what to remember, what to forget and above all who and how should remember and forget. And today, if the big search engines decide something will (no longer) be indexed, they can make it effect
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by besulzbach 8y ago
I think it is mostly an issue caused by how managers are evaluated. Do the teams you supervise outperform (in a short-term metric set) the other teams? If so, you are deemed a good manager. Upper management usually does not seem to care whe
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by besulzbach 8y ago
It is literally just hosting in this case. However, even if you were to pay the people behind the journal for their work it should be fairly inexpensive as long as they did as little as Elsevier does.
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by besulzbach 8y ago
Good point. I think that by their logic selling "enthusiast" versions of anything will almost always be classifiable as a practice that "preys upon the mentally ill".
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by besulzbach 8y ago
Thanks a lot for providing this summary.