bigbuppo

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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Enterprise quality software is a just a DOS application, probably written for dBase III, that has been rolled forward to the present day.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
And that's why I charge $10,000,000/user/mo.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Yes, Microsoft is to blame, specifically all current c-suite execs. They're so addicted to increasing their subscription revenue they're willing to burn down everything good they've ever done for just one more dollar. Expect
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
If a person off on holiday just had their face burned off by one of those tabletop fire pits and is on their way home due to just getting their face burned off, something tells me the last thing on their mind is swinging by the embassy to g
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
All my apes gone.
36.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Does anyone remember the morris worm?
37.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Sounds like a path to profitability rather than a bug.
38.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Actually, maybe we should. Get him distracted and focused on solving that using all of Palantir's might, and then he'll leave the rest of the world alone.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure one of my co-workers is a p-zombie.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
I suspect he's still optimizing for IE5 compatibility.
41.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
It seems like the future is doing things like we did in 1998 but with HTML and CSS that isn't terrible.
42.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Just assume any site using javascript is using it for nefarious purposes.
43.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Well historically it meant that's where poor black families lived, but since these days the lower end of the 1% have more in common with the poorest of the poor than the richest of the rich it's probably where mere millionaires li
44.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
I love Fastmail. They're built on top of open source software, Cyrus IMAP, and they've more or less become the steward of that project.
45.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Cool, I'll be putting big data ai machine learning data center in your back yard.
46.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
And then you have Jeff Vogel, who has spent roughly 2/3 of his career literally remaking the games he first released 30 years ago. And I've literally bought them all.
47.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Yeah, it really sucks I can't even afford a computer that can have two Chrome tabs open these days.
48.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
It leads to more tracking and higher marketing budgets. And sometimes it leads to more revenue, but since the marketing department is in charge of the statistics, well, did they really?
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Yeah, but with one more piece of data they'll have solved personalized mattress sales forever. Nevermind that the entity collecting the marketing data is a convenience store chain and doesn't sell their data, allegedly.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
And specifically, a for-profit cult.
51.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Mobster tactics from google. Nice. Just remember that Google always kills its products, and they are an advertising company. I'm joking, I hope, but Google ain't what it used to be.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
And if you scroll back up the content above is completely changed to something else.
53.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
also didn't yell at me for using an ad blocker.
54.
by bigbuppo 2mo ago
I actually kind of like those, though I've always been suspicious that those events are fabricated because that's the sort of thing marketing people would do.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
In my experience, most people come in two camps: 1) they just click to make it go away because they click everything and would agree to sell their own mother to organ scrappers just to get past the annoyance, and 2) they understand what it&
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
You must upgrade to IE5 to continue.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
The interstitial popup needs to be delayed until about 750ms after the first scroll action for that extra insult.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
Yeah... you have to remember to setup and fully secure the site before LE certs are issued or you're going to have a bad time. Learned that the hard way when I popped a couple dozen wordpress sites in one go.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
It was coincidence.
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by bigbuppo 2mo ago
LLMs are currently "Search in 1997". That is to say, it can only get worse from here.

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