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by blowski 3y ago
Indeed. Medium has wonderful typography, but it doesn’t make me want to read them.
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by blowski 3y ago
easyjet is a pretty odd inclusion on this list. They weren't the first, biggest, or most innovative budget airline website - even in the UK. The contributor (Carole Cadwalladr) wrote a puff piece [1] about easyjet a few months before,
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by blowski 3y ago
Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy are exemplary here. It's not whether the characters rise or fall, it's _how_. The plots of both Anna Karenina and "Crime and Punishment" seem pretty unoriginal, but my gosh, the journey while you
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by blowski 3y ago
John Cage is not all the music in the world.
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by blowski 3y ago
So many transactions are flagged as false positives (way more than 1%), while there are a lot of false negatives because the tools don't improve as quickly as the scammers. The case for blocking transactions is getting weaker - we shou
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by blowski 3y ago
> but is lost on Instagram for some settings Are they settings that Meta wants you to change?
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The Taxman's Dodgy Data(spectator.co.uk)
1 points by blowski 3y ago|1 comments
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by blowski 3y ago
What if the idea startup founders are passionate about is making a lot money running (and selling) a tech company?
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes, for most business applications, in the long run it’s cheapest to optimise for refactoring than believing you can avoid it.
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by blowski 3y ago
In a similar vein, this was published recently https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books...
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by blowski 3y ago
What is there to be sad about retrying ideas? Maybe the reason they failed the first time is no longer true.
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by blowski 3y ago
There is a counter-argument that passkeys are more complex for folks who are already pretty good with security, without really adding any value. It removes some control from people who know what they're doing. Google's track recor
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes, as a Suffolk resident I'm wondering if there's some special thing about high house numbers.
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by blowski 3y ago
Anyone can make “truthy” statements that sound plausible, and feed into an anti-business conspiracy. Without evidence, such comments are mostly noise.
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by blowski 3y ago
I don’t understand how Google makes more money if I click on the organic links.
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by blowski 3y ago
There are a lot of courses out there on Git, but I’ve yet to see one that hits the sweet spot: explains the important commands/flags, how to do typical workflows (merge, pull, push, rebase, cherrypick, etc), and explains what’s actuall
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Italians have embraced ‘fake English’(ft.com)
2 points by blowski 3y ago|2 comments
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by blowski 3y ago
But would all those social networks then exist at all, with their massively broad user base? I’d love to believe they would - we still have SMTP and HTTP. But all open source social networks seem to believe complexity is a benefit, so put o
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by blowski 3y ago
This is identical to the Ostrich pillow that was on Kickstarter about 10 years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studio-banana/ostrich-p... I remember it because they demoed it at TechHub.
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by blowski 3y ago
The Romans understood the issue of lead poisoning?
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by blowski 3y ago
There's always a tool that will work better for a specific use-case, especially when you either don't understand or have forgotten about some of the requirements.
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by blowski 3y ago
In my case at least, it's because Python has a strong ecosystem. Everybody's heard of it - parents, kids, and teachers. There are lots of good kid-friendly education materials. Of course, that begs the question "how did that
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by blowski 3y ago
I have about 10 unused Raspberry Pis, so I collected unused monitors as well, and now run a mini code club in my local school. The school's laptops are all locked down to the point that running Python on them that this was the easiest
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by blowski 3y ago
> Yes RPi foundation, please also spit in my mouth, Ridiculous take. Seems like a perfectly good balance, prioritising limited stock to supporters of the Raspberry Pi, beyond simply selling to the highest bidder every time.
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by blowski 3y ago
There’s a big spectrum going from “perfect” to “fundamentally flawed”. Something can have limitations while still being useful and valuable.
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by blowski 3y ago
If your employer uses Gmail, there is a reason to use it.
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by blowski 3y ago
http://archive.today/A99Nk
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A deep-ish dive into Pokémonomics(ft.com)
1 points by blowski 3y ago|1 comments
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by blowski 3y ago
Perhaps one distinction would be that ethics change across time and country. So it might be possible to run a test in 2020s UK that cannot be repeated in 2030s.
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by blowski 3y ago
Sure, if Amazon sold about 10 products, such a URL scheme would work great. Additionally, this constantly redirects to the latest version of the iPhone, whereas Amazon's URLs are pointing to a specific version. A more "apples to a

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