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by butterfi 3y ago
"No one can do to the Disney Corporation what Walt Disney did to the Brothers Grimm." L. Lessig
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by butterfi 3y ago
I interviewed with Zappos once - the interview started going south when they asked what super hero I was
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by butterfi 3y ago
Sounds like the digital equivalent of a dead mall
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by butterfi 3y ago
Good luck with that. Developers love creating frameworks and new ways of doing the same things. You might as well complain about how movies keep using the same plots.
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by butterfi 4y ago
I stopped reading at "“We have a moral and commercial responsibility to our artists..." It's true, but they big music companies are well known for their business practices.
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by butterfi 4y ago
I love building analog things that measure digital output.
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by butterfi 4y ago
Can you provide a legitimate use case for mixers? (I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely curious)
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by butterfi 4y ago
It’s disappointing how many comments here focus on the trees and not the forest. Regardless of the intent of the GitHub rule, this is supposed to drive interest in web development among young people, and instead it’s an exercise in bureaucr
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by butterfi 4y ago
Gimp is an interesting example as it’s been used successfully as a platform for other commercial projects like Pixelmator, maybe ReactOS will be the seed of something else.
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by butterfi 4y ago
That was beautiful.
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by butterfi 4y ago
This hit me right in the feels. Decades ago I was a paperboy whose route included an old age home. I'll never forget that place - it was a soul-less 50's 4-story building that stank of strong disinfectant. It was unnerving, even f
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by butterfi 4y ago
I try to live my life this way. People think I’m an optimist, but really I think the world is mostly BS and I try to acknowledge the good things. It works for me.
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by butterfi 4y ago
The internet is to apps what roads are to cars. Don’t blame the road for bad drivers.
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by butterfi 4y ago
Our phones are already SuperApps, this is an attempt at redistricting.
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by butterfi 4y ago
Anyone with a touchscreen on their stove can tell you physical buttons are superior
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by butterfi 4y ago
Istanbul has a thriving delivery ecosystem that appears to be mainly mopeds. I think what really makes it work for them is how densely populated it is so drivers really don't need to go far, there's plenty of orders coming in from
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by butterfi 4y ago
So what exactly does "endangers" mean? What scenario requires you to shoot a drone to "protect" something?
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by butterfi 4y ago
I’m not sure it’s them not be allowed to change as much as it was the absolute appalling way they did business for decades. Stink lingers.
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by butterfi 4y ago
It also depends on what sub-reddit you're in. Some are really good, some are BS echo-chambers. It can't all be BS considering how many people are using Google Site search to get "better" answers from sub-reddits as oppos
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by butterfi 4y ago
I’ve worked on a Singapore website sponsored by the major University and a Govt. office and frankly speaking, it’s a poorly managed process dominated by IT protocol more than business/client goals. The admin responsible for running the
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by butterfi 5y ago
I dropped them when they changed their licensing model and I realized I could use Docker to replace it for my purposes.
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by butterfi 5y ago
People are not using Reddit's search, they are using Google to search Reddit.
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by butterfi 5y ago
Bill Gates is my poster child for "Do the ends justify the means?" I know people who were absolutely robbed by MCSFT and their business practices in the 90's. I'm glad he's using his wealth for good, but that doesn&
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by butterfi 5y ago
I thought I would find these funny and instead they just made me anxious. I mean, they are funny, I guess I just have PTSD from years of Unix administration.
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by butterfi 5y ago
There's never been a better time to pick yet another framework/language/stack to over-engineer your brochure-ware site.
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by butterfi 5y ago
Theres a lot of truths in this article, but it overlooks that every 10-15 years another new generation of people move to the city and after enough time will write sorrowful creeds about how the city has changed for the worse. I could write
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by butterfi 5y ago
Given that there's a long history of media manipulation in this country (e.g. Hearst, Yellow Journalism, etc), what would you determine qualifies as censorship? Personally I have no issue with blocking people who clearly are abusing th
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by butterfi 5y ago
Back in the 80's, my computer teacher kicked me out of class because I had logged into my friends account at another school and downloaded instructions for an "assassination game" (pick a name from a hat, 'assassinate&#x
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by butterfi 5y ago
Hilariously, when you follow the above link, the site doesn't honor the back button. Figures.
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by butterfi 5y ago
I checked out after the first few paragraphs because his viewpoint is so b&w. I'm either using social media for validation or as an observer, because apparently I'm shallow and needy. This is such a broad generalization that I

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