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by cbs 15y ago
Is the world seriously this disgusting and I just haven't realized it yet? To some extent, yeah, it is. I don't just mean in tech, thats the nature of the world. Without some cognitive dissidence and rationalization, we'd all be neuroti
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by cbs 15y ago
If anything the technology industry is unique in how much good it has done, relative to the bad. Every industry makes this rationalization.
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by cbs 15y ago
people tend to think of it as a freedom of speech issue First-amendment speech is only a subset of free speech. Unfortunately people seem to hear "freedom of speech" and think that the ONLY place that freedom exists is under the scope of
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by cbs 15y ago
If the paradox of choice is making the options an uncomfortable situation for you, just write down the top 6 and roll a die. Problem fucking solved. Or act like a grown up and evaluate your options.
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by cbs 15y ago
They have my for-spam email address, they can use that.
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by cbs 15y ago
Thats funny. I can't think of a single company I do business with that wouldn't piss me off if they sent me a text.
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by cbs 15y ago
there is not a single thing they can say or do that will make the situation better for you even if they did. In his case, even a form letter response saying how they generally respond to chargeableness would be make that situation better.
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by cbs 15y ago
Thats a thing where the standardization came after those libraries. It doesn't get to me that much, but I have a coworker it does bother a fair bit. I poke fun at him for this, but what he does is just take 15 minutes and write a "proxy"
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by cbs 15y ago
>not a thousand page standard document It has those too. And IIRC the w3c requires a browser to implement a reference version before something is standardized there.
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by cbs 15y ago
I think you're right. Today I've been reading the exact opposite of what people were saying about IE a decade ago. I just hate the hypocrisy from people who claim to be all for web standards, except for when there’s a shiny new feature
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by cbs 15y ago
Or think how ridiculous it sounds to think of a "standard" definition of Python or Ruby. Really? It doesn't sound all that ridiculous if you know cpython is the reference implementation of the language python, which is extended by the PE
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by cbs 15y ago
This seems pretty alarmist. More than ever parents know where their children are(I don't think its a good thing). To me it didn't seem all that alarmist, but probably because I recognized it as reference to a bump that FOX affiliate stati
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by cbs 15y ago
>It would be a start just to find an industry where some participants are VC funded and some aren't, and then look at how they each fared. I think that might be a skewed metric. This may be the first time I agree with DHH, but VC fundi
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by cbs 15y ago
>FTP upon us? BGP? 32-bit IP addresses? Those are effectively entrenched de facto standards, but its not the fault of the creators, its the fault of the people unwilling to move with the times. I'm not cool enough to run an AS, but I k
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by cbs 15y ago
IE6 was propriety and dead. I don't think either propriety vs opensource or dead vs active development are important to the overall question of "is standardizing on a single implementation a bad idea?" Yes, the fact it had dropped out of
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by cbs 15y ago
If companies could get shamed into doing anything, the world would be a different place. But to a company there is no such thing as shame, there is only the fear that public reaction will negatively impact their bottom line.
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by cbs 15y ago
The guy/gal was pretty clearly doing the best he/she could Awww... The little guy was doing his best. Oh, wait. You're not talking about a puppy? but the customer-facing front of a company?
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by cbs 15y ago
>are they really prepared to throw away all that goodwill by shipping obsolete tools and making it a pain in the ass to upgrade them? Why the hell would they care? Apple has been been gradually squeezing the techie more and more for ag
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by cbs 15y ago
So the difference is making changes to optimize for a subset of users vs. optimizing for the aggregate?
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by cbs 15y ago
Zynga doesn't do behavioral targeting at all. This statement seems fundamentally at odds with the following. Could you explain further? Data-driven - I see this as huge plus. Lot of companies are clueless because of not enough feedback-
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by cbs 15y ago
Seems like he has a lot of hate built up inside him Eh, hes just talking like every other former marine: honesty riddled with swears.
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by cbs 15y ago
>Yes, we maximize for users who spend over $10k. >I don't want to be creating products for addicts. But what if these users are just rich people who have tons of money to spend off the cuff? Ahhh, ignorance is plausible deniability
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by cbs 15y ago
>How this was not made a priority zero, drop-everything-and-fix-this-crap-yesterday internally is beyond my comprehension. Its simple. Minority concerns like this don't upset enough of their users to impact their bottom line in any mea
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by cbs 15y ago
Zynga may be a sleaze factory, but I doubt that they want to use a watermarked image just to save $30 and open themselves to copyright suit.
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by cbs 15y ago
>This email-based expense system hinged on specific keywords would be great for a small business, but if you're a multinational with lots of legal oversight Its still not necessarily bad, such a system could be easily expanded to be an
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by cbs 15y ago
>The hostile reaction was a bit of a surprise. Its a bit of a strange state of affairs when a sober person announces that fact to people who drink. There's actually a great cracked article that explores this dynamic (I'll post this and
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by cbs 15y ago
>could be a response to a larger underlying prevalence in alcohol abuse You have an interesting theory, I'll hands down give you that, its a compelling perspective and I've never heard our nation's alcohol relationship in those terms, b
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by cbs 15y ago
From the sounds of it facebook has a really, really big ball of highly coupled code.
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by cbs 15y ago
Works pretty well in Python But xrange() in python is just a roundabout way to get back to having a regular for loop. for x in xrange(0,100) for(x=0, x<100, x++)
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by cbs 15y ago
I really really wanted to like the Django ORM, I was going to use the very nice django admin as a quick replacement of the administrative tools we had for an existing database. The ORM just couldn't keep up with anything but the lowest c

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