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by chillfox 4y ago
It's only an issue because search engines use date as a proxy for if the page is still relevant instead of judging it by the content.
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by chillfox 4y ago
I think monkey patching is a nice tool to have. I once had to deal with a vendor provided gem that assumed the product was configured in a specific way (it was not) deep in an internal method. Patching that one method was all I needed to do
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by chillfox 4y ago
There's an argument to be had that they would not have been successful enough to need to scale without the speed of development provided by Ruby.
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by chillfox 4y ago
See, Rails is the one thing that I have never actually used Ruby for despite using it for a decade. Ruby is a fantastic language for systems automation, gluing things together and CLI apps.
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by chillfox 4y ago
Messaging services don’t need the same amount of moderation as micro blogging do.
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by chillfox 4y ago
My guess is they will be forced to retreat from a lot of international markets as they don’t have the legal and moderation staff to keep up with regulation.
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by chillfox 4y ago
The general attitude of AI researchers/developers is fuck as many other industries as possible, they generally don't care about consent at all. So it's hardly surprising that someone eventually decides to challenge that.
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by chillfox 4y ago
I don't think this is really about the money at all. To me, it looks like this is about consent.
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by chillfox 4y ago
Nope, because anyone forking would have to come up with new name and run their own community. If you are building an SPA then there is always Mint[1] (it's an Elm like language). [1]: https://github.com/mint-lang&#x2
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by chillfox 4y ago
I have stopped buying books from Amazon unless I really have to because of the counterfeit problem, and sellers canceling orders then upping the price. So I try to buy books from thenile or eBay instead.
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by chillfox 4y ago
Last time I had to deal with the contact at x due to something going wrong they were worse than useless. They broke the product with an update and when we asked to roll it back they organised a full sales team which was presented to us as a
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by chillfox 4y ago
I really hate the "X Considered harmful" type of articles, like by who? Inevitably they try to fake a larger consensus where one does not exist. Just be hones and say "I think X is a bad idea"...
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by chillfox 4y ago
I have kinda run out of steam for this discussion. Thinking about it, I have realised that I don’t really care deeply enough about any of the points either way to continue it. So, have a good day, and sorry for getting you excited.
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by chillfox 4y ago
No, but I would tell them to not do their gardening in the public botanical gardens unless they want the demands and responsibility that goes with that. As for being condescending, I found your comments only considering the volunteer side o
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by chillfox 4y ago
I guess the core issue here is if open source is volunteer work, a hobby or art. If you see it as volunteer work, then yes you should not be paid, but you should also not provide services to wealthy organizations as they don't need it
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by chillfox 4y ago
No, of course not, but everyone's gotta eat and money can reduce stress and eliminate the risk of someone deleting or sabotaging their code due to reasons related to a lack of money.
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by chillfox 4y ago
Lifetime has been significantly cheapened and hollowed out as a meaning full word when it comes to products, thanks to the ever present unspoken "lifetime of the product". In the context of products if I think of "lifetime&qu
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by chillfox 4y ago
""small size" and "usable keyboard/UI" are mutually exclusive" Not at all, before the smartphone there were several phones with very usable keyboards, I think it's just that a quality keyboard can&#x2
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by chillfox 4y ago
I just spent an entire evening a few days ago trying to make Parcel work for a new project and I just couldn't get it to spit out working js and css. The project is just a small server rendered web app (using Crystal) that I wanted to
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by chillfox 4y ago
Same, that said, we should want the people with addictive tendencies to be protected, because it's the right ting to do. There is also a selfish argument to be had for why you should be against features targeting addictive behaviour ev
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by chillfox 4y ago
Release endorphins in the brain to make people contribute more to opensource than they otherwise would. It doesn't work on everyone and is extremely effective on a small group of people with most people being somewhere in between. It&#
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by chillfox 4y ago
"If it's good people will do that anyways." No, most people wont without being "invited" unless it's exceptional. Good just ain't good enough by itself. People ask because it works.
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by chillfox 4y ago
First computer I used was running Dos and Windows 3.1. But my favorite Windows version is XP, I was doing service desk / junior sysadmin at the time and XP was just so easy to work with. You could fix a lot of problems by simply editin
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by chillfox 4y ago
Everyone still blames tech support for everything and I think that will likely continue indefinitely regardless of correctness and quality of software.
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by chillfox 4y ago
Trademark requires defense or it can be challenged. Copyright requires no such active defense to maintain and can be enforced selectively.
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by chillfox 4y ago
Sure, if the profile says nice things about you. But imagine if it decided you were lazy and a slacker.
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by chillfox 4y ago
It kinda gets some things right while attributing the wrong motivation. Neat project if it's just used for a bit of fun, but I could see it being horrifying if recruiters started to use it.
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by chillfox 4y ago
I feel like this is a problem of overly chatty application logs + lack of formatting for errors. If the volume of drivel was lowered and errors were formatted with spacing and color to stand out, then they would be easier to focus on. So lo
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by chillfox 4y ago
Sure, clearly there are people who will never try, or learn, but in general as an industry I feel like the wast majority of errors are very very far from good. Few error messages are written well, has good formatting and are self contained
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by chillfox 4y ago
Pretty sure his problem was he got contacted about an issue he considers uninteresting, and his preferred solution is the user stops behaving like a human. Reaching for the easiest way to solve a problem first is a very human thing to do, a

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