commentzorro

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by commentzorro 11y ago
Blendle is NOT micropayments. I looked at Blendle the other day when someone posted about it. Blendle wants you to pay 25 cents for an article and then, after reading about it, think and decide if it was worth the money or if you want a ref
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by commentzorro 11y ago
Where do you live? Maybe that has something to do with it? I help support an app with just a few thousand users (US and Canada). It's about 9 years old but still actively updated. Coincidentally, it's user base is decidedly poorer
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by commentzorro 11y ago
> 75% of iOS users are on Apple's latest major release. That's because wealthier people tend to keep up with the latest technology. And Apple has always made a conscious decision to target the wealthier customers. Walk into a
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by commentzorro 11y ago
Wow, I'm impressed! What do you work on where 1,000 projects in a solution is a thing? With just one developer per five projects you've got a team of 200 developers. What are you working on? Please give us a few details.
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by commentzorro 11y ago
What do you know, low wage low skill jobs that require huge amounts of physical labor are going unfilled? And would you look at that ... employers would rather import cheap H1-B labor for higher skill jobs than pay the wages that would fill
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by commentzorro 11y ago
Maybe you're seeing this because so many startups these days seem to target upper middle class millennials by stepping between them and how they spend their money: start-up leeches. They do little except skim money going some place els
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by commentzorro 11y ago
I can only read content for 14 days after publication then it can be accessed? I have to pay by the publication in addition to pay by the month? No, this seems like a horrible service for a home consumer. Someone references an article from
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by commentzorro 11y ago
No, for me this is absolutely no good. First, pay by the article means I can easily go through the annual amount I'm willing to spend on "news" in just a few active months. Then I have nothing left for the rest of the year. I
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by commentzorro 11y ago
For me the solution is a Netflix like. (Newsflicks?) You subscribe to Newsflicks and can then access all the articles from journalism sites that partner with Newsflicks.
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by commentzorro 11y ago
> 3-4 months into programming Rust and you may just be getting past the phase where it takes you 10 minutes of fighting the borrow checker to get relatively simple code to compile. This exactly is why I can never get past the first cou
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by commentzorro 11y ago
How do you get past needing to explain to someone how to port forward their comcast/verizon/etc. router to get to that point in the first place?
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by commentzorro 11y ago
> No one should ever have to open a command-line window and type “sudo apt-get update” or other such instructions. Hear Hear. Command line support over the phone is a nightmare.
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by commentzorro 11y ago
> from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Hear Hear. This sounds wonderful. Sort of like from a Star Trek Utopian future. You're an insightful person. Now, who do we vote for to make it happen?
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by commentzorro 11y ago
Not mad ... not sad ... not misunderstanding. Just weirded out by the use of non sequiturs to crap on a thought you didn't like.
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by commentzorro 11y ago
This is the ??? (I don't know what to describe it as) post here. You took the one sentence I just loved from the article and pooped on it. Then tried to tie it in with details of a non syntax related item and process. Next, you said a
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by commentzorro 11y ago
> if you don't want to pay for the content, it means you don't value it. I don't think these two are related in the way you imply. In fact, I go so far as to say they are related in the opposite way you describe. ex: If
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by commentzorro 11y ago
> "logic without evidence" When I was in school we called these people "philosophy majors." ;-)
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by commentzorro 11y ago
The clickbait sites will do fine. The folks reading these sites on a regular basis are going to keep reading these site because they like the material. And these same people don't run ad blockers. These are the people that click on the
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by commentzorro 11y ago
Yellow journalism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism ) has been around for a long time. Its rise on the internet should probably have been expected. I don't know how it will be resolved, but until t
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by commentzorro 11y ago
There is nothing here It has all been said before Generic fatigue
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by commentzorro 11y ago
I get your point. But, tangentially, I believe the Secret Service handles more of the credit card fraud stuff. There was just some discussion in the news the other day about the Secret Service being stretched too thin because of all the tim
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by commentzorro 11y ago
Rust forces you to care too much about memory and object ownership. These are too low in the weeds for business and web applications. (But wholly appropriate for a systems level language.)
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by commentzorro 11y ago
We don't want Haskell. We don't want Rust. We don't want any of the current top twenty. We want Go-ish. We want the wonderful stuff that Go does have, but we want a few more high level features too. I suppose once that langua
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by commentzorro 11y ago
SO CLOSE! You almost got there. I DO want a language that replaces C, Java, Python, etc. It must have: garbage collection, compiles, and compiles to single static executable with no run time dependencies outside a clean install of the OS, a
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by commentzorro 11y ago
From what I can see at the sign up page, it looks like this is for existing/upgrading customers only. Is that correct?
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by commentzorro 11y ago
No manual, no explanation of what its features are, no screen shots. Just a scrolling wall of marketing. Seriously, why is there no explanation of what the product does for you?
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by commentzorro 11y ago
>> people choose their governments via media nowadays... I'm in the U.S. and this is quite true. Then again, it think it always has been. The difference now is that the media is owned by a the parties (or the parties and the me
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by commentzorro 11y ago
This looks really interesting. Can't believe I haven't run across it before. I've been toying with getting a couple home servers going (replaced home service w/ business service, just installed two router based DMZ, look
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by commentzorro 11y ago
I hear you. You click on an ad because you might be interested in a trip and now you're penalized all over the web because you actually showed some interest in an ad?!
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by commentzorro 11y ago
$40 seems really expensive for a short book like this. I'd love to read a few objective reviews to see if it's worth the price. For $10 I'd buy without thinking. For $20 I'd probably buy with an Amazon type consensus. Bu

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