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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Elsewhere in the thread it says they have a goal to be free from "Big Tech" within 5 years, but that there are no reliable non-Big-Tech cloud platforms at the moment. Apparently "cloud" was a mandatory part of the platfo
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
For more detail see the Gemfile for Hey [0], posted in a follow-up tweet. [1] [0] https://gist.github.com/dhh/782fb925b57450da28c1e15656779556 [1] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/12759176125562
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
SpaceX is possible because Elon was part of the PayPal Mafia. To start a company like SpaceX or Tesla, you must be fantastically wealthy -- at least billions in net worth. Elon is one of the only people who could've started SpaceX.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Yeah, it's hard to imagine why it would make business sense not to push app installs as hard as possible. Take a look at logcat once in a while and notice how often apps you haven't used in weeks are still phoning home sending who
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
These projects continue to exist because no company has felt it's in their interest to bring suit, I guess. This is the type of thing that companies like to keep quiet, and if something like uBlock Origin isn't a pervasive threat,
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
It's a violation of copyright under current interpretations of the Copyright Act. Companies like FB are well aware of this and send C&Ds to this effect every day.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
This type of thing is nothing new, but it's important to recognize that it doesn't take off because it's illegal. As soon as Facebook realizes you're a risk, you'll get a C&D ordering you to stop accessing their
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
This is an awesome intro, thanks! Will definitely share. I can't recommend fish-shell highly enough for anyone spending significant time in the CLI. It can't completely replace bash et al, but it's not really meant to. Just i
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> It is pretty bad for privacy as the whole idea is that the entire transaction history is public and permanent. Yeah, I get that there aren't a lot of options besides Bitcoin for unbanked transactions, but there are a lot of pote
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> If you solved as many notes as I did you would understand ;) I think that photographing something that's not there is still a valid thing. I try never to trust notes blindly, and when possible corroborate it with outside sources
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Yeah, a large reason Vista got lambasted so widely was because netbook form factors were gaining steam at the same time, and Microsoft had built it with the assumption that most new users would be using contemporary desktop-class machines.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Yeah, I think Amazon gave up on trying to communicate the meaning of ephemeral storage, and I think that's for the best tbh. It's too easy to have important data vanish that way. Something as simple as someone issuing a shutdown f
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Right-click -> Open in Private Tab/Window also strips the referrer, FYI.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Really think this is a cool idea and have had it installed on my phone for more than a year, but somehow, I never really feel the compulsion to do anything more than open it up and think about how cool it is. Maybe would be nice to present
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
@pembrook wrote this elsewhere in the thread [0]: > If your answer is "the entire world is stupid," then I'd argue you don't understand how the field of design is supposed to work. And I think it really sums the arg
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> GDPR doesn't make website owners ask people if they can use cookies, you can use cookies just fine without asking people. You have to ask people when you want to collect or process more data than is required to provide the servic
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> Cool, so why not set the limit to the heat-death of the universe and be done with it? Presumably SCOTUS would say that an effectively-infinite timeline is not "limited" within the Constitutional definition of the word. Eldr
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> The reason I don’t agree is SEO is effective where it has moved into the areas of analytics, PR and content marketing, not in its distinct practices (backlink building and on-page optimizations.) I would say that backlinks are still
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
The truth about SEO is that it's still a thing because it works, despite Google's best efforts. Tech would be better off if it applied some of its infamous cynicism in Google's direction. There are plenty of tricks, gimmicks,
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
There are a lot of jobs with high salaries out there, and most jobs have sufficient barrier to entry that you have to come to the table with something beyond "I'd like some money please". I don't know, it just doesn&#x2
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
This was adjudicated up to the Supreme Court: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/01-618 tl;dr: 7-2 as long as there is some type of time limitation, Congress is free to extend copyright terms.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I see "empire building" as a larger campaign. In some cases, vanity hiring is really just vanity hiring, motivated by noting more than the impulse not to let your peer's headcount pull significantly ahead of your own.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Yes, I've seen this numerous times as well. I call it "vanity hiring". "My department needs 12 new headcount because the other department is getting 10". The sad thing is that you often have to play the game defensi
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> For example, I can make programs and package them in Docker containers and run them that way, but I don't know how I'd play with Kubernetes in a realistic fashion. Minikube: https://kubernetes.io/docs/t
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Unless you got yourself into a situation where you were expected to set up a whole office with the same speed and expertise as a full-time network engineer based on some gross misrepresentation of your skillset, I don't see how this st
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> It's partly because I'm not a DevOps expert and even if I wanted to be one, that would also take time, patience and energy. It's this exact divergence that creates the disconnect. If someone doesn't understand and
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> Perhaps there is a reason why DBA, SRE, Devops and Architects are separate roles? It's mainly an artifact of the way we've broken up degree tracks, and the boundaries that each group is taught to stay inside, lest any particu
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
And automated systems require babysitters. How long does a 100% robot-controlled factory operate when its supervisors are in quarantine? While it's true that the robots aren't concerned with infection, I doubt that a pandemic-styl
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Same, that was probably at least a year ago. For all intents and purposes, it's $10. I've also been pretty happy with it, and substantive new features are added regularly. There's a couple little annoyances from the design as
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I'll just leave this here ... https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox

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