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by csmattryder 7y ago
You would've thought that the esteemed readers of HN would be able to spot and rise above an article like this, knowing there's no "winning side" and you're not gonna be changing anyone's views today. Humans of
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by csmattryder 7y ago
> Lots of developers have an expectation of "Build it, they will come" as a route to market, and they end up disappointed. > Selling a piece of software, regardless of whether or not you also give away the source, is really
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by csmattryder 7y ago
We had that at my uni as well, a mandatory module in the second year. From what I remember of it, the end-of-module test at the end was a quiz that you could "common-sense" your way through. While humans need to pay for shelter an
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by csmattryder 7y ago
The problem with humans is that Free Will stuff. Eventually the human says or does something unpopular and your investment is written off, along with the politician. Maybe this young upstart has already tweeted something in their more free-
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by csmattryder 8y ago
When a House Select Committee can get Zuckerberg or Pichai in front of them to demand answers to their Cambridge Analytica questions, then I'll concede that the law can take on these corporations. Last I noticed, best they've had
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by csmattryder 8y ago
I suppose it's easier to "ban the internet" rather than fix the societal issues that have lead to people integrating with the sort of communities that share harmful content - that requires serious effort. Having said that, Fa
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by csmattryder 8y ago
Yeah, I'd wager the firewall has a rule to check against bot traffic, which tend to come from Linux instances. Probably overzealous, sure. Malicious? Doubtful.
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by csmattryder 8y ago
- Recuiters aren't your friends, they're salespeople, selling you. - Don't stick your CV on a job board, there's no expiry and recuiters will call up wondering if you're still unemployed three years later. - Never a
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by csmattryder 8y ago
I get a lot of poor recruitment pitches, I could go on for hours about this. Best ones are "looking for a $TECH ninja/pirate/spaceman", yada yada, they have a ping-pong table, lunch etc. No mention of salary range. Not o
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by csmattryder 8y ago
It's missing `clearInterval(int)`, and these replicas return void instead of an ID that I can use to nuke the execution. I can't quite understand what this brings that I wouldn't find from a std::thread constructor, besides l
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by csmattryder 8y ago
Huh, TIL. I'll assume I'm right to give them a second chance, maybe it's just the X1 that's going awry? I've read a lot of reports about the X1's 2013 models that describe the issue that occurred to mine. Like
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by csmattryder 8y ago
> Hortensius, however, says that what keeps ThinkPads relevant is trusty productivity rather than any specific aspect of a given model. [...] “It’s because I can count on it that those things matter.” Funny to read this, as I await my Le
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by csmattryder 8y ago
I've seen far too many projects where security/usability/accessibility is compromised because a project manager with limited technical qualifications decides that a time-frame is much more important than these features, and t
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by csmattryder 8y ago
"Never trust the client" is a lesson every developer learns at some point. Incredible how an entire company missed that, but I'd put this down to "bosses want this out by DATE? Alrighty..."
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by csmattryder 8y ago
I've got a small A6 notebook for this, computers are great, but there's still work to be done in translating the abstract diagram/flowchart/sketch amalgamation that's in my brain to a digital representation. A pictu
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by csmattryder 8y ago
Muted autoplay is always allowed. Working around these changes for one of our products right now. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...
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by csmattryder 9y ago
> That kind of dehumanisation and humiliation is exactly what helped create Brexit/Trump. I hate seeing this, as it's become massively apparent that these political events have given the green flag for racism to decamp from the
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Duh, I should've read the page when I wasn't as busy... Thanks!
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Looks like they're taking on LowEndSpirit, except with a slightly better offering. Not quite beastly EC2, or piggybacking a VPS on someone's Nokia 3310. Any current clients know how fast provisioning is on these?
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Yeah, I was hoping for some semi-legitimate usage examples. Well, "caveat emptor", I say. This is a Facebook company, after all.
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by csmattryder 9y ago
This tool is a violation of Instagram's Terms of Service [0], appears to take a plaintext password (over oAuth2, in 2018?) and seems to do just about everything the official API does - but runs you the risk of getting banned. [0] http
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Completely agree. There's a post on /r/GameDev right now (actually, it's a recurring theme) where a dev posts that their game isn't getting any traction; struggling to market; few social media interactions; and you
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Robert Scoble in that Glass shower pic. You can spot the exact moment all the hype died, in that one post. https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/TcaqNeYJWXo
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by csmattryder 9y ago
$5/mo for an out-of-my-control ActionMailer setup? And I'd be limited to 100 events/mo? I mean, we're doing this already for registration on our platform and it took me 45 minutes to setup in Rails for a range of events,
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Exactly! One of the first things I did with my Rift (well, after Superhot...) was try out the Virtual Desktop kit. It's lacking. I thought it'd give me a 3D frustrum to throw window back/forward, drop Spotify out to the perip
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by csmattryder 9y ago
They're asking an intern to build a competitor, when they themselves have as much traction as a tank in a swamp, and the product is an easily-built-with-React Instagram clone. I look forward to the inevitable Medium post when they fold
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by csmattryder 9y ago
I've been a fan of Dillinger for years, automatically updates, side-by-side layout and converts Markdown to PDF/HTML. It's not a CLI program though, web app. https://dillinger.io/
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by csmattryder 9y ago
You don't show me what I'm signing up for, but expect me to sign up anyway. I'm not giving the man on the street my personal info, certainly not a fly-by-night SaaS. I think you should consider why I'd sign up with you a
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Write a comment in Pastebin or Notepad.exe, copy and paste it into the text area? (I don't use Facebook, but I know the pain of Enter-to-submit forms)
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by csmattryder 9y ago
Devil's advocate: You're supporting `n` billion devices around the world running your product, and the users are typically non-technical (from "I know how to open Word" to "Where's the 'Any' key?&quot

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