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by dictum 8y ago
This is a bit like saying working unpaid for a few months wasn't free labor because you got a paid job afterwards. The company still took the monetary value of your labor. At best, it can be said that the monetary value of the labor of
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by dictum 8y ago
I'm not sure how you reconcile appreciating labor laws with belittling a fellow worker less skilled (or less able due to their circumstances) at negotiating with their employers.
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by dictum 8y ago
I thought it was something like a parrilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrilla_(torture) but it's another form of torture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_(torture)
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by dictum 8y ago
I feel like the author really wanted a scapegoat for a process that was flawed from the start (redesigning a product without research, empathy with users, feedback, gradual introduction with small test groups etc.) Too often I see UX issues
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by dictum 8y ago
The problem lies on enough : the overhead of static typing has to be lower, in the lifespan of a project, to the time spent fixing bugs like this one. (Other things, like liability from bugs and crashes, may give an edge to static typing.
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by dictum 8y ago
Until you open some link in the app in a new tab, and a whole new ship must be built before it sets sail.
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by dictum 8y ago
There's no reason to not use CSS Grid, except for not knowing it well enough — and there's no reason not to learn it. Of those, only IE11 is relevant, as it's a desktop browser, on wider and taller viewports. Most of these br
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by dictum 8y ago
> I’m not defending the lack of accessibility. It’s just a reality at this point. Some unrequested advice on ethics: I really understand your pragmatism, but in defending the way things are at this point, you are indirectly defending the
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by dictum 8y ago
> or who she's mad at exactly This bit makes me think you got her point, but you didn't want to acknowledge it.
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by dictum 8y ago
You seem to be operating on the assumption that you're defending something other than the status quo. (A quick example of this brand of individualism that offers the individual right , non-declinable, to be analyzed and sanctioned by
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by dictum 8y ago
> does a privacy maximalist mentality needs to be imposed on everyone? I see you follow Google closely; close enough to know that privacy concerns have hardly impeded its growth and dominance. Same with all other major tech companies. D
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by dictum 8y ago
> I honestly have no idea what do drunk people do, that leads to random intercourses. Suggesting public policy that affects a group whose activities and motivations I'm ignorant about is quite the gamble.
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by dictum 8y ago
> That particular problem is a great example, where I don't see any harm in revealing that information Surely you're aware of at least one genocide that was greatly aided by detailed demographic data?
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by dictum 8y ago
I'm not sure how "HIV+ positive people must be tracked" follows from "HIV+ people can make mistakes". By that logic, everyone's movements and personal details should be tracked by the police/government&#x2
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by dictum 8y ago
Without a clear explanation of your statement ( why does he deserve this euphemized special place ?) this is just a personal attack, which seems to be the common response to any assertion or action coming from him.
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by dictum 8y ago
> Moreover I have got nothing to hide Don't mean to insult you, and some people just have an easier time opening up about everything, but a life with nothing whatsoever to hide sounds limited, uninventive and uninteresting.
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by dictum 8y ago
> Font rendering the Apple way is a style choice at best. Given how much of a hacker's usage of a computer is working with text (reading pages, writing code and documentation, taking notes) it's a style choice that actually h
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How Technicolor changed movies (2017) [video](youtube.com)
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by dictum 8y ago
> But we're still designing better products, we're just building them in China and in the process giving away a cut that used to go to American workers. While that may be true, something that's often overlooked is that US-
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by dictum 8y ago
> Most of the incels discussion gives vibe of people who are completely socially isolated - not even really having friends or other regular social group which I would see as prerequisite to girlfriend. You've stumbled on a circular
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by dictum 8y ago
IA-definitely-NAL, but I can't see a way that opt-out can be legal here. Maybe the legal defense applies the same logic of consent in third-party tracking (third-party provides the service in behalf of the first-party, to whose terms y
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by dictum 8y ago
AUDITOR: So that's how you store these visits... wait, why are the values next to the URLs so... strange? ALICE: Column A is the URL. Column B is just a token we use to ensure it's a valid entry, and it's the default sort. As
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by dictum 8y ago
> They write it off as "I am not important enough to be spied on" That made me nostalgic for 2013, which at the time felt like a bad year. I wonder how I'll feel about 2018 in 2023. (Context: "I'm not important e
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by dictum 8y ago
The parent's non-specific "many moons ago" puts the date of such naivete long in the past, when Chrome was also adding a plethora of abusable APIs. There was a kind of "if we don't expand the web platform, native ap
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by dictum 8y ago
The maintainer(s?) have some peculiar opinions: "We already have CSS table layouts... Why is this suddenly needed? why would sites switch to it? It makes no sense. It wasn't important enough to implement in any browser for the pas
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by dictum 8y ago
> at least as well as something that does not support javascript can Not related to Netsurf (which I learned about yesterday while reading about Duktape — a HN coincidence), but recently I went back to using Firefox with JS off as defaul
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by dictum 8y ago
A digital assistant becoming a bird's companion feels like a perfect Disney/Pixar plot. It must either have been rejected previously or be in the works. Spoiler: the bird accidentally resets or damages the assistant, but manages t
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by dictum 8y ago
Even the new (2018+) version of Reddit displays content without requiring JS. Pagination is only broken because the returned HTML doesn't have prev/next links, but they could be trivially added (and hidden when JS is on).
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by dictum 8y ago
...until you open a website in Firefox [0] and you're greeted by the message "This website requires Chrome" or some such. Except if the website doesn't even warn visitors, and just breaks silently. [0] Or Safari and mino
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by dictum 8y ago
Time for FF's balance of configurability and reasonable defaults to shine: the about:config properties to edit are `layout.css.scrollbar-color.enabled` and `layout.css.scrollbar-width.enabled`.

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