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by dmortin 8y ago
I guess it's not npm specific, because the same thing can happen in any other open source repo, can't it? Some guy takes over maintenance of a dormant package and then adds code which no one bothers to check.
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> Consider making some novel apps without any expectation of being paid. This part is non-trivial, is it? Coming up with a new kind of app idea (which is useful, not just shows 3 twirling balls or something) is not easy. And doing the mi
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People keep searching for news with Google, the clickbait is still there for google searches.
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True and it also enables many smaller sites to function. The big players can adapt to a new revenue model easily, but for a small site maintained by 1-2 peopla it's not feasible to have and ad department or start selling ads individua
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The problem is google apparently can't deal with reported issues either. Check out this page of google map issues: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=componentid:188814%... There are issues with NEW status going
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Another problem with Google that you cannot really experiment with it for free. You have to add your credit card and there is no concept of using only the free quota. E.g. I'd put up an experimental site which uses google maps free qou
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> I really dislike TV/Anime that never ends, seems to be the modus operandi for pretty much every mainstream show despite how bad the quality gets after 2-3 seasons. Isn't this an American thing where TV/movie things are p
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by dmortin 8y ago
There is the treadmill desk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jcd5XV4VL8
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The same goes for standing if one has a standing desk, and for any other position. You should vary your position regularly (every hour, for example). The simplest solution for this is a desk where the height can be changed easily (maybe wit
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I use google when coding JS code too, because completing functions of objects for discovery is useful only in the more trivial cases. For anything non trivial using google gives much quicker results than browsing any kind of documentation.
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> Did not know about helm. I just installed it and I think that this alone might solve 75% of the problem, thanks! Helm has a lot of extensions, here are some popular ones: https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/#helm-ap
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Probably SEO. They don't want the other page rank higher in Google than their article, so they don't pass link juice.
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> There is nothing actionable in the news; next to no utility For long term money planning, where to put your money, which areas of the world have problems, the news are important. You can skip your local gossip, but knowing what happe
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The question is: how many of these will be maintained several years later? Can you build a long term project on these? Or the expectation is that one has to make a new UI anyway every several years to keep up with the changing fashion, so r
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I'd pay some tiny amount for a single article, but I don't want a full subscription if I don't read the Economist otherwise. Also, I don't want dozens of subscriptions for different sites. I'd like a system when som
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If a smaller site uses and ad network on the server side then ads cannot be cached on the server, because the ad network always serves the highest paying ad at the moment which constantly changes according to the ongoing ad auction and inve
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The danger of possible outlets for alternative voices controlled more and more by big corporations is at least as bad as the privacy implications. So there must be a tradeoff if we wan't privacy, but we also want to have publishing out
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No, the question is: do we want more and more content concentrated into the hands of big players, eliminating little, independent publishers? Do we want this? If the answer is no then there must be a feasible, scalable alternative for small
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So this would again hurt the little guys (blogs, forums, smaller sites managed by 1 or 2 people) who don't have the capacity to find advertisers and curate ads, and for this reason, have to use an ad network. The big sites, facebook an
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In case of smaller sites page load time would increase, because they still had to contact an ad network to retrieve the ads and assemble the page with ads on server side. It would only improve load time for big sites which have their own ad
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This should be adopted by every browser maker for this to work. If we assume it is adopted then there is the issue that somewhere it is stored what sites I visited. It has to be, because it's needed if there is a payment dispute, for e
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How is it different when ads are served from server side? Most sites (especially smaller ones) would still use an ad network, because they don't have their own resources to find advertisers, which it calls from server side to retrieve
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> So a hypothetical switch to first-party/server side ads won't have a negative effect on small blogs, because they can simply chose Google as their ad partner, which will create the necessary solutions. With client side ad ser
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> If you accept that advertising is necessary to some business models, I hope to see publishers move ads back to the server The problem is the big guys can do this easily, but e.g. someone running a blog cannot easily serve ads from the
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That's right. The computer is there to automate things for us, and having to deal with the same, already read articles manually on multiple devices is inconvenient.
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But you need synchronization between devices if you read RSS on mutiple devices and don't want to read the same thing which you have already read on an other device.
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The article is talking about 3rd party apps. If one installs such an app then is it a suprise if it reads your mails? It has to if it provides some mail related feature.
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There are emacs configs offering vim keys, like spacemacs http://spacemacs.org/doc/VIMUSERS.html or doom emacs https://medium.com/urbint-engineering/emacs-doom-for-newbies...
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> If I'm correct you only gain money from advertising when the user clicks on an ad There are also ads which pay per impression. CPM ads.
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Exactly. People don't get that getting rid of ads helps only the big players (because they can require subscriptions), while hurting the little guys. People may subscribe for big newspapers and such, but they won't subscribe to a

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