eastbound

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2011.
by eastbound 5y ago
> Competition from local supermarket is too strong. Honest question: Do startup millionaires still go shopping themselves? I imagine when you are between the area where you have a gardner for time-to-time tasks and don’t have “un majordo
2012.
by eastbound 5y ago
Juicero was the mirror product, then: An overpriced orange juice machine, with little packets that you can only buy on subscription, but can’t suspend while on holidays, with a QR code to prevent you from consuming after your holidays. It i
2013.
by eastbound 5y ago
If a white person raped my goddaughter, he would be in jail, period. The guy wasn’t in jail. Think why. > People should be called on their bullshit. I’m calling you on your bullshit, but only because you present it that way: You are den
2014.
by eastbound 5y ago
> Jesus, do you live in _Banlieue 13_ or something? I live in the center of Lyon. The problem has grown bigger than you imagine. > Quite frankly, your comment exposes your racism. The one who did my goddaughter at the age of 7, I invi
2015.
by eastbound 5y ago
The collective has entire power over what you do. Global climate change was never solved by individual decisions, because when you live a different lifestyle than your workmates, you basically give up both the jobrace and the friends. As fo
2016.
by eastbound 5y ago
I hear my computer’s processor when it’s processing. It’s like a modem sound, but high-pitch. All of us used to rely on the HDD distinct sound to know when the games were finished loading ;)
2017.
by eastbound 5y ago
Besides, where do you store your 2FA backup codes? At home?? Where they could be stolen without your knowledge? Most people’s homes are less safe than their online life.
2018.
by eastbound 5y ago
It’s obvious that using Cloud services gives unlimited power to the provider, too. It’s not hindsight, it’s basic laws of human power.
2019.
by eastbound 5y ago
There are 5 questions on the page, each with a code block. Is your mobile browser in “reader mode” maybe?
2020.
by eastbound 5y ago
Meanwhile, I suppose `let a, b;` declares both.
2021.
by eastbound 5y ago
Another famous 5-minutes talk about the quirks of (mostly) JS: “WAT?” https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
2022.
by eastbound 5y ago
While Internet is a series of tubes, SQL is a sewer: You need a lot of layers to interact with it because it’s very dirty. Real engineers have Liquibase over Hibernate and completely hide SQL from developers. Also it’s extremely slow, I don
2023.
by eastbound 5y ago
One major problem React solves is HTML injection. It used to be an interview question to work at our place, and since React, developers don’t often realize that old frameworks like Freemarker didn’t escape HTML. By default.
2024.
by eastbound 5y ago
Didn’t everyone recognize the first iPhone as a revolution? I mean, the entire Android team took a day off, knowing they had failed.
2025.
by eastbound 5y ago
Note that the ToS also forbid Cloud users from “disseminating information” about “the performance of the products”. So you can’t say it’s slow or unperforming.
2026.
by eastbound 5y ago
My parents, who have succeeded to positively-educate us (never a slap or punishment, nor retribution for good behavior; just congratulate good behavior and explain), have always been to the church discussion groups, the family- and couple-o
2027.
by eastbound 5y ago
Being expert in male/female statistics, the EU is generally only 4% far from USA gender statistics, and closing in on a 10-year delay. The only difference between USA and EU is that it is exaggerated in the media, while the trends whic
2028.
by eastbound 5y ago
Bank accounts often trigger SMS validation, bank transfers can be reverted by the banks, and the recipient of the transaction is known, at least for the “Know your customer” act.
2029.
by eastbound 5y ago
It’s fun to think that even the highest emir still just has a stock iPhone, no more, with the same movies as us, the same games as us, and iMessage as a means of communication. No golden keyboard and no CEO-specific encrypted message board,
2030.
by eastbound 5y ago
Organic growth is like “Throw bits into the computer and see whether they make NPM.” …And the complexity of an NPM project is nuts, actually.
2031.
by eastbound 5y ago
React makes us believe everything must have 1-2s response to clicks and the maximum table size is 10 rows. When I come back to web 1.0 apps, I’m often surprised that it does a round-trip to the server in less than 200ms, and reloads the pag
2032.
by eastbound 5y ago
Or they would be more expensive. Or the same price and dividends lower. Or they would see a price per session, or a price per session tier (0-2 sessions per month, 3-5, then 5-15, then 15+).