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by ecf 5y ago
Of course, in order to help out the unfortunate website operators, people should willingly give up pii that the same companies have shown they don’t give a damn about protecting. /s
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by ecf 5y ago
Because this product doesn’t seem to be doing anything different and the only way they can get buyers it is to try to proclaim that the service is made specifically for “insert underserved group here”. It’s a common trend with startups bein
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by ecf 5y ago
Have you taken a look at YC’s latest batch? The most exciting and truly beneficial work for humanity is not being done by YC startups. Granted, YC =\= Silicon Valley, but it’s one of the highest profile investors and is one most people woul
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App Store Connect has been in “scheduled maintenance” for nearly 24 hours
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by ecf 5y ago
> just how little the US achieved in 20 years. Can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves.
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by ecf 5y ago
Step Zero: Gain tens of thousands of followers on Twitter and Instagram > I launched on Twitter (where I have 31k followers) and to my email lists (~28k subscribers).
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by ecf 5y ago
It’s pretty easy to understand. VSCode was an electron app from day one and never tried to be a first-class Mac app while the only reason 1Password is around today is because customers loved having a lightweight, native manager that always
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by ecf 5y ago
It could be Google, it could also be websites doing everything they can to break Google’s search. Take Reddit for example. Date ranges are absolutely useless because they’ve started hijacking the posted date and updating it every single tim
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by ecf 5y ago
The world wouldn’t notice if nuts were not grown anymore. The world would revolt if beef disappeared.
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by ecf 5y ago
> The foundations of the technology world were built by makers, not takers. The Internet, the Mach kernel, the Linux kernel, the web. The other guys showed up later and used them to build paywalls around other peoples’ work. Their day of
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by ecf 5y ago
I never realized there were so many variable facets to font design until reading through this. Very well done
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by ecf 5y ago
Well to be fair University of California has a policy that is more or less the same. https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
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by ecf 5y ago
> due to a sexual relationship that she had been having with her make supervisor Am I wrong or does the statement make no indication that the sexual relationship was non-consensual?
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by ecf 5y ago
> this crisis is massively destructive of shareholder value So far the markets haven’t reflected that. How long does it normally take for serious allegations to start affecting the stock price?
555.
by ecf 5y ago
To be fair it could be as simple as scanning their user list for a single sign up from one of those domains and then plastering a logo on the front page saying they use their product.
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by ecf 5y ago
Remember the announcement from Audacity? > And just like we’re doing at MuseScore, we’re now planning on significantly improving the feature set and ease of use of Audacity – providing dedicated designers and developers to give it the at
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by ecf 5y ago
My guess is that it’s a remnant of the Ive-era where form came before function.
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by ecf 5y ago
This post, along with the replies that contain easily discoverable information disproving the commentor’s hypothesis, should be used as an example in unconscious bias training.
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by ecf 5y ago
Humans are extinct, we just don’t realize it yet.
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by ecf 5y ago
On the contrary, I feel it deserves LESS respect. Treating the office as an escape from an undesirable at-home situation and then having the audacity to try to force more people to be in-person is incredibly selfish behavior. If these peopl
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by ecf 5y ago
As someone in their 20s I’ve already come to terms with just how much wildlife I’ll never be able to see because previous generations decided to absolutely destroy the planet.
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by ecf 5y ago
> Back us on Indiegogo Unfortunately Indiegogo/Kickstarter type funding makes this a non-starter for me. On a larger note, I wish products would explicitly state it’s in a crowdfunding stage instead of misleading people and them onl
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by ecf 5y ago
Class action? https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700288695/google-pay-study-fi...
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by ecf 5y ago
> Agreed. Baseball is interesting in part because of all its nonsense. Which is one reason why MLB viewership has been in decline for the last few decades. Younger fans simply aren’t putting up with the status quo regarding the game and
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by ecf 5y ago
And that is exactly the reason why strike zone systems have been necessitated. Bad umpires can’t be fired due to the Umpires union, so their relevance has to be taken away. I strongly believe that this situation wouldn’t be required if fans
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by ecf 5y ago
At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what the sin was. The guy comes off as an asshole and was let go. End of story.
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by ecf 5y ago
> Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. It’s understandable why people wouldn’t want to work for someone who thinks this way.
568.
by ecf 5y ago
> Why Epic is Burning Its Own Cash to Cook Apple Because it’s a personal vendetta spurred on by Epic’s CEO?
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by ecf 5y ago
> it would worsen his life for no benefit Why are we talking about benefits for a person that beheaded and ATE someone?
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by ecf 5y ago
> well anyway, generational blame is pretty useless Blame is useless but I can’t help but think about the possibility of a generation-specific tax. For example, you’re 80 and lived through the period where global warming was tipped beyon

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