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by fbelzile 6y ago
That's not all. Starting in Windows 8, Windows silently ignores entries in the hosts file for popular domains (ex: facebook.com). The only way to stop this is to add a file exception for C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in Windows
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Maker of Cold Turkey here, thanks for sharing it! If anyone has questions about the app, let me know :)
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I'm more curious about what caused the recent spike in "thank" showing up in questions and answers. 19% -> 23% in a couple months seems statistically significant. Did the pandemic/lock down cause a slew of newer devel
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Exactly. We had a choice to go buy it from Frys -OR- other stores like Best Buy -OR- from the developer themselves. There is no choice with iOS. A band that I like released a CD. I buy a CD from one of their live shows. I should have the ri
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by fbelzile 6y ago
They aren't just Apple users. They are people that paid good money for a device that is capable of running code. The person who bought the phone should naturally have the right to run whatever code they want to authorize on that device
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Exactly. We had a choice to go buy it from CompUSA -OR- Best Buy -OR- from the developer themselves. There is no choice with iOS.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
> I believe when you do that, the client/customer will coming to expect a quick response leading a "conversation" instead of an asynchronous email. For me, this doesn't happen as much as I thought it would. I consiste
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I actually took this a step further and un-followed all of my friends. It took me more than a few hundred clicks, but Facebook now shows me a completely empty news feed. There's no ads either, although I'm not sure if that's
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Center for Humane Technology[0] comes to mind. Tristan Harris (ex-design ethicist at Google) is the founder. [0] https://humanetech.com/
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I'm not sure this ratio is very useful unless you also account for dividends/stock options paid out to shareholders.
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I agree with your premise, but let's just not forget that we're humans with a limited life-span and our brains aren't used to dealing with events that happen this rarely. It's understandable why we may all have been caug
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Check out my app: https://getcoldturkey.com/writer/ It looks a little like Word, and there's no new line box, but it has the other things you mentioned. You can also set it to block everything else on your compute
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by fbelzile 6y ago
It sounds like a macOS app, and python is distributed with the OS already. Just watch out for Apple trying to take away scripting language support in the future. There's also an upcoming Python version change in macOS 10.16 to look out
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I make a living developing software only available on Windows and macOS. That said, if I didn't need to interact so much with the operating system, I'd be making a web app. It all depends on what you want to make though. Video edi
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Wow, really nice looking site, great name too! Good luck with it!
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Thanks for the heads up about this!
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by fbelzile 6y ago
> What is the 0.6% + 2%? Is that the currency conversion fee? Yes, international card fee and conversion fee: https://stripe.com/en-ca/pricing#pricing-details Changing currencies would be a pain, not impossible thou
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I'm right in the middle of looking to jump ship from Stripe and PayPal. Stripe is increasing their conversion fees to 2% for grandfathered accounts on June 1st. They also have a 0.6% international card fee. Since I'm Canadian, thi
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by fbelzile 6y ago
Nice job Mark! The site looks super clean. It's nice to see a post like this explaining what's happening behind the scenes. Remindme! in a week ;)
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Firefox Private Network(fpn.firefox.com)
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by fbelzile 6y ago
> I operate on the realization that google will one day arbitrarily destroy my gmail account for absolutely no reason. No! We need to demand more from Google (or, at least our lawmakers). I have a business that relies on a Chrome extensi
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I agree, but come on. Let's be honest about the scope and magnitude of this bucket. I have a business that relies on a Chrome extension to be on their web store. Say I accidentally trip off something in their opaque machine learning al
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by fbelzile 6y ago
> If the Internet was a country, it would be the 6th largest polluter in the world. This is a pretty interesting claim, so I tried to follow the source to see how they arrived at this. It links to this article by Nature [1] but it doesn&
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by fbelzile 6y ago
> The West can move manufacturing back home (or anywhere else with cheap labor) and China's economic prowess will be severely undermined. The US technically can, but then how many Americans would be able to buy the $2999 iPhone (for
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by fbelzile 6y ago
I'm really interested in using this, I just can't seem to easily find the 33 currencies that are supported. Any chance you could clarify which ones?
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by fbelzile 7y ago
A majority of my sales are from US customers buying in USD. With PayPal, fees are: 3.7% + $0.30 USD With Stripe, fees are: 2.9% + $0.30 CAD + 0.6% (international card charge) + 2.0% (currency conversion fee)
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by fbelzile 7y ago
I'm very happy with Stripe and for their success, but I plan on switching all my payments to go through PayPal again. I did some math and PayPal offers a better deal for Canadian businesses after Stripe bumps me off of their grandfathe
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by fbelzile 7y ago
Not sure if this plug is welcome here, but I'm seeing some comments suggesting that people are looking for this sort of thing: If anyone is looking for a practical, distraction-free typing environment, check out my freemium app called
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by fbelzile 7y ago
Thanks Eric, this is exactly what I was after!
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by fbelzile 7y ago
> mysql-* a Structured Query Language server named after the original developer's daughter "My" (cf. also mariadb) Learned something new today... It's crazy to think how we take some of these technologies for granted

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