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by fxleach 5y ago
Worked for a supplement company that was forced out of business by Stripe these same reasons. Just wasn't enough time to integrate a whole new payment system when they shut us down.
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by fxleach 5y ago
Not sure what your comment means. Welcome to HN as well, I guess?
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by fxleach 5y ago
Right... exactly as I stated. Sounds like someone who hasn't done a lot of programming, or at least has done some, hated it, and has chosen the business side of IT and seems to think the word "programmer" has some kind of neg
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by fxleach 5y ago
While my account may be new here, I am not. Being a "grands hommes" of this site doesn't change anything and you've given absolutely no extra information to counter my point.
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by fxleach 5y ago
The characters to escape are clearly defined in both specs, but that doesn't mean there's a universal escaping system. Just google "how to escape JSON" and you will see the wealth of users struggling to understand what a
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by fxleach 5y ago
Written by someone who sounds like they haven't done any programming.
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by fxleach 5y ago
Just an FYI, JSON and XML both have characters that need to be escaped properly.
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by fxleach 5y ago
That's because browsers and phones do not disrupt the whole banking system and the way we think about money. There is a tremendous amount of push-back on cryptocurrencies coming from very influential places that stand a lot to lose.
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by fxleach 5y ago
> But I have no clue what would distinguish (to me) a non-shit ad? Is it saving me money on something I was already going to buy? Yes. I've been looking for weight equipment over the past year because of the pandemic and gyms being
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by fxleach 5y ago
At first glance I have no idea what this website does. At second glance I still don't.
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by fxleach 5y ago
The issue is that you cannot have good online advertising without a little bit of the stalking. Do you listen to podcasts? Their ads are shite. I don't want to hear another ad about "Coroner" on Netflix. The only reason they
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by fxleach 5y ago
It seems like you didn't bother to read the entire article because the author does go into the ethical and privacy related concerns about ads. It is always interesting to read about people's opinions on topics such as this, and th
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by fxleach 5y ago
No no, it still sounds ridiculous.
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by fxleach 5y ago
Why are you booing me? I'm right.
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by fxleach 5y ago
Now those are called "cloud" servers ( gasps, awe )...
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by fxleach 5y ago
It's just a cloud server. Let's call it what it is. "Serverless email server"? Come on...
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by fxleach 6y ago
> it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour Wow, the co-founder's argument to not disclose the source code to the defendant was that it's too many lines of code. Also... ten lines reviewed in
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by fxleach 6y ago
I read the first paragraph and thought you were making a tongue-in-cheek joke about being in prison. Sadly, you were not.
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by fxleach 6y ago
TBH I'd stray from using TypeScript in your company stack as well, but I guess I'm just boring.
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by fxleach 6y ago
I agree with you 100%, but also to be fair node, pip, and ruby can be incredibly frustrating to install in some scenarios.
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by fxleach 6y ago
Twitter and Facebook both use their own data centers, with Twitter only recently (mid December 2020) announcing that they will be migrating to use some AWS. They also try to manage their content moderation as best they can and have policies
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by fxleach 6y ago
and here I am wearing the same mask I got in April...
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by fxleach 6y ago
Fair enough, but would you take all of the most suspicious-looking items in your house that could possibly implicate you in a crime and put them all into one crate, including printed material and books that explain how to perform said crime
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by fxleach 6y ago
Awesome! Played it on my desktop and didn't have any issues with it being too dark as others have suggested. Keep up the good work.
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by fxleach 6y ago
Yay Canada...
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by fxleach 6y ago
To be fair most package managers suck.
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by fxleach 6y ago
Being a lifelong Windows users I am always baffled at comments such as these because I have never experienced any of those issues except for maybe the Windows update happening for a couple minutes when I shut down. I'm no gamer, but I
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by fxleach 6y ago
"wireless earbuds that don't have a wire even between the earbuds" ... face palm Wow, Apple has some serious brainwashing in the PR department for you to think that they actually invented true wireless earbuds.
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by fxleach 6y ago
Ok so if I understand you correctly... if I copy something people haven't heard of I'm an innovator and everyone that follows is a fraud.
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by fxleach 6y ago
Well for one, they opened a link titled "Google Pixel Buds" and one of their first issues was "What's up with the "Pixel" branding on the headphones?"

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