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by generalk 6y ago
Booted the new GPay app on my Android phone this morning. "Sorry, Enterprise accounts are not supported on Google Pay." I've been doing NFC payments through Google Pay for years with the current Google Pay app, so this is kin
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by generalk 6y ago
Which community have you been a part of, online or otherwise, where "flagrant violation of the norms" doesn't carry the potential for expulsion? Without a written code of conduct, there are still values, views, and norms, usu
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by generalk 6y ago
Which of the actions they've listed would you like to be able to do without fear of repercussion? This sounds an awful lot like "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service? So much for the 'tolerant left.'" > Anti merito
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by generalk 6y ago
I initially had that "oh no, CEOs shouldn't be coding" response too. For anyone who didn't read the transcribed segment of a podcast linked: > we started to see performance slowly degrading in terms > of res
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by generalk 6y ago
> if you're serious about "building product" [...] You > would build and run something yourself. Perhaps as a side project, something useful just for yourself. Lots of developers scratch itches they can'
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by generalk 6y ago
No, with Protobuf, I send my counterparts a .proto file, and they 1) Don't know what the hell to do with it, not just because they don't know Protobuf but because 2) it wasn't included in the docs/dictionaries from the s
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by generalk 6y ago
On XML: > Not sure anyone really knows how XML happened. It’s > basically the W3C’s fault, I think? It’s okay for some > things but in the end I’m not sure it’s something anyone > actually wants to use, it’s just go
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by generalk 6y ago
I didn't get the context of your quote, and had to go grab the complete quote: > The average programmer, including someone straight out of > college, should be able to understand and work on a well > put-together cod
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by generalk 6y ago
I've been using an Ergodox EZ for a lot of professional work for a few years now, but since I'm bouncing between that and laptop keyboards regularly, I haven't found any issues switching between layouts. I do occasionally try
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by generalk 6y ago
Trying this out as it's typed. For background: I really want to love tools like i3 or awesome, but I always go back to Gnome because it juts gets stuff done. I liked Gnome 2, I like 3. So: just like the site says. Top is the taskbar, w
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by generalk 6y ago
There's a world of difference between "a fun myth we share with our children that we drop as soon as they outgrow it" and "a blatant lie," and that context is also important for kids to learn.
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by generalk 6y ago
Bezos' asset wouldn't have increased in value so massively if he'd done things like paid his warehouse workers living wages. It's not compensation in the "the company paid for my time" sense, but it sure affect
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by generalk 6y ago
> I always find myself in the weird position, that i > think, i have to defend this kind of wealth. You can easily just...not. To continue using Bezos as an example: sure, he built a logistical empire that can deliver c
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by generalk 6y ago
> So I don't see how you can draw the conclusion that > Jeff Bezos can't be worth $100 billion unless they're > mistreating their workers. Those things don't have to > be connected. B
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by generalk 6y ago
> it's misleading to call equity compensation "getting paid". Please. A person who has a portfolio worth tens/hundreds of millions of dollars does not have to liquidate it to leverage its value. They can secur
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by generalk 6y ago
In the Healthcare world, computers frequently lag behind the state-of-the-art. Writing Healthcare IT webapps, we had to support IE6 up until ~2013. If your nation-wide pharmacy chain customer is primarily running IE10 on outdated Windows PC
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by generalk 6y ago
No tricks, but I disagree with you here. A government-run, publicly owned online communication platform has several problems that prevent it from being the utopia you expect. 1. What value does it actually provide that Twitter and Reddit
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by generalk 6y ago
I think that would be an interesting thing to have, and the implementation of it would have to solve a lot of issues (equal access to technology, etc) that need solving badly. I'm also glad we finally got to the actual thing you want t
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by generalk 6y ago
Hi, it's me, unironically pushing the "just make your own" narrative. I posted a comment similar to this, but let me just lay cards on the table: if you want to publish child abuse images, or sell controlled substances, you&#
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by generalk 6y ago
Sure. If I own a website or a newspaper or the patch of ground in front of my house, I get to decide what information goes there. Are you arguing that there should be some legal provision that says anyone can publish anything on your websit
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by generalk 6y ago
I will definitely agree that payment processing is subject to limitations I don't agree with. Many adult-oriented websites have found it difficult to find payment processors, even when their businesses comply with the relevant laws. Bu
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by generalk 6y ago
> If you push that rope you will discover that your capacity to publish anything you want is restricted by the policy of whoever hosts your servers Fair enough. My original parent comment asked where you can speak freely online, which fo
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by generalk 6y ago
Companies aren't the only entities allowed to publish content on the World Wide Web, you know. You're free to build whatever discussion platforms you like, or you could just, y'know, publish a website.
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by generalk 6y ago
I've used Emacs for many years, and recently switched to Spacemacs, a set of configs that kind of takes over Emacs and puts a great platform on top of it. I frequently describe Spacemacs as a better vim than vim. Don't get me wron
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by generalk 6y ago
> Does the first sentence not cover that fairly well? It does not. The first sentence on the site ("Perkeep [...] is a set of open source formats...") describes literally what the thing is, but not at all what it _does_. Not t
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by generalk 6y ago
Folks are focusing on "five months of runway" or other minor details and missing the big picture here. Big companies typically have fewer constraints on time, money, and developers. They can have very mature development processes
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by generalk 6y ago
I think there's a huge and obvious difference between an open-source dev naming a package manager for a non-Linux platform "AppGet" in reference/homage/whatever to apt-get; and Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar comp
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by generalk 6y ago
We're not talking about Microsoft's cloud / server strategy though. Linux as a server OS is different from Linux as a development platform. The two have nothing in common except the word "Linux." Microsoft is taking
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by generalk 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression here is that Windows Subsystem for Linux will support DX12, but not broader Linux support for DX12. So if you want a machine that can play games and run a Linux dev toolchain, that would requi
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by generalk 7y ago
I've been reading awful takes like this since I started writing software. "PHP is an awful language, superior developers write in Perl." "Rails is bloated and slow, making it unfit for any real work." "True dev

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