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by gm 6y ago
Stopped reading and closed the tab at "JavaScript disabled by default. Websites should only be using JavaScript to enhance the overall user experience". Good luck putting your thumb up in a try to eliminate the sun. Absolutely ne
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by gm 6y ago
I think this would be a huge win for growing clout and usage of alternative search engines. Not sure if Google knows what it's asking for. Now if Facebook follows suit, even so much better. It'd be a huge win for privacy.
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by gm 6y ago
Hmm, I record meetings with Camtasia instead of fumbling around with the built-in functionality (specially when it's a meeting you are not hosting). I wonder to what degree this that gets rid of these invisible watermarks.
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by gm 6y ago
Something was bothering me about this whole thing. I think I found what it is: 1) This is an entirely self-centered approach. "These are the tools that I like, and I code the way I'm productive, with the specific knowledge I'
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by gm 6y ago
Why would a market care about the language a product's written at? Maybe only programmers, and anal retentive ones at that.
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by gm 6y ago
LOL, yeah, recursive project names stopped being interesting to me after "GNU's Not Unix"
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by gm 6y ago
True, when I read the description, it looked to me like a bundle of smtp, email rules config utility, spam filter, and email client, all in one package you cannot reconfigure.
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by gm 6y ago
The road of tech is littered with the bodies of email replacements. Some of them went on to thrive, but not as email replacements: Slack for one.
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by gm 6y ago
It looks great, but there's zero chance I'm going to replace my current SMTP with a new protocol no one (yet) uses. If there's a bug in all of this it's in laying out very clearly how to ease into this. Especially in a w
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by gm 6y ago
I hate being the product as well, but it's pretty much inescapable now. Paying for a service does not opt you out of being marketed to other income streams as a product (ie, combined stats, being part of a test group, etc). The best we
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by gm 6y ago
I was scammed through PayPal, PayPal did the same thing to me, basically gave me a "Looks good to us, case closed, go fuck yourself." The negation of my case was automated, too. I received the "resolution" a few second
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by gm 6y ago
That's exactly what my point is: This is way too complex to boil down to a simple rule of thumb to apply to all cases. There are arguments and counter arguments (and real-life examples and counter examples) ad-nauseum. It's better
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by gm 6y ago
No. Some reasons: 1) As everyone else has said, we are horrible at estimating. 2) We think we might only need 1% of an external dependency, until we do not. Case in point: By this criteria, no one needs a grid/datatable library.So we w
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by gm 6y ago
Good, now make it round-trip. In C# the hard part is not serializing, but deserializing robustly and type-safely.
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by gm 6y ago
Just so you all know, Twitter's going crazy with the apparent rampant inaccuracy of the database.
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by gm 6y ago
In that case, then the original problem (incorrect abstraction) does not exist, or at least does not get worse over time, and thus does not need fixing.
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by gm 6y ago
This advice just _feels_ very wrong. After thinking about it and seeing the other comments, some remarks: 1) It's fine to go back and duplicate code after you correct the abstraction. But it should be the _first_ phase in doing a larg
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by gm 6y ago
Lol, the person you're replying to never said, nor implied that. I'm not trying to knock you, but your comment reminds me of the type of exchanges where one person says says "men do a lot of work", and the other person
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by gm 6y ago
You'd be surprised how simple it is (but I like simple): It's a bunch of batch files (I'm that old) that basically run the "git clone --bare" command on each repo, and then uses 7z to create a single archive of all
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by gm 6y ago
Sure. I just prefer to do it where I have 100% of control and not merely hand off from one third party to another. But whatever works. The point is to not be caught off guard when a critical provider decides to take unilateral action agains
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by gm 6y ago
This is why I regularly back up my github repos (via git clone --bare, then compress and archive). Mind you, I do nothing that even comes close to piracy, and the vast majority most of my repos are private, but it's a nightmare scenari
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by gm 6y ago
I think it's a pipe dream. Non-experts making changes to a system an expert wrote will yield either: 1) very few little changes, such as changing the color of an item, etc. Or 2) disasters where it's better to throw away the chang
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by gm 7y ago
Do you know by chance know if user-0defined filters take precedence over Google's spam detection? If so, I might go for it. I say "might" because no matter what I program into it, I'll never be sure there's not an
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by gm 7y ago
OMG, me too, and all I did was to tighten up cookies (disable 3rd party trackers, erase all cookies on close, etc). Now I've got a PhD on solving "traffic light" and "crosswalk" Captchas as a result. I started to re
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by gm 7y ago
I think it should suffice to know that after one repeatedly trains the google spam filter with "report not spam" and "mark as spam", it should learn that well enough, no? As an example: Some dumb ass Verizon customer ga
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by gm 7y ago
They ask questions which imply "I'm sitting on my hands until you answer me".
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by gm 7y ago
"No expectation of immediate reply"? HA! I SO wish. Slack kills any async expectation. Specially if you install it on your cellphone. Then you're on the clock 24/7. I guess the article also assumes different time zone
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by gm 7y ago
Amen, brother!
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by gm 9y ago
Google's spam algorithms are truly awful. I've had this problem on the receiving end for years. Reporting legitimate email as "Report not spam" does nothing except move the email out of the spam box. I find myself whitel
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by gm 9y ago
Follow up question: Is there a framework for creating and maintaining these API docs, or is it hand-coded?

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