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groffee
4y ago
Spam is a solved problem, but it makes money so it's not in anyone's interest to remove it.
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> I want to increase the quality of software in general, including the development experience. That just absolutely screams lack of experience. If you think some software is lacking, then by all means knock yourself out and try to improv
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4y ago
It's not unfair. If someone isn't fluent in English how are they going to be fluent in code? Fluency is also an indicator of thought, reasoning and critical thinking ability etc. It's the bare minimum a 'senior' can
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4y ago
You literally can't use Twitter without a phone number, it's their most well-known dark pattern.
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4y ago
Are you sure it's actually cloudflare pages you're seeing and not malware? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wordpress-sit...
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4y ago
https://www.2600.com/
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4y ago
No but it does make you an asshole, and you drove an open source maintainer to quit. Software is like 10% code, and 90% soft skills. You need to work on that.
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I know stuff has to be 'dumbed down' for the 'masses' but the quality of this article is a joke.
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4y ago
$$$
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4y ago
And somewhat sadly the dumb apps you shit out over a weekend make more money than the 'serious' apps you can spend months on, because the dumb apps are fun .
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4y ago
Read the original texts, much more imaginative, original and real(!) than anything a fantasy author can come up with.
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Szpakowska's original database is here http://iss-demonology.swan.ac.uk/demonology/get-entities.php 'demon' is a really unfortunate choice of description because of the Christian association.
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LOADS of React "developers"
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> I run into problems with the next steps: now you have to create a database, create a user, grant that user access to the database, setup credentials and start using them. That's like complaining you need to break eggs when you wan
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4y ago
Down here too. https://downdetector.co.uk/status/github/
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4y ago
You could tell your boss you can't bring yourself to lay anyone off so you'll quit yourself. They give you severance, and promote someone from under you without laying anyone off because of the cost saving they'll make withou
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4y ago
If you do that you'll come across as mentally challenged. And the next guy? He'll do it for $26K. And the next guy (or gal) desperate for a job will do it for $25K. A lot of places in the US don't even have minimum wage! It&#
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4y ago
They're using a deliberately malformed query to search, then complaining when they get no results. At best it's incompetence, at worst it's an attempt at free marketing, how many people are searching for this guy now and gett
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> I am fed up being a consumer in India and being taken for a ride all the time. You're taking yourself for a ride. The woman who scratched your laptop has zero relation with Apple. You'll just waste your time and money. Speak
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If they do sell the emails it'd be a simple job to clean them first (i.e remove any that explicitly mention their company name) Spammers are a pain in the ass, but not stupid.
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> and don't arse around on the internet all day I feel personally attacked!
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It's literally an island, surrounded by water. Why aren't water companies legally obliged to - you know - actually get water from the sea instead of the average joe being punished.
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4y ago
I hate that "influencer" is even a thing.
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4y ago
Only web 2.0?! We're up to like web 5.0 now! /s
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4y ago
It's this kind of overreaction by the police that's actually 'radicalizing' people.
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It's a good article, but a couple of hopefully constructive points 1, .toc-wrap covers the image on desktop 2, the image is way too busy, there's too much going on
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> I am not a dead weight and I’ll never be, but I also do absolutely bare minimum to not get fired. That's the literal definition of dead weight.
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So a fun thought experiment, we can store information in DNA now. What if information was stored in our DNA thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago? Anatomically modern humans have been around a while now. How would we go about find
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> I would also think that you are not capable to run a real ad campaign That seems like a hell of a leap. There's nothing wrong with bringing attention to your other projects, especially at zero cost.
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Completely misses the actual issue that most people who repeat trials don't have the money to pay.
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