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by hhas01 6y ago
“The only thing necessary for that to happen is for companies like Facebook and Google to make it possible to connect with things outside of their sites in meaningful ways.” “Dear Facebook and Google, please toss away your trillion-dollar g
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by hhas01 6y ago
You’d think, but alas too often cries of “open web” is just nerds virtue signalling to each other, longing for those Good Old Days when they controlled the world. The vast closed Twitbook silos of today, philosophical awful as they are, a
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by hhas01 6y ago
“You mention fixing Apache” I used Apache as an example because 1. it is ancient, and as such rudimentary remains of early write support (e.g. PUT, DELETE) might still be found in its architecture, like leg bones in a whale; and 2. because
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by hhas01 6y ago
Yes, I’m quite aware that Mozilla used to have a crappy HTML editor strapped on as an afterthought. Treating editing as a second-/third-class citizen and not as a first- is exactly what led to this mess in the first place. Again, see T
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by hhas01 6y ago
Wordpress is a brilliant example of Inner Platform Effect[1] in all its hideous misbegotten architecture-iness, and symbolic of (and literally) everything wrong with the web we now have today. A newer example of that same effect is Dropbox,
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by hhas01 6y ago
The “open web” withered and died the moment Berners-Lee decided he’d cut some corners for convenience and released a web browser that was read-only . Mosaic took that interpretation and ran with it, and a global information platform that s
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by hhas01 6y ago
You think that’s abuse? Go and read stories of Domestic Violence, where the victims are too terrified to leave for the completely justified fear of being murdered . Gust chose to take management’s shit. He chose to take their shit fo
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by hhas01 6y ago
IM was a work of art in its own right. Maybe a bit James Joyce, but if nothing else you could always mount it on your wall. I spent a lot of time in the IAC book many moons ago, extracting the concepts and motivations left unspoken in Apple
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by hhas01 6y ago
OP says 18 months and Gust was waiting for annual bonuses and stock to mature. As you say, you chose to coast at your own job as a reasonable and fair response. You did the work you were contracted to do and got paid correspondingly. Yeah y
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by hhas01 6y ago
A toxic relationship that Gust tolerated for 18 months, which turned him toxic too. Fine, so he was just treading water till his own bonuses cleared, but that was his choice. He was contracted and paid to do a certain job, and ended up doin
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by hhas01 6y ago
How does Rust reference counting handle cycles? Python is famously reference counted, and even it ended up having to strap on an occasional GC cycle to mop up after those. Or do you just accept that if it leaks, it leaks? Which for most fin
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by hhas01 6y ago
Oh, you have to go down that rabbithole. https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/ Trust in notalwaysright.com/all to suck up even more of your life than the orange site already does. Also, cl
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by hhas01 6y ago
Not surprising at all. Lots of companies like that: developers who only know how to develop, managers who only know how to manage, human resourcers who only know how to… resource. Lots of people who know the cost of everything and value of
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by hhas01 6y ago
I believe it’s gibberish too†: https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php what language does jónsi sing in? on von, ágætis byrjun and takk, jónsi sang most songs in icelandic but a few of the songs were sung in '
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by hhas01 6y ago
Possibly slightly related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU
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by hhas01 6y ago
In case you’ve ever wondered how Lorem Ipsum sounds when set to music. I can imagine phonologists playing this song at all their parties. (If anyone’s ever been to a phonologists’ party, please confirm.)
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by hhas01 6y ago
Brilliant. Also Sigur Rós and Richard Feynman.
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by hhas01 6y ago
True, but if everyone did that, there wouldn’t be any Apple engineers left to fix the damn software itself, because they’d all be running 24/7 support for millions of angry users, answering the same damn questions and complaints again
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by hhas01 6y ago
One last comment: A good parent fights tooth and claw for their child, and gives it every opportunity they possibly can to enable it to succeed. (And isn’t afraid to show tough love either when that is what is needed.) Sitting with your t
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by hhas01 6y ago
“I had to do some digging” Indeed. I think it’s telling that the opening question on that Reddit thread identified the exact same problem I did, and three months on they still haven’t fixed it. Programmers who fail to provide their users’ n
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by hhas01 6y ago
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
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by hhas01 6y ago
Also: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by hhas01 6y ago
Well this is it, isn’t it. Because really, what the hell is its USP†? The world already has a perfectly cromulent Rust language. Adding a second, less popular one merely dilutes both efforts; and to what purpose? Ego? Control? Simple unwi
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by hhas01 6y ago
How do you explain Trump getting votes, period? He’s not just a bigot, bully, and career incompetent, he’s a Jim Jones figurehead for a calculated 50-year Republican party campaign to migrate the USA to a Russian-style one-party state. And
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by hhas01 6y ago
What happened? Well, it was taught to the kids by all those Old Math teachers, using all of their perfectly-honed and time-proven Old Math techniques, of course. Naturally this was a disaster for both sides, so as soon the correct scapegoat
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by hhas01 6y ago
Be aware that on the scale of complexity, the immune system is at the deep end of the pool. Your motives may be admirable, but the chances of you jumping straight in and emerging with the Olympic gold medal are good as zero. If you want to
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by hhas01 6y ago
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/27/donald-tru... https://www.epi.org/indicators/state-unemployment-race-ethni... https://www.theguardian.com/commentis
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by hhas01 6y ago
“I got a financial report on my $7500 of debt, realized that by graduation it would be $30,000.” Shocking numbers; the sort of APR we’d expect from dodgy pay-day companies and illegal loan sharks. You’d be far better off just taking out a m
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by hhas01 6y ago
Washington Examiner says that student debt relief would be a Bad Thing? At this point I think it not unfair to take whatever a Republican mouthpiece is claiming and conclude the polar opposite. There was a time when America invested in the
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by hhas01 6y ago
Ah, but can it run on a pregnancy test? https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066

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