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by hooby 4y ago
As someone who has zero experience of using TikTok - how does it monetize? And how does it deal with companies? Facebook and Twitter seem quite focused on providing marketing departments (i.e. advertisers) with a way to connect to their cus
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by hooby 4y ago
What exactly is it that makes YT shorts so compelling? Genuine question - because I tried watching them several times over, but they never really clicked with me? Maybe I'm just old - but I honestly don't "get it".
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by hooby 4y ago
It probably would have been cheaper and less effort to make sure the hiring freeze actually properly works as intended - rather than interviewing, hiring, relocating and firing someone (including relocation and severance packages) for just
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by hooby 4y ago
So, basically a Perverse Incentive [0] - a systemic problem. But the firings are externally visible as well - and it's also externally visible whether the firings occurred with or without a hiring freeze in place beforehand. And whethe
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by hooby 4y ago
Imho the real question here is, why is it that Meta keeps hiring right right until they do large layoff rounds? The kind of issue that requires large layoff rounds is not something that just materializes overnight, out of the blue. So why d
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by hooby 4y ago
It's worth to note most airlines reduce row spacing way below what those chairs were designed for. At the intended spacing this wouldn't be much of a problem.
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by hooby 4y ago
> Copyright was originally intended to protect the publishers of a work. You are talking about modern US copyright law. But copyright laws (laws around copy) predate the existence of publishers and the declaration of independence of th
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by hooby 4y ago
Copyright was originally intended to protect the creators of a work. Over many years it has now mostly become a tool for large companies to accumulate rights (on works they didn't create themselves) and monetize them. Maybe a reform is
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by hooby 4y ago
Scroll down a bit and you get white text on a bright yellow background. Seems to be the modern take on animated rainbow-color backgrounds from the geocities days...
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by hooby 4y ago
It's hard to pin down a reason, honestly. I started teaching myself programming in my teens - using books from the school library, and a copy of Turbo Pascal which I pirated off school computers. > It was personal interest and pure
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by hooby 4y ago
The examples mainly show Robb creating PRs with code changes that are less work to write, than the corresponding issue... ^_^'
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by hooby 4y ago
Wait, how does that work? The shadow is always going to be opposite of the sun, so it does not provide any extra info which the sun doesn't already give you. In order to estimate the current time ("it's about 5 o'clock&q
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by hooby 4y ago
I personally enjoy WFH - but I also enjoy the self-organized "office day" me and my team hold once a week, to get together with everyone, having coffee together in the morning, and sometimes a beer after work. I think it's im
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by hooby 4y ago
The irony about this is, that Richard Garriott was barely involved in the creation of UO. He was busy creating a new single-player Ultima title, while a separate team, lead by Raph Koster created UO.
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by hooby 4y ago
Raph Koster (Designer of UO and SWG) is working on a new - yet unannounced - game. He founded a new company - Playable Worlds - and on their website[0] are a few Blog posts (look for "Riffs by Raph"), that outline some ideas/
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by hooby 4y ago
You probably don't want to hear this - but I think you are chasing the wrong rabbit. Not getting the good answer you want is an entirely separate problem from getting "pedantic" answers you don't want. Reducing the amoun
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by hooby 4y ago
I assume you are more interested in venting, rather than actually getting links to "pedant-free" forums. Right?
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by hooby 4y ago
Let's just say that the way the OP reads (more like a rant than a serious question) - I have low expectations that it will attract a lot of highly productive answers.
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by hooby 4y ago
I think it's important to set a good example. You could start trying to be less nit-picky about other peoples answers. As long as there is a good answer on Stack Overflow that gets up-voted, accept that and just ignore the rest. You co
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by hooby 4y ago
It's also interesting to compare that with other countries. United States - 629 Canada - 104 Greenland - 126 Mexico - 166 Germany - 69 Russia - 325 Iceland - 33 Japan - 38 Norway - 49 China - 121 Vietnam - 128 England and Wales - 130 A
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by hooby 4y ago
Maybe all languages are weird, and we just happen to be more used and adapted to a certain weirdness?
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by hooby 4y ago
I believe one typically doesn't just happen to be good at something - like inherently good. There's always first a phase of getting good at something - which took time and effort, regardless of whether it was conscious effort or n
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by hooby 4y ago
In my previous company, as a prank, we setup a well-hidden raspberry pie to play back choking laughter in the office, whenever a coworker made a push to gitlab...
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by hooby 4y ago
The question is - can this actually explain the code which really needs explanation - or can it only explain code that should be easy and straight forward to read anyway? And does having this reduce the amount of discomfort badly readable c
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by hooby 4y ago
- sends you a notification about a meeting starting, with a join button. when you hover your mouse over the join button, the notification disappears. the meeting is nowhere to be found. you have to got to outlook calendar and join the meeti
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by hooby 4y ago
Maybe they had similar requirements. Like integration of and into other products of theirs, or idk.
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by hooby 4y ago
- MSN Messenger - Windows Live Messenger - Microsoft Office Communications - Microsoft V-Chat - Microsoft Lync - Skype - Skype for Business (completely different piece of software than skype) - Microsoft Classroom - Microsoft Teams (no guar
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by hooby 4y ago
You don't know how this person lost their number. How quickly they lost access to it. What actually happened. Maybe the last time this banner appeared, they still had their number. Maybe things just co-coincided with the worst possible
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by hooby 4y ago
People still fall through the cracks.
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by hooby 4y ago
I feel that many of the answers here, which explain what could have been done beforehand to prevent this - are not very helpful to someone who's already locked out of their account. It's never gonna be possible to 100% prevent any

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