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by indymike 3y ago
Getting rid of shallow work is why people hire people.
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I can't agree more: having a separate API for functionality and a separate one for non-standard (i.e. UI) is a great way to do this.
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This article is good advice to get a working prototype or a decent solo-dev MVP website that will be re-written later. I've spent the last two months cleaning up the work of a developer who thought this way. Here's what you run in
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by indymike 3y ago
> someone may actually own the computer system in question, And that person may not be the systemadmin
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by indymike 3y ago
From the article: Facebook, Google, Amazon and GitHub have sessions that never expire. In the case of Google, GitHub and Amazon, I routinely have to re-auth. I'm not sure that this is accurate.
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No, a piracy link would not show content from the original publisher it would show the publisher's work on another website.
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I'm not sure that is the case: TV and radio use that model and are/were valuable.
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by indymike 3y ago
Our team uses micro as the standard quick and dirty text editor, and we really like it. Micro uses familiar key bindings, which really helps. The name kid of tells the story on functionality Nano < Micro < vim or Emacs. I do thing Mic
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by indymike 3y ago
Looks like oral exams are about to make a big return.
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This is where you start to sympathize with the news people in Canada who want google to pay for links. If google just summarizes at scale, interdicts the traffic and revenue, where's the incentive to create content? This is a failure
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The rest of the world is enough.
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No, they aren't piracy links. These are where the news site makes their content available to scrapers and then paywalls humans. This is where the news site is trying take advantage of search engines to get you to clink on their SERP, a
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by indymike 3y ago
The best solution would be to simply take Firefox off the market in France should this happen. If France wants browsers to work through the government, they can fund it, build it, and make laws to force people to use it.
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From the article: first of all, few scientists in this country can speak knowledgeably about the health effects of wireless technology. I think this dramatically underestimates the number of scientists and engineers who work with RF at da
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The approach that will work: 1. Have a service worth paying for. 2. Collect a payment with registration/account creation.
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> The flipside is the refusal of people to acknowledge the good news that we do have -- like solar and wind power. No one is ignoring it. We're rapidly deploying both technologies all over the place. It's exciting that real mon
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> ethically corrupt to give them views/money I think it's just become a bad experience. Twitter / X has really just become no fun. I have enough stress in my life without adding the stuff Twitter's algorithm thinks I&
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> The very people in that very local community! I think you are right. It's also important that the local community set behavioral boundaries (in real life, actual laws) and the system for dealing with breaking those boundaries (in
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Jira is a fair-warning story for "Yes, you can customize it. Before you do, ask if you should customize it."
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A lot of the performance complaints came from software that was built for the 68k and ran under emulation. As software built for PPC came out, that complaint went away.
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>This is only ink-jet, correct? This article is about an inkjet, but I've owned laser multi-function devices that will not print if the toner is out. The problem is linking the scanner working with the printer having filled consumab
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> I fear this will be another egregious violation of the Constitution ignored under qualified immunity. The police officers, individually can have qualified immunity. The governments that employ them do not.
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This article: https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the... contains a detailed interview with editor of the raided newsroom. When asked about pulbic support, the publisher said he had a lot of suppor
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First, great project. Second, the code is very readable. Finally thank you for excellent comments.
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Family of seven. We've largely stopped eating at restaurants and started buying store brand instead of name brand at the grocery store.
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> youtube-dl is a copy protection circumvention tool Wait until they find out that Microsoft has been providing tools like COPY and XCOPY with their OS for decades...
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This article dresses up truth in class warfare costume: Companies and investors who own commercial real estate are facing a loss. The thought is if people have to go back to the office, the commercial real estate is worth more, so there is
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# TODO remove this is my all time favorite.
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Startups lose their spark when they either: 1. Go from "more to gain" to "more to loose" thinking. 2. Growth slows and either ethics or vision are sacrificed. Both of these are natural, and the people will have to change
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> there's plenty of free options that don't involve a device that has intermittent connectivity, runs off a battery, I have a great reason to host a website on my phone. I want to. It's my phone. I'm paying for the se

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