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by indymike 2y ago
I believed this until I kept getting tickets about people not knowing where to click. So, we made links look like buttons, and stopped getting tickets. Then our designer didn't like the buttons, so the click here links were the only op
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> Since then I don't just trust by default when people shout "they banned me for absolutely no reason, I swear!". Email shenanigans and the shenaniganiers will quickly erode any sense of faith in your common man. That said
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How many hot dogs is that?
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by indymike 2y ago
Depends. Build it, get dependent developers, start charging dependent developers, ????, profit.
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> Russia's Ka-52 were a significant problem for Ukraine in the summer 2023 offensive This is why in 2024 Ukraine is now shooting down helicopters (they have shot down three now) with FPV drones.
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by indymike 2y ago
> These Anglo guys still live in the 1980s, What even is an "Anglo" guy? I don't think there's a culture left on the planet that identifies as that.
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by indymike 2y ago
This is the truth. We shouldn't act surprised when an emerging economy "blatantly ignores" IP norms for established nations.
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> Narrow tariffs, competitive subsidies, sanctions, divestment, export restrictions are all viable deterrents. The only thing that stops this is when a nation has more to lose than to gain... and that will happen soon as other emerging
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by indymike 2y ago
Honestly I think ad targeting is good at just following me around and showing me what I just looked at. It's been a while since I've even clicked on an ad on purpose.
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by indymike 2y ago
The giant crab-like thing in the background of the Hippo swimming (if a hippo could swim) is the stuff of nightmares.
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by indymike 2y ago
How things get named Canvas: "Name it clay" -- artistic CMO "Won't people think they will have to get their hands dirty?" -- CEO "Right. Name it sculpt. It has a sense of je ne sais quoi about it." -- hips
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by indymike 2y ago
Can we stop naming things canvas? Please?
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Yes, and that decision is not made by the user.
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This assumes those people have a credible alternative, which in most cases they do not.
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by indymike 2y ago
I think this is just literal rickrolling.
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by indymike 2y ago
What I like about the author's idea is it is a technical solution to a technical problem. Taxes, incentives, or for that matter anything that requires large-scale public behavior change is: a) not likely to work b) equally unlikel
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> it's not that people don't trust Microsoft with their data Let me fix that... People don't trust Microsoft.
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Their parents taught them different ethics.
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by indymike 2y ago
> Not necessarily accurate Actually accurate. "Merchant bank" is not the card holder's bank - it is the bank that actually settles transactions with the issuing bank (i.e. your credit card) and then deposits money into the
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There are also a lot of businesses that take cash because their owners have been banned from taking credit cards.
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by indymike 2y ago
> Also, if you factor in that cash is an option, and the significant inroads being made by options like Square and Venmo The real competition is the NACHA's ACH system. Square and Venmo ride atop existing payment networks. The innov
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by indymike 2y ago
> It is sad that open source is all about foundations and positions now, not about software development. Actually it isn't. There's plenty of new open source being developed. When a project gets big enough, some kind of formal
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> We might be looking at a time where giants eat small software due to the cost and scale barriers. This assumes that abstractions are no longer possible.
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Hmm. Delegating a decision you do not enjoy making to a machine? Sounds like expected behavior.
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It's not if you use it to understand cash flow. If you use it as a profit replacement, you might be disappointed.
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by indymike 2y ago
Greppability adn debugability are two things that I look for in code reviews. If you ask, "How would you debug that?" and the answer stats with, "I'd rewite it to..." Maybe, just maybe you should write it that way.
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by indymike 2y ago
> Why is security free? People don't want to get hurt, physically, emotionally, financially. > Not just in software but in general? People being harmed is very expensive. > you need to pay tribute to those who can This is a ve
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by indymike 2y ago
I just remember being in a meeting about colo and on prom where people argued about why the colo was better... I provisioned a working instance of our web site (a big job board) with load balancer and fresh databases via the API... and the
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For about a decade of my life I was looked down upon by engineers because I made advertising that targeted engineers :-) I agree with a lot of what is in this article, there's one thing missing: Highlight differences. Especially those
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Sigh. The company is a different problem than the product. Sally in accounting who has pii on her desk is a totally different problem than that the team that wrote insecure code 15 years ago.

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