jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> With a ponzi scheme, there is no underlying investment. So the pool of capital never grows. The "pool of capital" never grows here, either. Landlords get more assets (houses), but also more liabilities (deposits). A Ponzi sch
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Have you ever tried to get your friends to join you on some new social or messaging platform? And failed miserably? Yeah. Now try getting random coworkers to do it. And then try doing it without being allowed to tell them about it at work,
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> What happens if that channel gets really nasty and some employees are bullying others (for any reason) or just anything bad comes of it? What if the Earth ended yesterday? It doesn't matter, because it didn't happen . Also,
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I don't recall stating a year. "Actual typing part" != "writing code"
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> they can daisy-chain the purchase of multiple properties. They take the first cheonsae deposit and use it to purchase another property And then they have to return the deposit eventually... how is this different from a Ponzi scheme? :P
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> or have any pressure on your landlord to improve the property Not sure what you think that has to do with rent control?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> It had been my impression that git had no way to support this but that hasn’t been true for some time. Well yeah, but not because of conditional config... I wonder what this person thinks the `--global` in `git config --global` means?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Try `google/` (well, it doesn't actually exist, but at least in Firefox/Chrome you can see that it will treat it as a URL instead of a search)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> For better or worse the developers of browsers/libraires decided to allow it, it takes extra code to check for it and block it It's pretty integral to the functioning of DNS: a hierarchy of names which each have records.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
There is not a technical rule against it (mostly), there is an administrative rule.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I think that aside from "specialty" applications (like DAWs, etc) Or... like audio players, maybe? And it's not messing around with the system audio settings; it's selecting a audio device other than the system-wide
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
No, the app lets you select what system you're going to listen to Spotify on, not what audio device to use on your system. Sometimes I just want music through my speakers while I have something else piping into my headset. ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
TIL, thanks!
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Please look at the context of my comment. ummonk suggested that developers should tag closed bugs with wontfix, even if they were only closed because no one cared (rather than because they don't want to fix it).
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'd be willing to pay for a Spotify client that allows you to select your audio output device . And yet here we are, 10 years later... Spotify is a marketing platform first and an audio player second.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Writing code is only 10% of the total time spend Sure, now that we have more powerful, pipelined, branch-predicted computers and you don't have to optimize every last bit of your program, that's true.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
If someone reopens the bug or opens another bug, that is an indication that someone still cares.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Really? You think that expecting a user who submitted a bug report five years earlier to still have patience to interact with it is sustainable?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Again, "if they require or accept payment for access to features or services "
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"Developers charging for apps and downloads from Google Play must use Google Play's billing system as the method of payment. Play-distributed apps must use Google Play's billing system as the method of payment if they require
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
If Google's intent is to ban donations to an app creator, then why does it explicitly say "if they require or accept payment for access to features or services, including any app functionality, digital content or goods"? Fran
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
As mentioned in TFA, Google does not allow non- tax able donations through Play, and requires that you use a 3rd-party processor for those.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"Purchases that require Google Play's billing system: Digital items, Subscription services, App functionality or content, Cloud software and services" https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-develop
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
YouTube has a massive scale, and had a massive scale before Google purchased them. I don't think you understand just how much money they make from ads, not to mention the various other revenue options they've rolled out. Frankly,
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Giphy is owned by Facebook. Until/unless Facebook sells them, they are one and the same.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> If their track record is quality (i.e. no bugs) They're a (consumer) router manufacturer. I don't care how good they are within that field, no, their track record is NOT quality. Worse yet, 90% of their code comes from the sa
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
No, it's not a company that hosts and distributes GIFs. It's a company which has a stranglehold on a large portion of the planet's communication, as well as a stranglehold on services which are allowed to interact with that c
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Looking at a single business in isolation is not sound financial reasoning.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I'll note as an ex-CoFounder/CTO So what you're saying is, you'll note as someone who has benefitted from the current system. > any of these companies create immense global value and could not possibly have gotte
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Oh, great! It's stable! That means it couldn't possibly have any 0days or weak passwords.

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