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by joekrill 8y ago
Ah, very good point. It would certainly be great if things were that straight forward in the US.
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by joekrill 8y ago
But you're just proving my point: if 95% is boilerplate, 5% is not. Plus you have to consider the circumstances. The same exact document might have vastly different ramifications depending on what else is involved - the work, product,
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by joekrill 8y ago
Well there's the standby nodes with automated failover, and the fact that maintenance and security are fully handled. For a lot of people that's well worth the extra $10 a month. Plus setting up daily backups is one thing, but ver
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by joekrill 8y ago
Wow. Is that common? It seems a little unusual to explicitly call these things out. But I can't say a typically read a lot of EULAs, either, so I don't know.
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by joekrill 8y ago
My wife is an attorney and if there is ONE thing she wishes she could make everyone understand it's that there is no such thing as a "standard" or "boilerplate" legal document.
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by joekrill 8y ago
Can you elaborate on what it was about the EULA that was a problem?
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by joekrill 8y ago
Not to be confused with the relatively well-known JavaScript logging library called Pino.
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by joekrill 8y ago
I love the idea of this, but when I tried using Franz a while back it just felt like a second, specialized web browser just for chatting websites. Sort of similar to when a mobile app is just a WebView wrapper. Ultimately I feel like I migh
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by joekrill 8y ago
But that's so short-sighted. There are other things to consider. Word of mouth is powerful, and if you make it difficult people are going to remember that and tell their peers/friends/coworkers/whoever. And what's g
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by joekrill 8y ago
There's a lot of naysayers here: it's been tried, it can't be done, etc. But I have a hard time believing all that. They said the same thing about the music industry. The cable TV industry is going through a huge change now.
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by joekrill 8y ago
I never suggested it should. I was simply commenting on calling this a "witch hunt" - I offered no opinion on how fair or just any of this stuff is.
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by joekrill 8y ago
I absolutely agree with you. But at the same time I'm really having a hard time coming up with a reasonable explanation for this from the company's point of view. Unless the whole thing is an outright lie. It's a brand new St
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by joekrill 8y ago
Not quite. In this case she was, in fact, a "witch". She did the cyberbullying. It's never made clear, however, if the first guy was actually guilty of what he was accused of. I think that's more of a witch hunt, because
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by joekrill 8y ago
Good point, caffeine was not a good example. Cigarettes (or smoking in general, whatever it is) and alcohol are really the primary "legal poisons" we allow, I guess. At least in most of the world. With alcohol actually almost enc
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by joekrill 8y ago
I guess it depends what you define as "not ok". I mean, why is smoking 4-5 times a week not ok? Why is shooting up heroin 4-5 times a week not ok? In the end, we're simply willfully poisoning ourselves. For some reason we, as
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by joekrill 8y ago
I hope I'm not misunderstanding the comparison, but for me the takeaway seems to be: make the users job easier. That has always been what we're trying to do, hasn't it? Stop forcing them to enter _so_ _much_ _data_ by hand, m
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by joekrill 8y ago
> What kind of businesses run on very tight margins, that even some increase in the IT bill can cause them to fail ? Well, Startups! That's sort of common for startups, isn't it? I realize the term is basically being used to de
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by joekrill 8y ago
I mean, this is effectively called "life" (as it stands today). You have to trust people. You have to trust someone, at some point. That's why we have things like privacy policies and service agreements. There can ALWAYS be a
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by joekrill 8y ago
I've said this before, but that's just kicking the can down the street. At some point, unless you are inspecting every line of source code, every dependency, every dependency's dependency, and so on down the line until you ge
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by joekrill 8y ago
I would think the biggest concern with "Serverless" would be vendor lock in. If a large portion of your SaaS product is "serverless" it's going to be very difficult to move when company A raises their prices, or com
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by joekrill 8y ago
Much fewer than I would like to have! My "to read" list is infinitely longer. Some highlights: Factfulness by Hans Rosling - amazing book, as recommended by Bill Gates, and I see why. Very timely and important given the current so
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by joekrill 8y ago
You're absolutely right. The big issue (for me, at least), is that it's a security nightmare. At least last I used it. It seemed there were security exploits popping up every day. Either from the core codebase, or from some random
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by joekrill 8y ago
I saw the title and thought: "Finally, they're going to admit to what a mess they've created and propose a way forward". But nope, just a PR fluff post.
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by joekrill 8y ago
I don't see how this problem is limited to just NPM. This is a problem of any package manager. Or any software distribution system in general, really. Look at all the malware found on the Play Store and the Apple Store. Unless you&#x27
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by joekrill 8y ago
But you also have to review the diffs of your dependency's dependencies. And their dependencies. And so on and so on.
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by joekrill 8y ago
But my point is you also have to trust that your underlying OS, or chipset, or even some other software on your computer doesn't have some way to thwart the entire effort. If the thing you're using the do your verification is its
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by joekrill 8y ago
But what about the code you run to verify the binaries? You have to trust that. Or are you reviewing every bit by hand?
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by joekrill 8y ago
> The only way higher wages lead to more candidates is by taking them away from other companies or other industries, and sometimes from other countries. So that is sometimes an option for certain employers, but not for an entire industry
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by joekrill 8y ago
How could this even possibly be mitigated, though? At some point you have to trust something , right? This argument could extend all the way down to your OS, chipset, whatever. Unless you've built every part of your machine from scrat
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by joekrill 8y ago
Won't very good prosthetics thwart facial recognition? Maybe you can't change the distance between your eyes, but with the prosthetics she describes you could certainly change other geometries: forehead, chin, cheekbones, ears. et

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