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by joesmo 11y ago
While the ability to censor people has increased tremendously, our government's perverted interest in puritan idiocy seems unchanged for hundreds of years. I just can't believe that who someone decides to have sex with is still so
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by joesmo 11y ago
Using Brave is almost as dumb as not using an ad blocker at all from a security perspective unless Eich has a plan to 100% eliminate malware, something I'd be extremely sceptical about. I don't see how his malware is going to be d
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by joesmo 11y ago
Seriously. It's impossible to manage systems (ops) and develop at the same time if you have any sort of complex system. With AWS and such, you need permanent ops to deal with all the bugs, issues, and slow support. With a solution like
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by joesmo 11y ago
How is this not a violation of the CFAA? Why isn't Forbes being held responsible and prosecuted? So if I go and access one file whose name is not public on Forbes' website, I'm looking at least at 5-10 years in jail but Forbe
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by joesmo 11y ago
Having a flexible schedule can sometimes help with this. Every once in awhile I find myself unable to fall asleep till about 6 or 7am and being able to get up at 11 or even 12 and start working has saved many a day from being a sick day to
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yes, I love having to hit command/control + F on a site like Craigslist. What could possibly be a better design than forcing the user to use their find function because the site is basically unusable otherwise?
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by joesmo 11y ago
My take on this article is that nutrition science is not science, no one knows what the fuck they're talking about, and we're basically still in the 1920's with absolutely no real nutritional information or system (usually sc
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by joesmo 11y ago
How else would you paint it?
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It's not. The CSS is copyrightable, but there's absolutely nothing from stopping another site from copying the design. The Github logo is probably trademarked and a competitor could not use that or any similar trademark, but that&
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yes, so true. What a terrible language.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Upgrading everything without cause is one of the worst ideas I've heard in a long time. It leads to a lot of unnecessary work that could likely have been avoided otherwise, not to mention breaking the app itself. And if you end up on a
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by joesmo 11y ago
Totally agree. When I'm spending more time debugging the build tools configuration than the JavaScript itself, there's something seriously wrong. Unfortunately, that wrong starts at npm itself and just gets worse from there.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Of course. Putting non-violent offenders in jail doesn't even make sense when you have options like house arrest, especially jailing them before trial. I agree though, the US has an extremely cruel culture that's always, since bef
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by joesmo 11y ago
These are known algorithms you're talking about, the one place where unit tests actually consistently make sense. I'm not writing a math library, however. I'm writing APIs and web GUIs. We have an immense amount of business l
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by joesmo 11y ago
It already exists in the form of underscore/lodash. If the authors who used left-pad had looked at say underscore.string ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/underscore.string ), they'd have not only a pad function
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by joesmo 11y ago
I don't understand why our society thinks its ok to treat people this way just because they've been convicted of a crime. Being removed from society and put in jail IS the punishment. Why does society suddenly see these people as
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by joesmo 11y ago
I couldn't agree more. Almost every other form of testing, automated or manual, is more effective at catching bugs than unit testing in my experience. I rarely find unit tests catch any actual bugs (two I can remember in two years in t
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is exactly how we work at my job currently. We use pull requests and each programmer picks a task and goes on his way. When it's done, it's submitted to the other programmer for review (we have two full time). Most communicat
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by joesmo 11y ago
How can you not get one Hispanic juror on your jury in San Francisco? This to me, is mind blowing. I'm not saying the jury was racist necessarily, just ignorant. Some people go against all reason and trust cops despite common sense tha
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by joesmo 11y ago
No, it's not reasonable. These are allegedly highly trained professionals who spend a significant portion of their time training with firearms and they can't bring down one unarmed person without using more than one magazine and o
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Maybe Apple really does find the idea of hardware that can function for five years “sad” and funny these days." Maybe? Is there even a question anymore? If there is, one only needs to look at the designs Apple has been pushing fo
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by joesmo 11y ago
Walmart has no problems with them. What you're essentially saying (I think) is that generic online retailers cannot handle the amount of returns they need to to stay in business so they need to get rid of customers to stay profitable.
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by joesmo 11y ago
And the amount of damage done by legislators, governments, and other "opponents" of terrorism after the fact? Almost unlimited and pales in comparison with the violence itself.
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by joesmo 11y ago
So will I lose my cable TV service too if Amazon closes my account for violating unstated terms of service?
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by joesmo 11y ago
Sure, blame the victim. As if I'm supposed to know that Amazon--or any other company--will throw a hissy-fit when I'm using their product according to their own rules. Now I have to be both a mind reader and fortune teller just to
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by joesmo 11y ago
Based on my own experience and that of my family members, what you buy and return is irrelevant. The monetary value also seems irrelevant. My account was closed for returning around $100 worth of junk, mostly broken shoes and clothes that d
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by joesmo 11y ago
"Who returns dozens of items in a year?! That's like the picky customer that no restaurant wants to have to deal with." Someone that's doing tens of thousands of dollars of business with Amazon a year. You know, the most
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by joesmo 11y ago
So the customer didn't do anything wrong but Amazon should be able to lie to him about their policies and fuck him over when its convenient for them just to make a few extra dollars. Yeah, that seems really reasonable to me.
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Prime memberships are not refunded upon termination.
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"He emailed Amazon to point out the unfairness in closing accounts based on unpublished limits of legitimate returns, but says he received a standard response refusing to reopen his account." Note, that he did nothing wrong, he vi

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