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by joesmo 10y ago
I see a lot of posts suggesting what FB should do about this (as if they have incentives to change things; they don't) but perhaps we should focus on informing end users about the dangers of ads and how to properly use an ad-blocker. W
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by joesmo 10y ago
It's terrible advice as most companies are not likely in the range one is seeking and therefore are just a colossal waste of time. Seriously this article tells me to do three phone screens and one or two in person interviews before fin
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by joesmo 10y ago
Indeed, but it clearly doesn't have to be this way. My company lets me work remotely and does not have set holidays but gives employees an extra ten days or so a year to take off as they see fit. Not all jobs can do this but I'd v
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by joesmo 10y ago
Proper databases have JSON or other serialized field types. Even mysql 5.7 has some support for this. There is no reason you should hit a limit on one of your tables at a few hundred thousand records because you're an idiot and stored
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by joesmo 10y ago
If privacy is a distinctly modern idea invented in the 1890's what was the purpose of window curtains before then? Certainly they couldn't have been there to protect an idea that's probably older than language and likely has
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by joesmo 10y ago
I don't care and I only want to work with engineers who also don't care and would rather spend their brainpower on actual problems, not bikeshedding.
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The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in Software Development(medium.com)
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by joesmo 10y ago
It most certainly is information protected by HIPAA. It's just that there are no enforced consequences for companies breaking HIPAA (or pretty much any other law) while there are dire consequences for people accessing public data under
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by joesmo 10y ago
In the meantime, companies like Apple and Google are deleting users' files without their consent and infecting computers with malware through ads yet I don't see Tim Cook or Larry Page being woken up in the middle of the night by
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by joesmo 10y ago
Will Mozilla finally make ad blocking the default or do we need yet another organization that can stand up to corporate pressure and money going forward to do so? That's my only question: who if anyone will bring a web browser to marke
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by joesmo 10y ago
If you didn't have irrational fear, the TSA would not have its current powers. If you didn't have so much stupidity, the TSA might manage more than a 5% success rate. Yes, there are other elements like hate which also come into pl
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by joesmo 10y ago
This is about as possible as ending the war on drugs was in the 80's. Just because something is reasonable and makes sense doesn't mean it is possible to implement politically. In fact, I'd say an inverse relationship exists
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by joesmo 10y ago
"if I could prove someone broke their oath with knowledge, what is the legal punishment offered?" I think you answered your own question. It depends on who that person is and whether the people in charge like what he or she does.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Deprecating mcrypt this way is clearly a mistake regardless of how ineffective it is as an extension or how unmaintained it is. Almost every framework I've seen makes use of it. In almost 9 years, it was not communicated to the communi
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by joesmo 10y ago
I agree. An argument doesn't have to stand up in court to be right or moral and I believe yours is both. If FOX can abuse Youtube policies and the DMCA, I see no reason why people shouldn't abuse FOX and pirate.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Is there that much difference between getting paid say $2 a year from Spotify or other services and getting paid nothing from pirated works? As a musician, I'd rather people listen to my tracks regardless of how they're distribute
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by joesmo 10y ago
I agree with the student who says it's an act of civil disobedience. Many of these companies should not exist after fucking up our economy, yet it's the students who have to pay them back? That bailout money could have gone to edu
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by joesmo 10y ago
Yes. If one guy can build a self driving car in his garage, I'm certain free software can keep up. ( http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv... )
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by joesmo 10y ago
Definitely not. I recommend Signal as they have a desktop client as well and is open source. Also handles SMS on mobile. ( https://whispersystems.org/ )
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by joesmo 10y ago
Drinking is not a moral issue. It's a health issue. If I am an alcoholic, have other health problems that prevent me from drinking, or just don't want to drink because I value my health, I certainly shouldn't have to go along
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by joesmo 10y ago
In my experience working in the Bay Area, this is hardly limited to startups. I worked at over a dozen places if not more, from startups to the giant technology companies, and all but one had massive amounts of alcohol on premises and drank
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by joesmo 10y ago
I benchmark most interpreted language http frameworks in the low tens to hundreds of requests per minute range at best without any app code and you're telling me that CPU performance isn't an issue?
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by joesmo 10y ago
Doesn't make it false though.
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by joesmo 10y ago
You've made that comment once on this page with nothing backing it up.
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by joesmo 10y ago
The irony of psilocybin classification as a Schedule 1 drug is that it's not even addictive. But then again, the US government and America in general has never let facts get in the way of their goals to ruin people's lives. People
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by joesmo 10y ago
They knowingly sell bad products and when you return enough of them, they'll close your account. I'd say that's some pretty bad mistreatment for their Prime customers.
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by joesmo 10y ago
I don't think you should presume to speak for others on this matter, thank you.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Be careful if you return too many of those shitty products, they will close your account, even if you have a Prime membership. Amazon is shady as fuck and an untrustworthy retailer. The way they treat employees is beyond atrocious. Amaz
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by joesmo 10y ago
I think those people who really needed 911 services and died because the services couldn't get to them would disagree slightly with you if they could and so would their families. But it's not a crisis; it's just a bunch of pe
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by joesmo 10y ago
This argument holds water until you have languages that are orders of magnitude faster with the same developer enjoyment and experience. 13 years ago, I'd argue that choices were rather limited. Nowadays, there are too many choices. Fa

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