laughingbovine

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by laughingbovine 7y ago
I don't know about this acronym... "meta" from the article is certainly not using it. The acronym definition breaks down because technically something can be meta and not be the most effective tactic available. Eg. when the
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Our entire sector is overvalued. This could just be the beginning of investors realizing their investment isn't really worth what they paid. If there is a reckoning on the big companies, that could lead to a recession.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
ITT Software Developers: This is a great idea! System Admins: Why on earth would you want to do this? I'm not sure this situation (devs and admins disagreeing) will ever go away. Is there some future where our opinions will converge?
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Except when it is.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
This sounds like your basic configuration management tool plus a service discovery tool.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
And here I am thinking there would be a discussion on decentralized web applications in the comments. Nope. Just leave now, it's a wasteland.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
IIRC the Microsoft antitrust issues came from the fact that IE was the default browser and people didn't know they could switch. Chrome needs to be actively installed first before it can be used, so that whole issue is gone.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
> A free market should regulate itself. Hoo boy. I agree it totally should. Been waiting for a while on that one though...
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
It's almost like the customers are the ones paying money.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Sure, let's dive into the philosophy of causation and completely butcher it. Very clear article /s
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Should be? Sure. Will be? Never. Nobody will run a social media site that pays users when a social media site that does not is making money hand-over-fist.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Wow... what did I just stumble into?
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Alright, everyone on their high horse? OK. Now, to wait for all the tobacco companies to voluntarily shut themselves down. Any day now...
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Short answer: no. Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
"Ambitious" deadline a.k.a. crunch time required to meet deadline == poorly managed While you're working unpaid overtime, I'll go work somewhere where "work life balance" is not just something they put in the c
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by laughingbovine 7y ago
Successful advertising campaigns generate revenue. Can't fake that. Also there are companies that will track your FB ads and tell you if FB is lying.
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by laughingbovine 8y ago
I think you may be going about learning programming wrong. I've seen this several times (source: am DevOps/programmer) where my non-CS-degree sysadmin/IT coworkers will sort of "force it" when trying to learn progra
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by laughingbovine 8y ago
IDGI... this is what Grammarly is supposed to do. Take your text and fix grammar/spelling/etc. How are they going to read your text if you don't send it to them? IANAL but I'm fairly sure they can't steal your co
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by laughingbovine 8y ago
> I believe Word still has an built-in grammar/spell checker that works just fine Tell that to Grammarly's customers. From what I hear, they do a much better job.
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by laughingbovine 8y ago
> although it would be nice if they offered an offline app They have a plugin for MS Office and probably some other word processors.
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by laughingbovine 8y ago
Maybe you haven't used it in a while but requirements.txt lets you specify packages and lock (or unlock) the version.
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by laughingbovine 12y ago
This guy turns "GamerGate" into a diatribe on corporate America. What? The recent terrible aftermath of all this "GamerGate" stuff is a direct cause of big companies leveraging geek and gamer culture to sell stuff? Ho
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by laughingbovine 12y ago
You're right to say that this critique of culture should, logically, apply to all, but the writer goes back on his premise a few paragraphs in and instead says this: > Gamer identity is tainted, root and branch, by its embrace of co