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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> You are right, but reasonable trust in some unregulated cashback system of a private company is orders of magnitude smaller than the reasonable consumer trust in a bank (assuming we're talking about a stable country). 100% agree.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Of course, you must realize that if you substitute "entry in the bank database" for "points", your (pun intended) point is still valid. Obviously, you also need to change "they are only cash once it has hit your ba
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Any source would be appreciated, I'd like to read more about it.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
It is, it's just a slightly more formal variant of it.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I'm not a businessman, but I don't think so. Case in point: Beeminder. Their web app has a bit of an "unfinished" feel to it – definitely not a "modern SPA", rather a traditional Rails web app (not that it&#x
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Seeing the title and the domain I instantly knew whose blog post this is...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
What a sad story... That said, I absolutely love the expression "sonic assault". I'm adding it to my vocabulary, right next to the uses of "sonic" as a verb and as a noun. ;-)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
There is a regular war going on in the country neighboring my one, a thing that was hard to think of several years ago. We had a pandemic and lockdowns destabilizing lives of millions of people and thousands of businesses. What makes you t
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
What about when the internet goes down for several weeks or months...?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Maybe, though I doubt it. Cash has some advantages which make it very appealing in certain circumstances. Anonymity is only one of them, and probably not even the most important one – cash does not rely on network being available.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> But cash is going to be gone too in the future-future. Like famine, poverty, cancer and CSS? ;-) Yeah, sure. Seriously though: history shows that if official money is not trusted (for some reason), another form emerges. So no, cash wi
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
- Open the pod bay door, HAL. - Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
This. I know the people at my local grocery store and always chat with them.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Where I often see these things, their UI/UX is horrible. I'm a bit of a gadget-geek and rather a tech-savvy person, and yet I did make mistakes with them and wasted time because of the UI/UX. > The real future will be no-
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Clever girl!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
That's interesting, in what ways do directories break the mental model?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
You are not alone. The Info viewer is much better than pretty much anything else IMHO. Converting DevDocs.io to (a) Info and then (b) ElDoc would be absolutely fantastic. (To make it clear: I love DevDocs.io, too, but it's still a brow
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Plug: https://mbork.pl/2013-09-18_Selective_replacement_in_LaTeX_d...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
From what I heard, Emacs Slack client is better than the original one.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I'd prefer this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wBrOV2FJM8
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> If you don't start with the professional tooling, you may have good fun, but nobody will hire you. You're right, though some people want to learn to program to either have fun, or to make simple tools for themselves (see e.g.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Wow, thanks! I read it a long time ago, and later wanted to find this exact article, but couldn't. I also have quite a few tools like this, although on another platform (Emacs). I love the whole concept of "home-cooked apps&quo
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Also, before recording from tv (or streaming) was deliberately made difficult by nonsensical DRM...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Sure. While at that, let me also plug my book: https://leanpub.com/hacking-your-way-emacs
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I would say it depends on the book. I don't have such data for my Elisp textbook (which fared pretty well), but I'm not sure it would confirm your claim.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Authors apparently earn cents of royalties for every physical book purchased. That seems crazy. Agreed, but it is (somewhat) justified by the sheer length of the chain (printing house, distributors, bookstores etc.) FWIW, I wrote and s
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> It's hard for media to become lost these days Not exactly "these days", but not the early 1900s, either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Yes. It's full of wisdom and humor. ;-) I loved especially this gem: > Never, ever reuse a paper abstract for a presentation, except if the abstract is “We show P = NP” or “We show P ≠ NP”.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Ah, you're right, I assumed from the title it would be Polish. But frankly, given the history of my country, the same goes for German, too...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Tbf, I'm Polish and a language nerd a bit, and I consider a phrase "intimidated by the Polish language" completely justified. ;-)

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