mekoka

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by mekoka 15y ago
I believe that what many are quick to refer to as social ineptitude is a keener sense of bullshit detection, combined with the inability to take it with a smile. Imo, most socially-inept tech people are simply individuals that are more
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by mekoka 15y ago
I'd like to play devil's advocate for a moment. Many of us would have agreed on Zuckerberg and Netflix on this list back in 2006 and probably on Linus as well. Some of us would have even been pretty vocal in defending Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD.
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by mekoka 15y ago
I don't know about that. I've been extremely reluctant to connect with my parents or anyone in my family on facebook, just because of all the possible social clashes that may occur once they have access to my profile. I don't think I'm alon
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by mekoka 15y ago
I believe it could and already does work for large companies, but differently. It works so well that we take a lot of it for granted. Look around you, do you know of any big company that came along, offered something with such seemingly goo
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by mekoka 15y ago
I don't think people expect developers to react like this, actually he's being praised for exactly the opposite. People would expect and probably would understand, that he'd choose to adopt a more antagonist position when encountering someo
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by mekoka 16y ago
Another thing that I'll start to experiment with is delayed confirmations. The confirmation step via emails is one of those things that has been copied over and over, without knowing, in many cases, what problem it addresses in the first pl
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by mekoka 16y ago
Another technique against spambots that I've used along the line of "hidden fields" is to have a textfield that should NOT contain anything at submission time. You hide the textfield (margin: -10000px) and give it a name unique enough, that
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by mekoka 16y ago
I think it depends of the sensitivity of the material in the website. e.g. I would never do this for a financial service website, just in case I get sued later. If your website doesn't require https for logins, then unmasking the password a
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by mekoka 16y ago
> He should have been taken alive at all costs. I think my kids would have been safer if we had. So, the choices for you were take him alive or just let him go? Frankly, I don't know if you realize how that sound. You completely dismiss
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by mekoka 16y ago
I'm not American, I don't even live in the U.S. You have no idea where I'm writing this from, so please stop making assumptions. The world is rather a complex place. People die every day from various causes on the planet. It still doesn't j
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by mekoka 16y ago
> Is that how we conduct justice now? I am not satisfied by this outcome. I would rather have had him in custody showing we hold the higher ground when it pertains to morality and justice. I'm confused as to what you're unhappy about an
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by mekoka 16y ago
> I read sensitive as an euphemism of "please don't let anyone know how much you make or the benefits you don't have". Well, the author went and asked them, where are his answers? He carefully worded their isolation a social arrangeme
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by mekoka 16y ago
That's what it looks like at face value , but consider these facts and tell me your perception of this story doesn't get swayed a bit: - This guy was an employee of Transvideo, a company subcontracting for Google. - He was filming other em
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by mekoka 16y ago
He implied that google leaned on his employer to fire him. He never himself got in touch with google, so we don't know if this is true, do we? For all we know, his managers felt that he was being an unnecessary troublemaker and not wantin
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by mekoka 16y ago
This raises many questions: - how speculative are they about the rare material they intend to find? - how are they going to mine and transport them? - how much is it going to cost? - will it be worth it in the end, compared to earth mining
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by mekoka 16y ago
I feel that your view may be as simplistic as the one you're criticizing. I'm not an SEO, but my understanding of this field from people who actually work in it is that things are not so black and white. The author went a little over the to