mtnGoat

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by mtnGoat 6y ago
The blackmarket is very much alive and well in Germany, allowing photographers to verify anything is silly, they can be bribed. :x In fact when I lived in Austria, within a couple months I had access to more black market goods/services
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
anecdotally, my family is full of vets and no one cares where they sit at any table, in any room. not sure that is very true, unless they were active combat and might have some PTSD.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
fair enough. makes sense, in that light. Sales isn't my thing/department, I'd probably be amazed at how big the sales teams are at some of these places. Is that part of tech a kinda of a turnstile as it is?
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
To me this just illustrates the excess some companies have. Frankly I wonder what some of these companies are doing to even require these staffing numbers do VCs like headcount or something?
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
i dunno, i wrote PHP scripts for the CLI that run a $100m+ business and execute many millions of times per day. PHP is great for things not web-related, i think many just didnt take the time to learn.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
maybe it was fun and games to get a few days of working from home, but now that its a hard reality, some might not like its effect on their way of life. if people no longer have to flock to certain cities for great pay, pay will probably go
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
free trials offer something for free without charge. is that predatory? they are taking the risk of offering free services in the hope that you will stay around and keep using the service. if you dont, they are at a loss.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
I know Google employees that have had their accounts on various Google Services shutdown and they couldn't even get them back themselves. The place is very siloed, something needs to give because these nightmare scenarios keep happenin
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
I used protonmail for a week, but i got tired of waiting hours and days for some emails to arrive. some we so late the verification links were no longer active. ugh, if only proton mail was up to par with Gmail.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
every website i go to things i was born on Jan 1, 1980. i thought everyone was giving junk info to all the websites. :)
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
I believe the concept of teledildonics is patented, but the owner is a really cool cat and I bet he would think this is a great idea.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
somewhat agree, but many comments here detracting from PHP don't have any substance as to why... they come off as tribal and elitest.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
those concerns prevail in every large project i've seen, regardless of language. I think skill and knowledge of the coders is vastly more important then the language choice... you can write insecure, slow code in any language.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
i think what Tim Bray did was best. As an engineer there you are a resource that is enabling this machine. The best way to stop the machine and get noticed is to stop output. Until AWS realizes their refusal to take action will erode both t
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
i would probably look at updating and keeping a more secure OS that can run modern software. Asking a framework to maintain a version of their framework for a version of PHP that is no longer supported, is not realistic. also laravel is ope
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
you are claiming the developers of PHP are incompetent? bold claim, coming from a throw away.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
Funny, I remember everyone hating on PHP when they moved to RoR, and now they hate that are and moving on. Its almost as if they just need things to hate so they can rewrite code. its very cyclical IMO. The elitism of learning a new languag
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
Articles like this sure don't help drive adoption of crypto... At this point I think more has been stolen over the years then actually spent.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
This is generally true, but that TV show "American Greed" has shown a number of folks that tried to get the riches without actually dying. I wonder how many have pulled it off.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
Other then police and firepeople... what city jobs are high risk? I think most city jobs are paying in the median and giving well above average benefits. it doesn't make sense.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
you could just throw some crypto miners up, if you want to burn electricity and warm the place... might make a few pennies too.
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by mtnGoat 6y ago
based on personal experience. if you didnt install a lock box over the controls... about 10 minutes into the next work day. ;)
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
I'd venture to bet its pretty significant, and i'll bet whatever provider they were using is scrambling right now.
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
dont have to shut it down entirely, just block twitters shortcodes and numbers.
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
i mean you could just pay the tax penalty? and how do some companies get away with stockpiling billions? Apple, Berkshire, as examples.
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
ebay did too. :( i know a number of people that derive decent income from those affiliate channels that are scrambling right about now.
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
I would disagree, the free market is working just fine. Many brands are no longer selling on Amazon and doing very well. We don't need laws to restrict one party from taking advantage of another in a deal... it just takes brains and so
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
so did a lot of retailers. Walmart, Target, REI, every major grocery chain, etc. have all done it. IMHO, this is just business as usual, not sure why it's worth pointing out that Amazon did it when others have been doing the same for y
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
FWIW: Perl, 1987. PHP & Java, 1995.
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by mtnGoat 7y ago
I feel like its a myth... no one i know works in a place where anyone can walk into the CEOs office, be brutally honest and not have some time of blowback in one way or another(or really any level). All those who tried have not faired well.

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