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by nebabyte 10y ago
And why not? Can trivially construct a toolbox of known-good variants of 'standard' words, and think of synonyms for nonstandard words as you go, to string into minimal-but-functional-communication. Simply a function of your... uh
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by nebabyte 10y ago
That's... just a hacky workaround... Imo such would warrant a distinct class of "non-format" strings, just for that noun class; that you might talk about it as-is without violation? Or for purists... commonalization of a part
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Touché. Though at least I was closer than he was :)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation) Tbf, I think their target for Connect is services that wo
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by nebabyte 10y ago
What you're essentially describing is the blind trust people think they can put in a brand name, applied to a store. I like and use Safeway, but I would hardly fault them if they carried something I didn't thoroughly check out if
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Because it erodes trust in the platform, obviously. Would you buy something from a website if you were concerned it might be counterfeit? It just seems like it'd lead to exactly this kind of effect (quoting another user from above
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Square pegs don’t fit in round holes, but what if you have power tools? Plastic fumes :( > But it doesn’t have to be this way! In this post, we present a technique that we use for intelligent cropping: a fully automatic method that
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by nebabyte 10y ago
This is basically the opposite of antitrust. In fact, it's one of the few instances of capitalism actually working the way it "works" on paper.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
points to post because you will :)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> It's definitely doable, but you'll need to heavily fine-tune your queries Misrepresentation; then it's not actually over 120 million rows. You're basically encoding which subset to actually search in the query, rath
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Why would that matter to him as a businessman. Awards are attention for the works you're creating, equating to more money. If some "better" award came along tomorrow which had the same implications, he'd be tracking thos
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> If members of an organization want a resolution passed anyone should be able to propose it - and if the magic threshold is met - then whala - the resolution is law. ...You just described the legislative branch. Direct democracy has its
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Why would Amazon have an interest in dealing with counterfeits? It just primes the market for them moving in with their brand of the thing.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
WIOIP (Wedding Invite over IP)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Seriously. you can message, voice chat, call, video call, order plane tickets, split bills, order stuff online, buy movie tickets, pay utility bills, share photo's like FB timewall, create publics chatrooms, pay in physical stores
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by nebabyte 10y ago
I thought I remembered reading something about apple frowning on apps-within-apps? I guess Wechat either sidesteps it by having everything be a 'profile' effectively just making it a chat app interfacing to other apps? Or maybe ap
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> WeChat is lightyears ahead of what the west can offer , in terms of product. It has many many useful features and is smooth, reliable As a westerner, is there like a list of such use cases to help get the point across? The things I&#x2
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> It has become a commonplace that WeChat is incredible, and everyone over here wants to build it. By expanding their platforms into other tasks that other people already know how to do better, do competitively, and have a greater mindsh
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> For programmers, the ultimate office perk will vary depending on which programmer you ask
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Those aren't unwritten.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
And I'm just saying, the ideal of "don't know, don't care" can't purport to be upheld when analyses like these enter into "people X and people Y do Z to what degree". You can't have it both way
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by nebabyte 10y ago
So? If the software they develop is superior, use it. If not, don't. If you're so concerned about "who has power", either do a better job or learn to live with the tools they give you.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
"Does whatever it takes to get the job done" https://xkcd.com/705/
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by nebabyte 10y ago
I know a few prisoners who could help with that...
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> or the FAQ needs to be edited No matter how simple you try and keep a point, there will still always be someone who misses it. I used to think this was just an extension of the "trying to idiotproof/universe builds a better i
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Communities have always worked as a disorganized sum aggregate of people people wish to interact with.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> > So if and only if Larry did not violate the Code of Conduct, then apologize to Larry and rescind your request to remove himself from the community (if there was a violation, provide the details to Larry and confirm to the public)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
So then how do you deal with people with such beliefs in your society? Do you shun them, throw slurs at them? What happens when one moves in to be your next-door neighbor? Do you try moving to places without them? Intolerance of beliefs is
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by nebabyte 10y ago
The person in charge "Well who gets to decide who's in charge" Whoever takes charge. It's like they're missing the point of OSS. If you don't like who's in charge, remix and make your own. Whoever is the m
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> It's GamerGate type shit all over again [...] it's a group of misdirected, misguided, uneducated, incompatible, unaccepting, pig-headed SJW-type individuals steering the dialogue regarding Drupal remember when it just used to

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