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by p3rls 2y ago
Lol, when GDPR came out one of our euro devs was threatening to walk out if we didn't put a banner up because he thought he'd be personally fined. Now it's obvious of course.
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by p3rls 2y ago
If you think of technical and nontechnical as a spectrum, the types of nontechnical people in 1999 that were online were miles ahead of today's nontechnicals. And there was only so much to learn, too, at least as far as web development
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by p3rls 2y ago
I have a bunch of annoying spammers from India that keep coming to my webapp and try to annoy users about buying their Brother printer cartridges. I've always wondered how the economics of that work.
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Godspeed, running a consumer app in these niches is the hardest thing you can do and many people here just run their mouths without building anything that gets used by actual people.
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For me it alternates between mind-numbing and mind-blowing the models of political violence people hold. It's one of the refreshing things about the crazy rightoids of late, how they emphasize how their larp revolution will cash out an
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by p3rls 2y ago
Happens to the best of us
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by p3rls 2y ago
What a confusing world you must live in being unable to discern cause and effect
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It's crazy people don't understand the web didn't die-- it was killed to prioritize r/SEO scammer-type content from the subcontinent. I've been building websites my whole life, but my main niche is music, and one of
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Some Tips from Eight Years in the Webapp Trenches(kpopping.substack.com)
2 points by p3rls 2y ago|1 comments
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Author/owner of said webapp here happy to answer any questions
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by p3rls 2y ago
it's true, you can always tell a product that is loved from a product that grew up without it. i'd add as a caveat that your users probably will not be able to tell the difference and it will break your heart if you care about the
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by p3rls 2y ago
Lol that logo is so ridiculous and one of the reasons no one in labor takes the left seriously
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Of course, though I got swatted for defacing another group's page and not stealing credit cards. And honestly I never even used my card stash anyway and I had thousands and thousands-- not because I'm a good person or whatever but
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by p3rls 2y ago
Eh, I run an ad-supported website that employs and has had to fire people because of adblocker fluctuations before. I would kill to get a few regular sponsors and not need an ad platform but I've been literally able to only find one sp
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by p3rls 2y ago
Yeah it was all fun and games until someone pulls an AOL staff account on ya, looks up your address and proto-swats your home address
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by p3rls 2y ago
Eh, their lives aren't at risk at the rates of actual blue collar professions like logging, roofing etc. and these jobs have lower prestige and benefits as well. A little tax-payer funded training in the form of practice runs doesn&#x2
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by p3rls 2y ago
In the spirit of the tangent because you know contemporary success is vanity and you should aim at what's eternal. The western tradition is filled with admonitions since the Greeks about these things-- Seneca's letter 7 "on c
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by p3rls 2y ago
When I was a teen these types hung out on IRC and even AOL in chatrooms like "progs" to trade credit card numbers. Young people and operational security doesn't exist.
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by p3rls 2y ago
The "rationalization" tendency in politics at least goes back beyond McNamara to early progressives, like Robert Moses who reformed Tammany Hall with a technocratic approach that only won him scorn from progressives of the more mo
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by p3rls 2y ago
Won't someone think of the 50-year-old office workers?
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by p3rls 2y ago
It's interesting because the left hates the Atlantic because of its neoliberal, capitalist-class owners that spawned things like 20 years of cheerleading for wars in the middle east and hiring David Frum "axis of evil" types
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by p3rls 2y ago
Larping the larpers.
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by p3rls 2y ago
It's kpopping.com
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by p3rls 2y ago
Imagine they put down "a fourth" which sounds more natural and grammarly or its human rendition swapped it for more precision. Definitely awkward.
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by p3rls 2y ago
What my mind went to, how could someone forget to use a search engine, especially one that is supposedly so much better than Google for a whole month?
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by p3rls 2y ago
I spent eight years and I'm around -$150,000 for my main webapp so you're ahead of the curve!
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by p3rls 2y ago
Are you thinking of frontline roles? No active duty women would be absurd, but I am not familiar with this Hegseth or whatever his name is I suppose it's possible
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You're a retard.
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Sometimes I don't know who has a worse idea of history, the right and its spartans or the left and literally everything.
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Is the link supposed to go to a slideshow?

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