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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I tried to open an account a while back as there were a lot of coders on Twitter that I wanted to follow. I almost immediately shut the account down due to 1) the utterly broken search and 2) the sheer number of 'suggested' accoun
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Not at all. It means that the account was using fake accounts and/or bots to help spread information that was viewed to be false.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I am basing it on the article. If the company had proof of the claims I would assume that they would publish them or detail them to the people writing the article. In the absence of anything to back it up then one has to treat it as an unte
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Or "claims are untested in court" is a common disclaimer in Canada
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I get it now
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
That would probably be the case. Its not unknown for companies to get funding on those sorts of conditions.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I think it is just that the upper management doesn't value the time or feelings of their employees. They could have done the meetings virtually on an individual basis or in smaller groups. They just didn't want to spend the time t
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I would also like to point out that there is no actual proof that there was the type of employee shenanigans he talks about. He also says "The 43-year-old CEO said that the “market has changed” and that the company had to lose weight i
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
So did the managers for those people get fired first?
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
It is also heavily automated. I used to work for a company that sold a document management package that was integrated with a variety of high speed scanners with OCR and for a time almost all of the new business was with US banks wanting to
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
> tbf they're fairly competent with it, I don't think I've ever had anything Google related compromised. It doesn't need to be compromised. The biggest ad and ad tracking company in the world has all that data.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I get the feeling that we could all just copy and paste our comments from the last Electron post. I doubt anyone is going to chance their mind about it. It is the jQuery of cross-platform development.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
And I can't do that with any of the Electron apps that I use with the exception of Nota which just sits in the background not doing anything since it is a text editor. If I keep Tabby open for too long it starts to spike the CPU and I
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I wish writers would stop using overdone intros like this "Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 5 years..." I see this sort of thing and I just want to stop reading. Only worse is "This isn't your father&#
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Ask HN: Best Mac browser for web development
2 points by pixelgeek 5y ago|2 comments
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
So two questions for the groupmind here. 1) I asked this previously but is it really that difficult to take a screenshot on Windows? "Vivaldi’s built-in Capture tool lets you capture either a Full Page screenshot, or a Selection of the
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
No it isn't. Ads are their core business. Those crap sites almost all run ads from Google
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
If you are using Safari, the DevonAgent app[1] that was linked to in another thread also has a denylist feature [1]: https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonagent
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Just wanted to pop into this thread again. I was watching some videos last night on my iPad using this extension and the quality of the videos was much better. Not sure what YouTube is doing but overall my viewing experience was much better
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Just trying it out and it is much better than doing a direct search on google
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I think that if the company doing the search results wasn't also the company getting money from SEO spammers posting ads on their websites then the search results might be better.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I use it regularly but it is getting to be unreliable for technical searches. I often have to resort to using google when trying to track down information about programming problems.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
It must be a recent thing as well as I recall being able to get good results from them last year at Xmas when I was searching for some science books for the kids. This year my searches got absolute garbage in return.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Me too. Some search results are just filled with junk not matter how you qualify your search
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
This pretty much sums it up. The amount of crap and plagiarized content in most searches is what is killing most search results. Google makes money regardless of the quality or 'originality' of the content your search comes up wit
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I am quite serious in my praise for this blog. It is breathtaking. I disagree with almost everything he says but I am still reading it.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
So the opposite of using your money to promote civil society and fund education is to help steal elections?
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
That depends on whether the original post was about the book review or about him :-) I think you are correct though that I am wildly off-topic but when one discovers something like this you really need to point it out.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
> They failed the public along numerous basic metrics and that doesn't change simply because this author may or may not be an asshole. Asshat. I think he has far too much understanding of his basic character flaws and limitations to
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
> Because there was no new evidence... But there was. The WHO recommendations, which I assume is what he is referring to, were based initially on data that suggested an non-aerosol transmission and then evidence was produced that lead to

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