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by randomdude402 6y ago
Good luck convincing anybody that moving crypto through their bank is going to enable them to avoid taxes. Their has always been a shadow economy, and it runs on cash.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
I'm interested to know more about this. I've used about five different e-commerce solutions and they all make API calls to shipping providers. What was different here?
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by randomdude402 6y ago
That's very true on Facebook, and it's true that Facebook is the dominant online destination so far as numbers go. There are still regular old forums for a lot of hobbies and interests though, and even on here people can use handl
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by randomdude402 6y ago
This is unfortunately the truth of the situation. I spent way too much time writing scrapers for Zillow and Redfin to guide home purchasing decisions, only to find out half the stuff listed for sale had been under contract for weeks, places
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by randomdude402 6y ago
When people started trying to pressure me to use Venmo, my research at the time led me to the conclusion that it offers no guarantee of fraud protection either. Just like PayPal before it, it's not a bank and doesn't have to follo
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by randomdude402 6y ago
I thought the atmosphere was mostly carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. What makes it potentially high value?
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Advertisers can choose to advertise to customers that fall into various buckets. Income, gender, location, recent history of viewing specific types of pages, etc. This is what I mean by limited form of access. Advertisers do not receive use
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by randomdude402 6y ago
They don't sell the golden goose. They rent a limited form of access to it.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
That's probably accurate, but if 20 people apply for a position and one gets hired, is it not accurate that nobody is scrutinizing some list of 19 reasons why 19 people didn't get the position? These kinds of things seem like ther
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by randomdude402 6y ago
I don't have the link handy, but I also remember their team posting about how the process of creating the underlines for their hyperlinks and thinking how interesting it was to see all the thought and process they had out into it.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
I've been thinking about putting something out there as well. I'll probably end up using Pelican since I'm a Python fan. As a side note, I can't believe how many people are salty that you don't want to use node. It
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Not OP, but asking for a static site generator implies simplicity. Node is pretty famous for generally having large dependency trees and churn with tooling. It doesn't seem that strange to want to avoid it for such a project.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
I am feeling suddenly inspired by this idea, so thanks!
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Somebody somewhere is probably running a calculator as an electron app that takes 10 seconds to open.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Similar here. I have no interest in contemporary startup culture, just visit for the occasional interesting technical nugget and discussion.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Nah. Google doesn't even let people log into their own email with alternative browsers, and they are doing fine.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Most sites don't subtract it from inventory until it's on a completed order. The main exceptions I can think of are venue and plane tickets, and hotel rooms. These might put a hold on a specific piece of inventory for a short time
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by randomdude402 6y ago
I used to build and manage ecomm sites. We had several manufacturers/brands that we had to agree not to openly display a retail price below a certain amount. Incidentally, for almost every brand in our industry, that number was 1.8X li
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by randomdude402 6y ago
The advertisers don't obtain the data. The articles that discuss this are always careful to use phrases like they "use" the data. They set up an ad campaign in Facebook or Google or another similar network, and they have to d
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Agree that there's a big difference between the error happening at compile time vs. happening at run time in prod, but I personally find the python stacktrace much more descriptive of how we got to the error than a lot of other languag
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by randomdude402 6y ago
These kinds of pieces are sort of accurate. I have run a lot of ad campaigns on Google and Facebook (I don't do this kind of work today), and if this kind of thing comes up in conversation, I like to say that anybody can set up an ad
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Yeah Python has its points where it doesn't shine, but the stacktrace does a consistently good job of telling you exactly where the logic broke down.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
As a person who chooses Python whenever it seems reasonable, I agree. Go, the language, is simple. Hard to argue with, and sounds great. The code I have to write though, it's quite simpler to do it in Python more often than not.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Is this especially a problem for GitHub, though? I had never suspected that people would use the site in this way.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
I regret only that I have but one upvote to give.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Fast, cheap, good. You can only ever choose two.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/gtnpcv/ysk_t...
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Google already has a bookmarking service at https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ I have stuff saved in there dating from 2007 to 2015. Used to use a Firefox extension to load them in the sidebar.
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by randomdude402 6y ago
why does that need to get sent to Utah and back, though? Why not a good old radio signal to a nearby device that displays the temperature?
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by randomdude402 6y ago
Most people I talk to or see online discussing their Digital Ocean usage just use their VPS. Yes they offer managed databases and kubernetes, but these are newer offerings. I of course don't know how well used they are, but I never see

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