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by rapind 5y ago
In my early 20s I played an MMO called Asherons Call. I discovered a vendor in one high level area that would sell bows for less than a specific vendor in a low level area would buy them, netting you a small margin per bow. Being a programm
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by rapind 5y ago
It sounds kind of funny to say “this should be in a config, not in code, but here’s a config language that lets you code your config”. Regardless, I don’t think Dhali was around at the time Quirks.cpp was created. Funny story, my first expo
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by rapind 5y ago
I’m not sure whether or not what you’re saying about jaw scientists (that a thing?) thinking they knew everything is true, but regardless, the fact that we are able to adapt to new discoveries and discuss them seems positive, not negative.
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by rapind 5y ago
Yeah I don’t mean to give megacorps a free pass either. I just think it’s in our nature to collectively ruin most things that start out great… and like you say, blame everyone else.
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by rapind 5y ago
I dunno. I’m no libertarian, but we should still take some reasonable level of responsibility as parents. I’d be fine with some negative PR resulting in big warning labels. Like power tools you’d have to be an idiot to let your young childr
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by rapind 5y ago
Nah Google and Amazon both have an army of lobbyists.
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by rapind 5y ago
I’m of the (unpopular?) opinion that users ruined the internet, and not megacorps. For example is google crappy now because they just don’t care or is it really all the “content marketing” that did it? I suspect any forum that gains signifi
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by rapind 5y ago
You know that if you really did just keep up the pace of new art and enjoyed it as a side project you might have a sustainable business in a few years stress free… or you could go the marketing route and possibly end up eventually hating th
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by rapind 5y ago
Reddit is intentional though. They really, really, really want you to use their app instead. [Daily Standup] “Hey guys, you know how we need more user data to monetize but no one wants to use our crappy app? Why not just make the website ho
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by rapind 5y ago
While I’m sure there’s some portion of developers who are ready to jump to google and Facebook tools right away, I doubt it’s a majority. There have been a lot of misses from these companies. Some big wins for sure, but it’s definitely not
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by rapind 5y ago
Sounds like an unsustainable business model. Why should we care? Set the rules / laws that are good for society at large and let them figure out how to make a profit or fail IMO. When it comes to big tech I keep seeing people try to so
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by rapind 5y ago
Except they aren’t cheap at all (even if they should be) and the defence contractors building them aren’t exactly doing an awesome job for all that money. Remember this? https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126102247889095011
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by rapind 5y ago
This is concerning. We were considering a move to DO from Huroku to save quite a few $, but I’m thinking AWS now. I dislike the convoluted mess of a UI that AWS presents, but this happening would be way worse.
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by rapind 5y ago
I’ll add that m1 macs have been a shit show for external monitor support (ymmv but google it and you’ll find thousand page long support issues). It’s either rocket science to get monitors to work flawlessly or it’s the B team working on it.
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by rapind 5y ago
Pretty sure it's not a "drop in the bucket" (somewhere around 20% I read?). There's also a massive opportunity cost when you consider the profit to be made from an arms race in the middle east should the US treat all cou
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by rapind 5y ago
Really, all you need is a subtle suggestion to the Israeli government that the hundred billions or so dollars they receive from the US every year might be impacted by continued NSO bad publicity.
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by rapind 5y ago
Is it really Exxon that’s the problem? Consumption is something we as a species seem evolved to do.
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by rapind 5y ago
Support costs need to be factored in too. Free customers can often have an enormous customer support cost. They'll send emails to sales@company.com if they can't find a support email with questions along the lines of "How do
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by rapind 5y ago
I disagree. I can't see how this is a dark pattern / trick. They are just saying if you want to participate in the trial they need to validate that you're serious about it. If you don't like these upfront terms, then you
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by rapind 5y ago
How is this a dark or “grey“ pattern. Are they being sneaky about it? At most it could be a signal that a business intends to be a douche, but that’s only because douchey companies ruined it. Just like duchey free customers ruined that for
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by rapind 5y ago
I wonder why "space" wasn't always simply treated as another character. To save a couple bytes back in the 50s (when it mattered) I assume?
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by rapind 5y ago
I think a big problem with CSS is the assumed best practice of starting with the abstraction / module (stylesheet) instead of starting inline and refactoring out like you’d do when coding in any other language. It creates paralysis an
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by rapind 5y ago
But terrorists! Pedophiles!
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by rapind 5y ago
> I know we're on a google is evil thread, but not literally everything they're involved with is a conspiracy. 100% agree, and yet one of the downsides of their recently exposed behaviour is an erosion of trust in everything th
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by rapind 5y ago
> I'm not sure fining a company billions of dollars and putting executives in jail is the outcome anyone really wants if a 17 year old uses Tinder. Honestly, why not? If society deems that illegal, and the enablers are responsible,
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by rapind 5y ago
Probably not a bad idea to draw more attention to it regardless. Whether it's Walmart, Amazon, Costco, etc. If anyone can do it then they all MUST do it to compete. If we bring the hammer down on Amazon then we'll have to (ideally
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by rapind 5y ago
I don't personally run into either of these issues at all working with Elm code (significant whitespace language) in vim. Having your indentation wrong is basically the same as ending your parens in the wrong place isn't it? Not s
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by rapind 5y ago
> At some point, companies will simply not purchase the goods if they can't truck it economically or will look for alternatives. I don't know why you were downvoted. Maybe people assumed a political position, but AFAICT you&#x2
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by rapind 5y ago
You're right. An alternative route to success could be IAP. :(
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by rapind 5y ago
I agree in principal, but there are a couple big problems with this argument. 1) This only works if everyone starts at the same line. Obviously not the case while there's a huge variance in inheritance, education, influence, opportunit

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