richthegeek

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by richthegeek 7y ago
I see - it came across as Whataboutism in a thread that is already somewhat brigaded by pro-China agents. Apologies if this was not the intention.
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by richthegeek 7y ago
QED https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20916595
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by richthegeek 7y ago
I suppose if he wanted to donate to a diversity campaign, he'd donate to one directly. Wikipedia is a big one for this: the donation campaign is all about 'keeping our servers running', and then huge chunks of the spending go
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by richthegeek 7y ago
Presumably a C-level is expected not to be satisfied with stepping down to a 'lesser' position, especially if those in charge of hiring at bigcos are the types who aspire to C-level status and thus see a rejection of C-level statu
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by richthegeek 7y ago
So if nothing else it's shockingly bad semantics. If Android called them Turds, would that be any better or worse semantically?
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by richthegeek 7y ago
That only works if everyone does it. At the moment some people develop only for Chrome because it has the most market share. So they deploy their site using the <toast> thing and suddenly people using Firefox are wondering why things
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by richthegeek 7y ago
SE are not working class. At best they are at the top end of the middle range, and generally above 100k is considered 'upper middle'.
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by richthegeek 7y ago
I've just completed an interview process (waiting for the decision) that was explicitly "this is a real problem we have", but also stating that I'll be paid for 8 hours work. I have no problem with that. It took about th
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by richthegeek 8y ago
Are these not just "a block of flats" in British parlance? Buildings with 5+ floors containing a variety of single-floor homes between 300 and 1000sqft are the way most people live in British cities.
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by richthegeek 8y ago
"very rude locals that refuse to speak in english" ... say that again, but slowly. They are Spanish. They live in Spain. They speak either Spanish or Catalan and have no obligation to speak English to you. It's "very rud
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by richthegeek 8y ago
MVNOs are usually on tight margins, and they usually don't have much bargaining power against their parent network. So it's not unlikely for a network to price in some anti-messenger effects. And from personal experience, there ar
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by richthegeek 8y ago
I'm not sure how regional this is, but at least around the North of England that'd be interpreted as someone saying they were trying to avoid something.
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by richthegeek 8y ago
https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation... One of the design decisions was to avoid ambiguous characters, so that cuts out at least 9 (I1L 0OB8).
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by richthegeek 8y ago
I don't think he means banned by ICANN, but my the people sending the email themselves. I know plenty of registration forms that have disallowed temporary mailbox services. I think MailChimp etc. also ban them?
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by richthegeek 8y ago
Could you use git modules? Keep your distinct repos and have a monorepo that updates are PRed into?
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by richthegeek 8y ago
I can use Google for piracy, should that be blocked as well? Search for "NameOfMovie watch online free" and either the top links will be just that or the "DMCA Blocked" link at the bottom will be another website containi
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by richthegeek 8y ago
I find that once Youtube thinks you want divisive content, it serves it up to you pretty regularly. As an example, I have plenty of "X riles up SJWs" type videos and also their counterpart "X angers sexist Gamergaters" d
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by richthegeek 8y ago
I'm a software developer with 6 years professional experience on all facets of the web stack, from pure frontend SPAs to backend resilient data-processing systems. Looking for a new challenge in an exciting team, leaning more towards f
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by richthegeek 9y ago
It would be useless for private organisations - the entire purpose is to make ephemeral chat publicly available to search engines. Slack might cut it off, but they gain nothing by doing it.
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by richthegeek 9y ago
So would there be a use-case for a combined bot+app that you can connect some storage to (S3, FTP) which archives all channel message history in a searchable form? It could make it visible to search engines, searchable by humans, linkable t
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by richthegeek 9y ago
Or the really good old days when 97% worked in agriculture...
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by richthegeek 9y ago
The article was very clear that she not simply open to criticism but has done more, by her industry-driven policy decisions, to damage the environment than any other person. Literally, the worst. It's not a secondary claim; it's t
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by richthegeek 9y ago
Hopefully this doesn't lead to some overblown moral panic for an issue that is almost non-existent. Photographers already have to be incredibly careful when shooting anywhere children (even fully clothed, rather than at a swimming pool
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by richthegeek 9y ago
If that's your only concern, leading commas are a solution.
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by richthegeek 9y ago
All 7 of them!
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by richthegeek 9y ago
We just wrote something similar, using RabbitMQ ( https://github.com/richthegeek/beatrix ) as the main manager for things. Seems like retries and delays are not part of this, but I guess they are added easily enough to t
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by richthegeek 9y ago
That seems complicated, fragile, and bad for performance in a DOM. Event bindings are slow (or at least, used to be). I don't know the purpose unbinding mousedown on mousedown - it only fires once per mousedown doesn't it? Why not
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by richthegeek 9y ago
The prediction they made wasn't "the next generation will be wiped out", it's always "the next generation is lazier, more narcissistic, less moral than us... and this will lead to them being 'worse' than u
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by richthegeek 9y ago
Interesting - I certainly would have raised that to support!
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by richthegeek 9y ago
Wow, I really am amazed how few consumer protections you seem to have! In the UK we're protected on two levels: firstly the "Distance Selling Regulation" means we have the right to cancel many contracts/purchases made no

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