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by rickmb 14y ago
> If Rodrigo wants to hit deadlines all he needs to do is increase his estimates. It's usually easier to teach someone how to game the managerial system than it is to teach someone to code. This is what so many developers don't seem to
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by rickmb 14y ago
I have one suggestion for you: stop blaming everyone else. The law itself is just fine. It's insufficient in itself, but so is the law making theft illegal. If you use Google Analytics and third party social widgets, you're aiding and abe
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by rickmb 14y ago
I nearly stopped reading after the second sentence, and I definitely stopped after your first "argument". I don't want to be stalked, period. Not turning cookies off should not mean I immediately relinquish my rights, just like I don't reli
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by rickmb 14y ago
And this illustrates exactly why I haven't taken most of the attacks on Apple seriously up to now. Hatred an bigotry aren't "purely political". The fact that certain sick fucks leverage those sentiment for political gain doesn't change that
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by rickmb 14y ago
As an Apple fanboy, I've been able to rationalize everything Apple has done concerning the app-store up to now, even if I personally would have like to have seen a way more open and liberal approach. And the overblown anti-Apple FUD, using
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by rickmb 14y ago
And we have a huge bike theft issue that's been going on for decades. Keep looking... Seriously, the only things that have somewhat alleviated the problem is better locks and guarded bike parking facilities.
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by rickmb 14y ago
The problem once again is copyright. If copyright hadn't been in the way, there would no DRM, and plenty of neutral services to solve this problem. Right now, if you can't even freely share stuff between the living in your own household, yo
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by rickmb 14y ago
Not really. Take the patent system away, and all Apple has is a nice market share, a fat war chest and it's own ability to produce interesting products. Apple has taken the posture of the 800lb gorilla with a questionable legal maneuver, le
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by rickmb 14y ago
This illustrates exactly why PHP projects often become such an unmaintainable mess and security hole. This looks like an example collection of PHP worst practices. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with untestable code and unfiltered inp
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by rickmb 14y ago
Looks exactly like a common recruitment event.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Emotional? I have absolutely nothing invested in this, and I can objectively observe that Twitter are being dicks. Also, the apologist's response "it makes business sense" doesn't offset the fact that it is a dick move. I find it odd and so
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by rickmb 14y ago
Agile attacks are almost always clueless, ill-informed and incoherent rants such as this one. There's a lot of valid and interesting criticism of particular Agile methodologies and practices, but full frontal attacks on Agile in general are
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by rickmb 14y ago
Come on, most users outside the US are perfectly used to a plethora of international TLD's. It's something they are quite familiar with. Also, they either use the English version of the OS and browser, or the one in their language, and both
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by rickmb 14y ago
Really? The country I'm visiting from says nothing definitive about my language of choice. Absolutely nothing. Choosing google.com instead of google.nl however is a clear choice. Setting the preferred language of my browser is an even more
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by rickmb 14y ago
> Google is making the (accurate) calculation that over 99% of people coming from a Japanese IP address whose computer says "Accept-Language: en-gb;q=0.9, en;q=0.7" are actually Japanese speakers of Japanese Google is making the (comple
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by rickmb 14y ago
This kind of thing pisses me off regularly. Google is one of the worst offenders, completely ignoring browser language preferences. But American websites in general are awful at this. They completely ignore local diversity and sensitivities
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by rickmb 14y ago
You both realize you're only emphasizing one of the main reasons why the US educations system isn't well regarded?
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by rickmb 14y ago
> Now the entire world is participating The entire world has been "participating" for centuries, long before the US even existed. You may have picked up on that in your life outside the US.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Wow. If I were Pad, I would at the very least get legal advice the minute I saw that. It may be without the bounds of what is legal, but it is certainly unethical, and it pretty much voids anything the OP wrote about this. This isn't a brav
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by rickmb 14y ago
This is the one reason why I will always continue to take RMS very seriously, no matter how annoying he gets. Also, since he is not just a prophet of doom but has spend a major part of his life trying to turn the tide, creating and inspirin
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by rickmb 14y ago
There are no charges yet either. We're deep into "if you repeat it often enough people will believe it's true" territory.
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by rickmb 14y ago
$5.74 in The Netherlands. Still a steal, but the painful part of this kind of opaque discriminatory pricing is that I would have bought it if it was $6 everywhere, but now I have to start wondering if I'm getting screwed (again( for being i
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by rickmb 14y ago
The title is completely misleading, given that Wozniak concedes: “Every freedom we have in the United States, every one of them, was given to us by congressional regulation. It’s called the Bill of Rights. That is what gives us our freedom
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by rickmb 14y ago
This whole thing can be reduced to "people who engage in idle gossip are generally speaking not the sharpest pencils in the box". Most people with half a brain just kept their mouth shut, so there's really no way to draw any conclusion abou
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by rickmb 14y ago
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with alcohol specifically. As a European, I've always gotten the feeling that corporate America has been trying to ban almost any kind of potentially disruptive but generally perfectly normal social a
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by rickmb 14y ago
So basically the argument is that if you are the "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" kind of developer, you should use Go as hammer instead of PHP. I don't think so. Not to mention the unfounded and insulting assump
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by rickmb 14y ago
Providing payment services to structural crowdfunding efforts is a legal grey area when it comes to financial regulations. Amazon is not the first to suspend taking on such accounts until they have better grip on the regulatory implications
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by rickmb 14y ago
"Do Not Track" should not be a default in a browser. It should be the default for every individual in a free country, from birth. The fact that I'm living, breathing human being with a right to privacy should already be enough to imply that
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by rickmb 14y ago
You don't start with using a lock either. You start with the general consensus that stealing is socially unacceptable, and you make it illegal. Which is exactly what will inevitably happen with tracking unless tracking with permission becom
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by rickmb 14y ago
I think it's slightly ironic that you present the "know it all" complex as trait that hackers suffer from, given that the OP refers to a post made by a designer that is a prime example of such behavior. This trait is far from unique among

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