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by rickmb 14y ago
"Smaller hosts" like this are imho companies that sell a service they are fundamentally unable of actually maintaining. And they are usually not very transparent about it.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Throwing the victim under the bus is standard procedure for third rate hosters. Doing it without notice is even worse. Only if the brand is "we're el cheapo hosting cowboys" it's the right decision.
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by rickmb 14y ago
US schools have a much broader social role than schools in Europe, and therefor tend to form a social universe of their own. In Europe virtually all activities that are not directly related to being in a classroom happen outside the school,
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by rickmb 14y ago
Seems to me that from being an immigrant nation the US has become the Western country that is the hardest to immigrate to.
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by rickmb 14y ago
How to be a "good" boss very much depends on the people and the circumstances. There's really only one constant: clarity. Even if the boss's style is authoritarian micromanagement, which most people on HN won't feel comfortable with, if sai
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by rickmb 14y ago
This. It's never a matter of "what" but "when" and "how".
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by rickmb 14y ago
You live in a dreamworld. Sorry to be so blunt, but grow the fuck up. People change. People's lives changes. People who fit into your narrow little culture now will grow out of it in a few years time. But they are still your "friends", they
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by rickmb 14y ago
Stalking is illegal, for obvious reasons. Online stalking is equally illegal, for equally obvious reasons. Just because said stalking is automated, used for commercial purposes and has been renamed with cool souding euphemisms doesn't sudde
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by rickmb 14y ago
As far as I understand it, this still means that the copyright mafia needs a court order to get the info. The EU case was about whether or not a court can give such an order at all. And the answer is, yes they can, if the law ensures a dece
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by rickmb 14y ago
Which is a typical way of reversing the argument. The whole point of copyright and the free market is to do exactly that: to have as the end result consumers that can get what they want at an affordable price whilst allowing the original cr
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by rickmb 14y ago
"more hours out of us" This is the red flag. They may genuinely need more productivity, but any company that thinks it can get more productivity out of devs by letting them work more hours is being fundamentally mismanaged. Long hours are v
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by rickmb 14y ago
Bullshit. Films are expensive to make because the costs are driven up to insane levels (who decided actors, producers and studio-execs should make millions on just one movie?), and because the huge profit margins encourage gambling rather t
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by rickmb 14y ago
Not going to work for a very simple reason, regardless of the complexity of licensing: making a copy is easier. No registration, no licensing, no DRM, no intermediate, just you and the person that has a copy of the other song. The very esse
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by rickmb 14y ago
What I have heard from various people is that conference attendees in the US tend to be much more focused on socializing, whereas in Europe most people will attend the sessions and then go home. But shorter travel distances may also be a fa
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by rickmb 14y ago
There is something extremely fishy going on in the Court of The Hague. BREIN (which is just a local front for the MPAA and RIAA, since NL barely has a movie/recording industry of it's own, and what there is is barely affected by piracy) has
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by rickmb 14y ago
Although the main character in this drama will never be Miss Congeniality, the systematic and largely undocumented attacks on her character on HN leave a very bad taste in my mouth. This "discussion" feels like a witch hunt.
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by rickmb 14y ago
It still covers virtually unrestricted privacy violations. For anyone who considers privacy a civil right, this bill is still insane. The whole notion of encouraging companies to violate people's privacy and sharing information with the gov
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by rickmb 15y ago
The software should already be there, I've seen it mentioned many times over the years. If one of those software producers would provide an API (something similar to Automattic's Akismet for spam) I'm sure there's money to be made in sellin
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by rickmb 15y ago
I don't think it would. Because part of racing is gambling on the other driver to back off when fighting for position. And when I say "gambling", there are a lot of very human factors involved in trying to figure out an opponents likely beh
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by rickmb 15y ago
'In Toronto, they could marry, but they couldn’t rent an apartment together as landlords were afraid of “trouble."' A bit off-topic, but I'm somewhat shocked by this (and my own ignorance). I know about the US, but this was an issue in Ca
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by rickmb 15y ago
This trend of people complaining about the perfectly innocent and common use of swearing is getting pretty lame. Especially combined with the unfounded accusation that there is some kind of deliberate, manipulative intent behind it. What on
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by rickmb 15y ago
So instead of complaining about a fascist employer, you make the effort to complain about someone using common language, ignoring the utter insanity of a company filtering access to words on the internet. I can think of certain phrase to de
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by rickmb 15y ago
If you call that "not looking very far back in time" (and I agree with that), no approach was ever as brutal as nuking entire cities. But that's besides the point. In my opinion, the US is historically one of the most destructive "empires",
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by rickmb 15y ago
I would like to add one thing to that: Process is necessary, but it should never be the solution . This is where people tend to wrong at the very start. Any attempt to implement Agile (or any other method) with the illusion that process ca
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by rickmb 15y ago
This kind of somewhat understandable but ultimately clueless ranting just tells me one thing: no way in hell I'm ever going to trust a programmer who cannot (or can not be bothered to) distinguish between marketing bullshit and the real thi
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by rickmb 15y ago
But then again, putting ads on web pages is already a matter of "Ah ha! I fooled you into downloading ads by offering you content! TAKE THAT!" As far as I'm concerned, putting ads on web pages has always been an intrusive an deceitful busin
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by rickmb 15y ago
The initial process of mentoring takes considerably more time and effort than doing it yourself, and it can feel like a waste of time if the "merely proficient" never reach the level of competence you have. It may be the best thing to do un
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by rickmb 15y ago
I am always shocked by the fact that people equate a negative view of Roma/Gitanos with racism. Disliking a parasitic culture that fosters the notion that it is okay to steal from "others" is not racism since it a) has nothing to do with ra
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by rickmb 15y ago
I'm afraid the statement that "every programmer tests code" is not a fact . Not by a long shot. In fact the vast majority of bugs are the result of not testing changes at all , in any way shape or form. Committing code changes without eve
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by rickmb 15y ago
I have found that people who announce things the along the lines of "now it's serious business, the fun is over" are a) the least creative people who are only comfortable in a predictable, well organized world and are quietly praying for th

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