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by rrix2 7y ago
https://lobste.rs/about#invitations > Invitations are used as a mechanism for spam-control, to slow registrations to a pace we can acculturate and to encourage users to be nice, not to make the Lobsters userbase an elite
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by rrix2 7y ago
There are like five people in this thread offering invites, it's not that hard.
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I'm curious what you use search for that often on a forum whose posting activity is largely temporal. Are people using HN etc as an info repository?
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by rrix2 7y ago
But where is the true Scotsman??
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by rrix2 7y ago
https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php http://www.olafsw.de/a-better-qt-because-of-open-source-and-...
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They demand an irrevocable worldwide license, with the ability to transfer the license and to sublicense according to to the text in the post you're replying to.
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by rrix2 7y ago
Their current behavior is no different in that regard AND is more confusing for internet users and business AND is based on the twisted "market price" of the search keywords
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by rrix2 7y ago
I stayed in an AirBnB that was like this recently, most frustrating experience I've had in a while. Thought i was losing my sanity when the lights turned on and fan spun up to high speed at 2:30 after I'd been out drinking... Left
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by rrix2 7y ago
Until recently I was working for a large startup where I would see this kind of behavior constantly . Join a inter-team developer-support channel, send a "I'm seeing errors from your service" and wait for you to respond. One
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by rrix2 7y ago
This is a dude's personal blog, why are you reading bad faith in to it like that?
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jwz's entire site checks your Referer header and does this if it comes from HN.
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by rrix2 7y ago
They may not matter as much for this particular scenario. Most of the conclusions I would draw wouldn't extend past independent projects with a small close knit team, or an individual project. Right now, I'm working on a piece of
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by rrix2 7y ago
Those are good points, for sure!
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by rrix2 7y ago
That sounds like what wirecutter.com does these days across a pretty wide selection of product categories. Just got a new pillow through them after drowning in Amazon reviews looking for a good side sleeping pillow.
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by rrix2 7y ago
Thanks!
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This version doesn't support INSERTing the solution from the web. https://mystery.knightlab.com does, though, and provides some guidance out the door. Fun little thing, thanks!
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by rrix2 7y ago
And the only reason businesses still use email is Google's development of advanced and almost effective content moderation.
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by rrix2 7y ago
Live too live in a debt based society!
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by rrix2 7y ago
Not regulated well enough, imo, MasterCard is already willing to sell data to these same actors: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17801880/google-mastercar...
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by rrix2 7y ago
Vim has a syntax highlighter with little of the functionality that raises Org-mode above, say, markdown.
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by rrix2 7y ago
Except that they'd be hung by their toes if they were caught doing that.
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I had no idea that code vulnerability and bugs was a thing lennart invented, too!
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I worked at Uber 2014-2019 and things started to feel unstable long before his ouster and long before all the chaos preceding it. His mother's tragic passing and his subsequent resignation were when the cards finished falling, but they
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I think it's far too early to call CK a success.
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He did a lot of things poorly, but running a small and nimble company wasn't one of them, tbh. His house of cards only really started to fall when Uber grew like crazy.
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Is this why Firefox for Android will occasionally have non-dimissable media control notifications load on web sites which don't have audio? The amount of times I've had to force-close after opening a NY Times link is infuriating
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Not everyone is willing or able to Leetcode in the office restrooms to "brush up"
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SESTA/FOSTA led to large changes in content moderation strategies for a bunch of sites outsizedly effecting the edges of LGBTQ communities ... EDIT: Sources in-text since i'm already being downvoted: https://en.wikipedi
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by rrix2 7y ago
On the subject of Seattle, there are county transit busses which go to some trailheads: https://trailheaddirect.org/
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Its nearly the exact opposite in fact

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