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by rrwo 4y ago
You need logs of some form to know what users did, or tried to do. I'm not talking about 3rd party analytics.
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> Alternatively, you can just not track the behaviour of every person who lands on your website. Tracking behaviour is useful to ensure the site is working, that people are able to use the site and make purchases, or even to know what pa
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by rrwo 4y ago
There is a misunderstanding about GDPR and cookie consent that many people have. Using cookies to track state on a website, that is only used for that website, is fine. You don't need to ask for consent. That is how a site tracks thing
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by rrwo 4y ago
I worked in a office in late 1990s/early 2000s when it transitioned from Novell NetWare on DOS and Windows 3 to Windows 95 and 98 on the internet. People using the internet on their work machines added so many problems: - People spendi
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by rrwo 4y ago
I've seen computers improve lives At a former place of work the secretaries became experts at using Excel and even Access or Crystal Reports. I remember one had a beefy SQL book on her desk to make queries directly from the company&#x2
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by rrwo 4y ago
It's not an obsession, and the commit history isn't perfect by any means. But don't underestimate the value of a good commit history, especially if you are using git blame to understand a change from several years ago. Wading
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes, and in some parts of the world they are obligated to run background checks on their employees or contractors.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes. I've had this once when moving to a new city and arranging to have my medical records transferred. My new doctor read the snarky and incorrect internal notes to me.
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by rrwo 4y ago
I'm wondering if the decline after the mid-2000s isn't due to computers so much as the internet. Once somebody has an internet-connected computer at their desk, they have more distractions (from internal applications like email to
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by rrwo 4y ago
Interesting, but what about accents or non-English letters such as ø, þ pr ð? Also, considering that so much is written in Braille, how many people use this?
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by rrwo 4y ago
A better question is: what languages and frameworks do you prefer for developing web applications, and why.
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Parents cannot and should not be watching their teenaged children 24/7, and if they tried, the children would find ways to hide things from their parents. Most people find the parents that deny their children any privacy as abusive. It
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by rrwo 4y ago
Social media and ad networks are so short-term profit driven that the algorithms recommend things to kill off the very users that they are earning money off of. This system is broken.
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I'm very happy using Perl with web frameworks like Mojolicious, and database ORMs like DBIx::Class. You can get a working prototype up quickly, and recent versions of Perl along with OO libraries like Moo/Moose allow you to quickl
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> It alleges that, in 2020, Roblox connected a young girl called S.U. with adult men who abused her for months, manipulating her into sending payments using Roblox currency called Robux and inducing her to share explicit photos on Discor
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by rrwo 4y ago
Americans can handle complicated stories with ambiguity and no clear good v evil. But there are loud camps of culture warriors who raise a fuss if it's not "safe for kids" and a whole industry of grifters who amplify this, be
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes. And even if it's "bad parenting" why can't someone write a scene where this casual bad behaviour happens in the background, without having to explicitly point it out as bad?
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by rrwo 4y ago
You should be able to write about a scene without moralising or having to give an origin story or explanation for behaviour. The need to do this in American movies, TV and books ruins a story. There is a reason that Henry Miller's Trop
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by rrwo 4y ago
> Rebase has become so integral to my workflow, it's hard to imagine living without it. Same. I use it to reorganise branches before submitting change requests or merging: - Combing or splitting commits so that each commit contains
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by rrwo 4y ago
> This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. Nationalised by what country? US? UK? France? Russia? Saudi Arabia? India? China? Would we have country-specific and isolated social media and search engine
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by rrwo 4y ago
> upwards of 75% of the time I see better ways to do something. It's often small things, like making what's being build more configurable / hard coding less, abstracting differently so code is more reusable, naming things
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes. I used to work at a company that invested too much time and effort into an ELK stack that handled specialist log formats sent over a custom UDP service. It was brittle and fell over in all sorts of strange ways. This was all for monito
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by rrwo 4y ago
I meet a friend who also works from home for lunch or a coffee break during the day. Otherwise I walk my dog or run errands in the middle of the day, just to go outside and get some exercise and see other people.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Excel-readable is a bad thing. I wonder how much data is ignored or misinterpreted because Excel misinterpreted the input to be something else. (I actually know biologists who have run into this problem.)
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> I really dislike the idea that EU regulators would know what's better for consumers than consumer electronics companies and the consumers themselves This isn't something created by faceless bureaucrats behind closed doors. T
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> If there is one thing that drives EU legislation ideas, it is the convergence towards open and common, market-wide standards. This reduces the barriers to entry for small players and leads to more innovation as a result. Too many peopl
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It's not going to affect existing phones.
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Recently posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33055669
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by rrwo 4y ago
I think it's healthy to lose touch with people as our lives evolve. Keeping in touch with people you would otherwise forget about is depressing. Seeing friends and family turn bitter and hateful is depressing. Seeing friends and famil
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In other words, "I'm a pusher but I won't let my children use narcotics."

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