shady-lady

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by shady-lady 8y ago
An upvote alone doesn't do that story justice. Absolutely fantastic piece.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> I find attacking the people and company that made you a billionaire, and went to an unprecedented extent to shield and accommodate you for years, low-class, Facebook didn't make him a billionaire. He & co. made a 19 billion do
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> the United States runs on what I call "Air Bud rules" also known as common law. and most ex-UK colonies have it(USA/Canada/India/Australia/New Zealand/UK & more) What have the "big" SV c
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by shady-lady 8y ago
What are your views on net neutrality?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> Last time I tried Vivaldi (over a year ago), the browser shortcuts were taking precedence over website shortcuts. I noticed this in Google Sheets and others. I hope that's fixed now I feel that's how it should be. OS > Bro
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Exactly. Employees who get to engage in the theatre of running a software company with 0 risk. They need an oversight committee (from outside the valley preferably) Anybody got the breakdown on community commits to FF vs. employee commits?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Shocking the extent to which Vivaldi is innovating at the chrome level compared to Firefox(revenue 2016 > $500 million).
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> working hard is the right choice working long != working hard
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> nobody actually has to be all that good at anything It seems as long as they can regurgitate grad level algorithms, most other things are non issues. The brightest are people who look at quality of __life__ (that thing you only get one
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> Twitter said that a “bug” sent user’s private direct messages to third-party developers “who were not authorized to receive them.” user's -> users' __plural__
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> no-one actually wants to separate the content from the presentation anyway. Except of course the developers who are using react & friends because it allows them to separate content(data) from presentation(view).
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Not related to your growth or realisation but I really dislike that pithy usage of the phrase: >The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one Literarily, fantastic usage. But it has all the hallmarks of something
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Which bullshit laws were unnecessarily harmful to you and that provided no benefit to the surrounding ecosystem?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> hardly "random". I think if you re-read my comment, you'll see I didn't refer to her as "random" > Linus's attitude ...which was the same before she started contributing & was __the same__ towa
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by shady-lady 8y ago
may as well lead in with truthful sentence: "For this article, we reached out to every kind of role except actual software developers"
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by shady-lady 8y ago
I am sad that I do not have the ability to downvote this utter tripe. From the author's twitter a/c: > Linux story was a bit unusual for #MeToo, because the abusive conduct wasn’t necessarily directed at women – yet the climate
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> Flutter was the clear winner, and a joy to work with. It also has that big red 'Google built this' flag, opensource not withstanding. Feels way riskier using it than any of the first 2 or even the 3rd.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Just found it way too overpowering. For a big screen ad - great - very Appley. For an embedded video in a webpage - way too intense for me.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Airbnb wouldn't be 1/100th the size it is if it wasn't for crossing the line between their original (public) plan(rent out unused space in your primary residence) vs their current plan (be an unregulated hotel with better ret
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by shady-lady 8y ago
To give a concrete example of what marketing staff "do". When facebook & "viral" was mainstream, our marketing staff decided they wanted to make something go viral. It was an image with the word 'SALE' (90%
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> marketers come up with the copy, art, offers, banner ads, ux, reporting, email marketing and more Most of these are done by a) outside agencies or if they're big enough b) in house design staff or c) templates
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by shady-lady 8y ago
No but they're pulling funds from the same pot.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Music on that video is so out of place though.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Superbly done hero element on that page.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
I think 'ex google' has lost most of it's weight. Even if it was just used by any of the > __30,000__ engineers, it would be diluted. Adding to that mix is non-technical people trumpeting ex-google/insert some other m
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Real money vs potential ad money.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> We could have just as easily exchanged data with JSON (if it had existed) or CSV or protobufs or whatever JSON & CSV, whilst undoubtedly simpler formats, still lack the 'power' of the XML ecosystem. Powerful tools to crea
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Yes, Europe better protects it's workers. Thankfully, the EU puts workers' welfare above a single person's idea(no matter how excellent somebody might think their idea is). > Setting up a business also involves compliance
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GitHub needs a 'build story'
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by shady-lady 8y ago
using your analogy, youtube would be the paper maker and most importantly, the newspaper that publishes those words. rightly, they're going after the newspaper. it's disingenuous to suggest youtube only makes tools for video conte

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