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by stadium 5y ago
Yep, I have passwords enabled. I don't want to see the in-game purchase features at all. The alternative right now is, don't install the game. Used to be, you could get the ad-free version of an app for a small price, or the ad-
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by stadium 5y ago
Spark SQL is great for this. SQL strings and data frames code can be used interchangeably, and performance is the same for either type of query. https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.1.1/sql-programming-guide.ht...
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by stadium 5y ago
As a parent the volume of in-game purchase advertising and scarcity tactics are anxiety inducing for both myself and my kids. Every game on every platform should have a global opt-out for in-game purchases, just like do-not-track on iOS 14.
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by stadium 5y ago
I saw my get kid prompted to pay $59.99 usd to buy in-game achievements for the hill climb racing game on Android. That's a f-ton of money to be soliciting from anyone, yet alone a kid. He's not quite at reading age and just cli
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by stadium 5y ago
Rebellion against intrusion into ones perceived personal space. It immediately reminds me of one of my all time memorable yet confusing quotes. "Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. In the purely histo
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by stadium 5y ago
It could be a breach of contract, but it would be up to a court to decide if that part of the contact is enforceable. Guessing it's not illegal to solicit someone under such a contract, but potentially a new hire could be ordered by a
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by stadium 5y ago
Schema on read means not that schema shouldn't be written. Write the schema, keep it safe, but decouple the schema from the data.. that's it.
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by stadium 5y ago
> The key is to only have pay depend on location to the extent that the company constrains the worker's location When the worker has agency to chose remote vs in office, tying pay to physical location seems like coercion though. Do
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by stadium 5y ago
Stoicism is a tricky concept to internalize without first dealing with the underlying emotional responses. Learning about something and knowing it's a better way feels good in the short term, but the risk for someone stuck in some deep
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by stadium 5y ago
Living in the poor side of town often correlates to a history of systemic racism and redlining.
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by stadium 5y ago
Curious how eeoc protected classes will factor into reducing pay based on location. That seems like wage discrimination. Any employment laws that have been tested around this in court? Sex/gender: I need my commute time to take care
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by stadium 5y ago
> more people would rather exist outside society The "society" created around the routines of most corporate jobs is artificial, inauthentic, and provides material comforts. Having death staring you down during a pandemic for
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by stadium 5y ago
Absolutely, that's a calculated decision that companies make. It is fully expected that a certain market segment is not interested in being a customer at a given price point. Market segmentation is often done by OS version or device
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by stadium 5y ago
I had only one FP experience with scala. I actually liked that it was statically typed. I have nothing to compare it to though. But, higher order functions and type parameters are still a bit mind bending for me. I didn't have to wr
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by stadium 5y ago
Pure functions concept was a breakthrough for me too. As a design pattern they are wonderful, there is so much less mental context to keep track of. Now whenever I see mutated variables and class attributes, or random side effects besides
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by stadium 5y ago
For me the harder problem with productivity is often picking the right work to do, and balancing that with analysis paralysis.
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by stadium 5y ago
How does the tagging feature work? Is it at the table and column level?
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by stadium 5y ago
Interesting, that must be what I installed to get the Vue docs as an app. I hadn't heard the term PWA, thanks for sharing.
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by stadium 5y ago
It could be that the customers most likely to pay are on more recent hardware. So why bother catering to everyone else if there is no return on investment. Or for free software, chances are it is add supported. So push as many ads and tra
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by stadium 5y ago
> One of my real pet hates is software developers who assume everyone's running their software on an excellent internet connection Maybe it's a process problem, not a developer problem. Like management prioritizes a dozen anal
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by stadium 5y ago
I'm learning to build front end with Vue.js and it supports SPA with client side rendering with multiple routes. I intentionally choose this to take advantage of cheap (free) static site hosting, and the learning curve is easier withou
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by stadium 5y ago
True, but maybe just until the pandemic is actually under control. Which would happen faster if people kept their masks on.
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by stadium 5y ago
Interesting, thank you. If I understand correctly, viral load mutations are the current and quickest path to spreading faster, currently. It hasn't selected as fast for vaccine escape, yet, which is not to say it isn't trending
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by stadium 5y ago
> What frightens me are polymerase mutations. What are these in layman's terms?
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by stadium 5y ago
Add to that, the more it multiplies and spreads, the more chance of mutations leading to more variants. Needing updated vaccines, booster shots of existing, and/or higher rates needed to reach herd immunity. Didn't the UK have an
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by stadium 5y ago
> Accepting that it wasn't working for me was one of the best things I've done for my career. How did you pivot after this?
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by stadium 5y ago
> Zoom had invaded the privacy of millions of users by sharing personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn. What personal data was shared? Was the sharing of data the problem, or the T&C's weren't clear on it? The art
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by stadium 5y ago
I have a residential realtor friend who rents their family house. Yes, he earns his living selling houses, and rents his own house to live in, and they have lived there a few years. good schools, friends, like the neighborhood, etc.
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by stadium 5y ago
> CNO Adm. Mike Gilday told USNI News in an interview it would take $2.5 billion to upgrade the first four ships – money he would rather put toward the emerging Constellation-class frigate (FFG-62) program.
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by stadium 5y ago
> is that the developer that is stuck isn't really ever sure if it is something they really should know about the library, framework, or language or if it really is something hard It's also important to know if it is a bug or i

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