steampilot

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by steampilot 2y ago
The struggle against spam has led to a situation where large companies hold significant control, ostensibly to prevent spam. Yet, despite these measures, the spam issue persists, and the complexity of hosting one's own email server has
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by steampilot 4y ago
I agree. Almost all of the clients I worked with were in a rush. It was actually even worse than a standard job as the deadlines were a lot shorter.
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by steampilot 4y ago
I agree about the cloud having the potential to be a good fit for CI builds, but I don't think it's there yet as there is a time overhead with turning on and off a cloud VM. Ideally, we would have serverless functions doing this,
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by steampilot 4y ago
I think it's not too late to create a modern open-source alternative to PDF. I find it unacceptable that something that has become so widely used doesn't have proper free tools for editing. Society shouldn't be limited by inc
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by steampilot 4y ago
First of all, the sell price is $30k. That doesn't mean that it's trading at that price but just that nobody is selling it for less, or someone is quickly buying the orders that sell for less, assuming there are only a few, to mai
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by steampilot 5y ago
I mentioned in my first comment that he can not prove this, and the Wikipedia link explains why he can't (fundamental law rule). I definitely agree that Google should list the reasons for what they did. Ideally there would be a public
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by steampilot 5y ago
I am not picking any side here. I don't know the developer, and I don't know Google. My comment was more on the philosophical side, showing that someone is making a claim that he can not prove. This applies to a lot of stuff that
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by steampilot 5y ago
I'm not saying that Google was right to do this, but this has to be taken with a grain of salt because we don't really know what the circumstances were. Can the user prove his claims that he wasn't notified about violations i