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by stevage 2y ago
I'm sure it cost a lot more than $8000. That was only the direct visible cost to them. There were likely users hit with costs for the additional downloads, who never even knew what was the issue. Users working on a mobile hotspot who h
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by stevage 2y ago
Yep, my first job was at a company like that. Huge Windows desktop app built in Delphi. No automated testing of any kind. No testing scripts either. Just a lot of clicking around.
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by stevage 2y ago
>Just amazed that ‘better testing’ isn’t one of the takeaways in the summary. I don't get the impression they did any testing at all.
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by stevage 2y ago
It's absolutely way too frequent. Their users do not care about their screen recording studio anywhere near as much as the devs who wrote it do. Once a month is probably plenty. Personally, I disable auto-update on everything wherever
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by stevage 2y ago
I'm really surprised this could happen. As they note: > Write your auto-updater code very carefully. You have to be soooo careful with this stuff. Especially because your auto-updater code can brick your auto-updater. It looks l
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by stevage 2y ago
Ah, I have a thing vaguely like this in the pipeline too. Fun stuff!
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by stevage 2y ago
Just some feedback, I think this would be much more compelling with better choices of messages. It feels like the first two words are setting something up and the third should have some kind of payoff, but a lot of the messages don't w
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by stevage 2y ago
Wow, that's a really fascinating problem to work on. I work in mapping but haven't actually come across this field of what you call DGGS's. Is it essential that the cells be the same shape? Also where does the name "A5&q
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by stevage 2y ago
The capitalisation in the HN item is wrong, it should just be "Icônes". It's just the French word for icons, nothing fancy.
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by stevage 2y ago
This entire story is based on the very questionable assumption that Amazon did this deliberately, for which the evidence is slim. I mean, there are tons of reasons to dislike Amazon, without looking for something this thin.
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by stevage 2y ago
I wouldn't say CSV is a display format. Attempting to edit it by hand is pretty error prone, and reading it is hard work.
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by stevage 2y ago
A generation or two (25-50 years) would be an incredible result. These days it's a miracle if anything has consequences more than a year or two down the track.
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by stevage 2y ago
Ah yeah, at least a set of design goals and non goals.
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by stevage 2y ago
You're either saying something obvious and universal, or something blatantly false.
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by stevage 2y ago
One small silver lining in all this is perhaps that it is such a clear cause and effect that people will remember in future. So many economic levers take many months or years to really play out, but everyone can grasp that the president imp
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by stevage 2y ago
You missed not-a-NaN.
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by stevage 2y ago
I find it very hard to maintain enthusiasm and momentum on side projects if there is a plan. It just feels like work.
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by stevage 2y ago
I hate this kind of format. It's trying to be both a data format for computers and a display format for humans. Much better off just using a tool that can edit CSV files as tables. Also it doesn't seem to say anything about the he
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by stevage 2y ago
51% of gross revenue is absurd. You make a video with a bit of this music in the background, now your project is probably losing you money.
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by stevage 2y ago
Yeah I went through a similar process as a kid. I remember learning trigonometry in high school and realising I was way ahead because I'd been using sin and cos to calculate positions of 2d spaceships for years...
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by stevage 2y ago
Thanks for the info! Fwiw, I was using "insane" in sense 6 here: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/insane : > Slang. excessive or extravagant; extreme: > This much snow in April is just insane!
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by stevage 2y ago
> Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per
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by stevage 2y ago
Insane, it was originally going to be 4m wide but scaled back to 3m. And designed without sleepers and ballast so vehicles could also drive along it in times of war. The article doesn't mention the downside of such broad gauge, which i
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by stevage 2y ago
I cannot say I have had the experience you describe. Most repos describe their stack clearly, or you can figure it out easily enough. Is it really a common problem for you?
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by stevage 2y ago
Yeah those make sense to me, because they're part of the plot. The weird ones for me are where some absolutely unintelligible background murmuring is subtitled. I couldn't tell that any actual words had been spoken and suddenly it
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by stevage 2y ago
Yeah I hate them.
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by stevage 2y ago
The problem I frequently run into on various platforms is shows with some occasional foreign language that is meant to be subtitled. I end up getting either no subtitles (and it takes me a while to realise that I'm meant to understand)
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by stevage 2y ago
You should try renting in New Zealand. It literally is a step back in time, lots of companies mostly rent very old (20 years plus) Japanese models. So cheap though.
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by stevage 2y ago
I had an experience travelling across Kyrgyzstan recently in the middle front seat. The gearstick was just to the side of my leg, but changing gears invariably meant hitting my leg with it. It was a long 10 hours.
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by stevage 2y ago
They're very popular in Australia.

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