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by sturgill 7y ago
This isn’t a protection, it applied retroactively as well. Anyone who ever gave FB login AS AN OPTION is now required to create Sign In with Apple. I do not buy their company line at all. This is simply Apple flexing its power in the App Sp
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by sturgill 7y ago
Apple creating an ecosystem is fine. Apple forcing devs to use their ecosystem if they’ve previously implemented login via Facebook is a cowardly move. Even Apple knows that very few devs would implement this if it wasn’t a requirement. I’m
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by sturgill 7y ago
I’m a big fan of everyone in the world just using UTC and calling it a day. A meeting at 0700 is exactly what you think it means. But I also never expect it to happen.
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by sturgill 7y ago
My interpretation of this is that this group is mostly the acquihires. He’s looking at this specifically from the Instagram view, where the product continues. Obviously many projects are shuttered (“Our Wonderful Journey”) but I don’t think
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by sturgill 7y ago
Come on, man. You can write better arguments than that. I don’t know anything about that particular legal structure. You used the ellipse cleverly but I’ve been pretty respectful even when others have spoken poorly of some of my deepest bel
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by sturgill 7y ago
I called it an entity that invests in businesses. It very clearly has an investment arm (which I have known about for decades). The Church owns physical assets and I’m okay with that. I’d rather it have liquid assets than struggle to pay it
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by sturgill 7y ago
Bad comparison when you’re skeptical of an entity investing money in businesses who employ lots of people...
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by sturgill 7y ago
There’s a reasonable conversation to be had about when to spend and when to save. I don’t pretend to have all the answers there. But as someone on the inside, I’ll say this: local congregations have very strict budgets allotted to them, but
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by sturgill 7y ago
I’ve never found that number substantiated anywhere. But we agree that the Church is tight with its money. I just argue that’s a good thing...
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by sturgill 7y ago
I don’t know enough about the legal structure of [1] to have an informed opinion. Contacts and contracts are always the gift to children of connected parents. I hope to give the same to my kids... ;) I’m sure it happens as it does in any fa
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by sturgill 7y ago
Find me the executive team of a multimillion person company with hundreds of billions of assets making the living stipend of the (relatively few) ecclesiastical leaders of the Church and your argument will have more weight. IIRC, the living
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by sturgill 7y ago
Can you imagine the criticism if the investment arm was losing money? The Church does amazing work providing resources during crises. I’ve personally cut trees off of people’s houses with chainsaws provided by the Church and given buckets o
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by sturgill 7y ago
Agreed. LookML is to SQL what SASS is to CSS: not necessary but it sure makes certain things easier. I’m not connected with Looker in any way, and they are pretty expensive, but the product is awesome.
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by sturgill 7y ago
I’m a fan of Recaptcha v3. There are many actions where you can ask for some additional input in a non-puzzle way. Simple example is sending a confirmation email before signup when the score is below a certain threshold. Because I freaking
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by sturgill 7y ago
The minimums are annoying but understandable. You pay a flat transaction fee (15-30 cents) plus a percentage of the sale (roughly 1-4% depending on the card type). If you’re doing a lot of small transactions, that 15-30 cents is a huge hit
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by sturgill 7y ago
I created a new RDS instance via Cloudformation just last week and immediately had the notice that I should update the cert. Looks like the new cert will be the default on 1/14, but I thought that was really weird.
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by sturgill 7y ago
More charitably, AWS provides a CLI for most resources and commands and (in large measure) either provides backwards compatibility or a long depreciation window. This allows hackers to build syntactic sugar on top of their infrastructure. I
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by sturgill 7y ago
Content has a cost; I don’t apologize for maximizing the return of that investment. I’m personally not offended by exit intent pop ups. They are an expected part of the browsing experience. I don’t think of them like the pop ups (or pop und
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by sturgill 7y ago
Still not close to the same. I pollute a river and generations struggle. I distract you while you’re browsing online and the real impact rounds to zero. Eventually you’ll die and no one will care about that time you got annoyed. But no one
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by sturgill 7y ago
I’m not sure exit intent pop ups are the same as polluting finite natural resources, and the more I learn about the recycling industry the more I believe that everything is just trash any way (reduce and reuse are the only viable paths). Al
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by sturgill 7y ago
You’re right, but it’s pretty simple to slap CloudFront (or Cloudflare) ahead of those origins if you need to in a pinch. I don’t work for Amazon (and have no dog in the fight) but I am a fan of AWS. And if you’re ever using AWS for anythin
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by sturgill 7y ago
I remember growing up in the 80s that there were only a handful of people in the entire community that had multiple TVs. In the 90s some teens in the upper middle class had a tv in their bedroom. I remember buying my first tv as a married c
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by sturgill 7y ago
AWS certificates are free. Cloudflare will also put SSL in front of your origin for free. So if you’re using AWS you get it for free. Or you can slap CloudFront or Cloudflare in front of your origin. I think the barrier is low enough that I
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by sturgill 7y ago
Frequent use of these patterns is a good smell test that one should reconsider design choices. Are there times when usage is justified? Yes. Should it be the first / default mechanism? No. Learn the rules first, and then it will be mor
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by sturgill 7y ago
I saw this play out several times when I lived in NYC. Many friends would hit that point where kids were now a consideration and one of the partner’s was ready to transition to a new job. They’d talk about moving, and usually the spouse in
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by sturgill 7y ago
I don’t know anything about revlifter. But I’ve been in this space long enough that I’m skeptical of most claims. I usually try to build flows now that don’t ask for coupon codes at checkout (because that leads to deal searching right at th
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by sturgill 7y ago
Rewards and coupon websites are notorious for leaching off the affiliate process without driving much incremental revenue. In the heyday of ABestWeb.com they coined the phrase ParasiteWare for places that stuff cookies like this. The overal
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by sturgill 7y ago
I simply didn’t want my car impounded while I was cuffed and put in the back of a police car. These were my undergrad years and I was in a different state studying (loosely defined). And there’s always a permanent record (short of expungeme
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by sturgill 7y ago
I once had a warrant issued for my arrest because I forgot to take care of a “fix-it” ticket. I got the letter in the mail and even the stress of driving a car was incredible. All it takes is going just a touch too fast and your life would
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by sturgill 7y ago
They own Bamtech (came out of MLB and eventually powered ESPN as well as WWE and other properties). I was having issues this morning but just with home and category pages. The “featured” links to content worked fine, but the index type page

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