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by system16 4y ago
Is there any company in the same hardware space you'd consider a good actor? Or even less bad than Apple?
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by system16 4y ago
You're not even exaggerating. I worked as a contractor some time back for a major Canadian telecom company that no longer exists. I remember spending hours of meetings on calls with no less than 10 stakeholders (and in some meetings se
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by system16 4y ago
> Articles like these drive engineers to speculate on Blind and on Reddit, in the internet equivalent of hushed whispers, about whether they’re next. Bizarre to reference a Blind thread from 2019 discussing Uber layoffs to back up a clai
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by system16 4y ago
Maybe that was the intention but it doesn't really look like a Guy Fawkes mask at all though, other than being a white face mask. Eyebrows and eye cut-outs are different, it has a full beard, it's not a v-shaped face, etc.
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by system16 4y ago
I made the switch to Fastmail from Gmail (which I used since it launched) about three years ago and haven't looked back. What a fantastic service at a reasonable price. Their mobile app is also great. About this API in particular, who
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by system16 4y ago
Strongly disagree with the scope of this. Should a CTO be technical? Absolutely. Should they be able to jump into the code, start grabbing JIRA tickets on a moment's notice, or throw together a new feature when a deadline is looming? A
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by system16 4y ago
I don't particularly like Craigslist's UI, but I still prefer it to other online marketplaces because it's fast and simple. I do find it cluttered and not very nice to navigate, but I'll gladly take a bit of clutter and
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by system16 4y ago
Comically, when I view this tweet in my browser, at the top right in the "Relevant people" box that Twitter wants me to pay attention to and follow is _another_ fake yet verified Vitalik account. Honest question: what do Twitter&#
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by system16 4y ago
When I was in elementary school, I received the Power Glove for Christmas and a classmate received the U-Force. We became rivals, both trying to convince the rest of the class that ours was the ultimate controller and amazing for giving a c
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by system16 4y ago
> Not a word about any actual features or benefits of the Mac. From what I recall almost every "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ad's premise was a feature or task that the Mac did easier or better, leaving the PC deflated o
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by system16 4y ago
Mastodon's biggest Twitter differentiator and feature - multiple instances - is also its biggest flaw when it comes to ease of use. Users don't "get" the multiple instance concept. The article is spot on in that it is di
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by system16 4y ago
I just recently went through this. Seven interviews over a period of nearly a month. I didn't get the position. The most frustrating thing was that there was so much repetition. Each round had one or more interviewers and I never met t
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by system16 4y ago
>... a former Twitter executive who was terminated in January 2022 for ineffective leadership and poor performance. Coming right out of the gates with an ad-hominem attack like this is extremely unprofessional and also reckless.
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by system16 4y ago
> 99.co is now tackling this by introducing an “all-races-welcome” indicator on its website. Despite all the patting themselves on the back, when they implemented this they only added an "all-races-welcome" tag to listings that
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by system16 4y ago
In many parts of Canada, you have reverse racism where the - nationally speaking - minorities in certain cities (Richmond and Brampton especially) own the majority of properties. It's not uncommon to see Craigslist or Kijiji rental ads
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by system16 4y ago
Coincidentally, back in 1996 I had an economics professor that expressed this exact sentiment during a lecture. He was convinced the internet was a fad that would be gone in a few years. I found it really puzzling that someone so educated w
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by system16 4y ago
TikTok is not as harmful as drugs (at least I haven't seen anyone end up on skid row over watching too many dancing videos). So if it's to be regulated it would likely be similar to porn or gambling and be age restricted. OP is cl
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by system16 4y ago
Replace TikTok with food, porn, or drugs. At some point the individual has to take responsibility for their actions and seek support if it's something they can't do on their own. Or we just ban everything.
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by system16 4y ago
In my experience it's absolutely true. Maybe it's just early in Instagram's phase of their new feed and it's not optimized, but all I see are a bunch of seemingly random memes and videos that don't interest me at al
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by system16 4y ago
It's fascinating how reactionary and directionless Instagram and Facebook have become. Instagram in particular has become Frankenstein's monster over the last few years, pathetically trying to reproduce functionality from other ap
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by system16 4y ago
I called it quits with Amazon after my last three orders: - Received a clearly counterfeit product (not even a good attempt at a fake) - Received a product that looked nothing like the description with a note included offering me a $10 Amaz
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by system16 4y ago
Every time this issue comes up, people seem to think there is a single silver bullet that will resolve it. This is a perfect storm problem and will take a solution from multiple angles: - Restrict and tax short-term rentals. - Introduce a s
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by system16 4y ago
> that cost is about 5-10% of the cost of an equivalent system I bet 1,760 chickens cost roughly 5-10% of the cost of a Clydesdale, but I know which one I'd prefer to pull a cart.
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by system16 4y ago
I think a replacement acronym for FAANG may be in order if Netflix continues its downward trajectory because simply removing it from the current one won't work.
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by system16 4y ago
Having already known how to code, I gave Scratch a shot after hearing about it. I know I'm not the target audience, but despite "looking" friendly I found it very complex and not very intuitive at all. If the goal is to ultim
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by system16 4y ago
In the years following this, a lot of the big game developers (especially mobile) opened offshore studios in SE Asia and Eastern Europe where endless crunch like is described in the legendary ea_spouse post is still very alive and well. Bas
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by system16 4y ago
Clearly the state media building Putin's image has been effective. If his martial arts ability is anything like the propaganda clips state media shows of his "daily" gym routine - where his form suggests it's the first t
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by system16 4y ago
That's a pretty broad assessment. It's not without its flaws, but Singapore has an extremely effective public housing program run by the government's Housing & Development Board (HDB) where 89.9% of Singaporeans are home
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by system16 4y ago
If you're curious about the seedier underbelly of financial crime and money laundering through casinos and real-estate in Vancouver, Willful Blindness by Sam Cooper ( https://www.amazon.ca/Wilful-Blindness-network-tycoon
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by system16 4y ago
They're being deliberately vague. Adware and analytics.

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