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by thw0rted 6y ago
If you're viewing a capture of a site, there's always a banner at the top of the page showing the original URL and when the page was captured, along with controls to view other snapshots. I do wish the banner had a "open act
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by thw0rted 6y ago
You forgot to cover the part where day names lose meaning -- you go to work at 21:00 on Wednesday and come home at 06:00 Thursday. Basic concepts like "tomorrow" start to come apart at the seams. (Yes, shift workers already deal
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by thw0rted 6y ago
You are not alone. This framework is a kind of neat idea if your top three priorities are all "man this looks cool". If you actually want to make anything usable, look elsewhere. ETA: also, a web page should make sounds in exact
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by thw0rted 6y ago
I drive an '03 Mercedes and I can tell you that the wipers are absolutely intuitive -- just like almost every other car I've driven, from back before the automotive design industry collectively lost their minds. Touch screens hav
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by thw0rted 6y ago
I'd be interested to see the track record since they implemented notarization. How often has it caught malware, both before and after the fact? I haven't seen any headlines about e.g. a popular application failing to launch one
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by thw0rted 6y ago
A big part of the draw for Oculus is platform-exclusives. Even if the hardware is obsolete, the catalog of games you bought on their store isn't, and if that's tied to staying in their hardware ecosystem when you upgrade....
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by thw0rted 6y ago
Presumably the 3rd parties would want a referral / affiliate fee, which would come out of the 30%. That seems more than fair -- this is clearly about control, not money.
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by thw0rted 6y ago
OK, so that's a good argument for not tying your product to the "bare-metal" / Win32 / (specific distro?) APIs, and using something higher level and portable. Which, frankly, everybody should be doing anyway, if
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by thw0rted 6y ago
> I know someone who was a former employee (top performer) at FB Yup, checks out
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by thw0rted 6y ago
#3 is called "fairness." It's the part where the rest of your team -- especially the women, who, statistically, are almost certainly making less than the median -- realize what the median is and have the opportunity to deman
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by thw0rted 6y ago
I think most of the comments in this thread mean "malicious" in the sense of injecting malware (say, a BTC miner) or a phishing attach or something into the signed-exchange content. However, you also have to consider that the co
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by thw0rted 6y ago
> it's absolutely 100% forbidden to pass a car on the right Somehow, it doesn't stop all these frickin' Audis from doing it. (It's always Audis.)
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by thw0rted 6y ago
I mean, you can "sell" anything. For $15/mo, I will say "thank you, [your name]" out loud to my cat. For $20/mo, I will give a thumbs-up to the tree in my front yard and think about what a great person you ar
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by thw0rted 6y ago
I just commented above, but isn't this actually what's happening? I mean, isn't giving something of value to someone, and expecting nothing in return, the textbook definition of a "gift"? This feels more and more
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by thw0rted 6y ago
"Tax-deductible donation" is a subset of "donations", at least in the US. I can "donate" (syn: "give") money to anyone. I don't have to do anything special for that, and in theory they should r
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by thw0rted 6y ago
This is what bothers me most about the story. If someone is "internet famous" for blogging under a particular name, but not famous at all in their private life under their real name, their blog handle is newsworthy and their real
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by thw0rted 6y ago
In the mid-90s no one was "forced" to buy a Windows computer. How did that work out for Microsoft?
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by thw0rted 6y ago
That explains a lot. I remember playing that game as a teenager and having fun right up until the elevator logistics got complicated, then having to basically give up because everybody was waiting all the time. I don't remember even
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by thw0rted 6y ago
Dude rented a charter. It would be pretty silly of the charter company not to have some kind of "rescue" provision, wouldn't it? We had a very similar story, except we were the first to rent the boat at the start of the se
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by thw0rted 6y ago
Just opened Task Manager to confirm, the standard "Help" top level menu is conspicuously absent. Write those docs, everybody!
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by thw0rted 6y ago
Oh that is trippy, not only does the link from the GP not include my Chrome sync'd bookmarks, all the recent activity on it is places I've starred in Google Maps (!).
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by thw0rted 6y ago
This is probably the thing that bothers me the most about this story. Every couple of weeks there's another post about "Google de-listed my app from the Play Store", etc, and the common thread tends to be that there's a
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by thw0rted 6y ago
It's not just the way this is phrased, it's that there is no English-language formulation that works at all. Swap "shirt" for "tie", because paisley is quite common on ties. Now, try: * tie without paisley *
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by thw0rted 6y ago
The cofounder says that the data they're collecting is part of the algorithm that has reduced their fraud numbers, and gives concrete data. Either they do need the data, or he's just outright lying, over and over, all across this
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by thw0rted 6y ago
IANAL and I don't claim to understand any of this well, but I would naively assume that if Company A collected data under a binding legal agreement that they can only use it for X, then they go bankrupt, that shouldn't give Comp
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by thw0rted 7y ago
> "easily"... "build from source"... You think the school IT department won't let the GP install Python but will let them install a compiler toolchain? The benchmark for "easy" is you download one bina
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by thw0rted 7y ago
I suspect the answer is "it's complicated". For example, you can specify a package version string as `git://...` and it will grab the package from a git repository. It's possible that this uses a JS-native
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by thw0rted 7y ago
Also: many, many thousands of dollars.
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by thw0rted 7y ago
Hulu more than doubles their subscription price to hide ads. Do you really think that they're making less net revenue per subscription from ad-viewing users than ad-free ones?
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by thw0rted 7y ago
Everyone who replied to this with "But what if...?": we are not talking to you. To a first approximation, literally everybody else does not have your problem -- they have W2 income and their filing status is very probably the sam

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