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by weareconvo 14y ago
Good to know that the MFA problem I spent 2 years of my life fighting is now seen as trivial.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
In practice, since so many web developers violate the rule about ids being unique, I think browser devs are forced to make the ID map into a multi-map, which makes it exactly the same as the class map.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
And considering "ideas", especially in the games world, mean absolutely fucking nothing.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
If they weren't buying Adwords ads, then they weren't paying Google anything, and thus, it's absurd of you to demand that someone providing you with a free service would also guarantee customer service.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
If the person was buying Adwords ads and then using them to direct customers to parked domains, then I think I have an inkling as to why their account was terminated, considering I am the person who implemented that policy.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
> Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results I think insanity has to do with how one perceives reality, rather than one's aptitude for inferring future results based on past ones. Wouldn't this
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by weareconvo 14y ago
How exactly can you be "absolutely positive" they weren't breaking any rules?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
More like "if you get burned like a witch, there's a reasonable suspicion the people doing the burning thought you were a witch".
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by weareconvo 14y ago
There is simply no comparison in the manner Google treats your personal data with Facebook's attitude toward it. At Google, as a dev, gaining access to personally identifiable information (that was hashed, anonymized like crazy, and scrubbe
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by weareconvo 14y ago
> A solid guarantee of non-termination of services If they terminate your account, it's because they had a reasonable suspicion that the account violated their TOS. So I guess this one is actually related to not knowing what the violati
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Your kind of skepticism is ultimately one of the few things that holds corporations in check, so I am not discouraging you from persistently aiming it at Google, Facebook, et al. But that being said, I was a full-time dev there for 5 years,
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by weareconvo 14y ago
> It's a great company doing great products. And now, for the first time ever, they're a great company doing their OWN great products.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
I don't understand the hatred people level at mobile sites that do not let you zoom when contrasted with the lack of hatred for mobile apps, which almost uniformly do not let you zoom.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
It is spoken of internally as a liability, and the executives want nothing more than to get rid of it for many reasons, not the least of which being their current investors care only about user numbers, and don't seem to count third-party u
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Just thought you should know. If you haven't heard from anyone, it probably isn't a big deal.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
When you display a tweet embedded in your page, you have to display it exactly as they do, which takes up a truly ridiculous amount of space and is intentionally prohibitive. And as a sidenote, Twitter would very much prefer if the API woul
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Just FYI, you're violating Twitter's API display guidelines. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets
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by weareconvo 14y ago
An inadvisable goal of supporting ludicrously obsolete browsers?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Yes, except, the feds can join Anonymous if they wish. That's half of the point of Anonymous - it's not a distinct group of people. It's just a banner.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
You mentioned "internal programs", I just assumed. By the way, I worked at Google for 5+ years, then quit to do a startup. It's hard, but you're in good company. Word of advice: come up with a clever/funny answer ahead of time, because you'
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Also he got stuck on the Internal Tools team, which is basically the gulag as far as getting noticed by the higher-ups and promoted.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Seeing as how Bootstrap fails at even the most elementary of tasks (using absolute instead of relative values for positioning, for example, screws everything up when the user's zoom is anything other than 100%, among many, many, many other
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by weareconvo 14y ago
i totally agree, and i furthermore think (but cannot prove) that the traditions of buddhism and confucianism that pervade asian societies to varying degrees may be responsible for their lack of entrepreneurial activity, which ultimately hur
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by weareconvo 14y ago
That's exactly what it looks like from the outside. But it isn't. It's just human beings adapting to their environment. This tendency is why maintaining a sense of awe and gratitude toward life is such a major component of spiritual thought
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by weareconvo 14y ago
The perks are an unmatched tool for building Google's reputation and attracting the best engineers to join the company. But once you've been there for a few months, you adapt - that's just what humans do. Pretty soon it all just feels norma
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by weareconvo 14y ago
What else is new?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
I'm not sure what it is you mean by "all these things". However, if you read the standards, you'd understand why they behave very conservatively with respect to adding more stuff in there.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
This shit is going to be available on TPB before I can even click 'add comment'.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Can't speak for any of the others, but the Google chart is dead-on (at least, it was when I was there - the top three are Larry, Eric, then Sergey over there making flying cars or god knows what else).
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by weareconvo 14y ago
In general, I believe people underestimate the importance of development time, as well as ease of training/hiring new programmers - one language is nearly always better as far as both of these things are concerned (unless that language is s

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