zaksoup

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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   One of the things that I almost always insist on in a dev/PM feedback cycle is the concept of "chores." The Devs (usually via eng lead) get to schedule chores in the backlog, full stop. PM can have a convo with eng lead to sa
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   Most fascinating part of these notes for me: > "US Tech companies key asset for America; Breakup strengthens Chinese companies" Is China the new anti-regulation boogieman? Can somebody who understands the domain better than me
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   I don't ever use their webmail, to be honest. I've got native mail clients on my devices that I connect to Fastmail with IMAP. To compare apples to apples it seems most relevant to compare storage tiers, MXroute is 5/month fo
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   We use G Suite at work and I'm not a fan of the new calendar design. Material design works nicely on a tiny phone screen but on a 32" 4k display it just seems like there's a lot of unused space. That's probably the ridic
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   Apple is registered in Delaware. Again, reductive, but as other commenters said... don’t troll.
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   > ...taxed into Bankruptcy. Given that you're taxed on profits (reductive, I know) isn't this literally impossible? God forbid Californians value healthcare and that a city 45 minutes from the HQ of the richest company in the w
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   I appreciate a lot of what you're saying about engaging but the success of trolling often lies in taking up your attention at the expense of other things > By defeating the argument instead of the person. When literally every thread
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   > Then much of modern business is unethical. Well... yeah.
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   by zaksoup 9y ago

   Do you think it's meaningfully different when the discussion is under active attack by bad actors? How do you moderate to keep genuine propaganda techniques from successfully working on your discussion without calling them out? I'
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I disagree. Saying "this is off-topic/derailing" whether or not it's genuine is the only preventative measure. You can say "this is whataboutism, ask this elsewhere" and still engage with OP as if they were act
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    appreciate your genuine followup. As dang said, given that this exact comment has been made, more or less verbatim, as intentional whataboutism it's become my default assumption. A frustrating part of whataboutism is that it works so w
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I don't think the comment you're responding to was made in good faith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I've yet to meet a single person* with kids who actually, unironically, says things like "your just have to spend time with your kids, duh" * The few I have met who say these things have full-time live-in nannies so they&#x27
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    Sorry, I may have been unclear. If you've already paid outside of the native app Apple won't prevent users from accessing the content (Netflix is an example of this). The rule only applies to purchasing within the app itself. Ap
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    To add some context to the other reply: Apple doesn't take ANY cut of Apple Pay payments, even on native mobile apps. Apple does, however, require that app store apps ONLY allow the purchase of physical or similar goods with Apple Pay.
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    probably means it is...
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    > Giving raises on certification... As far as I can tell everything you're describing is the primary way that people are currently promoted and how compensation is decided. The real unicorns aren't companies with billion dollar
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I have been working in the tech industry for 5+ years now (not too long, I know). I have yet to see a company that commonly identifies low performers and successfully terminates their employment for performance reasons only. In fact, the th
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    To be fair, Conde Nast also owns Ars Technica, which, in my experience, has a fairly exemplary reputation as far as avoiding clickbait and running good articles. That said, it certainly seems to me like if not as an explicit business decisi
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I'm pretty sure this isn't true. I believe the update slowed batteries down based on their available peak voltage, which would be the difference for a user likely to experience shutdowns. Anecdotally my iPhone 6 seemed not to have
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    Last week's (Friday, Jan 26) Exponent has a lot of this kind of conversation after his article about Amazon Go. Toward the end of the article is this gem [0]: > In fact, they are all gone, replaced by automation. And, in the meantim
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I work on criminal justice reform and this is SO true. I cringe every time I hear these kinds of stats being brandished without context as evidence of our society 'working'. Ben Thompson is a particularly bad example of this, but
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    What's really interesting to me here is the watermarking part of this. I imagine a future where everybody has little IR pins on their shoulder and phones scanning encrypted traffic for their watermark...
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    “They call it swatting”(arstechnica.com)

    4 points by zaksoup 9y ago|1 comments
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab... Well... Also, let’s be clear that regulations about the bar for food quality you will commercially sell to others and what you do in your own home (t
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I’m a weekly listener of Ben Thompson’s (the author) podcast, exponent, and it’s bizarre that he’s making this argument. Many of the last few episodes have made the point that over-burdensome regulation on Facebook would have the affect of
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    Re: food safety... > Ayn Rand and Ron Paul walk into a bar. The bartender serves them tainted alcohol. They die. The market reacts and the bar closes because nobody goes there anymore. Ayn Rand and Ron Paul are still dead.
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    I'm not sure I buy that requiring user opt-in to camera access is why the Mac app ecosystem is is much larger than that of iOS. Can you elaborate on what apps/innovations would become impossible because of a mandatory opt-in? I ca
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    by zaksoup 9y ago

    Uh... do we all agree that the stock market isn't a scam?