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by zentiggr 7y ago
Still far far better than dealing with all of Medium's formatting and site practices.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I would browse with Lynx if it got me to meaningful content reliably. "Web design" seems to me to be a game of "will this flashy new widget/layout/whatchamacallit draw more attention?" Blech.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Strawmen - In every moral decision there are inevitably "real world" concerns that make the choices easier or harder, sure. That only changes the costs of the options, not the fact that you are either complicit or choose to leave.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I'd say in response to your German Army comparison, what were the options to quit the Landswehr and hire on with another better behaved army? Facebook employees have vastly more options to leave a company that they reasonably know or s
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Sure... vote with your wallet, only in video space. When DRM'ed content becomes less popular, companies will have to reconsider. Of course, I'm one of those who doesn't care much about mass media in general. Addictions coul
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Was not my intent, but I see where I went off the rails. Thanks for the feedback and I'll rethink this.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
But not a lot of British citizens get this violently or persistently up in arms about American independence, despite that war happening only a few years earlier. The remaining descendants of French aristocratic families aren't trying t
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by zentiggr 7y ago
But it doesn't have to be secret, ad defectors only hurt themselves by accepting lower pay for the same fare. That seems like a strong incentive to play along.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
VC driven exit strategy
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Having trouble controlling classic.minecraft.net on Win10/Firefox (with uMatrix but everything requested whitelisted). Anyone have a discussion site / advice? Edit: got the mouse to switch by invoking 'b' to choose bloc
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by zentiggr 7y ago
And there is the failure of so much modern thinking, laid out in black and white: your financial picture is your measure of success. God I hate greed and the profit motive more than anything else in this whole wacky place. I would love to
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Nothing to do with conspiracies, just human nature filtered through the "never enough time or money to do it well" conditions. There are some awesome educators out there who can inspire their students to think and explore the worl
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by zentiggr 8y ago
At least in the OP, it looks more like disgruntled responses to the 'standard' Apple policy of 1) make iOS/inhouse app changes 2) throw every competing app under the bus. It is a well established history that says to develope
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by zentiggr 8y ago
My anecdotal impression is that most Americans can't be bothered to think about these topics at all, and if you try to bring them up it's brushed off with a "I can't be bothered to think about anything that isn't da
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by zentiggr 8y ago
How do we push back on these agencies for their obvious flawed process?
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by zentiggr 8y ago
As I read through the 50-odd comments, I wound up with a kanban / 5 whys level thought. All these points of discussion revolve around pluses and minuses of metrics, but the next level is "Why establish metrics at all?" At a
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by zentiggr 8y ago
With the domain fermatslibrary.com showing, it's a guarantee that there will be plenty of mathematical analysis... practically guaranteed this would be completely tongue in cheek, and was not disappointed. Could barely follow the gist
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by zentiggr 8y ago
So a fee on initial submission... updates not charged. Will still put a crimp in the spam-app floods.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Sounds like a (theoretical, I know) solution would be to limit carriers to advertising no more than their current rolling average of download speed across all users. No one needs mention the obvious incentivizing to cut off all of the slowe
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Sounds like F-Droid and/or self-signed downloadable .apks are the immediate alternatives, and perhaps if that becomes enough of a percentage of app installs, somebody in the Play Store command chain will realize they're shooting t
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by zentiggr 8y ago
I'd say a mechanic's manner is almost off topic... anything mechanical ranks far far below life and death notifications. But I do get why you included them in the comparison. I would want my vet (and so far HAVE had my vets) be e
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by zentiggr 8y ago
The scene from Elysium really did this well... having him attempt to sign a receipt for the five days of terminal care painkillers. Very evocative.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Time to stop driving the Mass Pike (I know, regional humor/rant.)
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Sounds like I'd prefer a way to get my IP designated as corporate... Mediacom, wanna help? (haha)
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by zentiggr 8y ago
I had not heard that term, but oh my, wouldn't it be hilarious if some congress critters tried to get that written up as an actual law?
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Loopholes are another level of 'business logic', and would be the 20% of the code that takes 80% of the effort.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
For a well meant opposing viewpoint, flushing longer term congresspeople could mean the breaking of many lobbyist ties, shadow coalitions, and other impediments to reasonable progress. I've proposed before that campaign contribution a
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by zentiggr 8y ago
So... mortgage holders are just going to say "oh, you're on furlough... ok, we'll hold your payment schedule and just rewrite the terms once you have pay again." WTF is the disconnect here? Defaults are going to spike an
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by zentiggr 8y ago
You have heard of the monkey - ladder - banana experiments? Just because the interview culture has evolved to this awkward unrepresentative generally unhelpful filtering method, is no justification for "well just do it that way and you
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by zentiggr 8y ago
All good reasons for not getting stuck in front of a whiteboard redoing the unprotected unoptimized core of just the basic algo. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use references / existing implementations while at the board being

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