GoodIntentions

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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
Using this might give you a warm feeling inside, but if anything, it has the potential to cause harm by providing confidence in an entity that is being compelled to continue issuing the canary. "The legal theory behind warrant canaries
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
>compared to the average doctor the average nurse is an idiot. After that statement, I'll assume you don't know what you're talking about or you're in some odd part of the planet where nursing is taught on the job. Ar
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
I have to admit, I've made number of commits with "." as the message. No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and me being utterly buried under work... You kn
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
This thing helped me with networking immensely in college. Nice to see it still exists.
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
I see vice asking to load shit from 12 other domains. Which one is neilson?
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
https://www.requestpolicy.com/ is useful in this regard as well. - Firefox plugin to block cross-domain content. lots of websites pull shit from 20+ 3rd party domains. An obnoxious number of sites block/don't r
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
Whoever made this, please take the criticism constructively. It was good information ( thank you for posting it ), but should have been presented better. Using light blue, blue, grey blue and slightly lighter blue was not good design. I d
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
Thanks for an informative post. I was under the impression OpenOffice was dead post-fork. Colour me wrong...
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
I use plain text editors mainly and agree with the author's premise about cutting the cruft/using a focused tool. The cost complaint doesn't really fly though. Those times When I need something to be in Doc format, I use libr
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
It loaded OK for me: http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html It's html.
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
>I'm not sure I quite expected to see this on HN I think it belongs - What he is suggesting carries over to technical endeavours as well. 1. Learning to cut mercilessly improved clarity of my emails and documentation. 2. Learning to
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
>Everyone did. Developers he stole from stole it from someone else Except perhaps the dev with the initial idea? Stealing someone else's idea might be widespread, but it doesn't make it right.
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
"Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg." "..standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The pri
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
It will show up as an imgur link visited rather than a link with "seemydick" buried in it. If someone is directly reviewing everything you look at, different story. ( and I might say, you've got some workplace problems alre
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
Honesty. Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work? I deeply feel we should each be responsible for our own stupidity. If it is submitted as warranty, it b
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
I worked as a service writer for a couple years. I _never_ saw a warranty claim refused based on owner abuse. Not once. There were times it should have happened, but I could _not_ code a work order as "owner abuse". That was a c
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by GoodIntentions 11y ago
>Why is that not a thing yet? Seems sort of like crowd-sourcing data that would be used to infringe on the freedoms and happiness of people without restraint beyond "did the payment clear?" Count me out, thanks.
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
> just inconceivable. Unless the primary goal was to transfer tax dollars from the unwashed to the privileged.
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
If it is something expedient and thoroughly embarrassing I use //kludge
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
If amazon made it policy to remove any negative comments that steer readers to competing products I think, on the balance it would help.
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
I could see an argument for colocating this type of enterprise in a secure data centre. There are places with 24/7 surveillance and 24/7 armed staff on site and they are going to do the security better than your average group of s
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
As far as this dude, with his aging eyeballs is concerned, the colour's meaning, if any was irrelevant. I mean, the information was interesting enough to me to try to read it, but I frankly can not parse what looks like #FFFFFF text on
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
Depending on your target demographic, and the nature of the SaaS, incorporating to give the appearance of stability and scale may be beneficial if not essentially a requirement. If you're trying to sell something any largish company mi
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
Was the volume on bitstamp sufficiently large that a 19k BTC hot wallet was actually required? I only know enough about this stuff to ask the odd ( possibly daft ) question, but $5.2 Million strikes me as an awful lot to have "at hand
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
This is truth. I have seen this from both sides, and it is something you _need_ to know if you are interviewing people. The very best people for the job will have options. The very best hires don't _need_ your job. Not considering t
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
nothing to do with airbnb, but these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London spring to mind when you say 'disrupted'. - It is on the surface almost a communal effort, with profit and loss bein
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
>get rid of the red light cameras because they increase rear crashes. A better solution would be enforcing a sane minimum yellow light timing on camera intersections. Shortening the yellow to the point where the normal traffic sometimes
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
>Adsense seems to do pretty well (~$12 billion/year). No offense intended, but profitability of the entity selling the advert space does not mean return was generated for advertisers.
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
analytics. content on 3rd party site->ad->your landing page. analyze what happens. You can compare normal behavior - time on page, number of pages viewed etc occurring from normal organic traffic against traffic generated by the ad c
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
>> Message to QNX people; would it be possible to re-instigate the tradition from the late 90s second this. I was really impressed with QNX - I played with it a bit and stopped when the licensing changed.

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