TravelTechGuy

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by TravelTechGuy 5mo ago
Agreed. Another important lesson I learned when delivering code to a non-profit org, and them asking me to convert my final invoices into "donations" to the org.
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by TravelTechGuy 5mo ago
Sadly every consultant can tell you at least one (hopefully only one) story about clients who refuse to pay. Either outright, or with some excuse about you "not delivering", or they "not liking" what you delivered. I hav
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by TravelTechGuy 2y ago
OMG. We truly live in the stupid timeline. How do I get back to the prime timeline from here?
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by TravelTechGuy 3y ago
Your last sentence should be a t-shirt.
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by TravelTechGuy 3y ago
It is a very sad story. Our company committed to open sourcing all of our code (it's in the web3/blockchain space), and we had, and continue to have, spirited discussions about which parts we should maybe license differently, as t
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by TravelTechGuy 3y ago
I do not understand why people keep building in that space. Not only is it a niche market, but it can be completely decimated by Google/MS adding a feature to their interface. Add to that the non-existing costs of switching between the
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by TravelTechGuy 3y ago
IMHO this ban will never pass. The only law all these people are always sure to vote for is the one increasing their salary and benefits. But beyond that, even if it passes, I expect so many violations that it'd be as if it didn't
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by TravelTechGuy 3y ago
We need a GDPR in the US. Yesterday. All the people who treat our private data as their own will stop and think twice if they face the chance of losing billions for breaking privacy laws. And every data collection should be turned from opt-
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by TravelTechGuy 3y ago
How to pass horrible bills: 1. Stuff them with truly horrible ideas. 2. Wait for public to scream. 3. Remove half of the horrible ideas (keeping the core crap, like no FOIAs, privacy violations etc.) hidden and spread amongst hundreds o
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by TravelTechGuy 4y ago
Self custody is hard. And even professionals can make mistakes. Most people don't think about it: they have a bank holding their "balance", a broker "holding" their stocks, an employer "holding" their sala
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by TravelTechGuy 4y ago
Makes even more sense if you treat it as a foreign hostile takeover. A quick look at some of the funding sources for the $44b, and the distinct direction Twitter took post-acquisition suggest (to me at least - personal opinion) that Musk is
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by TravelTechGuy 4y ago
Some more background: the companies were engaged in fighting over regulations, and on a personal basis between the 2 CEOs. It went down to really childish levels at some point. But one thing is undeniable: SBF (FTX CEO) was trying to weapon
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by TravelTechGuy 5y ago
re: the performance review: don't know about your work place, but the first quarterly review I got at [insert name of large known company], my manger sat me down and explained she is budgeted a certain amount of bonus points for her 5
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by TravelTechGuy 7y ago
Sad story, though not uncommon. I heard many eBay horror stories involving buyers' scams. Frankly, selling anything on Amazon is crazy. But if you do have to, vet your buyer. Look at their previous purchases and feedbacks. Avoid the qu
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Black Adder might return for a fifth season (rumor)(arstechnica.com)
3 points by TravelTechGuy 7y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
> The nightmare scenario for a financial institution is someone getting a mortgage, paying it off early, and not getting another mortgage. I think the nightmare scenario for financial institutions is people buying houses for cash. No mor
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
1984 changed the way I perceive language and culture permanently. The notion that if certain words no longer exist in the language, then the associated idea will disappear from the culture was Earth-shaking to me. Another idea that book dro
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
I really liked the story, and it's well worth telling it, and highlighting the heroes (and anyone who was there is a hero in my book). But the writing style was kinda hard to follow. It reads more like a stream-of-thought piece rather
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
But there's no easy way to inject this AbortControl into existing libraries, or use it easily with async/await. I'm looking for an easier standard.
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
Not sure if it had been mentioned already, but I think we could benefit from cancellable Promises. Many of the modules and libraries currently support Promises, and `async/await`, but try to find a way to cancel a long-running Promise.
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
If that's the approach they're taking, why not just cancel the day Friday all together? Seriously, instead of finding and fighting the root causes of the problems, they treat the symptoms. Reminds me of the old Jewish folk tale&#x
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
Next stop: electricity company liable for people using their product to power computers that violate copyrights. Side question: is anyone tallying the damage caused by the music/film industry to the public by creating crazy precedents
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Top-grossing Mac App Store app steals users’ browser histories(engadget.com)
2 points by TravelTechGuy 8y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
So the author copied data from one Microsoft site (LinkedIn) to another Microsoft site (GitHub). Both sites use PII to target people and companies: how many annoying emails have you received from LinkedIn this week? And I mean the creepy
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
Can confirm. If I have a secondary DNS specified in my router, other than my pi-hole, it becomes useless. My guess is the router is either measuring response time, and goes with the most efficient, or otherwise round-robining the requests.
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Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax 'to stop gossip'(bbc.com)
2 points by TravelTechGuy 8y ago|0 comments
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Apple and Its Rivals Bet Their Futures on These Men’s Dreams(bloomberg.com)
4 points by TravelTechGuy 8y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
I couldn’t help but think that if Palanteer employees ever decide to quit based on their company’s questionable decisions, there’d be no one left to work there.
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by TravelTechGuy 8y ago
I would consider this contract to be more "legal" if it contained the other side of the equation: By looking at the ads and executing the code we download to your computer, our site assumes full responsibility for the code, ads an
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Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging(nytimes.com)
1 points by TravelTechGuy 8y ago|1 comments

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