airnomad

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by airnomad 6y ago
Do you guys remember Meebo? They had web based interface built on top of libpurple which powers Pidgin too. Google bought them and shut them down.
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by airnomad 6y ago
No.
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by airnomad 6y ago
You didn't have to bite your tongue - you could've told her she's wrong.
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by airnomad 6y ago
Nope. Politics they ban straight away no matter how many upvotes it gets. Too divisive they say.
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by airnomad 6y ago
I was on a call with their sales rep and he was awful. Even if I told him what kind of volume we're looking at, the guy didn't want to talk costs, over two meetings. Very poor experience. Seems like they're designing pricing
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by airnomad 6y ago
A guy from a company with probably the worst history of unethical or even illegal behavior in the industry, got all worked up about guys doing link building outreach.
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by airnomad 7y ago
I would love to use iOS devices but somehow I just can't accept I can't run Linux on them. I understand, it's all great and neat and etc. but I also believe IT professionals should use open source OS if possible at all. I don
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by airnomad 7y ago
Sometime those start-up gurus sound like self-help gurus.
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We need a new document markup language – here is why(freecodecamp.org)
6 points by airnomad 7y ago|4 comments
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Let's talk about Vim performance(reddit.com)
3 points by airnomad 7y ago|1 comments
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by airnomad 7y ago
I'm not sure why people are downvoting this
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by airnomad 7y ago
Google needs to buy Cloudflare.
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by airnomad 7y ago
Just gift people books.
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by airnomad 7y ago
Honestly, a lot of bloat is coming from WordPress, which is a platform that encourages bad development practices. I had this client with content WordPress website, 50-so plugins and regular blog post would have 1 MB JavaScript. It's cr
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by airnomad 7y ago
Problem with google is that they are losing data game. They own the web but meanwhile web became only one medium among many and a lot of companies build their own "web" Instagram app is essentially a browser to use IG's priva
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by airnomad 7y ago
I was kinda surprised to see only one pull request
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by airnomad 7y ago
All tools suck in a way that actual reality of doing work is complicated and tools are obviously way simpler so you end up trying to reduce the reality to fit the model of a particular tool. That explains why email is still the most used to
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by airnomad 7y ago
I try to use Jira whenever I can. It sucks. But the thing is everything else also suck so for me Jira sucks a little bit less.
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by airnomad 7y ago
When tax payers foot the bill it's easy to spend entire morning on a single line commit. For many or most guys out there, reality is way different. For one, it's an actual reality, not VC or government funded Utopia.
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by airnomad 7y ago
People unfortunately don't get that and are being slow cooked into accepting being spied on. I paid for device and then you prevent me from doing perfectly legal action and then notify authorities about it. That's what it is, and
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by airnomad 7y ago
I'm arguing that everyone should be living as close to how they want as possible
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by airnomad 7y ago
who are "we" that don't want that? The homeless population would definitely want that.
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by airnomad 7y ago
You don't get it. Why would they need to quit drugs or go somewhere? If we want that, we're capable to put them by force where ever we want. We're also able to put them on drug rehab by force if we want to. But the point is s
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by airnomad 7y ago
Philosophy on how people should live is not a set in stone. It's a moving target and it should be moving in a direction of achieving the best outcome for everyone, regardless if they're investment bankers or heroin addicts. People
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by airnomad 7y ago
Take children playgrounds for example - you have them where you have a lot of families with kids, right? And that makes sense since that is kind of public infrastructure supporting the needs of a certain population. However, homeless people
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by airnomad 7y ago
Have you ever camped in a camping spot somewhere? You get electricity, bathrooms, access to kitchen etc. If we could accept the fact that some people want to live on the streets, we would be able to make their life much easier and better wi
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by airnomad 7y ago
Why do we expect that people should live in house or have a home? Maybe we need to design our cities and public places in a way that they would be approachable for people living outside? Why we wouldn't have camping spots in cities wit
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by airnomad 7y ago
I think we should fight for private communication to be a human right, nothing less than that. So if terrorists have right for a fair trial, they should also have a right to communicate privately.
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by airnomad 7y ago
They would do better if they spent 100M on ads to promote Firefox downloads. Privacy is a lost cause. Sure, you'll probably get anonymity ie. your PII are gonna be scrambled, but all our activities are gonna be streamed to AI engines f
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by airnomad 7y ago
How would you compare grid reliability to reliability of huge networks such as Google's or Facebook's? Scale might be comparable.

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