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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Good content is not easy. Especially when the scuttlebutt is that they're not going to be doing anything more risque than PG-13. It's true that not every good TV show needs constant swearing and gore and T&A to be good, bu
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by checktheorder 7y ago
In fairness to Facebook (which is a phrase I never thought I'd type) Whatsapp's Signal-derived end-to-end encryption was implemented almost a year after Facebook bought it. Of course, there's still the flaw of backups to Go
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by checktheorder 7y ago
True, I didn't mean to imply officially-sanctioned engineers are better than developers in all things, or that one can't be both, or that glacially slow and careful programming is the right approach in all circumstances. I just ha
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Same phenomenon for me in southern Ontario. My ISP (Start.ca) is using Rogers' infrastructure. Evenings equal poor streaming video performance on all sites despite an otherwise-perfect connection. If I connect to a VPN, video performan
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by checktheorder 7y ago
If Apple does adopt RCS, it's likely only as a fallback for iMessage, much like SMS today. And rather than Apple abandoning control over their messaging platform, I'd sooner bet on Apple releasing iMessage and Facetime for Android
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by checktheorder 7y ago
As a Canadian with a lot of iron rings in the family, it's always so weird to see the phrase "software engineer". It just doesn't feel like it's been earned.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Apples to oranges. Javascript is an open-standard language, not a closed black box runtime like Flash.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
And even if one can afford Apple hardware, I'd bet on there being significant overlap between the "has keen interest in security" and "likes to fix own hardware" crowds. I could easily afford to have an all-Apple ho
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by checktheorder 7y ago
As someone who dealt professionally with security issues from about 2000 onwards, many involving Flash 0-days, I have about as much fond remembrance of Flash as I do for polio or smallpox. I regard it as an infectious scourge that humanity
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by checktheorder 7y ago
That was actually quite informative, thanks for the link.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>FastMail support is worse than Google and has fewer features. Actually I use Fastmail, and am a big fan. I've never had an issue reaching support. Of course I've rarely had to, the service is pretty reliable. As for features,
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Needless to say, never using a Google service again. The only Google services I bother with are search, maps, youtube (in a non-logged-in viewing-only capacity, not a posting-my-own-videos capacity) and the android play store (paying fo
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Because you have a very accurate nose.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Agreed. I'm one of those oddball half-GenX/half-millennials, but I spend a lot of time around Gen Z's. (Not in a creepy way, I'm just the eldest cousin in a huge close extended family.) I think the way Gen Z handles tech
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I think it's because those with political influence who espouse xenophobic views also tend to dislike the poor. "Taxpayer" as an identity has connotations of "only the landed gentry should have a voice in society's
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by checktheorder 7y ago
"Do you have anything light?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqjsyfbcd4
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>the messy parts of the UEFI ecosystem The jokes practically write themselves.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Citizen sounds like a pretty awful word choice in a country with so many non-citizen immigrants though (and non-immigrants for that matter). It's sound like they're deliberately being excluded. I was referring to its use in th
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I think a lot of the entrepreneurs here are having difficulty in competing on the open market with the FAANGs and not-quite-as-big-as-FAANGs-but-still-big companies. They don't really want to end the tech industry's free reign.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>We are not consumers, we are people. I often base my vote, when all the candidates in a given election have similar policies, on how they refer to people. Use of "Consumers" loses my vote instantly. "Taxpayers" is a
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Morals and integrity are foreign concepts to marketers. I used to think that marketing had a place, if properly used. After working with marketers for a decade, I just consider them and their whole wretched field a lost cause. I have no sym
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>My go to has been "ceo@example.com" for years. I think I may make the effort to learn how to make a Firefox extension to automate this. Scrape "about us", "contact", etc. page in background for first email
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Are you asking for a hypothetical scenario where I was the web developer in question having to stand up to some marketing drone? Take a closer look at the key phrase in my post: "makes no effort". If a web developer who's try
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Ah, but most other countries don't share a border with Iran. Wouldn't it be a funny old coincidence if Turkmenistan's economy just happened to completely collapse, and the US saved the day with some generous aid packages c
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I like you.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>MortgageSite: HEY! It looks like you're new to this site. Want to get on our mailing list? Dear every web developer in the world who makes no effort to fight your employers' marketing department on this: I hate you.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>But then of course the aircraft got saddled with requirements from three different branches of the military at once which made it extremely difficult to design and build and thus very very expensive. Sounds rather like the Space Transpo
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Modern nation-states are perfectly capable of dealing with climate change issues. They're the only entities with the power to properly do so. The problem lies in industry-bought politicians preventing those nation-states from enacting
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>cost savings (ala the F-35) What.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of removing features to simplify maintenance, Gnome 3 style. "Good news, General. We've found a way to lower maintenance costs in the cockpit systems by 10% if we removed this thing here on the

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