makeitsuckless

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by makeitsuckless 9y ago
If you don't have a culture of such infantile frat-house behaviour, you don't distribute such memos. It might surprise you, but this isn't how adults communicate, or want to be talked to. This is frat boys communicating to fr
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by makeitsuckless 10y ago
LittleSnitch also makes you totally paranoid about how almost every piece of software is spying on you without explicit consent. Also, Microsoft really needs to clean up their domain usage, because it takes 999 permission rules to run Offic
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by makeitsuckless 10y ago
> The CEO of a flat company probably has a need to see everything And Slack does an excellent job at demonstrating why that is idealistic nonsense and simply bad management that doesn't work, simply by making it possible to actually
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by makeitsuckless 10y ago
Let's not kid ourselves. This is not about energy, creativity, flexibility and all that shit. It's about two things, young people are a) cheap and b) gullible and easy to manipulate. The latter is probably the most important. I&#x
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by makeitsuckless 10y ago
> "You must like dealing with people to be great at management." This is what I always assumed, and why, as an introverted programmer, I avoided the management track until my late 30s. Turns out, I'm a pretty great manager
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by makeitsuckless 10y ago
For fuck sake, how can you have such a blatantly anti-European headline and pad the article with anti-European propaganda phrasings like "Europe’s attempts to get access to encrypted data" when the same fucking article itself stat
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Schneier is missing one major reason why companies keep data: regulation. So many regulatory bodies and laws requiring companies to keep all kinds of data for all kinds of reasons for a wide variety of periods, so that simply having a polic
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It's not "perfectly fine online". In fact, much of it is already illegal in most civilized countries, and has been long before internet was a big thing. However, any attempt to execute and finetune legislation and regulation
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Feels like we're chasing our tails on this one. We went from "programmers" to "developers" to "engineers". Every time it started well, because only people with the right mindset referred to themselves and
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It's stories like this that cause everyone in Europe except the blind SV worshippers and libertarian fundamentalists to just shrug and shake their heads every time a rant comes up about how the US is so much better for startups and ent
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
The part that makes this kind of crap so infuriating is that there's usually a large group of people that, despite what the author casually claims, do care: the people on the payroll. The people about to lose their jobs. But of cours
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
You realise millions of us happily and peacefully live in smaller countries that are the successful result of secession?
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
If only publishers had put that much thought and effort in sneaking in increasingly bloated advertising in with http requests for content until the ratio ads/content was a 100/1, or in massively violating their readers privacy a
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It's not just you. I've been an Apple fan for a long time, but the only Apple app I regularly use is Keynote. For everything else I use alternatives, and that has never been any different. With the occasional exception, Apple has
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
You start with being ethical. In the online business, that pretty much covers most things with the exception of VAT, the clusterfuck known as "intellectual property", and the fine line between freedom of speech and hate speech. (I
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
The lack of any kind of introspection is painful. Sure, new tech will be abused for anything, but no industry has so completely and totally unethically abused tech as the advertising industry. The only other field that has been so utterly u
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
"Hire Doers vs Tellers". I agree with the statement, but I disagree with the method. You can separate doers from tellers by how they talk about the work and how they (non-verbally) react to certain questions. However, separating
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Also, this callous attitude will run afoul of labour protection laws in most civilized countries that aren't the US.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> the hostility that's constantly directed at him and Facebook Methinks you are confusing cause and effect.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Because the lack of credibility of someone who gets his fortune from creating a severely ethically challenged corporation? The benefit of the doubt only applies if there is no evidence either way. We're past that. Sure, we can hope ,
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I know this approach as simply "being Dutch". And it's a major source of culture shock for expats working in the Netherlands.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It's so weird. Everything I have by Apple still works and still looks good. But all my Apple data and power cables are held together with Sugru.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
People who share a certain ideology aren't an "ethnic" group. We do exactly the same with nazis. Whether those measures are effective or desirable is up for debate, but the constant attempt to shut down that debate by playing
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I'll believe it when Google start acknowledging human being's desire for privacy as a real thing instead of a technical and commercial obstacle.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It's embarrassing that the tin foil hat suggestion that the European Court has a political agenda isn't downvoted into oblivion. Not to mention the simple fact that through this ruling the court actually struck down a treaty supp
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
As far as I can tell, that still makes it harder to get into the UK than many other countries in the EU.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Of all the ratings, IMDB are the most useless of all. Especially for quality movies that have gathered enough of a reputation to be watched by the masses of tv or netflex, who then proceed to rate them low for being "boring". Pret
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I'm sorry, but I think these recurring "we do everything remote" are cheap shots from the outliers that produce software that, with all due respect, is relatively simple, usually the "for developers, by developers"
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Yes, violating a user's privacy is really ethical...
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
You have to put this in the context of it being almost two decades since Wired was relevant.

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