swearfu

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by swearfu 9y ago
No, it's called being terrible at your job. If you need to add complexity to your project just to save you some typing, you have no concept of what you're doing. It's like an accountant not understanding math.
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by swearfu 9y ago
Agreed, I have no idea how this is easier. If anything it makes it impossible to write dynamic code. This is a perfect example of a library that (theoretically) helps the programmer at the expensive of more inefficient code.
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by swearfu 9y ago
I would hope the people at Reddit are smart enough to check an IP and not just a user-agent.
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by swearfu 10y ago
People are much more forgiving of mistakes than they are of deception.
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by swearfu 10y ago
Saw that too, sounds like a convenient excuse for being caught in a lie. AWS Employee #1: Hey, people are catching on that our status page isn't accurate AWS Employee #2: Tell them it's cause of S3
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by swearfu 10y ago
I miss C++ Builder
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by swearfu 10y ago
Charge backs. For a long time those industries were dominated by affiliate programs, and so affiliates would hire firms in other countries to use stolen credit cards to inflate memberships, then charge back after the affiliate got their pay
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by swearfu 10y ago
How is this news? The adult and casino industries have been using this technology for years now to avoid fraud.
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by swearfu 10y ago
Yeah, but it's only dangerous because those people choose to stand there waiting instead of using their legs. It's their choice to be lazy and those create a danger for everyone else. We need to stop rewarding people who can'
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by swearfu 10y ago
Then don't you think they should encourage everyone to keep moving instead of being lazy and standing there. Escalators, like moving walkways, are designed to move people faster, not for people to just stand there like sheep.
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by swearfu 10y ago
Are they serious? It's faster for who exactly? The people who were already standing instead of walking? Why should the people who are walking care, they want to get somewhere faster so they walk, if people want to be lazy and just stan