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by ventana 3d ago
Here's a quote from their terms and conditions: Governing Law; Venue. All claims arising out of or relating to the AdSense Terms or the Services will be governed by California law, excluding California's conflict of laws
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by ventana 11d ago
Cops love Flock. I'm subscribed to some of the local police department accounts in social networks, and Facebook shows me more of those across the country, and I see a lot of posts like “a serious crime happened, we tracked the car
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by ventana 16d ago
Most likely it will work. It will also look very LLM-generated, “claudish”, and people will be able to tell that they are looking at the vibe-coded frontend. Inside, there will be dragons: you will probably learn that all your CSS and JS ar
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by ventana 16d ago
> You can be a software developer without ... any licensure. Don't jinx it. We are extremely lucky in this regard, and it actually looks like a rare exception.
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by ventana 17d ago
> NEGOTIATE (A2A Network) > According to YC data, a B2B company needs an aggregate 800 cold emails (factoring open, response, and conversion rates) to secure a single customer, while spam thresholds tighten to 0
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by ventana 18d ago
The paper is basically like this (spoiler alert): “Some random user on Reddit posted a picture claiming that this is the longest straight line path on water possible on the Earth. We implemented a smart algorithm to solve this problem, foun
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by ventana 18d ago
Actually, ICQ had no relation to Russia in 1990s. It was acquired by AOL in 1998, went through several rounds of enshittification and protocol changes to defeat third party clients which did not show ads, and finally landed in Mail.Ru group
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by ventana 18d ago
It's interesting that this piece stands well enough if you replace mathematics with probably any other intellectual profession, including software development or pretty much anything else. And, I lie to anyone who asks me why I’m a
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by ventana 18d ago
ICQ? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... a long time.
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by ventana 22d ago
The majority of the side projects I work on just because it's fun to work on something; if people actually use it then great, but if not, the project will just wait until someone eventually comes in. With this approach, it's not “
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by ventana 22d ago
This is a long, but well written and very reasonable document. I especially like that they acknowledge that there cannot be one-size-fits-all approach to AI in education, that they recommend against regular AI detectors, and that they encou
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by ventana 23d ago
I would guess this is what the managers and PMs had been feeling for all those years while we developers were happy writing our code. I actually feel much more sympathy to my managers now that I'm kind of managing a team of very produc
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by ventana 23d ago
The main question is whether you have SSN or not. If you worked for American companies from abroad, you probably filed W-8BEN and were considered a non-US person for all tax purposes, had no TIN and nothing was reported on you to Equifax or
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by ventana 23d ago
In my 20-something years in the industry I worked for teams that claimed they use scrum, sprints, or some combination of those, multiple times; in all 100% of cases it had nothing to do with how the “real” scrum is supposed to work. The maj
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by ventana 23d ago
I can totally imagine writing a blog post just because I want to write something, having zero interest in hearing anyone's comments on the topic. So while some blog authors want to make it easier to respond and comment to their posts,
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by ventana 23d ago
Such places definitely exist, but it's a choice to live in a food desert vs live in a city with public transportation and walkability. There definitely exist cities in the US where you can live without a car. It's mostly a questio
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by ventana 23d ago
Out of my 3 big tech employers, only one reported just a fact of my employment with them to the credit report, but all three reported everything to The Work Number.
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by ventana 24d ago
Sure, not all good laws are given. Must take a good public campaign or maybe a big leak for the law like that to appear. I would think California will be one of the first states to adopt a law like that, similar to how they now forbid to as
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by ventana 24d ago
Except in the credit report they only list your lenders and how much money you owe, and your payment history, and it's technically possible to not get any credit and have no information, or at least no recent information, in your credi
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by ventana 24d ago
When you apply for a software job in the US and go through a background check, most of your former employments are verified through The Work Number. As an employee, I'm not aware of a way to opt out of this data collection, and I assum
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by ventana 25d ago
As the article correctly mentions, Lisp as a concept is much older than any of the popular languages used these days; so are the attempts to get more people use it. Most of them are, unfortunately, unsuccessful, because it's probably i
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by ventana 26d ago
For me, $3 a click would've worked for some projects, but $30 would not work for sure. Knowing that it's $30 and not $3 before the start of some campaigns, I would've saved some money. I instead paid that money to Google for
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by ventana 27d ago
That's great! I was experimenting with Google Ads traffic to one of the websites I cared about, and even just looking at the existence of mouse move and scroll events, let alone the patterns, made me understand how many bots, or users
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by ventana 28d ago
I know, it's just less obvious and probably not at all convincing for a person with no mathematical knowledge. Even talking about (1+1/n)ⁿ is not easy without a bunch of calculus.
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by ventana 28d ago
Now wait until someone asks the author to prove that e or π exist. The whole reasoning they used for √2 is based on the fact that √2 is a root of a simple equation x²-2=0 which has rational coefficients; with e or π no such equation exists.
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by ventana 28d ago
They won't defend you from IRS if you underpaid the tax, and "sorry I used TurboTax" is not a valid excuse.
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by ventana 28d ago
I feel it's somewhat similar to using TurboTax or other online services to file your taxes. For those not in the US, the tax forms have a special field to fill in if the form was prepared by a paid preparer (licensed, I guess); TurboTa
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by ventana 1mo ago
I clicked thinking it's something about beets the vegetable. No, it is not.
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by ventana 1mo ago
Of course, the whole concept of a breaking change does not really apply if all usage is within the controlled code. The problems start to appear when you have external users with old versions; then protobuf starts having a bunch of weird li
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by ventana 1mo ago
For HN, where readers are expected to be hackers, reading that you might want to go online to convert a HEIC to something is a little bit weird. Paragraphs like this: The Shift to Client-Side Processing (Local Conversion) To solve thi

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