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Among other reasons (good citizen, not getting permabanned…), chargebacks aren't really a thing in Europe — they often require a police report, etc. Amex being the exception, but t…

Kind of unrelated but: my father tried gifting my brother a subscription but entered the wrong email. Money and subscription are both gone — UI just doesn't have the option of amen…

got-your-back uses Gmail's API instead of IMAP with an insecure app password, which is a discouraged way of accessing Gmail and will eventually be phased out in favor of OAuth acce…

I have a colleague based in the UK who got infected with COVID in the early days of the pandemic, before any measures were taken. He still has important health issues - and he's yo…

> "Then later on it was discovered that a lot of positive tests are asymptomatic and asymptomatic people don't transmit the disease, so this just hurt healthcare capacity for no re…

Maybe it was based on seeing what happened in other countries, ie. Spain and Italy? I can say for sure that the impact in the health care system here in Spain was very significant.…

> "it is nonsensical to compare covid to other major pandemics […] Covid will never even come close to those numbers. And yet many countries have shut down their entire economies" …

I started out with PHP at a very very young age and eventually moved on to other platforms (mainly Python). Not looking to question your experience - but actually recalling my own.…

The post clearly states that users can install extensions through the developer's website. The main difference here is that extensions cannot be silently installed — users have to …

National politics (Catalonia, etc). But there's also an endemic issue with spending on unnecessary infrastructure while underfunding heavily used infrastructure (such as public tra…

Agree on this. It was… weird to see someone making a correlation between "not enjoying porn on display during a security conference" and the gender of the person. It's good that th…

$200k and up, for a Senior Software Engineer, is something that's only "frequent" in the U.S. (and varying a lot based on specific locations). With rentals costing many thousands o…

110k in France is a lot. And I reckon you can buy a house (well, depending on your standards) with that salary and some discipline…

I meant Mandrill—Mandrill was a significant mistake. SendGrid is working great for us. So sorry.

Oops, sorry. Brain fart. I meant Mandrill, Mandrill was a significant mistake. SendGrid is working great for us. So sorry.

We choose SendGrid long time ago to unify all our mail infrastructure under one provider and it was a significant mistake. Now, we're heavily relying on SendGrid but some systems s…

Unless you're thinking about the next Silk Road, then, you're not solving the real problem here.

And mechanics.

I wonder why Spain, France, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden… are excluded, but not Germany or the United Kingdom or many other EU countries.

You don't want ABS? How about no airbag either? And doing away with safety belts as well? The bulk of the cost of producing an electric car comes from battery packs, and cost is al…

In this very minute my team is unable to deploy (and therefore accumulating blockings) because of issues with Gitlab. We have a plan on-hold to migrate off Gitlab (even though we j…

GitLab's recent performance has been abysmal. We recently moved from a self-hosted git solution to GitLab, and while the CI, 'namespacing' and issue tracking are truly great and we…

VAT only applies to consumption by citizens of a country. Not enterprises, not foreigners. If anyone were to sell services to foreign companies or individuals, they wouldn't genera…

In our case, data migration. Resumable, sometimes dies because of various reasons (or just infra rescaling happening), but takes very long to run.