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So, your answer now is to argue that you don't know whether or not the working conditions are bad, after arguing that they aren't bad enough to entitle people to complain? Which is…

So ... what's the wage cutoff where you're no longer entitled to sane working conditions? The real "deeply depressing" bit here is how many of us would rather focus on pulling down…

I never even got to meet one of my grandparents. All I have is stories, and honestly not a lot of those. I don't think you should feel narcissistic at all. Family is one of the pri…

By "your own politics" are we still referring to things like "hey it's not okay that you're making fun of people and their different-sounding names"?

Yeah, that's gotta be one of my biggest complaints after years of working with Rails. Eventually you sort-of memorize the conventions and can relatively accurately guess where a fi…

Right, and on the flipside significant effort has been invested in Clang performance when compiling for Intel CPUs. Much of that is likely to the benefit of all backends, but some …

That's only one part of the problem here. "Competing" in this sense is delivering similar user experience (battery life, performance, seamless hardware interactions) that Apple is …

> The Ansible vault is a bad example of this. They have a little command `ansible-vault` that lets you manage encrypted files and strings. If you run `ansible-vault edit ./nonexist…

Do most generic statements start with "This matches my experience"? Kinda seems like you are, mate.

> or (2) the user to install a certificate generated by the person doing the MITM You mean like that "setup software" Comcast spent ages trying to pretend I had to install just to …

All of the license-encumbered code lives in a separate directory, with a clear warning that it's licensed, and builds result in license-encumbered code being an entirely separate a…

Based on me augmenting my memory with searches of release notes at the time: - Phone apps from the jump - Easy ability to upload files - Search includes the content of those files …

> ircd with logging enabled + elastic search/sphinx/lucene + web frontend Slack is way more than that, though. My recollection is that even the initial version of Slack was more th…

So, what you're saying is there's tons of technologies lying around that are a solid UI and some extra features away from being valuable to normal people. But somehow doing those t…

Indeed. Unless I find a big chunk of time today , I'm 0/4 on a resolution to write a post a month this year. Expecting people to build content in their spare time builds in some he…

People accuse me of playing Baseball, Football, and Guitar for the band TOOL.

Yep. I took a deep dive at one point into understanding concurrent transaction behavior in MySQL and its ramifications. Probably go back and reference that post about once a month.…

That statement assumes no transmission latency on your current setup. Kinda doubt that's the case.

We see that every once in a while with email, where someone decided to sign up for an email list but also wants to charge $1-2 for "unsolicited" delivery. Just set your phone on pe…

PageRank is predicated on an assumption that most pages (and thus, most links) are created/curated by humans. This was true when it was invented, but appears to be less likely now.…

> Any thoughts on how a company should balance good service to users (and false positives) with the need to fight black hats? Charge money. A big part of why MailChimp responded th…

Except it's not a pure cost thing. Delivering blockchain/ICO emails impacts the deliverability scores of everyone else routed through those same domains and IPs. It's incredibly di…

"accountability", as in a golden parachute and maybe an uncomfortable congressional hearing or two? Yeah, huge responsibility there...