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I don't know that replaceability (true or not) should have that much of an outsized impact on the expectations of humane treatment I realize capitalism rewards scarcity here, but i…

i've never seen a company take action from someone leaving, and any push for change has to be sustained by people still at the company. i'd be curious if anyone has ever seen it ha…

i think there's also a fallacy there that you can't work on billion dollar cases while also pursuing million dollar ones even if they were the same people, relatively simple cases …

like art, not all software must be commercial

Pretend Wordle was an open source MIT licensed game that someone created and released online. Or pretend Wordle is one of the countless examples of freeware ( https://en.wikipedia.…

> Being an engineer who wasn’t happy with a situation like this, I gave my manager a piece of my mind. She brought gender into the equation and said that I couldn’t speak to a girl…

Talk about property taxes next tim

(this was published back in dec)

This article is focusing on user customization in the wrong places. OS window chrome is mostly invisible to most users nowadays. The places where customization happens is within ap…

> They've solved the trust and the brand issue, and _that_ is their moat. I think they've solved it better than their competitors, but I'm not sure that they've solved it broadly f…

teachers at your school are able to directly effect organizational budgeting and spending?

> $1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who really needs a mask teachers and many essential workers who need masks the most are also most vul…

I've started using IFTTT to sent RSS feed updates over to my email, and I think I've finally found my preferred way of consuming feeds. My email client is actually much more powerf…

> Epic, btw, has the exact same kind of agreement with Sony, Microsoft, and Google, for access to their gaming platforms. All three of those companies are extracting the same 30% f…

Interesting to also compare and contrast to his post on the initial acquisition by Yahoo: https://ma.tt/2013/05/yahooblr/

> I was against banning Alex Jones > However, encouraging violence hmmm

It's ironic to me that useplaintext.email uses formatting and design to communicate intention that would be impossible in a plaintext email

Did some of y'all stop reading at half of the first sentence? The article isn't a parody, and is expressly saying that SF/Silicon Valley can be a pretty bad place to live, specific…

Did... you read the same article I did? The author describes a hyper competitive childhood that explicit took a mental and physical toll on the student body

Ignoring for a second what should or shouldn't be allowed... now the moderators are just subjected to constant child porn or potential child porn, which, let's be honest, is still …

Whatever the semantics of security by obsucrity, it's still not ideal that an unintentional screengrab or screen share could reveal the fully editable path of a doc (i much prefer …

I actually feel a big difference when I upgrade, usually on the same 3-4 year cadence. Admittedly, the most recent cycle felt somewhat the same, but generally I see a boost in qual…

As with any other big cultural shift (I see some parallels with remote working), it looks like there must be processes and other practices/support systems/safeguards in place to ma…