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Re:Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:00AM (#25023712)
It’s possible to read your entire web site and still have no clue what your company does.

Brilliant.

Not to mention it has a software license attached to it.

Fuck-capitalism but obey my rules plebs.

So cringe.
Ooooh I see it’s new trust and safety employee week at eBay.

Wait until PayPal bans them for life for the same thing using the exact same language. Fun times.

I dropped Firefox for brave because Firefox dropped support for massive amounts of simple power user features like RSS while claiming they were all “too hard to maintain”. Meanwhile they put massive amounts of time and effort into trying to be a chrome look-alike which adds zero value.
Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:49AM (#24967047)
Use your smtp server for inbound only. I much prefer to let people with deeper pockets to maintain the outbound mess. Your domain provider probably provides just such an email server for its customers.
Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:22AM (#24966119)
Just don’t do it. Run your own domain and inbound email server. It’s so cheap it basically costs nothing at this point.
Re:The redesign of New York City's subway map [video] on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:10AM (#24966037)
Great for people already experts in navigating the ny transit system. A ux nightmare for anyone approaching it blind.
Fruit of the poisoned tree and the toxic entitled people that come with it.
Re:5Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:07AM (#24949835)
One mans dull travelogue of copying and pasting things.
Can’t see it behind all the pop ups.
The only company I’ve ever seen take these requirement seriously is Transferwise. I have a very common last name and similarly common-ish business name and they had to have me say I wasn’t related to a bunch of politicians I’d never heard or nor associated with a bunch of similar companies.

This keyword stuff is no kind of protection for them, especially if their own reps are advising people to just circumvent the list, which itself probably is a TOS violation.

Wait until they ban you for life for a similarly random reason, then tell you “it cannot be appealed” lol.
Around here you see a lot of people with plastic stars they give out for “donating” to police organizations screwed onto the rear license plate.
Re:Can't you just right click? on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:49AM (#24220893)
It costs $349/yr to rent the magic number required to ship signed drivers for Windows. $99 seems pedestrian by comparison.
Re:Can't you just right click? on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:46AM (#24220873)
And yet people would vomit blood being asked to pay $99 for an app.
Soft skills.
PayPal be like o.O
Is he trying to get Microsoft a better deal? Like, right out in the open?
Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:23AM (#23914733)
Is it really so hard to spin up an aws machine with a plain old lamp stack to serve this kind of content? Its incredibly cheap and simple to do.
Re:Stripe Is Holding 25% of Our Funds, Indefinitely on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:43PM (#23883138)
Or they could just terminate your merchant account and put you on the MATCH list for excessive chargebacks.

This -is- being nice and empathetic for a payment processor.

Products “based on Eclipse”. All 15 of them.
Re:Soup.io Will Be Discontinued on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:18AM (#23810311)
What part of this site couldn’t be served off a laptop in a closet?
Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:15AM (#23777744)
This needs to be front page.
Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:06AM (#23777707)
Seriously, this. Try searching for anything even remotely medical related. 100% garbage in every search engine.
Re:Firefox Picture-in-Picture on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:16PM (#23771319)
YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?
Hiring is not a meritocracy and programming is not bowling.
Re:Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:07AM (#23746271)
It’s hard to rationalize calling it a “4K demo” when you’re allowed to call OpenGL.
Re:System Hardening in Android 11 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:28AM (#23698044)
I’m confused a bit, why would allowing a double free of memory ever be a desirable behavior?
One patient? Could have been over medication or misdiagnosis to begin with.

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