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Now is the best time in history to commit federal crimes. Just make sure you have an extra $2m for a pardon and you can do anything you want.

You could probably even pre-pay the bribe and avoid being charged altogether.

> is indeed complicated to open

lmao

> If that's all American cultural

You're still very confused

> I hope the idea is successful in Australia.

It's not a real thing. How many times does this have to be explained to you?

What a weird reply

> Americans would never understand how to use this

This is a student project on Behance for an Australian company. But go on about things American's don't understand.

This is an unaffiliated mockup posted on Behance for an Australian company.

What's extraordinary is your insecurity.

> I suppose you've also never noticed those big orange or green "This vehicle is parked illegally" stickers that tow companies put on cars that, for whatever reason, they are unable to move. The building where I live uses them all the time.

Cars are not buildings. I don't know if this escaped your notice or not...

I noticed you only used an example that didn't fit your first claim. Why is that?

> There's a whole real world of things out there that have apparently escaped your notice.

You were talking about buildings, not cars. Why are you changing the topic?

Do you find it's easier to be snarky if you respond to things nobody said?

> You should check your indignity until you've seen more of it.

Are cars and buildings the same thing?

> you're still going to have to job hop to get a respectable pay bump

This doesn't exist in a vacuum. I do tasks now for future interviews.

> Might as well work less and spend time polishing your resume/side projects to make yourself as employable as possible.

I don't know what jobs you're applying to, but unless your side project is successful, nobody cares. What they do care about is what you did at your last employer.

> This is 100% the fault of poor incentives on the part of employers.

The people who have your mindset are the people perpetually stuck at poor employers.

> I might spend 10 minutes doing a task with AI rather than an hour (w/o AI), but trust me - I am going to keep 50 minutes to myself, not deliver 5 more tasks

It's wild that you just outright admitted this. Seems like your employer would do best to let you go and find someone that can use tools to increase their productivity.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Nobody said split design and specification. Specification is not development.

No, because I have no idea what jurisdiction the person lives in, nor what the contract says.

Why would I respond to something they didn't ask? Why would I give legal advice when I'm not a lawyer?

Start responding to things that are asked, not what you'd prefer to debate.

Complete nonsense. The number of people that complain about things online is in the billions. It is not remarkably effective.

Small claims court has recovered more money than social media posts.

> I can definitely see using that control to make it known that you are in a state of disunion with them.

This is what separates social media parasites from professionals

> I can even see it being done with no harm to your reputation because other future potential clients know they will be able to pay you.

Ah yes, when I look for professionals, I search people with petty online disagreements first. That way I know they take their pennies serious!

Why are you responding with superficial takes? Are you trolling?

It's not complicated... I don't trust the judgement of someone that behaves this way. I have no idea what the contract said, or who is in the right. All I know is I'm not going to take the chance that they don't agree with the contract and now I'm litigating on Facebook....

In what world does someone have the right to put giant stickers over a business window because payment is late?

> that the equipment inside is their property and must be surrendered or legal action will be taken

You're going to deface a building before starting legal proceedings?

Are you trying to troll?

> Not if I disagree with it and certainly not because it contains — gasp - a word for a technology I would prefer not to see discussed!

I'll stop you right there. You were downvoted because you were wrong, not because, - gasp - you used a certain word.

I'm a cryptographer. I'm not afraid of cryptocurrencies. I'm afraid of snake oil salesmen that sell things they don't understand.

> And I also refuse to be bullied into silence by some downvotes

K, well, I have no idea what this means. It's not bullying to downvote a wrong opinion.

I've been wrong lots of times. It's not a big deal...

I didn't say anything about the legality... They asked how to block email. Both of these would work.

There's no reason to respond to questions or points nobody is making.

You say that as if airing your problems on the internet is a reasonable solution for most people.

We have small claims courts in every jurisdiction in the US. It costs $50 to file, and you do not need an attorney. The courts will review the contract and generally reach a reasonable decision.

There's always a cost/benefit to things. I bet the courts have returned more money than Facebook posts have...

> 4 seconds after I posted it, it got downvoted. Then 10 seconds later, -2. Because it has the word cryptocurrency. No one can load, read and react that fast. This is getting ridiculous. Turn off the bots based on a word, and engage with the substance.

Because as soon as you said Cryptocurrency, you lost the plot.

Everything you said is literally how freelancing already works. You pay a certain amount upfront, and then pay more based on deliverables.

> Cryptocurrency is the right fit here because you want it to be tied to something the client can’t just mint unlimited amounts of

Can you tell me how to mint unlimited amounts of US Dollars? I would love this hack.

> just another use of cryptocurrency that properly aligns everyone’s incentives and prevents legal disputes through continuity instead of abruptness

How does a blockchain determine whether I built the site the owner wanted?

I have no idea what the contract says, what was paid, or any of the other conversations they've had. All I see is someone complaining publicly about a private matter. When that happens, I assume they're wrong.

Normal people don't air petty grievances on the internet. They use the courts and other mechanisms.

According to another comment, the business is dissolved. They don't care if their site goes down. So this guy is looking unprofessional for nothing.

Disable the account or change DNS records are the easiest.

Absolutely no one has read a language specification before writing hello world.

Even as a developer with 30+ years experience, I'll write a dozen simple programs before I ever read a specification...

I'm looking for examples of basic control blocks, not esoteric edge cases for advanced features I don't yet care about.

> At the same time doing that in a professional environment sucks for your coworkers

The vast majority of what we learn is in a professional environment. I can't build a hobby app with hundreds of millions of active users. We learn at work, and that means sometimes it sucks. But that's why we have blameless cultures, because we all realize you can't learn unless you first do it in a shitty way.

It's also why AI replacing juniors is terrible. Juniors need to make mistakes and figure things out. That's how they become experienced seniors.

Table based layouts were deprecated even 15 years ago. It goes against your point that things change frequently.

> do you consider yourself a person who 'knows CSS'?

Sure. They know an older version of CSS. They don't know the latest version. Shrug....

> You will get laughed out of a tech interview for it though.

I've never laughed at anyone in an interview. Can you share some more nuances here? What's the role and expectation? How good is their code? Did they just not learn some modern designs, but can learn it quickly? What have they been working on the past few years?

There's nothing wrong with using something before learning it. In fact, I'd argue most people can't learn something without first using it.

You can read all the programming books in the world. Actually writing a hello world program will teach you far more.

If you want to learn to play guitar, you need to start practicing simple chords long before you ever learn theory.

This is a different problem and disciplin. I'm not an artist. I can't design anything pretty. But I can learn a programming language (or CSS) well enough that I can replicate something an artist designs.

We have an entire design org that produces pretty UIs. FE developers are then expected to know the CSS rules to build that design.

The very first thing I teach new FE developers is how to build from Figma designs.

Sure, I hate the way my teeth feel if I don't brush. But I also don't care enough to use a gross plane bathroom.

If I'm that concerned, I'd use some mouthwash.

It's fine. If you're consistent, you can go a few days and it won't make a difference to your health.

> especially for brushing teeth

As someone in a dental family and with excellent teeth, you absolutely do not need to brush your teeth on a flight.

You, when you confused OSI's opinion with "fact". There's no natural law or man-made law that makes your opinion fact.

FYI it doesn't matter. What matters is the text of the license.

Well, you'd be wrong: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source

In case you don't know, the dictionary doesn't prescribe meaning, it catalogs the commonly accepted usage of a word. That's why it listed "literally" to mean "figuratively", because along the way, people started using "literally" to mean "figuratively", so that's the definition now.

The common definition of open source does not match the OSI definition...

> people generally use “shared source” or something

"Shared source" was a Microsoft license and not at all generally accepted by anyone. A quick Google search found no references to this term used to describe open source.