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Re:My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @02:27AM (#18343711)
Thanks to you, I've learned that I don't suffer from imposter syndrome. I just suck.
Do you hate Nazis?
If we follow this reasoning, a statement like "Nazis deserve to die." would be hate speech.
> we codify

That is a line.

Re:How a Website Exploited Amazon S3 to Outrank Everyone on Google on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:21AM (#18098993)
Careful, SEO egos are fragile. They have to keep believing the fantasy. Their lives are built around it. They must so they can keep selling snake oil.
Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:29PM (#18090796)
ProtonMail (free/paid) and Runbox (paid only, but reasonable) are a couple of other options.

There's also the option of running your own server, but it seems deliverability is an issue.

Re:Why I’m done with Chrome on Sunday September 23, 2018 @11:11PM (#18054765)
You seem to mean AdWords (now Google Ads). AdSense is for publishers.
This is not a case of either/or. It's a case of both/and. We should criticize both the PRC and the US.
Re:Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole on Saturday September 08, 2018 @05:00AM (#17940133)
From the article:

> Steinberger replied later that day. Half his board, he explained unhappily, had told him that unless he pulled the article, they would all resign and “harass the journal” he had founded 25 years earlier “until it died.” Faced with the loss of his own scientific legacy, he had capitulated.

It's sad that these lunatics have the power to do these things, but that's why people appease them.

Re:Noisy: Random DNS, HTTP/S traffic noise generator on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:05PM (#17931380)
Read up on China and VPNs. A lot of providers and individual are now using obfuscation techniques to circumvent the Great Firewall.
Re:Conservative web development on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:41PM (#17912158)
When on mobile, I don't actually passively browse. I only browse when I need something specific (e.g., directions, movie start time, etc.). To that end, I've used less than 100MB in the last month.

It would also be nice if we could have browsers restrict page size. That is, "hey, server, I'll only accept your page if it's less than X size." That'd be nice because then developers could get some actual feedback.

Re:Conservative web development on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:35PM (#17911589)
It matters because you (generic you, not you specifically) don't pay my mobile bill.
Re:Conservative web development on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:27PM (#17911538)
As long as web designers and developers continue to target imaginary users or themselves, they'll also leave real users wanting more.

Great, you've shaved off 150-350ms of refresh load time. So why does your website take 10-15 seconds to load on my phone when I'm walking about the supermarket?

Get out of the lab. Start testing with real users in real contexts. You'll quickly learn that many of your assumptions about what users want disappear.

> So the US closing up trade at this point is immoral from a historical perspective

This is not a statement which should be made nor accepted without sound reasoning to support it.

Why should any given historical event have moral relevance to decisions today? From when do we start? Why?

Second, history is almost always far more complex than such arguments assume.

Re:Lerna restores unmodified MIT license on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:15AM (#17883123)
Why was he removed and not Daniel Stockman?

https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1035209432349663232

The two of them planned this together. I think Stockman realizes it was a mistake, but why was Kyle removed for something they did together? Neither are trustworthy from here forward.

Re:Mea culpa: there is a crisis in the humanities on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:11PM (#17633990)
Marx should be "studied ... under supervision?" Such study should be done "legitimately?"

Perhaps it was an unfortunate choice of words, but that sounds a lot like indoctrination and elitism.