Worked for a supplement company that was forced out of business by Stripe these same reasons. Just wasn't enough time to integrate a whole new payment system when they shut us down.
Right... exactly as I stated. Sounds like someone who hasn't done a lot of programming, or at least has done some, hated it, and has chosen the business side of IT and seems to think the word "programmer" has some kind of negative connotation that will affect your job prospects.
While my account may be new here, I am not. Being a "grands hommes" of this site doesn't change anything and you've given absolutely no extra information to counter my point.
The characters to escape are clearly defined in both specs, but that doesn't mean there's a universal escaping system. Just google "how to escape JSON" and you will see the wealth of users struggling to understand what and how to accomplish this. There will always be people struggling with escape characters, I don't see it being any harder or easier in any format.
That's because browsers and phones do not disrupt the whole banking system and the way we think about money. There is a tremendous amount of push-back on cryptocurrencies coming from very influential places that stand a lot to lose.
> But I have no clue what would distinguish (to me) a non-shit ad? Is it saving me money on something I was already going to buy?
Yes. I've been looking for weight equipment over the past year because of the pandemic and gyms being closed and the majority of ads on Instagram are now exercise equipment. I ended up seeing an ad for a company in my country with fairly decent prices and bought a new squat stand. The price difference between the one I bought and the ones I was looking at from companies in the area was around $200. I give up some privacy, they give me targeted ads. Please give me more.
The issue is that you cannot have good online advertising without a little bit of the stalking. Do you listen to podcasts? Their ads are shite. I don't want to hear another ad about "Coroner" on Netflix. The only reason they are making money is because podcasts are "hot" right now and everyone is throwing money at them. That money pile will slowly deplete in due time and they'll find a way to introduce ads that are more targeted towards the individual that's listening and guess what, we'll be right back here with the same supposed problem.
It seems like you didn't bother to read the entire article because the author does go into the ethical and privacy related concerns about ads. It is always interesting to read about people's opinions on topics such as this, and the fact that you dismissed it outright with such ignorance as to call it a bad-faith argument tells me you are not open to hearing opinions that differ from your own. As a result, a downvote of your comment feels appropriate (if I had the points to do so). But hey, at least you're probably a decent person (really!).
> it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour
Wow, the co-founder's argument to not disclose the source code to the defendant was that it's too many lines of code. Also... ten lines reviewed in an hour!?
Twitter and Facebook both use their own data centers, with Twitter only recently (mid December 2020) announcing that they will be migrating to use some AWS. They also try to manage their content moderation as best they can and have policies and practices in place to remove content that violates their standards. Parler relies solely on AWS and has 0 content moderation. There are stark differences.
Fair enough, but would you take all of the most suspicious-looking items in your house that could possibly implicate you in a crime and put them all into one crate, including printed material and books that explain how to perform said crime?
Being a lifelong Windows users I am always baffled at comments such as these because I have never experienced any of those issues except for maybe the Windows update happening for a couple minutes when I shut down. I'm no gamer, but I am usually cramming my computers with high CPU IDEs, VMs, crypto mining software, and anything else I can fart around with. Am I doing it wrong? How can I have this terrible experience?