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linuxasheviller··on For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests
Any good economist would point to the economic inefficiencies created on the whole market by the externalities of the human suffering this would cause.
linuxasheviller··on Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace
I can guess with almost certainty that this product does not have permission to use our logo. If they had permission, our brand team would have probably made sure they were using the correct one, instead of a version that was sunset almost a year ago.
linuxasheviller··on Peak map: Visualize the elevation of any area using a ridgeline chart
Hi! Awesome project, I love it! What license is this under? Would you consider explicitly adding a license file to the repo?
linuxasheviller··on Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace
I work at one of the large tech companies listed on the site. I've literally never heard of this project until I found it on HN today.

It's funny to me, because just yesterday I was a having a conversation with a colleague who asked me if we had a "corporate account" with another commons SaaS PM tool that he has been using with his team. I think he was in shock when I listed all of the project management and collaboration tools that that I've seen used in our organization. There are no "standard" project management, planning, organization, sharing, etc. tools at big companies. There might be "official" ones, but then managers and directors just buy whatever the hell SaaS they want on a credit card.

Shadow IT is a thing. No company avoids it. I'd assume most Global 2000 companies use just about every single popular tool you can imagine _somewhere_ within their organization.

linuxasheviller··on Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name
Say hi to the other folks on the Azure team from us.
linuxasheviller··on Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
Most people with _access to_ money
linuxasheviller··on TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes
Taxes: Where we openly brag about finding ways to contribute less to society.
linuxasheviller··on Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again
> Keep in mind that the journalist who did the research and wrote the article did not have a say in how the employer who enabled them to write this piece generates revenue.

In a way, she did. She is not an NYT employee, but rather, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill who could have published this piece elsewhere.

To be clear, I don't fault her for her choice at all. Just pointing out that we all "opt-in" to this system when we participate in it, and that's a part of the problem.

linuxasheviller··on Under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media
+1 for taming the addictive nature of social media.

-1000 for trying to do this with age-based restrictions. Kids will get around it. Kids SHOULD get around it. Gating content based on age does. not. work. Source: every teenage kid ever.

linuxasheviller··on First-class air travel is in decline
I misread this as comparing burning 2,400 gallons of kerosene versus burning 10,000 Americans and was becoming very concerned about where you are getting you data.
linuxasheviller··on First-class air travel is in decline
Semantics, but, I'm not sure either of the people you cited is advocating climate change.
linuxasheviller··on SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey [audio]
What's missing is how not to do terrible outreach.

I help operate a blog with a fairly high domain authority that accepts guest posts.

Every morning I have to spend time mass-deleting guest posting requests that are just so bad there's not even a point in reading them. Poorly written but "customized" spam about how much the writer loves our site and why he or she thinks a listicle about online gambling would be a great fit for our audience. But the "legitimate" requests often don't look much better or different than the purely spam ones.

linuxasheviller··on Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later
I hurd next year.
linuxasheviller··on Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later
Open source advocates love GNU too, even if the love doesn't go both ways.
linuxasheviller··on Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game
That won't stop a cease and desist, though. See also: FreeCraft, bnetd.

Though I actually think this will be a good test of how GitHub's new owner reacts when faced with an issue of community versus corporation.

linuxasheviller··on The original pitch for Diablo (1994) [pdf]
Further, unless you did a full install, that audio clip had to load off of the CD. Which meant if your CD-ROM was slow to spin up, often you'd be dead on the floor as that audio clip played, after a brief freeze.