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purple_ducks··on Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe
The response to codinghorror's "then don't use the Apple Card? Solution seems obvious" is on point:

> This is such a shallow, disappointing take. If we relegate all responsibility for discrimination to the individuals discriminated against, nothing is going to change! Individual action against structural problems is INSUFFICIENT.

purple_ducks··on Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers
I use PIA vpn. netflix blocks that for every region/connection pair i've tried. i just leave it turned off and switch to torrent. netflix europe offerings are generally subpar.
purple_ducks··on Software Updates
If you have an a/c, you can just opt out from using new under https://www.reddit.com/prefs/
purple_ducks··on US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on users
How the hell did they even have access to this data?

Twitter isn't a 6 month old startup. How is there not strict access controls in place?

purple_ducks··on We built network isolation for 1500 services
> attempt to find code that looked like it was making a request to another service.

> We generally fixed those cases by adding a special comment in the code that told rpcmap about the link

Why not enforce all endpoints/urls be defined in a config file and sidestep this? - scanning code for URLs/constructed URL is overkill and brittle.

purple_ducks··on JavaScript Errors: An Exceptional History
http://www.devsanon.com/rants/stupid-javascript/

Until Javascript removes the stupid from it's language, it will remain an embarrassment to developers. Completely inexcusable.

purple_ducks··on Why Is Pisano Happy with Clojure?
> The following list displays several well-known organizations using Clojure…

> Walmart, Facebook, Apple, Boeing, Amazon, Netflix

Oft repeated but is Clojure still in active use in these companies?

purple_ducks··on ‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate your principles
every US* shows end.

Most* European shows follow an arc and then stop. It helps that there isn't really an overwhelming obsession with reaching for syndication(~100 shows). Not much point either as rewards for non US syndication are tiny fractions of US.

purple_ducks··on Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
They already can?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187202?hl=en

purple_ducks··on Writing clean code can get as repetitive as bricklaying, use a machine labourer
Nothing about who created this or what tech is involved.

In fact, this page has SFA but marketing nonsense as is the linked webpage at lightning-lambdas.

purple_ducks··on The Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius
That forbes "contributor" site you linked is sloppy. Oatmeal did a rebuttal to that: https://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response

The author even had to correct basic factual inaccuracies in his own article based on reader comments.

purple_ducks··on By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence
Try delete it from your watch history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

Your recommendations may return to normal.

purple_ducks··on Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent
So why bother with an extension then?

As you point out, they own Calendar, they could just add it there.

purple_ducks··on US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
The commit messages would eventually all be WIP or somedoc_version_xx.
purple_ducks··on Messages via JSON
> The "refl.me" key must always be true, otherwise an error will be called.

Why?

purple_ducks··on A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky
I went against my gut feeling and took a job at a <1 yr company(new startup/spinout backed by $$$$ org) because i'd get exposure to certain tech. Manager was (& is) a nice person but didn't instill confidence when talking about how things were planning to be.

I left that job 2 years ago after ~8 months. Mentally fucked me up and it took a long time to recover from the ineptitude and incompetence in that company.

I looked at their glassdoor reviews and the same complaint and comments me & co-workers made when we left 2 years ago are still repeating with people who are joining and leaving today.

Never again going against my gut feeling.

purple_ducks··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
i now realise you/parent were talking about the about:addons page, not the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ web page.
purple_ducks··on U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them
That's not your data - it's theirs (the respective persons)
purple_ducks··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
uMatrix defaults to blocking GA and indeed blocks the request for analytics.js on that page.
purple_ducks··on Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
> The Art of Computer Programming

I'm guessing like most people who bought it, it sits collecting dust on the shelf.

Youthful naivety is the only reason I bought it. Completely impenetrable but look, "I'm a real™ software engineer now"

purple_ducks··on Childhood Obesity Is Rising 'Shockingly Fast' Even in Poor Countries
> While Cypriot ones are of course, a minority these days in Cyprus schools.

I don't follow.

purple_ducks··on It’s Time to Get over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have
2015...
purple_ducks··on Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit
> I strongly disagree with the hypothesis that people are not responsible enough to make decisions for themselves.

Well, with all due respect, you've lived either a short life or a sheltered life.

People have weak moments in their life.

purple_ducks··on The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream
> I have no doubt Dyson could have made a decent one,

I have nothing but doubt Dyson could have made one, let alone a decent one.

purple_ducks··on Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first
I'm specifically asking about instagram staff because desktop instagram.com is embarrassingly buggy when it comes to basic core functionality such as the initial display of comments, and loading more comments using the plus symbol.
purple_ducks··on Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first
Does anybody from instagram actually use instagram.com?

Because the comments side panel on pictures is probably the buggiest implementation of _anything_ i've ever seen.

purple_ducks··on Why Enterprise Software Sucks
Yes and it would eventually become the thing that everyone hates...with code written by academics and not software professionals.
purple_ducks··on NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
You understand the phrase though right? There was no ambivalence on his meaning or usage.

> Appropriately enough

Ironically enough, you're misusing this phrase.

purple_ducks··on Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands
Until it fails and the surrounding environment and people are destroyed for generations.
purple_ducks··on Was it worth paying €41.7bn to bail out Irish banks?
How would the burning of private bondholders to the tune of €140 billion have affected the Euro currency?

> you don't ultimately control your own affairs you share them with the others who use that currency

The currency had nothing to do with it. The only thing which would have absolutely forced them to stand over it would have been existing EU law - which there was none.

The European Central Bank can't legally stop issuing currency to Ireland just because some French or German banks got burnt.

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