throwaway35784

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Comment · 7 years ago
It's not ideology.It's Pavlovian science. If you reward behavior, you get more of it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Unreadable on mobile due to all the tracking.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is precisely the way a market for lemons works. Scumbags like you thinking it's ok to prey on the less knowledgeable human beings we live with.
Comment · 7 years ago
No. You have to build on the new browser, because that's what is on your new computer, then hope it runs on the old computer with the old browser.
Comment · 7 years ago
You're not a fan of them but you'll gladly pay them your money? Sounds like righteous hypocrisy to me.

I'm not a fan of them and I've never paid them any money, neither one. They are scum bags.

How will the world improve if you reward what you don't like?

Comment · 7 years ago
The article is wrong. It absolutely does cost money and time to test on old browsers. You need multiple computers or vms set up. You don't build websites using old computers running ie6. so you have load the site on that old browser after you write the code.

It's an obvious fact to anyone who does front end web development.

Comment · 7 years ago
As with all things it's a cost benefit analysis. It costs money to support old browsers and a lot of money doesn't come from them do do the math.

I was trying to buy movie tickets online the other day.I tried Firefox then Firefox without ad blockers, then ie, then edge, then chrome on two different desk top machines.

Then my gf bought them on her phone browser.

Thanks mobile first development. How much money must you be costing your adherents?

Comment · 7 years ago
Aside: Costumers, er prospects rather, love my products until the end when they ask, "so... how many people work there?"

As though that would indicate how likely it is that the product will have a long life. They are telling me with that question they want my software for a long time. But when they hear the answer they bail.

I still don't know how to get over that hump.

Comment · 7 years ago
I like the style of the code. Can talk about your inspiration for it? I haven't seen Javascript written in that way before. It's clean but, at least to me, unintuitive. What is your background?
Comment · 7 years ago
No. They are restricting just one type of targeting.

>Google is extending a ban on political campaigns targeting advertising at people based on their supposed political leanings.

>It said political groups would soon only be able to target ads based on "general categories" such as age, gender and rough location.

Comment · 7 years ago
> I’m frequently asked about what Airbnb did right

This is the problem. They didn't do it right. They broke TOSes. They committed fraud. They misled home owners and renters. They broke hospitality laws. They broke licensing and employment laws. They evaded taxes. They bait n switched customers. They enabled more fraud from their market place participants.

They didn't get big by doing things right.

Comment · 7 years ago
If they are image maps with links where to learn the leaf nodes this would be the bees knees.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why is everyone answering the question like I'm talking about the police? Is it legal for any person off the street to install a GPS tracker on someone else's car?
Comment · 7 years ago
That perspective on the law is a non starter. It's just not true. Picking and choosing what is okay to infringe is by definition being an arbiter of copyright law.
Comment · 7 years ago
What does the 4th amendment say about non law enforcement persons installing a GPS tracker on my car.

Can I go and buy a gps tracker and install it on your car? If not, why is Facebook or Google or whoever allowed to install one on my phone?

It had nothing to do with the 4th amendment. I can buy a GPS tracker on amazon right now. You don't have to be a cop to install a tracker.

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