ztoben

If it takes 84 hours a week of use in order to become proficient I think I'll pass.

That's true. I suppose there's a certain amount of trust required. I really only ever disable it on sites that have a good track record with security and provide me enough value. There is risk involved though.

Yeah, that was a misunderstanding on my part.

I suppose for their whitelist/blacklist to work with regex matching the ads would have to be served from a similarly named domain. Like facebook.com vs ads.facebook.com, and you'd have to whitelist *facebook.com. And if they were getting ads externally you'd have to whitelist those ads for every site that you visit.

They didn't say whitelist ad providers, they said sites. Which you can do with pi-hole.

I disable my adblocking for sites that use reasonable ads.

If I go to a site and am bombarded with pop ups, auto playing video ads, etc., then yeah why wouldn't I block them? With the malware and tracking that is often injected into ads I have no problem using my adblocker at all times and disabling it for pages that ask politely.

I'm happy to click on ads on sites that I frequent and would like to support. I think there's absolutely a balance here, and for many years the advertising industry has abused their stay.

Legitimate question, is free speech guaranteed on Facebook's platform? Or do they get to decide what content is okay and what isn't?

You mention putting purpose over profit, but I assume you still make a reasonable living doing this from the sounds of things. Is this your only job currently? What's the tech stack like?

Thanks for a great article :)

A lot of people come for the atmosphere and other festivities. I'm sure the actual number of people visiting town for the game is closer to 200k than it is to 50k.

Pretty sure it counts as a linux sale if the buyer spends more time playing on Linux than Windows within a time window (I think 2 weeks).

Not sure about firefox, but localhost definitely autofills localhost for me in chrome.

Just wanted to say you sound like a great parent!

From my experience having children and sleep isn't even always an option ;)

That was pretty much the case for me, yes. I usually preferred working 6:30-3:00 and it fit my schedule really well.

No, they just asked what it's like working as a contractor. They said they were offered a job through a company similar to what I was employed through.

I contracted for about 8 months through a large staffing firm. A few things I liked:

* Hours were fairly flexible

* Not too much supervision, was mostly given things to work on and expected to finish them in a certain amount of time

* Didn't get pulled in to as many meetings in the office

* The pay was excellent

Some things I didn't like:

* No/little vacation/pto/sick

* If you don't work, you don't get paid (if you're paid hourly)

* No/little job security. I was around for 2 rounds of layoffs and had a young child at home, so this wasn't ideal

At the end of the day it made more sense for me to go back to a normal employment role due to family and a few other factors with job security. I did enjoy my time as a contractor though. Enough so that I still pick up hours through some old employers occasionally.