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i will never understand the appeal of in-game purchases

Is adblock piracy?

was going to the restroom during commercial breaks on cable television piracy

it's not a good or a bad thing, just another lens of socioeconomic analysis

no

but i never lie

SydneySweenHero posted...

respect women

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

And the absurd rules.

with a handful of exceptions, rules were a lot more clear and better defined under ceej's terms.

by simplifying the terms, allen introduced far greater reliance on moderator discretion, which opened the door to a significant increase in arbitrary moderator behavior.

gamefaqs in general lost its aura after 2008ish (spirit started going downhill with respect to this after the 04 merger), but ce was pretty lit until the early 2010s

i didn't think the song was that catchy

if david frum is openly attacking fox news for being too pacifist, they must be doing something right even if they're trash

i haven't had a crush on gamefaqs dot com in over a decade

what the hell

she looks like my best friend's cousin, who is married unfortunately

she flirts a little more than i'm comfortable with given her marital status

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I'm surprised unit testing hadn't been brought up before now, but I agree that it's especially critical for ensuring that components do exactly what they're supposed to. Long before developers, other departments, and even end users would otherwise detect and report issues, the unit tests will catch them if written properly and comprehensive in the scope they cover. It spares the company a lot of potential man-hour allocation expenses, as well as whatever other costs would have been incurred had the issues surfaced in a production environment.

Robot2600 posted...

Only the arrogance of youth leads someone to write uncommented code.

in my opinion comprehensive documentation (e.g., in wiki or javadoc style) and variables / functions / classes that are self-explanatory and well-modularized are more important than commenting.

i mostly comment to offer my rationale with code that isn't so intuitive even with the aforementioned best practices, and to summarize functions if they aren't obvious from the names.

COVxy posted...

Interesting, haven't heard this before. Does NIH refer to National Institutes of Health?

"not invented here."

MutantJohn posted...

Not-in-house

i haven't heard not-in-house used before but yeah, it sounds synonymous.

COVxy posted...

Lol, what do you mean by this?

NIH culture refers to companies that rely on software/systems they developed from scratch in-house rather than outsourcing their needs to software built and actively maintained by other shops. the endgame after like a decade or two of doing this is a mountain of legacy code only supported and used in the company and which, in time as old developers leave, nobody in the engineering department really understands and is afraid to touch for fear of breaking mission critical processes.

i took it upon myself to understand and maintain it, and over the years have basically become the lone authority on the entirety of the company's software systems infrastructure.

working for a company with NIH culture is the ultimate job security

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did bethanym ever post

and was shadotak real

WilliamPorygon posted...

do republicans watch rick and morty

for anyone looking to save a little time:
it decodes to a string with a bunch of "one" and "zero" (words) which when converted to 1s and 0s then decodes to "chicken butt"

i donated to a couple primary candidates in 2020 and now dnc fundraisers have absolutely congested my text messages

it's awful

central texas is forecasted to have a nasty dip in temperature later this week, but not as bad as last year thankfully

raising cane's is only good in baton rouge

franchises in other states (particularly here in texas) seem lax with the standards they hold themselves to

a little coffee in the morning, big lunch in the afternoon is my routine.

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no

dianetics seems to jack a few ideas from eastern religions though

Tom Clark posted...

GameFAQs LEGEND mrduckbear has an INTERVIEW with FOX NEWS host Laura Ingram! Is She Hot??

if the engagement ring's diamond is too large, devan shell will steal it

i don't make the rules

well played tc, well played

Gobstoppers12 posted...

There are tons of attention checks and trick questions to keep the surveys from being automated, at least through the service I use.

ah, that would make sense.

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they're likely collecting far less data points than companies like facebook are, and from a far smaller number of people.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Yeah, I make around $5-10 a day doing surveys online in between dungeon queues and such in FFXIV.

i'd imagine that really adds up over time. properly scaled up with automation (only manually filling captchas if that can't also be automated), there might be interesting opportunities.

Geiki Ganger posted...

Which is what makes it more infuriating some sites actually charge people to use. And people still pay like sheep!

it's pretty evil. part of the reason why i refuse to pay for such services - still being monetized and manipulated.

i've fallen into the habit of private browsing a lot, and indulge in a bit of preference falsification when signed into social accounts.

Geiki Ganger posted...

If big companies offer to pay me half of what they usually pay for those data, I'll make sure I get it to them in whatever form they want.

the tragedy is that they don't want to pay, and since everyone idly consents to the terms and conditions on these large platforms rather than exerting collective pressure for compensation (or protesting with their feet, so to speak), the businesses have free rein to harvest/monetize/buy/sell user data without having to ask.

an overwhelming amount of that data doesn't even come from what is consciously shared, such as posts, messages, prompts, likes/follows, etc. a lot comes from analyzing unconscious/latent behavioral patterns while using these applications - what users click on, what makes them stop scrolling a feed, when / where they're using the app, crossreferencing with data of other users they're physically proximal to, and such. data you couldn't even really explicitly prompt users for; only passively milk from them over a prolonged period.

these businesses should really just pay users on their sites a regular dividend.

Geiki Ganger posted...

Undeniably valuable to big companies, who will pay a pretty dollar to acquire it from third-parties who possess your private information.

But if you were to try to sell your own private information online, you get almost nothing in return. Can't think of any other commodity that behaves the same way.

to play the devil's advocate, it's why online surveys that pay participants exist.

the data of individual persons is valuable, but as far as businesses buying data are concerned, data is most valuable in a readily digestible manner since there are costs associated with pre-processing raw data, never mind potential integrity issues in the results. the data they buy tends to be prepared, unless they have some serious tools and infrastructure for in-house processing.

tl;dr businesses want cheeseburgers, not raw beef; gas from the pump, not crude oil.

how do i marry rashida tlaib

this is important

segasaturn posted...

You remind me of that one guy from that awful Adam sandler movie, I think it was Grown Ups.

i think i vaguely recall seeing it a long time ago but remember nothing about it

what do you mean

went on a couple dates with a 40-41yo when i was 28-29.

we live in different cities though, and get together when one of us or the other's in town (our employers sent us to each others' cities on business trips), but since the pandemic neither of us has been on business trips. might take an escapade together this summer, we'll see.

Marvel actor

i'm just now learning she's had major roles other than kate

nationwide

They've got brutal competition to contend with in Texas.

CE_gonna_CE posted...

Resident news reporter phenom, Duckbear, of course

probably been here longer than all of us, so i vote for duckbear

such sites (9gag, funnyjunk, etc.) have become cultural backwater memetically imitating 4chan, whether passively or because its users went to certain 4chan boards and brought things back

a million

it would take me 20 years for that 150/day to reach a million, and its value would be diminishing all the while

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I refuse to accept this is real

not with that attitude

SydneySweenHero posted...

i lol'd

You engage with a lot of sources, from a variety of perspectives.

You engage with both U.S. and International news sources.

Most of your sources are reliable in their reporting, but some may sensationalize.

topic bias results were skewed imo; not enough inputs informing the calculations

r/antiwork needs a more rhetorically and optically savvy representative to engage with the press because that was an unmitigated disaster

where's the "feet are disgusting" option

what a badass

on an unrelated note i have that same pillow