This is standard behavior for companies with trademarks.

If you don't attempt to protect the trademark, then you lose it, so companies with generic terms trademarked have to go after anyone that uses something similar just to establish a history of protecting their trademarks.

The "modest" amount of time is 1 billion years. It's modest because it's 7-9% of the age of the milky way galaxy.

Their culture is not one where something artful can survive. They can achieve excellence only through their engineering, but anything art-related they will fail at.

One anecdote of the core of their culture (they've moved away from this lately, but it's still in their DNA):

There once was a time when a new batch of warehouse workers would be hired, their trainer would lead the group to the first place they were going to teach the group something. When they arrived, the trainer would fire the person that arrived last immediately and in front of the group.

Also Bezos is a human turd.

Advertisements are just psychological manipulation. I don't want any ads in my life ever. Not on billboards. Not in comics. Not online.

To quote Bill Hicks: if you're in advertising, kill yourself.

Thinking about that scene from Swordfish:

He's not actually hacking (or cracking), he's writing software.
In that light, that scene is a pretty accurate metaphor for layman to understand the software development process:
Make cubes.
Glue cubes together.
Cubes sometimes fall apart for no reason.
Drink constantly.

This is just r/wallstreetbets trolling big money. GME is a dying company that has repeatedly failed to adapt, but WSB is piling on to fuck over all the big investors.

LMFAO, fuck rich people.

Here's the relevant NGINX documentation for all you running it: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/...

And how to use it: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/...

As a business, you want to be able to receive and not just send, and we primarily dealt in call-tracking with phone numbers.
The business wanted to get them cheaper since we were growing, and idk who we were getting phone numbers from, but they sucked.

The cool thing about Twilio is that since they have deals with everyone, they use any of them.
If one company has a line cut, Twilio will change their routes.

If you're building a service that needs a phone number or needs to send a text message, you've heard of Twilio.
They're huge. They've done a lot of the dirty work of getting deals with the big and small telephone cartels all over the place (Verizon and ATT are assholes that won't deal with you unless you've got lawers and fat stacks of cash).

gittorrent
radicle
forgefed

Anyone know of others?

Woo! MURICA! FUCK YEAH! We're #1! We're #1! U! S! A! U! S! A! U! S! A!
*while wearing a beer helmet and waving the America flag around* /s

I have a backlog item right now for switching an app from using datetime2 to datetimeoffset, so we can store everything in UTC. This idea would create a ton of development work for a lot of apps in production.

I'm torn on this idea. It's pure drudgery, but implementing it would be like Y2K all over again. Every shop would hire devs to get it knocked out.

This is gonna be a bumpy ride.

I remember watching a show on the Discovery channel decades ago about the catastrophic effects of climate change.
We've had a preview with Syria. Climate change causes crops to fail or fresh water supplies to disappear. Lack of food/water exacerbates existing divides in the populace. Then comes civil wars or wars with neighbors over food and water.

Modern society is still built on "bread and circuses" and "divide and rule."

I passionately agree, but this seems to be a trend with PlayStation lovers. They're used to it, so all other controllers are awkward.

I love the wired Xbox360 controller (no battery pack made it much lighter) and the Steam Controller, but I also loved the original Xbox's "monster" controller, so I'm a bit of an outlier.

My partner is a PlayStation lover, and only because they love the controller.

I've tried to convert them to other controllers, but it's a solid no-go.

With how expensive consoles are, we can only afford one, so we'll be getting a PS5. Eventually.