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rieTohgh6 commented on Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away   nytimes.com/2023/01/03/bu... · Posted by u/krn
thriftwy · 3 years ago
In post-soviet countries and especially Russia, there are virtually no businesses older than 30 years (communism means no business to speak of), and most of them are quite new still, since there were a few different epochs already and every one had its own mass extinction event at the end.

The upside is that almost everything is run by people who are not old, hence not stuck in the past. Also, gravitate towards hiring instead of famity ties, and towards horizontal growth instead of forever keeping a single store or eatery.

rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
It is not the same scale but the same issue as in article happens here. There is huge meat-processing plant next town, build from nothing in those 30 years and owner had to sell it to some big corporation since his children didn't want to take over. And that is would be management job, not crazy overworking yourself for pennies, like those examples from japan.
rieTohgh6 commented on The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string   miketaylr.com/posts/2022/... · Posted by u/glandium
ris58h · 3 years ago
What if Chrome had other bug that you can't work around? Users just would have to update it. It is that simple.
rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
Last time I had resort to UA sniffing Firefox had issues with clikable horizontal/vertical lines on SVG. There was no version that supported it properly. So I should just display "Switch to Chrome" banner for Firefox users? Is it that simple?
rieTohgh6 commented on Why T-shaped people? (2018)   jchyip.medium.com/why-t-s... · Posted by u/turtlegrids
rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
I expected this to be about 3D modeling and default pose.
rieTohgh6 commented on What free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like   andrewchen.com/this-is-wh... · Posted by u/hunter-2
tgv · 3 years ago
As if you could ever get $10 in advertising for a single person in a short amount of time. If Uber, or some other Wolf-of-Wallstreet-funded cash grabber, starts using the installs-for-cash scheme on a large scale, advertisers will no longer be willing to pay that amount of money. They won't subsidize your cab trip.

> So how would you push the prices even lower than UberPool?

By exploiting drivers harder?

But this sentence drove home the value of this article to me:

> (Special thanks to Chris Liu collaborating on these great mockups that really make the discussion in this essay pop!)

Those are not great mockups. They are Waze or Google Maps screenshots with an ad pasted onto them. If you're that addicted to hyperbole, your article should probably be taken with more than a grain of salt.

rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
YT now shows 6 ads, for 10 minutes video, they share 50:50 with creator, who gets about 10$(+/-100% depending on viewers demographic) for 1000 views - it is nowhere close to cover the cost of Uber drive.
rieTohgh6 commented on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues   gist.github.com/RobertAKA... · Posted by u/robertakarobin
scrollaway · 3 years ago
There is a standard for this. If you google HTML5 autocomplete attribute you’ll notice all the possible autocomplete attributes and those cover pretty much just about anything. To my knowledge, the major browsers implement nearly all of them.

What’s preventing this from happening? Nothing, clearly, devs just don’t implement it because they don’t know about it, and they don’t know about it because they’re busy learning about or implementing something else. How would you universally communicate to everybody that this is now a thing? How long will it take you to fix 90% of the forms out there that were set-and-forget five years ago?

Besides, for most it’s easier to use oauth with google or whatever and automatically get the name and birthdate from there (of course, often enough, they have the non completed form anyway…)

rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
> use oauth with google or whatever and automatically get the name and birthdate from there

After recent story about github ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917962 anything that asks for more that email is a instant 'close tab and never return' for me. And even before, there is no way I am allowing any site to access may date of birth (despite it being fake one anyway)

And going back to "autocomplete" - it looks that browsers "know better" than developers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...

rieTohgh6 commented on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues   gist.github.com/RobertAKA... · Posted by u/robertakarobin
leonidasv · 3 years ago
I think there's a hidden issue there: it's 2022, almost 2023, and we still don't have standardized auto-fill forms. Browser auto-fillers somewhat work, but because every website is implemented so differently, I always end up having to type my address number or birthdate again.

I can't see why there isn't an standard semantic web standard for this. We shoukd standardise how common fields should be named and their datatypes set once and for all. Example: set on a field for month AND a field for day. No more MM/DD vs DD/MM issues. One-click and it's unambiguously filled by the browser. Seriously, what's preventing this from happening?

rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
It is 2022: some JS frontend frameworks don't have `input` elements in DOM tree ( or at least it is nowhere near the place visible "inputs" are). I guess it is the result of standard elements not being customizable enough (and let's be real, there is never going be a point when available options are enough).
rieTohgh6 commented on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues   gist.github.com/RobertAKA... · Posted by u/robertakarobin
friend_and_foe · 3 years ago
So I'm not the only one.

It's not just limited to Safari. Any and every date picker that doesn't allow text input of the date is ridiculous, those of you that design these things that call yourselves designers should find a new career path, I recommend selling cologne out of your trunk at a gas station, and if you're involved in this blatant and hostile devolution of interface I hate your guts. This particular one is my number one hated trend in UX, by a high margin. It is the most absurd set of design decisions I have ever seen, I can't see how it would not be malicious, it shows disdain for your users and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Fix this one and then we can talk about the others.

rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
Literally yesterday I encountered the date picker that didn't allow to manually change the value and didn't display whole calendar properly, with days in 5 and 6 row either invisible or not reacting to selection. And when it is obligatory event date field in insurance claim system, it is hard to apply Hanlon's razor.
rieTohgh6 commented on Searching a data breach with ElasticSearch   adamfallon.com/databreach... · Posted by u/AJRF
ehnto · 3 years ago
I had heard no shortage of warnings against using Lucene/elasticsearch to host my own basic search. But it was incredibly easy to implement and about as painless as running an apache server. For a self hosted project I can recommend it. Is it Algolia? No. Did I need Algolia? Also no. But it has been running for 5 years with barely any need to touch it once it was set up. Happy days for a hobby project, or a project with on-premises requirements.
rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
Almost all security issues with ES stem from their idea to keep authorization as separate, paid product (X-pack). On other other hand MongoDB had similar issues since they wanted to their product to be easy to setup and use, maybe for people scarred of pg_hba.conf.
rieTohgh6 commented on Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final   circusscientist.com/2022/... · Posted by u/tomjuggler
k_sze · 3 years ago
As a side note, I've never understood why Windows and macOS updates take so long compared to Linux updates.
rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
I wanted to check if it is due to stacking (security) patches instead of just extracting whole tarballs and the first result I got from Google was: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-updates-in-Linux-much-faster-t...

Quora always had reputation for being shit but I am impressed by how terrible that page is. I mean there are only two 2 types of answers there: "Window$ is BAD" and stuff that looks like generated by GPT-3( or straight up from those infamous "recipe sites" a.k.a. SEO farms).

rieTohgh6 commented on Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances   github.com/Lartsch/FediAc... · Posted by u/shafyy
madeofpalk · 3 years ago
Does Hacker News have 'significant popularity'?
rieTohgh6 · 3 years ago
No, but it doesn't need one. Or looking at it in at other way - as long as it is better than Slashdot and Reddit people will keep coming anyway - and that bar is freaking low.

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