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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I don’t understand why people think that it’s acceptable.

    As developers, we’ve had it drummed into us from day one that variable names are important and shouldn’t be one or two letters.

    Yet developers deliberately alias an easy to read table name such as “customer” into “c” because that’s the first letter of the table. I’m sure that it’s more work to do that with auto completion meaning that you don’t even need to type out “customer”.









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    9 months ago

    Yeah, I agree. I never really minded ads as I just mentally ignore them so I didn’t use an ad blocker for a very long time after it was common practice. I also disagreed with the principle of ad blockers as sites need to pay their expenses.

    But then they abused the data that they collected to change people’s political opinions in a way that went way beyond just your standard political ads and that was it for me.



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    9 months ago

    Technically, I don’t block ads. I block trackers using privacy badger. If they were to just show me ads without trying to track me I’d be fine and they’d get some ad revenue. But they always put trackers in there, I see no ads and they get no money.