The analogy at the end is the point:
A real-world analogue would be this scenario: You drive to Home Depot and walk in. Closed-circuit cameras match your face against a database of every shopper that has used a credit card at Walmart or Target and identifies you by name, address, and phone. If you happen to walk out the front door without buying anything your phone buzzes with a text message from Home Depot offering you a 10% discount good for the next hour.
*shudder*
To Hell with π … long live τ. 😉
The way it’s presented, it makes sense: it’s concise, consistent and more intuitive.
Yay … GitLab 3.1 is out. 😀
If you try to visit any of the websites of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting service you get a pop-up informing about their use of cookies on their site and asking you for your consent in storing data about you in them.
Well … if you click on the “decline” or “more information” links you are told to reconsider, because the use of cookies is essential for the working of the site (“Functionele cookies zijn strikt noodzakelijk voor de werking van de website”)!?! As a web developer I can say this is absolute bullshit. They also tell you why: because they “need” it for “managing” “web statistics, advertising and social media.” And of course them not being able to accurately (because you can track users without cookies) track you and siphon off your private data and selling your viewing habits, makes it technically impossible for them to serve you videos … see how they are linked?
Oh of course they have the obligatory “but none of the information can be linked to individuals … we value our users’ privacy” bullshit. If they really meant it, they wouldn’t force you to disclose this sort of information for a service that absolutely does not require it.
So it boils down to them denying you to watch TV programs that already got paid for in full (by the dutch tax payers, thank you for that ;), this also means there is no “need” to exploit your users) and forcing you to give up your privacy in order “for them to protect it” again … are you confused? … I am … this makes no sense!
Now I’m short of a media source for having a peek into another language/culture. 🙁
On a side note: despite all my rage I must admit, the reconsider allowing cookies page is really well done and does tell you in a simple way how cookies work and how they put them to use … I wish other sites were as open about it. 😉
Apparently you can get 1 million Facebook data entries for just $5. Just so you know how much you are worth in the eyes of some people. 😉
발 + 끝 = 발끝
(foot + tip/end = toe)
As found in Kim Jong Kook’s “Lovable”.
btw: stumbled on this watching old Running Man episodes. 😉
Just got my update notification for Android 4.1.2.
Well, Apple fan boys would say “It’s an improvement. It definitely *feels* faster.” 😛
Zach Holman packs a talk with a lot of (lesser known) Git and GitHub features.
Git and GitHub Secrets from Zach Holman on Vimeo.
Zach Holman describes how GitHub has grown over the years and how they handled the technical side of it.
How to Build a GitHub from Zach Holman on Vimeo.
So I was reading an article on the power of big South Korean companies and wanted to look up the native word and its connotations, as I knew the Japanese had something similar called “Zaibatsu“.
So transliterating the word from the article “Chaebol” to “채볼” failed. So I searched Wikipedia for “Chaebol” at the top it said “Jaebol”. o.O So I tried “재볼” and failed again. By that time I looked in the Languages section on the Wikipedia page and learned that it was actually written “재벌“.
Well, looking up the English translation for it turned up the Japanese word. m(
