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>> https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

It is worthwhile for us to read and reflect on the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.*

* https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

In case it's not obvious, this game was intended as satire. Reposting previous comment:

This seems like an appropriate moment to remember Cow Clicker[1], and reflect on it's lesson:

"The player is initially given a pasture with nine slots and a single plain cow, which the player may click once every six hours. Each time the cow is clicked, a point also known as a "click" is awarded; if the player adds friends' cows to their pasture, they also receive clicks added to their scores when the player clicks their own cow. As in other Facebook games, players are encouraged to post announcements to their news feed whenever they click their cow. A virtual currency known as "Mooney" can be bought with Facebook Credits; it can be used to purchase special "premium" cow designs, and the ability to skip the six-hour time limit that must be waited before the cow can be clicked again."

"Unexpectedly to Bogost, Cow Clicker became a viral phenomenon[...]Although continually disturbed by its popularity, Bogost also used Cow Clicker to parody other recent gaming and social networking trends;"

"'bovine gods' eventually revealed that 'Cowpocalypse' would occur on July 21, 2011 (exactly one year since the original release of the game). From then on, every click made by players would deduct thirty seconds from a countdown clock leading to the Cowpocalypse. However, players could extend the countdown clock by paying to supplicate with Facebook Credits: paying 10 credits would extend the countdown by a single hour, while 4,000 would extend the countdown by an entire month. After $700 worth of extensions, the countdown clock expired on the evening of September 7, 2011. At this point, the game remained playable, but all the cows were replaced by blank spaces and said to have been raptured. Bogost intended the Cowpocalypse event to signal the "end" of the game to players; when addressing a complaint by a fan who felt the game was no longer fun after the cow rapture, Bogost responded that "it wasn't very fun before."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker

Author seems to understand how a certain kind or degree of grief makes people crazy -- I spent a year or two in that sort of condition after a couple of untimely deaths in the family, (as well as a couple of other personal setbacks) when I was younger. I think some of the superficially negative reactions in this thread actually describe the authentic insufferable-ness of persons in such a state. They can become bitter, nihilistic, self centered, unreliable and just bizarrely ill-behaved. The story might seem overwrought and hard to believe, but I was really like that for a while, and couldn't seem to stop even when I knew it was happening.

"Kirill Krechetov[...]asks that his real name not be used out of concern for his safety."

'He was initially contacted several weeks before the summons letter landed in his mailbox – in the form of a message sent via the messaging service Viber: Kirill Ivanovich, we are waiting for you, Krasnodarski Krai, 10th Brigade of the GRU Special Forces."'

Uh, did they just expose his real name?

I just thought no js just made the internet work better sometimes, and now you're telling me I can be smug about it too?

Now how much would you pay? :)

"Jeff Schaffer, the director of that Super Bowl spot, said in an email that he and Mr. David did not have a comment on the market collapse.

“Unfortunately I don’t think we’d have anything to add as we have no idea how cryptocurrency works (even after having it explained to us repeatedly), don’t own it, and don’t follow its market,” he said. “We just set out to make a funny commercial!”

Priceless.

>As a user, you can force allow zooming:

>In Firefox find the settings, select “Accessibility” and activate “Zoom on all website” >In Chrome find the settings, select “Accessibility” and check “Force enable zoom”

OMFG, thank you.

Classic. Guess they should've warned me to visit during spring break first instead of winter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Haha, everyone asks, and no! We visited first in the summer, and then bought the house sight unseen and showed up in February. We lived in Alaska for awhile though, so I think we're good -- it takes a lot of winter to impress me after Fairbanks.

Moving to upper Michigan next week (Marquette area). Visited on a break from SF during lockdown, just bought a house. Me before closing: "It's great, shh, don't tell anyone." Me now: "It's great! Tell everyone!!11" ;)

Not too hot, not too expensive, not too on fire, plenty of water.

>> most ad placement is profiled and personalized now

wow, really? you mean like on cable, different cable boxes fill the ad time slots with different targeted ads for different people?

(sorry if i'm being dense, i've never had my own cable)

Thanks, perfect.

Thank you.

Thanks, maybe some effortful study of the fundamental properties and manipulation of the DOM would be helpful to me.

>> other useful things one can do in the dev console?

There just seems to be a suprising amount of built in stuff in the browser that does more than rendering text/layout.

I participated in some interesting work at a hackathon a while ago that used a web audio component to signal back and forth between various laptops and phones. It was mostly getting hacked together in the browser dev console.

(I'll come back with some code if I can find it...)

EDIT: OK, here it is: https://github.com/cantino/ultrastound

I'm kind of trying to go the other way. I am amazed at how productive great front-end/js-first developers are with even just a browser console --- but I am totally flumoxed by this environment, and have trouble sinking my fingernails into the first ledge on that learning curve.

Is there a "terminal developer's guide to front end"?

Yep. When I was a student I worked in a restaurant with an ex convict who described his previous job at the meat packing plant in precisely those terms. He told me it was a hard dangerous s*** job, and back of the house in the restaurant was a lot better. He said safety measures and equipment were inadequate, and some of the other guys that worked there wanted to kill him (his remarks on your other areas of concern would be ill suited to this forum).

That put things in perspective for me, because I had thought that the back of the restaurant was a hard dangerous s*** job - - in fact the hood fans and ac didn't and work, the food thermometer in my shirt pocket regularly read above 110F, and I was generally surrounded by sharp things, hot things, greasy floors and boiling oil, and the shift manager chest bumped me and screamed in my face. But for that guy it was a promotion.

That was in Texas, which is a "business friendly" state, so those progressive reforms might be more... incremental than the average hn reader might wish.

Original title: "Gal Gadot's 'Death on the Nile' banned in Lebanon, Kuwait over 'Wonder Woman' star's Israeli background"

Linked article on Cairo: https://web.archive.org/web/20070513113123/http://www.window...

The link gives HTTP 302, but doesn't load from the new location I guess?

I wouldn't be surprised if there were considerable variation between properties. My observation was that there seemed to be a remote higher level management office that was out of state, and out of touch with local conditions, but still trying to control costs aggressively. So the one local property manager was grossly overworked and under-resourced. She actually seemed quite pitiably desperate (and there was turnover in that role).

Also, maybe in lower COL areas than SF bay it might be easier for them to source labor and services at a cost they were willing to pay. They kept saying it was because of covid, but my previous and following landlords both managed to provide basic essential services like legal mailboxes and working toilets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯