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mcntall | 6 years ago | on: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

For those without MS Visio or other paid alternatives, Draw.io can pretty much get you covered at zero cost, with the option of doing it client-side, online, etc. Not sure if the founders have the option, but I would encourage folks to donate a couple of bucks to encourage high quality free software such as this.

mcntall | 6 years ago | on: California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

We are looking at more wire tapes being built in California. It makes one wonder whether Cali would implode if Silicon Valley had a rapid decline

mcntall | 6 years ago | on: Performance Matters

This is one of the reasons why you will often see software installation look linear [10min until it is finalized, 8min until is finalized...] even though on a micro-scale, the process may be oscillating a lot more.

mcntall | 6 years ago | on: Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform

It is such a difficult balance to be had since by taking a position of trying to resolve any/all frauds in the platform, they create a can of worm that is difficult, if not impossible to fill. The failure of finding all the frauds, illegal activity would prohibitively expensive, if not destructive to the platform itself (Think false-positives, etc).

For them, it is better/easier to say "we have the platform, we remove what we are legally bound to remove, everything else is on the user to be mindful of".