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Please think further than just the passion of code, mind implication of your projects and what you work on, in particular in regards to climate change and energy crisis. Coding, like any other form of engineering, cannot be done just for self interest and without ethics or conscience.

The Delete Act 7 months ago

Data brokers made in California can now wreck all the world but California.

I ran a website for youngsters several years ago. One of the duties to maintain it was to moderate discussion boards. Some kids were difficult to manage and would not accept to be banned (via email/IP/or whatever solution) and would keep recreating profiles.

Ultimately I dealt with those ppl by “greylisting” them. Added a sleep() prior each page rendering of 5 to 25 secs (actually it was more sophisticated and would stream chunks over TCP so the slowness feeling was even more real).

Worked like a charm. Few days after the recalcitrant would no longer come on the website.

I called this “moderation by degradation of user experience”, and was pretty effective like the solution described in your post.

Think about page load if you need to restrain visits.

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This is not even close to bretonne crêpes.

Either you use buckwheat floor and water, in which case you are making Galettes. Either you use plain white wheat floor, in which case it's crêpes you are doing.

Under no circumstances you can put sugar in it, it's only added at the end. And of course, it's missing the most important ingredient: butter. #notevenclose

"So we asked ourselves a crazy question: What if we were to implement an alternative ?"

As always with Google...

What if you humbly contribute to open source projects rather than creating new stuffs, labelled with your own brand, controlled by your own engineers, and with your own design choices, however good they may be ?

"With the next article we’re going to introduce you to React JS, [...] that have won us over entirely."

How can you take the article seriously with that kind of conclusion.