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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • There are also a lot of e-commerce agencies who just don’t have their sh1t together. Was expected to work on 3 different clients a day who all had different platforms, different requirements etc. Yes, you can dump some new code into the project that looks like it’s working, but then you don’t have time for any unit tests, exception handling if the user won’t cooperate etc. and it’s basically just some dodgy, untested code that will come back a few days later with some issues related to something nobody told you about.

    The other “senior” programmer in the company never set up any local environment but instead ftp’d all changes directly to the live server. I asked him if needs help to set up a local server and debugger, but instead he would just dump vars on the live server and stream the contents of error.log to his second screen to catch any issues…




  • I dont belive so. Pretty much all the big tobacco companies now also own vaping brands, which are advertised with large budgets - pretty similar to the 80’s/90’s where smoking companies would spend big money on billboards and magazine ads (look up “popular mechanics” from that time on google books and pay attention to the full page ads), but nowdays it’s targeted online ads and influeners.

    Vaping is still “new” so its less regulated. Profit margins are high. There is at least one brand that offers a “subscription service” where you get delivered your favorite vaping refills by mail. They will advertise vapes to try to grow their market as long as they can, or as long as regulations don’t prevent it. Unfortunately even the goverment suggest to vaping as “healtier” alternative to smoking.

    Source: one of my ex-employers for ecommerce solutions with a very flexible moral compass had one of the vaping brands as a customer.










  • Meine vermutung waere jetzt gewesen das diese streaming-anbieter erstmal billig in den markt einsteigen, eine solide nutzerbasis aufbauen und dann die preise soweit es geht hochschrauben um gleichauf mit der konkurenz zu liegen und maximalen gewinn zu machen.

    Selbst wenn ein nutzer pro monat z.b. nur 6 Euro kosten verursacht, wieso sollte man dann nur 7 Euro gebuehr verlangen wenn der kunde ebenso 20 Euro zahlen wuerde?