AndrewThrowaway

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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
> governments often tolerate because they don't see a threat to their power I would say it is often even opposite of it - black/grey markets help to stay in power. When everybody is breaking some law, buying something [almost]
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
Seems to give false positive on Windows 10 as in my Date setting on OS level time zone is selected as something like Helsinki, Sofia, Kyiv, Tallinn, etc. (UTC+02:00) so both Firefox and Chrome reports it as "Europe/Kiev". Whi
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
Is it just me or documentation is lacking? What is server, what is device? In both introduction and "getting started" it is mentioned that "The ShellHub SSH gateway is a modern SSH server built using the microservices design
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
I kinda understand the point. However at what point one can call himself a "good prolific programmer" which has no time for "hand-holding", can judge if contribution is sincere attempt by some thirteen year old who wants
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
What about SVG?
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
Does anybody even use apps in 2020 anymore? I understand that games, camera, music, maybe something else requires an app. But why make people to install an app for what is obviously a website?
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
I remember being a kid and going grocery shopping with my father. At the end of the shopping father realized that he has left his wallet at home and only had something like spare 50 in his pocket. Having to decide what we will buy, and what
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
No doubt they should. I would think they do in some places like e.g. Scandinavia. Then again taxes are huge there.
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
I think the biggest elephant in the room with charities is that somebody has to run them. Let's say a guy runs a charity which provides great help for some people. Eventually running charity becomes his full time job. A guy needs to at
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
At first I read it as "will not be used". "Yet" I thought to myself. Then I reread the title. "Oh" I though to myself.
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
I wonder what would be the load compared to a speeding car. Lets say car is standing on 10% incline, first gear, something like three teeth engaged. What is the load to one teeth? Now lets say you have started the car and accelerate it to s
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
To be fair running browser sessions should be so much less demanding than running triple A games.
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
Bleak future flashed in front of my eyes - Google Chrome v100 - browser runs on google's cloud, you are just being streamed view to your Chrome Client™. So secure and you are so out of control.
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
Once upon a time we have launched a rich media banner with three videos in it. What was interesting that all three videos generated around the same viewability stats. What was event more interesting that one video in banner was hidden with
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
It just fascinates me how a guy with a "quirky" personality can pull something like seven hundred million. How this world is even possible.
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
I think you must be crazy to mix in statistics. That's why each individual case is being judged individually according to evidence, facts gathered and etc. With the same mindset you could say that if a member of some group is accused o
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
Just look at other publications by this guy: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/author/sanjeev-sab... I especially like this one: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/seeing-the-in
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by AndrewThrowaway 7y ago
> they did all of it, no matter the cost That's the beauty of authoritarian state - people who did the job had no choice, authority who ordered had no sympathy. E.g. helicopter pilots summoned from Baltic states didn't even kno
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by AndrewThrowaway 9y ago
What fascinates me is how marketing/media people seem to be detached from general public as they were living in some parallel universe. You would think nobody would like that their wife, daughter, ageing father would be tracked all ove