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by D-Coder 5y ago
I did this twice with one company, AthenaHealth in Watertown MA. I spent hours on the challenge. They never even bothered to call or email and tell me "Nope." After that... well, f*** them.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
For slowing down iPhones when the battery was low and not telling the user about it.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
"Three currency reconversions since 2008 have resulted in the elimination of 14 zeros from the local currency. Venezuela will thus become the Latin American country to have eliminated the largest number of zeros from its currency, whil
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by D-Coder 5y ago
> What is it about driving a car that turns people who are probably otherwise normal adults into literal babies. It's like Usenet, or FaceBook. Two layers of glass (driver+worker) give people some anonymity and they stop treating ot
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by D-Coder 5y ago
"Fujimori Concedes to Kuczynski in Peru Election" (Article in _Time_ magazine but the link no longer works.)
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by D-Coder 5y ago
My New Years resolution for 2020 was actually somewhat effective: "Procrastinate later — there's always tomorrow!"
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Half the population cares nothing about any science and does not know (or care) whether the earth goes around the sun or vice versa.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
"This is the second part of a three part series (I) examining the historical assumptions of Paradox Interactive’s 19th and early 20th century grand strategy game, Victoria II." So it's about a game (which is fine), not real l
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by D-Coder 5y ago
If there isn't already such an app, it sounds like it would solve a big problem and make $$$...
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Communist logic: Three prisoners in communist East Germany were talking about their crimes. 1: "I always got to work five minutes early. They convicted me of spying." 2: "I always got to work five minutes late. They convicted
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by D-Coder 5y ago
If you have to do a search to find documentation on searching... :-(
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Evolution is a billion years of kludges.
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Report dark web patterns to Consumer Reports(consumerreports.org)
8 points by D-Coder 5y ago|1 comments
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Advocacy groups are trying to draw more attention to the problem. Today, Consumer Reports is launching the Dark Patterns Tip Line, a hub for consumers to anonymously submit examples of dark patterns they spot on the web. The Tip Line is bei
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Selection bias, perhaps? They're not telling you at all about the regular carrots, the okay friends, because why should they waste your time with "It's just the same old same old."
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by D-Coder 5y ago
I think there is a rule (or more likely several rules), but knowing them involves learning the history of English, which is not what people usually want to do.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
This makes me lugubrious.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
> Apple shouldn't be in charge of commerce on iPhone. So just opt in when the phone gives you the choice.
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by D-Coder 5y ago
LiveCode.com. Very compatible with the original HyperCard (I know, I had to switch. And I'm a software guy.) AND multi-platform!
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by D-Coder 5y ago
mRNAs against viruses were still in research until the past few years. Researchers were trying to use it against flu until COVID broke out. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/how-mrna-t...
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Some older machines had different byte lengths. I believe Burroughs had 7-bit bytes. PDP-10s had 36-bit words which could be divided into any byte size that you liked; 7 bits was common, but if you needed them you could get 1-bit bytes, 6 b
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by D-Coder 5y ago
Agent Smith is wrong. Every organism does this — that's how life works. Population crashes are common among many species, rabbits to rats. Trees produce a million seeds. Grasses expand into areas that juuuust barely support them. The &
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by D-Coder 5y ago
If it was making money, why was this product shut down?
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by D-Coder 5y ago
LiveCode is still out there. I use it every day for a half-dozen home applications.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> almost any verb can be combined with any preposition to form a phrasal verb with a meaning that needs to be memorized (put up, put down, put out (!), etc.) I knew someone who came to the US from Latvia. His observation was that in Engl
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by D-Coder 6y ago
You mean, see how long it takes before PHBs utilizationize it unironically?
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Interesting. I choose to keep a copy of everything on my home machine (it's only personal stuff, not a company), plus backups to two removable disks, one in a fire-resistant box. Because I don't trust a big company to decide that
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I once worked with a guy who had worked on gravitational measurements in (I presume) grad school. They measured the attraction between spheres of lead. One of the adjustments they had to make was considering the change in the masses as lea
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Airline (from the article): "The possible issue was related to an engine oil pressure or volume indicator and not the result of anything related to the MCAS system linked to two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that prompted the
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by D-Coder 6y ago
That sounds like a plus. :-)

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