DougWebb

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by DougWebb 10y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. Jet started up next to the town where I live, and after growing for a while they moved to the town where I used to live. I'd been watching their job postings since early on, and I probably could'v
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As a user, maybe that should be enough. Maybe not. It depends on the app and how critical the data/state is, I guess. As a developer, trying to implement requirements set by a product designer/owner who thinks saving the data is c
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My doctor told me "You have no disease. You have a symptom of a disease." Which he honestly intended as good news. Then he sent me on my way with the guidance to relax and learn to live with it. I remembered why, after seeing this
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by DougWebb 10y ago
A disappearing network connection is a different case, because the app continues running. Imminent power failure is different because the app is about to be terminated, probably not gracefully. This is also different from the user shutting
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I've seen my devices give notifications about the battery level to me, but I don't think they notify the apps I'm running, and if I ignore the notifications until the battery dies the device just shuts down. The apps have no
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Nope; either the information is not available to Javascript code at all, or the Javascript code can do whatever it wants with the info. A security permission, or config setting, can/should be used to prevent access to the api that retu
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by DougWebb 10y ago
Maybe a boolean would work. I don't think 0%-25% would work for the scenario I described; 0% is too late to do anything about the low battery situation, and 25% is too soon to worry about it.
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As a web application developer, one idea that comes to mind is that, if I were writing an app that supports offline usage, I'd probably want to be aware of a low battery situation so that I can save my state and warn the user that the
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Millions of people? Where do you get that number? We've had two devastating accidents with nuclear reactors, and one that came close to being devastating. All three were older designs that were more dangerous than the designs we could
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I think the fundamental thing you're missing is that a gene's behavior throughout your life depends on more than just its sequence. Everything else that goes on in your body, and in particular everything that goes in and comes out
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Ah, thank you for that info. Vaccination sounds a lot safer.
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I read (on here) about eggs not too long ago. In Europe (UK?) where eggs are not refrigerated, farmers are required to give their chickens antibiotics to reduce salmonella in the eggs. That's why it's safe to keep them on the coun
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Vinyl's robustness comes from being purely mechanical and analog. That's film's advantage too. To play back a CD, you need the physical electronics to read the data (even moreso for magnetic media formats) but you also need t
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In a book like this, I'd like to see cost estimation mentioned earlier than Chapter 8. I'd argue that in nearly all software development projects (particularly the ones where this sort of book applies) the cost of implementation i
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To handle the huge amount of media it handles, Facebook has a content distribution network that stores many copies of the media in many places. When you upload it goes to an initial storage location, and when you view it the server you&#x27
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I had a similar experience in Barbados, when I took a tour from the cruise ship I was on to visit the Concorde they have at Barbados' airport. It was pretty comical; on the way back our driver unexpectedly stopped at this little bar an
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Some engineering requirements for space are easier, some are harder. The pressures involved in underwater systems are far greater; in space you're either dealing with no pressure at all (robotic drones) or at most 1atm of pressure (hum
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Apple's reasoning is that the problem with the old analog headphone jack is that it won't work with all of the new lightning-based headphones that will be coming out soon. /sarcasm
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Dragon mythology as an explanation for dinosaur bones seems pretty straight-forward. I'd even say that "dragon" was just the early word for "dinosaur", and the mythology is based on an earlier extrapolation of chara
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I'd say it depends on just how much of a 'not team player' you are. If you want to be completely independent, developing small mobile apps, mods for games, Wordpress/Bootstrap themes, and projects like that where you can
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You seem to think I'm arguing with you. I'm not. I'm trying to explain why people claim that "natural is better", even if they understand that the active components are the same. Also, you're the one talking ab
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I agree with you that the two chemicals are indistinguishable; I just think that that's not really the issue when people prefer 'natural' products. Now, most people also don't get the distinction you're making, beca
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I've always taken the "natural is better" argument to be based on what else is in the product. The drug industry has a long history of taking a complex natural product and isolating out specific chemicals, then patenting a
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I've been reading about the Younger Dryas [1] transition recently. This was the ice age that we're still warming up from; before it started the world was at least as warm as it is now. Then, over just a few decades, the global tem
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Large-scale engineering, the kind we'd need to do large-scale cleaning of the atmosphere, or large-scale high-efficiency hydroponic farming, or building huge earthworks to protect cities from rising sea levels, or anything else we migh
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The changes are already ushered in. Our responsibility now is to manage the consequences as well as we can.
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I didn't mean that the government can't raise taxes the way you're assuming I meant. I was describing typical government behavior, where lawmakers have to decide how to describe the act of collecting more money. Calling it &q
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You're making huge assumptions about me and my political beliefs. Incorrect assumptions. The US federal government is bad about this, but they're not the only ones that do it: effective tax rates here are just as high as in many
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By 2011, there had already been a lot of pushback against the TSA, so I'm sure part of the rationale for the cuts was to force TSA to stop growing out of control like it had been. A leaner budget could force the TSA to become leaner, w
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Try GraphViz. You write a text document that defines your record/object types, and then specifies the relationships. Basically just a directed graph, in an easy syntax with a reasonable amount of control over the nodes and edges. When

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