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by Firehed 14y ago
Google voice lets you do something along those lines. I personally found it incredibly tedious and quickly turned it off. I think the grandparents idea of *RC is spot on. Verification can be done through volume; i.e. a one-off may do nothi
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by Firehed 14y ago
But both are intended for consumption primarily by computers, so that shouldn't (heavily) weigh into a decision to use one over the other.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I think the point was that anything above 7-bit ASCII will be represented differently in Latin-1 vs UTF-8; i.e. ¢ (U+00A2) is rendered as 0xA2 in Latin1 and 0xC2A2 in UTF-8 - and 0xC2A2 in Latin1 will be displayed as Â¢. It gets far worse i
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by Firehed 14y ago
> And to the caching point -- having data cached locally in memory is great, but you can't trust that. You can if you design around handling a possibly-stale cache.
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by Firehed 14y ago
The reflection tools aren't meant for constant run-time use. "PHP 5 comes with a complete reflection API that adds the ability to reverse-engineer classes, interfaces, functions, methods and extensions. Additionally, the reflection API offe
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by Firehed 14y ago
I think it was intended to mean that it eschews some advanced/clever functionality in favor of having a shallow learning curve. That doesn't make it the best tool for the job (nor does it prevent it from being so), but it implies that you c
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by Firehed 14y ago
Gotta agree here - I find Instacart easy (if not slightly tedious) to use. There are some UX improvements to be made, but those are more around optimizing the add-to-cart experience; both search and scrolling aren't a problem for me. This l
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by Firehed 14y ago
"Never trust the client"
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by Firehed 14y ago
In theory, I'd rather have it in a cookie than unprotected in a database. In practice, anyone doing something that stupid will have XSS exploits rendering that information available to anyone running an exploit. While security and encryptio
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by Firehed 14y ago
No. Source: http://www.apple.com/ios/maps/ (also, the iPhone 4 sitting two feet from me). Maps has had driving directions since 1.0, but only the latest and greatest maps app on the 4S and 5 (and the latest two iPads) do turn by turn.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I don't see how jobs for the sake of jobs is of real benefit to society. Just as programmers tend to automate away humans with small shells scripts (costs go down, reliability increases), a robot automating away inventory picking is a good
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's against most networks' (Visa, etc) TOS to charge before the goods are shipped, but you can usually word things in such a way to get around it, and it's usually not enforced strictly until it becomes a real problem. It's definitely high
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by Firehed 14y ago
Financial transactions tend to create a lot of data for the logging and recoverability they require, and the logging isn't terribly interesting. The trick is realizing that things can and do fail in any way for any reason , and being able t
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by Firehed 14y ago
You can still use your physical key (which is probably how you locked the door if you left without your phone)
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by Firehed 14y ago
I agree - the v1 product (no longer on the website as far as I know; it replaced the original deadbolt) simply looks sturdier. While this will tend to increase overall security since you'll any time when the door is unlocked and can alway
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by Firehed 14y ago
Android had market-share, but will you get paying customers? Every article I've ever read on the subject is that iOS customers are far more willing to pay for apps than android users. Of course, if you're making a companion app for some ot
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by Firehed 14y ago
I doubt it but you never know. However the original iPhone's aluminum back scuffed too, and it never bothered me one bit. Same with my iPad. I expect it will be a bit more noticible on the 5 as I got the black one, but at the end of the day
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by Firehed 14y ago
> But let's face it, that's not going to improve their bottom line, whereas telling everyone to buy a new iPad every 24 months is. That kind of short-term thinking is what gets companies into trouble. No, it won't help the bottom line n
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by Firehed 14y ago
> So, this is ridiculous. The answer is no. Rails provides infinitely better tools in a better language than PHP. You're making a highly subjective and unqualified comparison of a language to a framework, and (given past citations in si
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by Firehed 14y ago
Courts will subpoena financial records. I don't know the details not being the one that provides the information but I know we have received requests in the past. I'm going to see if we can set up the same thing. I wasn't aware of this serv
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by Firehed 14y ago
There's a button in the app to report inaccurate data on all POIs. If something is wrong, use it. They would do well to make that more prominent especially in the short-term to better handle their growing pains here, but it is a quite solva
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by Firehed 14y ago
How many housecats have you met that can use vi?
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First World Problem Solver(firstworldproblems.biz)
15 points by Firehed 14y ago|1 comments
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by Firehed 14y ago
Not everything has to be a startup with some grandiose exit strategy. Making a great product and a solid living off of it is perfectly viable, and quite preferable for many people. But you're right about being aware of what apple may do in
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by Firehed 14y ago
Yeah - this sounds more like a problem where someone was using a loosely-typed language that uses "+" for both addition and concatenation.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I completely agree. I'm sick of feature bloat, especially when it's taking away from perfecting stuff that's useful but not 100% there. Not every application needs to solve every problem - but it would be really nice if they did actually s
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by Firehed 14y ago
Books, by and large, are useless in keeping up on current events. The news, despite all it's faults, is current - which is what's meant by "informed" in this context. That's not to say that you shouldn't read books nor that the news is the
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by Firehed 14y ago
Affiliate programs and injecting ads into people's news feeds are two complete different and largely unrelated ways of monetizing. If pinterest goes the route of sponsored pins (or whatever they might be called) instead of affiliate commiss
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by Firehed 14y ago
I agree with the steering the ship logic - I'm just using a different approach to sending the message. The vote here is actually irrelevant (other than I refuse to not practice what I preach). The important part is spreading the idea of not
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by Firehed 14y ago
How many judges know enough about the technology present (or not present) in speed cameras to legitimately scrutinize it? In any case, I was under the impression that it was just a radar gun which tripped a camera once a speed some threshol

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