Kadin

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by Kadin 5y ago
My memory at this point is faded, but I thought that was the point? You used both of them to cover both the Netscape and IE cases. (Hence, the joke, that to combine the two made you a Great Web Developer, since you knew about such things.
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by Kadin 5y ago
> Facebook was famously started and hosted in a dorm room. But this was only possible due to the history of Harvard within the advent of the internet and the fact that they had such an excess of addresses that Zuck could bind to a public
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by Kadin 5y ago
I particularly appreciated the "Why use dialup" section...
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by Kadin 5y ago
Just as an aside, even if it turns out to be a Winmodem, many of them can still be used under Linux. Towards the end of the modem era there were a couple of open source efforts to create Linux drivers for popular Winmodem chipsets. LTMODE
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by Kadin 5y ago
Just in case anyone wanted to be sure this wasn't just another blood sport before clicking: > They are precious enough that their owners never let them fight to the death, and injuries are rare. So, better than dog fighting, certain
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by Kadin 5y ago
Couldn't it also just be that the hardware manufacturers / OEMs finally managed to successfully arm-twist someone in MSFT into declaring a new version, in order to intentionally obsolete more hardware? It's hard to do that on
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by Kadin 5y ago
Yes, Iomega eventually licensed disk production to a few other companies. I know for sure that Maxell and Verbatim made them, and Wikipedia says that Toshiba, Fuji, Epson and NEC also produced some. When they were originally released, I be
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by Kadin 5y ago
Most tech internships are paid. Someone in a CS program at a recognizable school with a strong program should definitely not be signing up for unpaid internships (at least not at for-profit corps). I just finished supervising the summer
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by Kadin 5y ago
Yeah gonna have to disagree strongly with that. iTunes abstracted away the need to manually manage music files. Very few non-nerds actually wanted to do that. Jamming iPhone-related features into iTunes bloated it up, but in the beginning
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by Kadin 6y ago
I can't really see why Facebook would care; even if they drive off 50% of WhatsApp's userbase, that's 50% they get to keep, analyze, and monetize. If they made WhatsApp a separate entity, they lose 100% of its users. Half o
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by Kadin 6y ago
Well, they have managed to generate a class-action lawsuit, although it's more over the zero-calorie claim: https://dev.theclassactionguide.com/News/3029/I_Can%E2%80%99...
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by Kadin 7y ago
I doubt that most human drivers are good enough to avoid a collision in that situation. You will always be able to come up with a scenario that will fool a computer; you can also always come up with a scenario that will fool a human driver
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by Kadin 7y ago
There are lots of companies that buy in bulk from China and have US distribution. They will still be around for your Shenzen electronics needs. I have very little sympathy for people who were depending on what was essentially taxpayer-subs
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by Kadin 7y ago
Like Internet peering agreements, the UPU model only made sense when there was about the same amount of traffic going in each direction. In that case, it makes sense for each country to just pick up the cost of domestic last-mile delivery,
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by Kadin 7y ago
Nothing wrong with that. If a Chinese company wants to ship things over in bulk, break them up here in the US and ship them via the USPS, more power to them. They'll need to incorporate in the US, pay taxes in the US, probably rent s
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by Kadin 7y ago
The US doesn't manufacture those items because it's cheaper to have them shipped from China. Raise the cost of manufacturing them there and importing them, and the balance changes. The domestic vs. offshore production calculus
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by Kadin 7y ago
I read it in the 90s. I think what people forget is in the pre-dot-com-crash era, there was a lot of (unwarranted, it turned out) optimism. If you took the rate of technology advancement and adoption through the 80s and early 90s and extr
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by Kadin 7y ago
I switched to iOS (via a used iPhone on a BYOD plan) primarily for iMessage. I was tired of being the odd man out, missing out on things that were being planned via group messages, etc. Nobody was going to switch to an entirely different
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by Kadin 7y ago
There's evidence that deplatformining decreases extremists' reach and may curtail recruitment opportunities. It is an active area of research, but there is nothing to justify the position that "deplatforming rarely solves an
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by Kadin 7y ago
As a Mac user anyway, they were very practical, and were basically the de facto standard for external/portable storage for a while. Service bureaus accepted files on Zip disks, etc., Apple built them into a few models of Macs... they
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by Kadin 7y ago
Or, you know, stuff people are willing to pay for. WaPo and NYT, among others, have seemingly done okay after paywalling their content (with admittedly relaxed rules to preserve inbound hits from Google, Twitter, etc.). The real problem is
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by Kadin 7y ago
Very solid advice. Working as a consultant will also let you build a network that you can use when you want to go independent. Obviously you have to be careful not to poach from your old company, but often there are side projects and jobs
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by Kadin 7y ago
> I had to install Zoom in school in 2014 This is a good point; we shouldn't act as though users are necessarily making an informed choice or meaningfully consenting to all the software that's on their computers. Lots of peopl
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by Kadin 7y ago
This is a classic "parade of horribles" argument. I do not find them compelling, personally. If Apple starts being abusive, they'll get their hand slapped. If they don't, they don't. There's no better company
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by Kadin 7y ago
Disagree; "classified" is normally used before the noun, not after, when referring to government classification. E.g. it's "classified material" not "material that's classified".
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by Kadin 7y ago
In that case you are better off running local DNS and using a different subdomain (internal.companyname.com or whatever) for internal DNS entries; the DNS-over-HTTPS query will go out, fail, and then Firefox will fallback to traditional UDP
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by Kadin 7y ago
That's impossible; no system -- machine or human -- is going to be 100% accurate. People looking at photos and at a lineup aren't even 100% accurate, if the people are similar-enough looking.
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by Kadin 7y ago
Line-drying vs machine drying was, and I suppose still is for some older people (who probably inhabit the bulk of HOA boards and such) a class issue. People with means had mechanical clothes dryers; poorer people didn't. (Clothes was
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by Kadin 7y ago
This is true, although UBECs are also packaged with some filtering caps, and are in a nice heatshrinked package usually -- so I look at it the other way around; packaged UBECs are so cheap, if you can make do with them, it's too easy t
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by Kadin 7y ago
> If it's as dire as some seem to imply, we should all switch to nuclear right now. We probably should, or take other similar-scale approaches (multiple, as it wouldn't do to put all our eggs in one basket). The lack of respons

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