MAGZine

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by MAGZine 6y ago
timezone and cultural differences.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Nope, many companies have their own internal design systems for keeping look/feel of marketing materials, UIs, etc all consistent. Even at PlanGrid, when we were 450 people, we had our own design system.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
this rings true actually. I had a friend who typed with just the three fingers on the right hand while the left hand hovered all of the most essential letters with all five fingers. it seemed to work pretty well to just have one hand huntin
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by MAGZine 6y ago
There's no open API which is a problem when things are E2E encrypted.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
I also have bluetooth headphones, but I prefer not having to worry about battery, prefer the sound quality, love the simplicity (pairing doesn't exist), and enjoy the utility (can plug into anything with an aux cord). I can justify any
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Some of us in androidland continue to buy phones specifically because the headphone jack offers a quality of life improvement more than whatever other features are offered in place of the jack.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
This is the same for any piece of crypto. If you've been provided someone else's encryption keys, and they're not either from the person themselves, or from a trustworthy intermediary, then your channel could be getting inter
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Pedantry aside, isn't it? In a thread about the backlash to whatsapp changes, Op said "it's not what you think it is!!!" The point is, this happened to be a watershed moment. Whether the conditions (mining metadata) were
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by MAGZine 6y ago
So your rational is: since Facebook was already mining your conversation metadata, people shouldn't be leaving. Did I capture that accurately? Seems pretty flimsy. You're right though, people should have left a long time ago.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
So you're suggesting grandma connects to a different server when setting up the app? next you're going to tell me grandma should just use IRC instead.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
I can't help but wonder if this has to do with an increasing pessimism in the future and higher rates of mental illness.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Bill has been known for getting in on buying vast amounts of resources that underpin society. He's the single largest shareholder Canadian National Railway, who owns most of the rail infrastructure in Canada.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Because people pay for output, not input. They don't care if you bought a pencil from someone else or grew the tree, made the paint, etc all yourself. They buy a pencil.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
This has nothing to do with corporations being people. This and citizens united have nothing to do with each other. Businesses do not need to give you a platform just because. They reserve the right to do business, or not do business, with
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by MAGZine 6y ago
One thing I've done to combat this is to aggressively tamp down on things that vie, or worse yet, call for my attention. I leave my phone permanently on do not disturb mode (pagerduty and immediate family are the only exemptions). I us
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by MAGZine 6y ago
They shouldn't be including expiring software in something that they sold as perpetual. This sounds like a class-action waiting to happen. Your users bought your software with a specific usecase and premise, and it stopped working.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
not exactly what you're asking, but i've used a dell monitor that acted as a kvm switch. macbook was connected via usb-c, and dell laptop was connected via HDMI. Though you could also use displayport. Monitor seemlessly switched m
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by MAGZine 6y ago
California has a lot of land, too, and more habitable then texas imo. People don't want sprawl. The live in sf because it's a city with an urban center. It's why, despite hours of traffic, people live in sf instead of mountai
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Citation needed? In my experience, SFHowners who live in a primarily residential neighborhood generally don't want condos if they live in Texas or Maine or California.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Are the people who are leaving the same people who vote for these policies? I suspect tech people who might move to texas are strongly YIMBY, not NIMBY.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
in mission critical systems, build from scratches are rarely the case because any hiccups are disastrous. It's why banks still run on mainframes despite trying (quite desperately) to get away from that.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
As with software, restarting from scratch can introduce many, many bugs. Boeing planes are super safe from millions of flighthours and the learnings and failures from before. The older aircraft annealed into a state of safety and reliabilit
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Contrary to your point, I don't think that's a better description. I live in a non-rent control building and received rate increases of 7% and then 12% after, and this was already on top-of-market rent. I also don't know how
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by MAGZine 6y ago
It also keeps rents from being jacked up unfairly because you don't want to move your life every year or two. People like to point out that sf rental market does not have very high rental mobility. While it's not a good thing (peo
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by MAGZine 6y ago
The sale date is predetermined but press release dates are not.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
To clarify: WHAT they were doing with the data was not transparent. HOW they were doing the data collection was completely transparent. The worst of both worlds. Which is to say—we're saying the same thing. Univeristy research projects
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by MAGZine 6y ago
So is your opinion just that facebook just shouldn't be researched?
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by MAGZine 6y ago
the plugins are just javascript, so verifying that is actually a trivial task. You just open the plugin and read the source. NYU could also provide the code, to make it even easier.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Comparing Cambridge Analytica, who harvested data though means that were not transparent to users (and for malicious purpose), to NYU has explained what data and why, AND has the consent of its users, seems disingenuous at best.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
It's not "marketing," though, which is a key difference. Programmers put weird things in unit tests all the time. Maybe the contributor was making a joke.

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