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by MCRed 11y ago
There is no negative light here... this is a capability/feature that makes sense at the OS level. On desktops you have access to the deepest parts of the system, but on mobile, things need to be more secure. Apple's done nothing
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by MCRed 11y ago
I've priced this out and I don't think that AWS prices are "low". I think it would be easy to set up a PaaS and undercut AWS. The challenge to doing that, though, is the need to build software, the cost of marketing it
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by MCRed 11y ago
The idea that you can't make things on iPads is kinda silly. There's all kinds of things you can make on iPads and iPhones. iMovie, painting apps and all that are creative outlets. Yes, you need a computer to compile code, but I
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by MCRed 11y ago
He tripped and fell into the solution-- and then didn't recognize it. Everything conveyed in a standup is covered by your project tracker (what you did, what you're working on, and where you're stuck) and discussion can happe
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by MCRed 11y ago
People buy Apple products because they have a history of making great products, and so they don't mind that they are expensive. You have to be really rich, and have the right attitude to think that just cause something is expensive it
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by MCRed 11y ago
The Wall Street Journal, in the early 1990s, reported that Apple had been bought by Sun Microsystems. They never retracted the story. This may be a generally credible newspaper, but this article sounds just like the constant stream of App
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by MCRed 11y ago
I'm completely in bed with Apple, ditched Microsoft 20 years ago and am slowly weening myself off of google (primary reason I used google now is work requires uses google docs.) I'm very happy with the stance Apple is taking regar
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by MCRed 11y ago
Plus the real sharing of knowledge happens in ad hoc meetings outside of the standup when people talk about details of the issues-- things you can't talk about in the standup.
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by MCRed 11y ago
"With that said, here are the links to my social media:" <crickets> I think a rendering issue in Safari hid them, or something, but I thought it was humorous to have that article, followed by no way to follow him on social m
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by MCRed 11y ago
$2M IIRC, and yes. The reason that NICU is so expensive is government has driven up the costs astronomically by intervening in the market place over the past 100 years. The ACA is not reversing that, but accelerating that. If the lifetim
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by MCRed 11y ago
And what will happen is you will not get much health care. Certainly much less than you got in 2005, for much more than you paid in 2005. Insurers routinely pay out over %100 of premiums in claims. Meanwhile government programs with benefi
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by MCRed 11y ago
The reason nobody could sell you insurance with your pre-existing condition before is that regulations prevented making plans for conditions. EG: You couldn't make a national diabetes insurance plan for people with diabetes (and the e
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by MCRed 11y ago
Comparing to my "free market" insurance before the ACA was passed, I had much more coverage (it was real insurance: eg: pay in advance against a risk, rather than covering pre-existing conditions which violates the definition of i
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by MCRed 11y ago
I have a toyota, and the system in it is pure junk. I only use it as much as I need to interface with my phone. It has a navigation system (a very expensive upgrade forced on me by the dealer as part of their package bundling strategy) tha
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by MCRed 11y ago
FWIW - This is Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang. Definitely an old-school REPL/functional guy, and I love seeing him playing around with swift. Regarding GUIs and IDEs: I think interface builder is the best ever way to bu
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by MCRed 11y ago
I'm not sure about the "pay fors" you're talking about, but I believe your sentiment is correct-- and effectively, that $2T came out of the economy via the hidden tax of inflation. While people would be mad to see the $2
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by MCRed 11y ago
Is that an argument for higher tax rates or lower ones? After all, if you are anti-war, would you really say tax rates should be higher so that we can have more wars? The weird thing seems to be that the people who are most anti-war want h
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by MCRed 11y ago
In some circumstances yes, but I think actually that most of the papers out there disprove AGW, it's just that nobody reads them. I've read many papers given to me by AGW proponents that they claim support AGW, and in every case
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by MCRed 11y ago
More specifically the scientific method, but the scientific method is out the window in society these days-- it's un popular. A politicians pronouncing something true (that is conveniently in his self interest) is given more weight th
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by MCRed 11y ago
I was around, and read the Pons & Flieshman paper before it was released (when the pre-prints were carefully guarded and numbered... do frauds carefully guard their papers to make sure they don't get out, or do they publish far and
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by MCRed 11y ago
Not storing the images was the promise at the beginning. Thanks Obama for these scanners, by the way. IT was bad enough that Bush made the TSA, Obama made it worse.
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by MCRed 11y ago
The hassle of a 2 hour flight is no longer "cheaper" than a 7 hour drive. I didn't even think about flying this holiday... never even looked up the prices. I know it would be monetarily cheaper, but I can't abide the ab
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by MCRed 11y ago
It doesn't matter whether they are dangerous or not. The fourth amendment is clear. The US Code 18-242 makes it a crime for them to search you, a felony if they are armed. The idea that the TSA has the "Right" to do what it
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by MCRed 11y ago
Are you really? Sincerely. Because these days, that seems to be the mode of "Debate" that is most popular, alas. I feel like anti-intellectualism has taken hold, such that "Debate" at its best is citing some authority
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by MCRed 11y ago
Why not just use Elixir to begin with? Ok, Node existed before Elixir, but erlang has been around a long time. It seems to me that engineering has become very cargo-cultish. "Lets use node cause we already know javascript" seems
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by MCRed 11y ago
In fact, in the two instances where I've worked at "closed shop" places early in my career, the combination of HAVING to join the union to keep my job, and Union dues, meant that I would have been making LESS than minimum wag
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by MCRed 11y ago
Or Couchbase + Sync_Gateway + PouchDB / CouchbaseLite? This is a very full featured combination, basically a PaaS/BaaS with sync, and user accounts, out of the box. http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/cou
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by MCRed 11y ago
What is the fallacy of "proof by existence of scare mongering"?
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by MCRed 11y ago
You say that like its a bad thing. The only thing going on here is you're expressing your puritanical urges. "People are having fun, there must be something wrong with it!"
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by MCRed 11y ago
You're being puritanical. Using Vegetable Glycerin you get large volumes of "smoke" as it is what is used in smoke machines. Its non toxic, you can drink it. This is what I use, with flavor, and no nicotine. Your assumption

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