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by SCdF 11y ago
I've found usually if you cleanly explain what you're doing and go through some examples people are willing to learn. Not sure if I've been lucky in that regard, but I've never had the problem this guy clearly has before
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by SCdF 11y ago
> Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software —
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by SCdF 11y ago
> they are ploys to manipulate viewers into buying things that they did not need until they watched that ad. I think those ads definitely exist-- , but I think as well ads can just be a company with a thing, making sure you're aware
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by SCdF 11y ago
> here at WIRED, where we do all we can to write vital stories I genuinely read "viral stories" the first time I read that sentence, and thought to myself: that's awfully honest of them. Speaking more seriously, I'll
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by SCdF 11y ago
For tech I'm honestly trying to keep up less, I want more time in my life to read shitty fiction etc (and you know, spend time with humans I guess); I've spent the better part of a 15 years keeping up _too_ much IMO. On nothing to
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by SCdF 11y ago
I've been doing this for 10 years now and I can see myself trending away from it honestly. To stave that off I'm taking jobs which pay less are more interesting: firstly I did some functional stuff and now I work for a non-profit
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by SCdF 11y ago
> The fact of the matter is that sound (along with everything else we know of in the Universe) travels at a finite speed. In regular conditions, a sound wave propagates at around 340 meters (or 1100 feet) through the air in a single seco
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Into a new era(techreport.com)
1 points by SCdF 11y ago|0 comments
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by SCdF 11y ago
Jeez, I've found the key is to make sure if a conversation steers toward it steer away, because when people have found out they find every excuse to show me pictures of how cute their kids are etc so they can say "see, now don&#x2
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by SCdF 11y ago
Can you go into more detail, what do you mean hedonic treadmill? I'm 30 and I've never felt like having kids. I just, idk, I just don't look at kids and go "yeah that seems like a fantastic idea".
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by SCdF 11y ago
Maybe I don't get what you mean, but how could you? These utilities are taking your full 24bit colour palette and intentionally removing some colours.
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Things the media does to manufacture outrage(medium.com)
3 points by SCdF 11y ago|0 comments
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by SCdF 11y ago
> Hello scdf! > That was a bad idea. Don't copy code from websites you don't trust! Or indeed, download software from websites you don't trust. I guess the worry would be that hackers would, as an example, take over bre
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by SCdF 11y ago
Yeah calling onion a condiment is pretty crazy, Onion is the basis of a huge amount of cuisine.
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by SCdF 11y ago
Yeah, his message is confusing. It sounds like what he wants to say is "don't outsource to indian development shops, outsource to us instead" What his company does is outsourcing. He works / runs and outsourcing shop. He
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by SCdF 11y ago
What is a fair fee to you think? How do you think that could be achieved?
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by SCdF 11y ago
Sorry, not sure if I was clear. What I meant was: Techcrunch shouldn't proudly point out that everyone else is making reading on a mobile device unenjoyable by asking if you want to install an app, because they themselves crap so much
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by SCdF 11y ago
See, I agree, but this is what this article looks like on my phone: https://imgur.com/VqchKIp Perhaps one should become a good example of an enjoyable mobile experience before one starts throwing stones.
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by SCdF 11y ago
If you keep watching the video they have a rear-mounted rack for stuff like that. Almost certainly not as good as a roof rack, but you'd have to really wait until someone reviews it I'd imagine.
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by SCdF 11y ago
Cheers!
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by SCdF 11y ago
Is there a reason for using flashcontrol over simply setting the plugin to click to play?
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by SCdF 11y ago
So I just started using ad blockers (uBlock Origin on Chrome, adblock + ghostery on Safari) because I was finally sick of the amount of extra bandwidth, CPU and just noise they are creating with this crap. I've intentionally not used
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by SCdF 11y ago
While this is just lovely news, I'll withhold my breathless excitement for the headline: "Google implements monthly security updates for Nexus phones"
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by SCdF 11y ago
Yeah I was going to have that as an example in my comment, but even then that seems unrealistic to me. Why wouldn't the big tech companies simply not do that? The UK needs them more than they need the UK, and if you took away the cou
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by SCdF 11y ago
Honestly, it sounds kind of relaxing. Good excuse to get some sunshine. On a more serious note, I can't help but think David Cameron is employing the technique of attempting something extreme so that he can do something less extreme (b
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by SCdF 11y ago
I had one of those, they were awesome. I still have it in a drawer somewhere, but unfortunately the connection to the screen broke (the screen is just white, all the time) and estimations to fix it cost more than buying a completely new de
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by SCdF 11y ago
HN itself uses flat files for each of these comments! Somewhat off topic, but one the pieces of code I'm most proud of was effectively a recursive XML scraper that resolved each leaf (each node was a web request) into a line (like a fi
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by SCdF 11y ago
> This is about stealing money from the successful, and giving it to everyone, regardless of merit. It's a fantastic way to reward failure and penalise success, That implies that being poor is a product of a personal 'failure&#
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by SCdF 11y ago
I severely doubt that. You don't edit them every day, but: 1) It comes up sometimes, and your editor should cope 2) Having a hard file size limit so low is (to me) indicative of you doing something wrong.
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by SCdF 11y ago
In a perfect world I agree. I feel however, that I'd be more successful with slow more correct development over fast and loose development, because the latter requires immense determination and follow-through, at all layers of the busi

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