SamuelAdams

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by SamuelAdams 8y ago
I agree - UTC is the way to go. The point of the example was to illustrate how simple could be detrimental to a significant portion of your userbase. How about another example? You're building an android application. Let's pretend
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by SamuelAdams 8y ago
I would argue that correct is more important than simple. Consider timezones: it's simpler to pretend there's 24 time zones, one for each hour. But the correct assertion is there's 37 time zones (as of this writing). So, the
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by SamuelAdams 8y ago
> defaults are important and that is the default view for a user who is not signed in. This is a good point. I never have my browser save cookies / cache information between sessions. Now when I visit reddit I need to tick the &quot
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by SamuelAdams 8y ago
Consider this: I send an exploding message, set for 1 day, to Bob. Bob checks his chat a week from now. Does Bob get the message? Or has it already exploded? I guess I'm asking when the actual explosion timer starts - when
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by SamuelAdams 9y ago
It could also be that more experienced developers don’t have time to take surveys.
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by SamuelAdams 9y ago
>it costs basically nothing to implement too, Eh. Don't be so sure of this. Yes, this technology exists. No, it's typically not feasible to implement. The ROI simply doesn't make sense. Each store houses about 250,000 uniq
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by SamuelAdams 9y ago
Sadly, it's not that simple. Facial verification has come a long way, but it's not accurate enough. You need a person to verify the person's ID matches the face of the customer that is buying it - otherwise some teenager can
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by SamuelAdams 9y ago
"Equifax could easily have patched the hole in its system that hackers exploited, but it simply didn’t." We don't know why, though. Perhaps they were working with law enforcement to track the attacker. Closing the hole would
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by SamuelAdams 9y ago
So the question becomes - what types of data is available using legal channels?
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by SamuelAdams 9y ago
Isn't this considered public data anyways? Illinois (and I believe every other US state) requires that certain voter data be publicly accessible. To access it in bulk, you'll have to pay a small fee, but anyone can get this. A mis
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Ask HN: Is it worth joining a startup that plans to sell in the next 5 years?
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by SamuelAdams 10y ago
How is Mesh networking different from a wireless repeater? Yes, there's a nicer UI for this, but are there any technical advantages?
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by SamuelAdams 10y ago
Especially to Windows users. Every time NoScript updates itself, the users are shown the homepage of the extension. Options > Notifications > Uncheck "Display the release notes on updates". I get that this sucks but