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by ad-hominem 7y ago
propelene glycol is and has been used as an air santizer for a very long time. https://archive.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/web/pdf/pr...
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by ad-hominem 8y ago
Apple's business model is not selling your data for advertisements. They make their money the old-fashioned way - charging customers for their product (hardware).
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by ad-hominem 8y ago
That doesn't mean banning corporations from exploiting your location is a bad idea, even if it's not the optimal privacy-enabling solution.
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by ad-hominem 9y ago
Discussing HTML: > Just look at this video. It shows me pulling chunks out of the Amazon homepage as I browse it, while the page continues to run. Jut [sic] how… INCREDIBLE is that? Can you imagine pulling random chunks of code out of th
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by ad-hominem 9y ago
I think their point is basically "It doesn't matter" - any client that sends a request which then gets rejected automatically retries and is bound to get a server that is up and has capacity. The retry happens so fast that ev
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by ad-hominem 9y ago
I always use environment variables, you can just use ENV['AWS_S3_KEY'] or whatever in your application code. Keep the keys in your local environment, and add separate sets of keys to the staging / production environments. The
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by ad-hominem 10y ago
Yes, unless you think it is possible that the casino in question removes cards from their decks. For instance, playing black jack by the basic strategy is (from wizardofodds.com): > the probability of an overall win in blackjack is 42.22
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by ad-hominem 10y ago
From the article: "Remember: There’s a reason we gave the %localappdata%\lxss\ folder ‘hidden’ & ‘system’ attributes " So if you go messing about in hidden system folders, you get what you deserve.
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
The six men received the drug several times, starting on Jan. 7. The first symptoms appeared in one man on Sunday; he was quickly hospitalized, and the other men followed. The trial was halted the next day. They began recei
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
I don't disagree with your points, except the implication that ActiveRecord could be replaced with just SQL if developers would only decide on a platform. ActiveRecord is extremely powerful beyond just being a translation layer to SQL
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
Just curious, but are there proper heuristics that are easily implementable to improve the ranking a language receives from github usage? For example, only count repositories that have more than 2 stars. I don't like cutting repos beca
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
Yeah, it appears from the graph like maybe 1-2% - I assume these are people who won big (lottery, stock options, startup, very very wealthy families). I don't see why it's a question?
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
> The fact that tax money is spent on various social protection things, like health care, allows to legally limit one's apparently personal choices, like smoking, that increase the tax money spending due to those choices. Such is th
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
Just because the integers in that number happen to be consecutive if you reorder them doesn't mean they aren't "natural" (whatever that means). For example, a random number generator is exactly as likely to generate 1234
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
Minimalist design has nothing to do with "omitting relevant information"
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
It's not any harder to learn than any other language, it just takes a lot longer to learn what you need to know to get anything done in it.
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
> modern browsers without Javascript Sorry, what browsers? There is no such thing. Even virtually everyone's phone runs javascript. The only way you are running a modern browser without JS is if you've (as a power-user) turned
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
Only using direct SQL works, but I've always relied on redefined model classes IN the migration, a la: http://railsguides.net/change-data-in-migrations-like-a-boss... Written about 20 rails apps of varying levels of co
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
I think he may have confused OAuth with OpenID (which are often used in a complementary fashion).
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
Encryption means encrypting information which can later be decrypted. If you are talking about a one-way transform of data that you can never retrieve the original information from the result of the transformation, that is called hashing. W
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
You may be surprised how many programmers don't use CLI. I have clients on windows machines that saw me running git commands in terminal and said "So glad we have a gui to manage this for us"
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
Can't you just run your tests locally?
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by ad-hominem 11y ago
In what world do you live where a meaningful 3 year relationship is easy? Thanks for belittling essentially all unmarried people plus some married couples.
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by ad-hominem 12y ago
Another piece of "journalism" regarding tech ruined because we can't talk about anything programming-wise without getting into a nuts-and-bolts breakdown of "gender in STEM".
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by ad-hominem 12y ago
"How could building a real business that people (want to) use possibly engender skills transferable to real life? Only when completely removed from reality can we begin to understand those forces which drive it"
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by ad-hominem 12y ago
Well, yeah, you're already infected.
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by ad-hominem 12y ago
Another new poster That is an ad-hominem attack - are we better than this on HN? What does his account age matter if the point is valid?