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by alphakappa 8y ago
Seems like a total dick move to launch anyway and hope that approval is obtained later. What was the plan if approval was not obtained after launch - did they have the facilities to bring down the satellites? This story reads like Silicon V
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Also, https://data.gov.in -- Lots of self-submitted datasets, and includes an API. Usability is average, much like the other government data sources.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Engineers will move around. You can't lock up knowledge that's in people's heads, and the basic concepts will get implemented everywhere even if they have to find different specific approaches to avoid encroaching on patents.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
LIBRLibrary of CongressARY
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by alphakappa 8y ago
I fail to understand the issue here - Successful companies do often stretch the limits of engineering to fit design goals (assuming that the design is an informed one to begin with). If design was always fitted around what is known to be po
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by alphakappa 8y ago
> It’s easy to forget how quickly we can overextend technology, which is so good at solving some of our problems, into a good way of solving all of our problems. But eventually the self-driving wheel turns and we realize we don’t have as
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by alphakappa 8y ago
I may be mistaken, but sounds like you are referring to browser compatibility not being a good reason to adopt jQuery anymore. But like the parent said above, there's more to jQuery than just getting browser compatibility - it's a
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Congratulations on the launch - I love this idea. One thing that stands out to me is your beautiful packaging. Could you shed some light into how you went about figuring out packaging and all the logistics involved?
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Speaking of styling things for novelty, there's also this https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/text-styles
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by alphakappa 8y ago
I think the parent's point is that markdown is simple, but markdeep is not.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Yes. The newer ones enable control over WiFi. Joule requires you to connect to WiFi to get firmware updates.
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by alphakappa 8y ago
This happens all the time. Recently I bought a sous-vide machine, and realized that it would phone home with details of my cooking, along with the WiFi AP. Essentially someone at the company would have an idea of my location, along with whe
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by alphakappa 8y ago
That may be technically correct, but that is unfortunately not the common usage. Regardless of how long you intend to stay in a country, people from the non white countries are almost always called immigrants. I've almost never heard a
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by alphakappa 8y ago
For all the (well deserved) Apple Maps hate, using Google Maps in South Africa on a recent trip was just as bad. Good at finding POIs, but navigated to dead ends and through wrong roads quite often. South Africans, what do you use?
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Trends only shows data for the past few years, but searching usage in print can be instructive. Frida seems to have become hugely popular beginning in the 90's. Strangely enough, there doesn't seem to be a rise in usage after the
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by alphakappa 8y ago
I don't know if reimbursement happens, but kids will bring home a note with the contact details of their playmate, and their parents will schedule it. The whole calendar scheduling, driving, chaperoning etc are things that definitely h
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by alphakappa 8y ago
Thank you for posting this. All of this should be apparent to users when they visit the website though - right now all that I see is an offer to signup, but you should be dazzling me with all the coolness and advantages (and maybe even demo
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by alphakappa 8y ago
That would be true if grand projects only came out of military funding. There are plenty of examples of wonderful projects that are the result of civilian enterprises without a primary military motive. The Internet and GPS are more visible
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by alphakappa 9y ago
I think it's clear from nearly a decade's worth of Facebook's trysts with privacy issues that it is a company that doesn't have a fundamental stance that's in favor of user privacy. Over and over again it has either
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Medically assisted death allows couple married almost 73 years to die together(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by alphakappa 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphakappa 9y ago
While T-Mobile has 2G coverage for no additional charge outside of US/Mexico, in practice it's not very usable due to the extremely slow speeds. After trying to painfully use maps with that data plan, I had to switch to a regular
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by alphakappa 9y ago
Thank you for these examples. I visited the links but I am not entirely sure what I’m looking at (sorry, this may also have to do with being a non-French speaker). Would you be so kind as to provide your thoughts on what’s the interesting b
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by alphakappa 9y ago
No, and you didn't suggest that he used it in any extraordinarily careful manner either. His point is that what you have is a nice anecdote, and survivor bias means that you only hear about the products that ended up lasting, but not a
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by alphakappa 9y ago
How does viewing the code give you confidence that the app is running the code you saw?
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by alphakappa 9y ago
I understand what you are getting at, but it's really a problem with Instapaper. We shouldn't really expect NYTimes to not exploit the full power of web technologies simply because read-it-later services may not present them in th
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by alphakappa 9y ago
A deterrent to future pranksters maybe. But I would imagine that the real danger is from malicious actors (say, foreign governments) who would not be deterred by the threat of punishment. So what does punishing this kid get us, other than s
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What a $4,000 Treadmill Means for the Future of Gadgets(nytimes.com)
1 points by alphakappa 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphakappa 9y ago
For an architecture that has been around for so long, if the attack was only discovered recently, then is it fair to call it 'simple'? In retrospect, anything can be obvious.
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by alphakappa 9y ago
A thicker phone (presumably due to a larger battery) doesn't necessarily solve the problem of fragile front and back materials (glass).
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by alphakappa 9y ago
One of those stepwells was used to great effect in Tarsem’s movie The Fall (which is a glorious visual feast where clever cinematography did things that you would expect to be CGI) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791&#x

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