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by alttag 15y ago
My thoughts: * The animation (click 'Documentation') is too slow. As likely the most visited link, this needs to be instantaneous. * The top bar takes too much vertical space.
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, there are _some_ models that have larger screens. Just because there are models with larger screens doesn't mean "Android has larger screens." (From article: "Remember that your app will run on a wide variety of different screen sizes.
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by alttag 15y ago
Oh, and to make things even more fun, much of the data passed around between back-end processes and vendor apps was done in XML at the time ... and the XML parsing library they used for C was a bit buggy... No one (w|c)ould fix it, which br
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by alttag 15y ago
Heh. I used to work for a company that used C (not C++) for its large web site. They ran the entire site from a monolithic C file. To say again, the code for the entire web site (including product listings, shopping cart, coupons, etc.) was
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by alttag 15y ago
To add to the list of potential hinderances, the onshore customs office that could easily be set up to harass workers going to/from this "different country". ... and do tourist or other non-work visas allow unlimited exit/re-entry?
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by alttag 15y ago
I've been an Amazon customer for many years, several of those as a paying Prime member, and I've been generally happy ... until this past fall. I don't know what's going on, but in the past three months I've had several issues and complaint
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by alttag 15y ago
I think GP is suggesting EFF has more in common with the ACLU than with the Tea Party. I think of the EFF as more Libertarian, and a often bit extreme in its position, which I think often puts it at the fringes of either of the major partie
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by alttag 15y ago
IANAL, but isn't this outside the court's scope of authority, as many (most?) aren't parties to the case? As I understand the role of judicial review and precedent, I don't see how a party not associated with a case can be compelled to do a
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by alttag 15y ago
The two lines visible part is fixed, but there's still no affordance suggesting how to use the site. The current design targets users who're familiar with other bin sites, and is less friendly to new users.
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by alttag 15y ago
I'm a bit disappointed the EFF submit form didn't forward me a copy of the letter I sent through their site. I didn't make a copy, and instantly after sending, wished I had.
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by alttag 15y ago
Something isn't working right for me. There's no affordance suggesting what to do. If I start typing, I only get two lines of visible text. If I enter more than two lines, the top line(s) scrolls out of view. this doesn't seem to be intende
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by alttag 15y ago
I participated in the recent EFF push for contacting elected representatives regarding SOPA. I customized their pre-packaged letter greatly, adding both my experience and qualifications and expounding on the distrust from the tech industry
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by alttag 15y ago
The introduction of the menu bar and other javascripty-ness demonstrates this is less the case than it used to be.
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by alttag 15y ago
It doesn't say "PhDs", it says "Doctoral degrees", which may mean (it isn't clear), that EdD (Doctor of Education, a common degree for public school administrators), DBA (Doctor of Business Administration, usually from Harvard), EDB (Execut
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by alttag 15y ago
No, the company's representatives did not formally/explicitly say it. My resume just went into a black hole, where I couldn't get a response from anyone. Later, some colleagues who worked there mentioned (after I'd found a job elsewhere) th
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes ... part of my point is our collective social morality is formed by whether (and which ones and how many) people agree with a particular philosophy. It's reflected in research on the stages of moral development (see, e.g., Kohlberg). O
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by alttag 15y ago
There are downsides to informal "no poaching" agreements. After I left one e-company, I applied at another, and later learned I wouldn't be interviewed because of the previous company on my resume. The first company was major client of the
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by alttag 15y ago
> there even were some virgins in the course An early part of the article said there was one. In my mind, neither the author nor the instructor he wrote about seemed approving of the choice, and went to lengths to cast it as non
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by alttag 15y ago
> Summer break isn't a period for extended homework - it's a chance to develop curiosity and self-development. Yes, but for most socio-economically challenged students, it doesn't work that way. Research out of Johns Hopkins
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by alttag 15y ago
> "will instead foist their pre-conceived ideas on students and insist that their view of sexual life, however either perverted or abnormally repressive it may be, is the way to go" And he's not? Or is it that you
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, it was edited following my comment. He originally had just the link, and it came off as gossip, not insight.
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by alttag 15y ago
I'd prefer you share the poster's assertion with us and provide commentary as to whether you agree or think the commenter is paranoid. Just posting a link doesn't add much.
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by alttag 15y ago
1. So, how does this "solution" affect networks they've already mapped? It seems odd this would be proposed after the fact. 2. Why should I have to change my name to not be mapped? From a rights perspective, if you're doing something with m
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by alttag 15y ago
History started it (it was the first or its kind), inertia kept it going. When Java debuted, it was a Big Deal, and promised faster development, garbage collection, and multi-platform deployment to enterprises. As I see it, "enterprise" was
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by alttag 15y ago
Amen. As a former elected official, few things in government would scare me more than direct democracy subject to the whim of media campaigns and sound bytes. In my best Tommy Lee Jones voice: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky da
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by alttag 15y ago
Would it be okay if we waited for them to appear in the wild before we start comparisons about whether it's a "threat"? (Also, never mind the surveys show differences of 1%, which is likely around one-third of its margin of error.)
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by alttag 15y ago
Not as part of the Kindle Lending library available to Prime users, no.
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by alttag 15y ago
Libraries purchase physical copies of books (often at higher prices to get a sturdier binding). For popular books, libraries purchase multiple copies, some of which get lost or damaged, and must be replaced. In other words,authors still see
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by alttag 15y ago
If it does go to court, a goodwill payment might be interpreted as evidence of wrongdoing. In your case, the marginal cost to Amazon of providing AWS was negligible, and Amazon has full rights to offer products they create as freebies, so
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by alttag 15y ago
> .. otherwise this was a mute point. "moot". Pretty please, the word is "moot." Otherwise, while I think you've got a point (he could have used pricing to ensure no one ran his app), that isn't the issue here. The disclosure i

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