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by andersco 6y ago
As mentioned in a NYT article, Trump’s account is under “separate lock and key” which I think means it was not vulnerable to this threat. But yeah still super scary. Src: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/tec
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by andersco 6y ago
My hope is that stories like this help to educate non technical users about what a clipboard is and does. That in turn might result in improved clipboard privacy.
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by andersco 6y ago
How is it that a third party SDK is consistently causing apps to completely crash rather than, for example, displaying an error message? Is this a failure that cannot be caught? Sorry, just trying to understand. The dependency relationship
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by andersco 6y ago
Our organization was recently forced to switch from Slack to Teams. In Slack, there was a sense of spontaneity and fluidity to the experience, allowing for countless types of emojis and integration with services like giphy that made collabo
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Crystal structure discovered 200 years ago may hold key to solar revolution(phys.org)
2 points by andersco 6y ago|0 comments
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by andersco 6y ago
I would suggest considering many other books in addition to “the” book recommended by the author, such as Eloquent JavaScript. In fact, reading multiple books will offer multiple perspectives on the language, and result in a richer understa
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by andersco 6y ago
I would want to be able to right click on an error in my IDE (I use vscode) and then run a search on that (filtered for the current language, env etc)
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by andersco 6y ago
I would want google searches that have been filtered for the current language, tools etc.
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by andersco 6y ago
This seems to imply that answers are binary, either obsolete or not, while in my experience they are often are only partially outdated. How is that treated in this study? Additionally, I find that for high traffic answers someone will often
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by andersco 6y ago
My biggest surprise re. this story is that I don’t recall having seen anything about it in US media. Was I just not paying attention, or was it truly ignored by the likes of the NYT?
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by andersco 6y ago
How will these tools in fact enable a developer to ship a better design? As a developer with limited design skills, I find that the problem is not finding tools, but rather knowing how to use them, eg what font to choose, what color palette
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by andersco 6y ago
This article reinforces one of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a developer - be careful, even suspicious of shiny new things - only after the sheen has faded after extensive use and they no longer are the new coolness is it usual
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by andersco 6y ago
Ha, I just posted something similar almost at the same time, but you said it better.
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by andersco 6y ago
This is true for all types of content - the art is to develop a sense of smell for quality content. And to do that you have to first have been exposed to a lot of bullshit.
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by andersco 6y ago
This is front end only so not really a complete stack.