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Driver's license, registration, cellphone please(cnn.com)
2 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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by azov 13y ago
>Civil liberties should be as big of an issue (if not bigger) during elections as the economy. This. Fixing broken economy takes years. Fixing broken civil liberties takes decades, if not centuries.
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by azov 13y ago
Wikipedia was never intended to be a formalization of semantic web (wikidata.org is more along those lines, if that's what you're looking for). So what's the emergency? The decline in number/quality of editors is alarming, but what does it
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by azov 13y ago
Nice shots, but why not just submit them to Wikimedia Commons/Flickr/etc under Creative Commons license? Much better chance of people actually finding and using them, IMO.
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Tylenol is shown to soothe existential pain and blunt moral judgement(m.theatlantic.com)
1 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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by azov 13y ago
I have yet to see a code review checklist that I find useful. There are just too many things that can go wrong with software, so the list ends up either too long to be practical, or too generic to be helpful. What I do find useful is to hav
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Shots fired at PG&E substation in San Jose(mercurynews.com)
1 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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Google releases specs for Google Glass, begins shipping first units(venturebeat.com)
2 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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by azov 14y ago
tl;dr: Tests are overhyped because we once wrote tests that became irrelevant when the thing we were testing changed Really? I mean, tests might be overhyped, but so far it looks like the author draws incredibly general conclusions from
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Rollable laptop(myrolltop.com)
2 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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by azov 14y ago
This is so blown out of proportion... yes, letting Google crawl email addresses is not kosher, but come on, public data already includes their company name, website, and phone number, it's not like those merchants are anonymous. Given the a
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by azov 14y ago
Why does it have to be lumped into IDE? Both could be written as standalone utilities that your favorite editor can call. I think IDEs hurt innovation in development tools more than almost anything else. They are like crack for your workflo
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by azov 14y ago
> the purpose of ThingManager is perfectly clear--to manage miscellaneous or common functionality Ironic, isn't it? :) PS. Don't get me wrong - a Manager, or Util, or Helper is not the greatest crime against software design. The inte
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by azov 14y ago
ThingManager is indeed a bad name, but I think the article is blurring the explanation with poorly chosen example. The example is more about wrong design than wrong name, there are certainly legitimate cases when you want a class that de
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by azov 14y ago
It's missing one slide: "it's more important to be happy than productive". Crossing stuff off your TODO list with maximum possible speed is not the end goal in itself.
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The Economics of Bitcoin Mining(freedom-to-tinker.com)
2 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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by azov 14y ago
If you're in Bay Area, it (well, some pieces of it) is on display in Computer History Museum - http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifac...
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by azov 14y ago
That's a hell lot of things to change, break, go down, lose your data, start charging ridiculous prices, be discontinued, etc... I'm all for SaaS and not re-inventing wheels, but I'd be nervous if I had to rely on so many external dependenc
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SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down with ton of space station cargo(cosmiclog.nbcnews.com)
1 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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World's Highest Peaks on Google Street View(maps.google.com)
3 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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by azov 14y ago
It's a tradeoff. Not sharing files means that rogue/buggy apps can't mess up data from other apps, app developers can change file formats without worrying about other apps reading their files, you don't need to worry about files left over a
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by azov 14y ago
Charts are also powering Google docs, so they are probably safe in the near future.
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by azov 14y ago
Interview is a two way street, they interview you, you interview them. Basically, you just didn't like the first company and clicked with the second. Don't put too much weight on the interview style. If they didn't extend you an offer, chan
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Yandex lets you send money over Twitter(engadget.com)
2 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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by azov 14y ago
There are many other minority groups who seem to be perfectly ok with locker room humor.
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by azov 14y ago
I still don't understand your logic. What is it about being a minority that makes one sensitive to dick jokes?
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by azov 14y ago
I think it has nothing to do with live chat vs phone calls and everything with incompetent/inconsistent customer service. I'd personally prefer live chat to phone call any day - at least it gives me a transcript I can refer to later, quote
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by azov 14y ago
What happens if I'm a smallish site and suddenly get slashdotted / DDoSed? Will I be charged thousand dollars? Is there a way to cap monthly costs?
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by azov 14y ago
I'd really like to see more things built on top of email instead of using their own separate protocols (falling back graciously to email when possible). Anyway, at this point it looks inevitable that I'll end up using 50 different apps/to
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by azov 14y ago
That's a valid concern in general, but I don't think it applies here for the following reasons: First, being part of a minority group and claiming offense gives you a lot of power to inflict damage on others. You are leveraging both, the le

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