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by bdavisx 10y ago
As a (almost) 50 year old dinosaur, the costs of ESPN and other sports related networks are what caused me to cut the cord - over 10 years ago.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I'm not sure, but I know the Gradle people worked with Jetbrains to integrate it into Gradle, so you can use it instead of Groovy. SpringBoot initializer will allow you to choose Kotlin as a language (along with Java and Groovy). Corda
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by bdavisx 10y ago
And Kotlin as well, with java interop considered a top priority.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>"If you know Java learning C++ is easy" Yes, because [smart] pointers, memory [de]allocation and all that stuff is just as easy as "new Object()" and forget the rest. Not to mention the Java collections library vs. S
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Thinking about it, I'm sure there are already hackers that have targeted all kinds of IOT devices with microphones trying to get all kinds of information. Blackmail, trade secrets, etc. You could probably make a bundle in the stock mar
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>According to my family, programmers are just "coder monkeys," people you hire to make your grand idea and that's how it's done. Yes, tell that to the coder monkeys who started Google, Facebook, etc. I don't know
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Not to argue with the rest of the work insanity in your comment, but perhaps teachers should be paid as much or more than software developers - they might just have that part right.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
How is he going to remove their support - Paul Ryan was still reelected against Trump's wishes.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Email or RSS would be better for that IMO -- I don't need my browser interrupting my flow for something like a blog post.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I don't know why an informational site thinks it needs to have notifications anyway. I want notifications from things like Calendars and the like.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
OK, then I should have said the "party that wraps themselves in the constitution any chance they get".
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>it's crazy to think we check ID's to buy cough syrup, alcohol, every time you use a credit card, see a rated R movie, rent a car, rent an apartment, etc The difference between those things you listed and the right to vote is t
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Without more details this "information" is worthless. Are people taking too much on purpose, out of ignorance; are they taking the recommended dosage and getting liver damage; what percentage of damage is caused by what supplement
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I would agree with this as long as there was actual competition in all of the markets. But at this point we'd end up with the old monopoly AT&T/Bell style of billing -- I'm old enough to remember when a "long distanc
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by bdavisx 10y ago
You could say that, or you could say that the cap is stopping me from actually using the bandwidth I pay for. I pay for 100Mb/sec down, how long would it take me to hit the cap if I used that continuously? So do I really have the 100Mb
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by bdavisx 10y ago
It's great that the FCC does this for cell carriers, but they still are letting the data caps apply on home connections, which is going to do nothing except increase profits and decrease innovation.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Yes, and they could easily hide a noisy, chaotic work environment in a video chat as well.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>Similarly, I have a habit of looking over someone's resume and picking a few random technologies they mentioned to discuss. I'm surprised how often candidates claim experience with a technology and can't really describe w
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I think the next "Donald Trump" (the next political one that is) is going to be a major problem for the Republicans. I'm sure that there will be many in the primaries 4 years from now, assuming that Clinton wins the election.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Not to downplay the NSA issues -- but it's a lot scarier for a black/brown person to realize their life can be ended when they get stopped for having a tail light out.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I think it's exactly what Google wanted us to have.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
And considering time dilation, it could be 10s or 100s of thousands of years before they would get here anyway (from our point of view).
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Can you give us an example of what you mean by this?
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>"There's no system that could prohibit you from looking up your ex-wife's new boyfriend, because your ex-wife's new boyfriend could come in contact with the criminal justice system," It is within the capability
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I wonder if there are any statistics on race vs. forfeiture.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific, I meant a BB quality keyboard on an Android device. Completely agree with you on two devices.
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by bdavisx 10y ago
I remember when the "new" Dodge trucks came out in the 1994. They were "ugly" according to most people, but Dodge/Chrysler found that 10% of the people loved them. That was enough to make a bunch of money. I think
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by bdavisx 10y ago
Is Twitter a good place to work as an engineer? Does it have a great engineering culture? Does Disney? I'm just guessing here, but from the stories about how Disney did the whole import H1B people and have current employees train them
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by bdavisx 10y ago
>If you cannot conduct yourself in a law-abiding manner as a LEO, you deserve to go to jail. And you deserve to go to jail for longer than a regular citizen should if you do it in the performance of your job. I never agreed to follow any
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by bdavisx 10y ago
This is a great visual explanation (assuming it's correct, I'm not an expert). But it would be really nice to be able to pause everything because the constant movement is distracting me from the text.

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