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by beering 12y ago
Good on them. Sticking random flash drives into hospital computers seems like a good way to compromise medical records.
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by beering 12y ago
There is Typed Racket, which is not Haskell but still pretty cool.
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by beering 12y ago
You already see your driver's photo when you request a ride, so people who don't want women drivers already have that opportunity to cancel. Or did you just assume that this was a way for you as the rider to choose a driver?
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by beering 12y ago
Do the endless reboots of superhero franchises not count? They've definitely exploited batman and co as much as or more than Evangelion.
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by beering 12y ago
You can subtract two DATETIME columns in MySQL and it will not generate any warnings. It will give you an answer that probably is within the ballpark of the actual time difference but isn't the actual time difference.
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by beering 12y ago
Article doesn't mention it, but photos are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Important bit to know for those people who don't want a repeat of CDDB. For one thing, work is already being done on some Mapillary integrations with OpenStr
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by beering 12y ago
It's most devastating when you've built up a community, a way of life, around a car insurance comparison tool. Then the company pulls the plug, and even if you can download an archive of your data, you lose a lot that of the conne
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by beering 12y ago
This is basically a billing feature, so that you can use "free" internal networking capacity instead of metered external networking usage. They are just following what Linode and other VPS providers do. I think part of the problem
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by beering 12y ago
They told us it would be about $1k/month minimum to get access to enterprisey features and support, like being able to have a group own an app instead of an individual.
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by beering 12y ago
This really, really reads like an advertisement. It's not a short article, but the little useful information in it is buried amongst a lot of self-congratulatory quotes. Slack is just one of many team chat apps. Maybe the secret to the
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by beering 12y ago
There's a constant background noise in your homepage video that doesn't seem to be related to what's happening in the game. Is that intentional?
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by beering 12y ago
This is a lot like PasswordCard[0] except not free. [0] https://www.passwordcard.org/en I think I'd like PasswordCard because it's pretty freeform - just pick a starting point and a visual direction/pattern a
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by beering 12y ago
It's to comply with IT policies that require data to be encrypted on disk. Now, businesses that wouldn't use RDS before can now tick that last box off on the IT security audit.
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by beering 12y ago
I'd say there are many different levels of "enterprisey" sales, depending on the deal size and whether you're selling to a small, medium, or large entity, and whether it's public or private. A competitive bidding pr
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by beering 12y ago
I think Apple gets the short end of the stick in these deals. The company that provides that mapping data usually has ridiculous restrictions on what you can/can't do to the data (even possibly disallowing your own patches), and A
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by beering 12y ago
It's incredible how Google can get so many people to work for them for no pay. Would you similarly contribute to closed-source proprietary software if given the opportunity?
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by beering 12y ago
This already happens on Google Maps. Or do you mean in an open-data way?
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by beering 12y ago
How much programming do you do? If you're a non-programmer who wants to write software, there are probably better things to do than read a bunch of CS textbooks.
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by beering 12y ago
Is this written by the same Geoffrey Miller who said that fat people don't have the willpower to finish a PhD?
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by beering 12y ago
HTC released the first Android phone, but that's a minor point. I think bubblemachine3k has a point. Motorola is competing in a tough market with a lot of other Android phone makers. At the end of the day, they're all producing ba
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by beering 12y ago
Oh please, no. The fact that every VST maker creates their own custom GUI from scratch was the best and worst thing to happen to VSTs. All of a sudden I have a gazillion different plugins each with their own idea of how user interaction sho
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by beering 12y ago
An alarmist blog post on Hacker News.
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by beering 12y ago
Because they don't want it changed. Is it that hard to imagine that there's a subset of SF residents that don't want new housing built?
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by beering 12y ago
These people still remember when you could graduate high school, go to work for GM for a few decades, and have the company pension to depend on in retirement. A suburban house with a white picket fence is somewhere in there too. Nowadays we
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by beering 12y ago
Sounds like there's a mix of imposter syndrome and minority status somewhere in there, and each can make the other worse. And attitude can really affect how we perceive ambiguous reactions from other people. If you think you're a
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by beering 12y ago
It seems like a slicker UI specifically for language learning, as well as "curated" decks for each language. I doubt anyone can replicate everything that Anki can do, but there's probably some gains to be had by cutting out c
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by beering 12y ago
You can set up a Privoxy server or a VPN through a server that blocks connections to known ad servers. There are publicly available blacklists of ad and other unwanted servers. Takes some elbow grease, but the benefits of not loading ads sh
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by beering 12y ago
Hardly. This is a story about how 23andme is a good way to find out things you wish you'll never find out, and about how 23andme screwed up their find-your-relatives feature and didn't seem to care about what happened to this poor
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by beering 12y ago
I have fond memories of the TI-89 - all the power of a TI-92, but the same form factor as the TI-83/84, so it wouldn't raise much attention. Having a computer algebra system in my handheld calculator got me all the way from pre-al
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by beering 12y ago
I wonder if it would have a better success rate on a site other than Google's, since I've heard that Google's done extensive tuning of their TCP stack to send page data faster. Somebody's oversubscribed $3/month sha

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