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> this comment may reveal why Apple is crushing everybody else: they understood the user and sold that user a _watch_ rather than a "media consumption" device. On the flip side, if Apple isn't crushing everybody else, it
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It's true that obsessing over 100% code coverage is a bad thing. It's false that the purpose of unit tests is to lock down the project's source code. Unit tests have multiple purposes, but that isn't one of them. The mai
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>High beam lights and aftermarket lights are not aimed like this and thus shine into your passenger compartment. Properly aimed lights never point in. By that definition, properly aimed lights haven't been invented yet. I have headl
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Is there a wearable baby monitor your friend could sleep with? Try opening it up and melting candle wax onto the speaker. You want it to vibrate instead of making sound. If the candle wax doesn't work, there's probably a similar h
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>In Diamond v. Diehr, SCOTUS said that software was patentable insofar as it was part of a larger patentable system, the software in question being a controller for a rubber mold. Not true. They said system could be patentable despite ha
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> The nonobviousness requirement has become toothless in recent years; the Federal Circuit has reduced it to a requirement that no prior art exist explicitly mentioning the invention. If that's true, then the Fed Circuit has judicis
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From the article: "Another study found that relatively few people clicked on fake news links — but that their headlines likely traveled much further via the News Feed, making it difficult to quantify their true reach." Relying on
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Hopefully a more recent Googler will answer you. In 2013 they were granted often, so long as they didn't compete with a Google product. I had to close my photo sharing site off to new users when I started at Google.
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Isn't "invention" a patent term? Not all creative work is invention.
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I think it's great that many other people are taking an interest in programming and doing it. And it's true that to think oneself very smart for being able to program is the wrong attitude. But this thread that you're replyin
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I don't think the "blue collar" label applies to physician assistants. https://www.google.com/search?q=physician+assistant+training
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First, why don't we fix the cost of medical care by letting vocational schools train doctors? After all, there are high-profile medical errors and the world goes on. (In case the sarcasm isn't obvious, my point is that the existen
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also postgrest
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Does it have to be role=main to support all screen readers, or these days do they generally support http://html5doctor.com/the-main-element/ ?
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My ideal social media was FriendFeed, and yes it was in many ways similar to an RSS feed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
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OK the link works. The NASA scientist is Hal Weaver https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/launch/weaver... This in addition to Alan Stern's criticism of the IAU classification: https:/&#x2
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I'm on my phone... Hope this link works. Around 9:30 there's a question about planet 9 and the NASA scientist says Pluto is Planet 9. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=257826325089507&...
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If the key is consistency, use present tense. If you consistently use past tense, that works until your team merges with another one that's more conventional. The commit message is the headline of your story. Headlines are in present t
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I actually enjoyed Gravity. But it was also the first example I thought of where something like 2001's long journey could have enhanced the feeling of how far they were from rescue.
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For the last part of the movie, sure, speed through. In the early part, the slow pace of the journey into space heightens the sense of isolation. It's something a modern movie couldn't get away with, and is a unique part of 2001 t
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The U.S. spends more on military than the rest of the world combined. The money would not have been invested elsewhere. Somebody's costing the US lots of money, but it isn't guerillas.
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Did you have previous experience with emacs? I'm a long-time emacs user, but have been assuming it's better to introduce new people to VS Code since it's more mainstream.
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The claim I replied to is: "We've recently seen leaked internal discussions by Google engineers saying they want to ban media publications they don't like." Individual engineers did not have the means to ban in 2013 when
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Does Google censor results according to how I want it to (SafeSearch) or according to how my government wants it to?
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I admit to not having seen those discussions, but I doubt they show consensus within google that certain publications should be banned. In any group of people there will be some who will say they'd like to ban something, be it Hello Ki
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If we were to apply this idea to computer science or software engineering, where would we draw the line between old and new books?
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Which NFC payment systems? Fitbit Pay requires it. https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2236#sec...
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Can't you achieve the same result by leaving only view logic in the component, and having the data-related logic, including the fact that data has changed in a way that may require redraw, handled in a separate object? Here's how
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I did because I'm a native speaker of English, am familiar with "goto considered harmful", and I noticed Dijkstra in the link.
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Preact is the most React-like small framework, probably the best for your resume and for hiring people who want a good resume. Mithril is the small framework that most directly addresses the issues brought up in this article. It has routing

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