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by bruckie 6y ago
Silverlight wasn't even born until 2007, so it's hard to see how it was dead in 2006. :) Or maybe you're saying it was DOA?
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by bruckie 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability#Unstable_air... indicates that the MD-11 (which regulators certified) is aerodynamically unstable. (That plane has a compensation system, similar to the 737-MAX.) Is &quo
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by bruckie 6y ago
Samsung is Korean.
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by bruckie 6y ago
Mobile data definitely had a raw speed problem in 2007 when the iPhone (EDGE) was introduced. (It had a "how it's being sold" problem, then, too.) But I agree with your broad point: pricing is way more important today than sp
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by bruckie 6y ago
Your music argument is plausible, but the journalism one doesn't hold water: if there were no copyright, it would only take one paywall subscriber to copy the contents to a paywall-free site (e.g. wsj.com -> freewsjarticles.com), an
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by bruckie 6y ago
What does "young" have to do with it?
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by bruckie 6y ago
After you've interviewed. Here's the text (from https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio... ): "432.3. (a) An employer shall not rely on the salary history information of an applicant
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by bruckie 6y ago
Google talked about Piper (its home-built Perforce replacement) in 2015. See: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE - https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
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by bruckie 6y ago
There's also (quite surprisingly!) a feature-length film that talks about Makani's work over the last 13 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE
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Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film](youtube.com)
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by bruckie 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_intellectual_p... It's a logic or semiconductor layout design for a component (e.g. a processor core, or a peripheral like a UART, DMA controller, etc.). "IP&quot
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by bruckie 6y ago
Google uses Vanguard for its retirement plans, and I suspect (but don't know for sure) that they may have leaned on Vanguard to implement U2F.
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by bruckie 6y ago
I think most people who pay a tithe base(d) it on income, not wealth, so it doesn't have the snowball effect that a wealth tax does. Islam's zakat is the only exception I know of, but IIUC even that is paid only on excess wealth.
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by bruckie 6y ago
I find design docs really useful, even if no one else reads them, because they force me to clarify my thinking before I start the (more expensive) process of implementation. However, I've also noticed a couple of very common problems w
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by bruckie 6y ago
Chrome lets you do exactly this: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/3060053?hl... I imagine other browsers probably do, too.
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by bruckie 6y ago
What's a 95% man?
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by bruckie 7y ago
Some security-sensitive libraries do this, e.g. https://www.javadoc.io/doc/com.google.common.html.types/type...
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by bruckie 7y ago
No, it uses WebRTC. https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473
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by bruckie 7y ago
https://daringfireball.net/2020/03/regarding_zoom https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-... https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20689644&#x
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by bruckie 7y ago
> Don’t Google and Microsoft answers both require accounts, and carry with them the expectation that everything you do on their platforms is recorded for the purpose of selling ads? For Google, the answers are "sorta but not really&
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by bruckie 7y ago
Google's alerting philosophy biases toward paging people only for user-visible symptoms, not potential causes, but there are still often lower priority ticket-based alerts for stuff like stuff getting too hot. For rationale, see: - ht
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by bruckie 7y ago
If you control the Tabula trademark (which doesn't necessarily require a formal registration), you may be able to prohibit them from using the TabulaPro name. That's exactly what trademark law is for. (IANAL)
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by bruckie 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti... : "Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the United States". (Note that fonts--e.g. a .ttf or .otf file--can, though.) Other jurisdiction
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by bruckie 7y ago
It already has exactly that: A confession, and a caveat I’ve broken almost every one of the rules above! ... The rules are not meant as absolute rules, but as food for thought: For you to think about the tradeoffs, of how and why there
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by bruckie 7y ago
Not these days, although that was true 8-9 years ago. The preferred pattern now is to use factory functions that can return either a fully-initialized object or an error.
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by bruckie 7y ago
It looks like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rabidgreml... may be the equivalent in Android app form.
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by bruckie 7y ago
Username checks out.
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by bruckie 7y ago
You can do it on the desktop app, via the add a stop feature. If you add a stop and then enter a search term ("coffee shops"), you'll see matching results along your route. (IIRC it doesn't show you the added travel time
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by bruckie 7y ago
At Google if person 1 and person 2 pair, then one can be the official author, and one can be the reviewer. Depending on the people and the change, they may also ask for review from others as well.
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by bruckie 7y ago
I believe the parent post was alluding to this: https://www.google.com/search?q=one+ton+in+kg :)

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