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btym
9y ago
Also, employees? These are services that are actively maintained and developed."Alternative 1 – Colocation in a Data Center" doesn't include the 100k/yr you'll have to pay an engineer to manage that hardware.
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9y ago
For example, correctly merging a finished feature branch requires up to 15 individual Git commands! Am I missing something? Does `git merge` imply fourteen other commands?
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9y ago
To be fair, the Trailer Park Boys reboot was unnecessary and absolutely terrible. It was a thoroughly great series before they touched it.
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9y ago
I've always thought that streaming services' main goal should be to be more convenient than digital piracy. That's when they win- when the service provides such a clear advantage over piracy that people are happy to pay money
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9y ago
AFAIK most TVs have a "Game" picture mode that will disable post-processing.
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9y ago
I love how simple this worm is. They haven't exploited any security holes (other that looking like Docs), it literally just asks for full access to your email address.
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9y ago
That's not the question, and I do enjoy knowing what people are doing. What I don't understand is the addiction many people have to social media.
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9y ago
>Also about your "keep track of what's going on in the lives of ..", just call your friends to find out what is going on in their life. I don't understand the need many people have to know what their friends are doi
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9y ago
I also advise you not to keep a jet engine in your house.
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That may be the most impressive magic performance I've ever seen.
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What an abrupt end. And their robots.txt[1] never allowed the Internet Archive to crawl them, so nothing will be archived. [1]: http://ffffound.com/robots.txt
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9y ago
This is going to open up a whole new world of abuse and bullying.
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9y ago
What's with the spikes every tenth year on the "population changes" graphs? http://usafacts.org/us-population
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9y ago
You see, anyone who wants people to treat each other with respect and kindness is an "SJW" who shouldn't be taken seriously.
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9y ago
As long as Kalanick is still there, it can burn.
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9y ago
Also, Halo: Reach, the last great Halo game.
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9y ago
Right, and the smallest conversion was $5, so more often than not you'd have to spend an extra few dollars.
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10y ago
It's hard to define the term, but I think at the most basic level, "hipster" specifically refers to anyone who enjoys being alternative. "Goes to starbucks, loves Apple products and cannot live without Wifi" are com
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10y ago
Twitter does the same thing.
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10y ago
What's suspicious about that? It's certainly hosted on their intranet, they just picked a sensible name that employees could remember. The publicly-registered devlan.net is probably unrelated or unused.
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10y ago
A comment made on the Internet...
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10y ago
> It is simply NOT TRUE that you can generate an object that looks halfway sane and still gets you the sha1 you want This was his point, and it's still true. Generating a specific SHA-1 hash is still not feasible.
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10y ago
Yup, that's... exactly what they said.
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10y ago
Walmart currently has over two million employees[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
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10y ago
I still enjoy Netflix, especially on my other devices. I cancelled HBO Go because it wasn't a good service.
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10y ago
Maybe Netflix could work on getting DRM figured out with Chrome and Firefox first, or rip out DRM altogether, or some other solution that makes it possible to watch Netflix in higher than 720p on Linux... It's ridiculous how often I
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10y ago
A useful accreditation program would be nearly impossible to create. The most important qualities (IMHO) in a developer are adaptability, collaboration, and creative problem solving, not technical prowess. That's why interviews are s
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10y ago
I'm no hardware expert, but they must have some more intelligent CPU throttling, or something— the Pixel is also using a much newer chip (Snapdragon 821). My 5X was on AOSP, no major modifications. Pixel is on stock. The 5X would only
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10y ago
> The Pixel is beyond a joke, given its high pricepoint As a tech professional who can afford to be a little fiscally irresponsible once in a while... the Pixel has been by far the best phone I've ever owned. This is the first And
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10y ago
> There is one HUGE reason for using PDFs -- PDFs are very blind-inaccessable I think you may have mistyped this. ;-)
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