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by choward 7y ago
That's fine but how often do you export? How do you merge it with other exported data? Are you exporting your entire history every time? What about when Google/Facebook breaks their API or get rid of it?
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by choward 7y ago
> Hell I don't always know where I'm going to put all the groceries I take home Just don't buy so many groceries. Jk. Actually, I have started working on a project that would help solve this problem (in combination with so
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by choward 7y ago
> Pretend we didn't have computers and people wanted to store all the facts in their lives This is a pretty moot point since if we didn't have computers we wouldn't have things recording a lot of the data in that article t
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by choward 7y ago
I have thought about these issues a lot; especially lately. With regards to being able to scrape your data or just get your data back from 3rd party's, I think that's a losing battle. You need to be in control of your data before
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by choward 7y ago
I agree for the most part about the money part. I would still want the option for them to not allow me to upgrade plans without re-entering my credit card info. But with regards to personal information, that is almost everything I log into.
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by choward 7y ago
2FA for spotify? I'm curious where you draw the line for 2FA. Should every app (and web app) have 2FA?
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by choward 7y ago
So you all have a subscription to theinformation.com? Wow. I can't just buy a subscription for every random "news" site that appears on hacker news.
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by choward 7y ago
Of course. Good point.
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by choward 7y ago
I know. I had forgotten about the book until I saw this article. I think I'll buy it now and more importantly I'll read it.
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by choward 7y ago
The only thing I would fix is the "lengthy" part. I want it to be a simple command (I suppose I could wrap it or alias it), but other than that it sounds perfect.
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by choward 7y ago
If the business model for a piece of software is ads I will not be using that software.
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by choward 7y ago
s/John Deere/Every company ever
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by choward 7y ago
That is terrible. So they'll never create a device that is good enough that they'll sell for for 6 years unless they sell something they don't support.
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by choward 7y ago
Drag and drop. It's annoying when you go to drag something and end up selecting text instead.
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by choward 7y ago
Whenever a site has text selection disabled it raises a huge red flag for me. It's pointless and screams incompetence.
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by choward 7y ago
One of the worst gifts that people like to give are surveillance devices that's are at the $20-$30 price point like the Amazon Echo or the Google Home. These are devices that I and others I know wouldn't take for free. So they end
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by choward 7y ago
There is absolutely no reason the website shouldn't also be clean. The only reason not to have a good website sure is to lure people to use the app. It's a shady tactic that many companies use because people like you will just dow
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by choward 7y ago
With GraphQL you could in theory grab all the data a page needs in one request. Suspense seems to only be useful if you are making multiple requests. Not sure what Apollo has to do with anything though.
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by choward 7y ago
Those arguments for acquiring patents are as weak as the patents themselves. I'll admit that I only skimmed and read parts of them but nothing seems patentable or particularly innovative to me. It just looks like standard software engi
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by choward 7y ago
Not a TV. And what makes Apple privacy oriented? Because their marketing department says they are? Unless a company's business model is actually privacy, I won't believe for a second they value privacy. Even then I would still be
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by choward 7y ago
Your comment may read as condescending or snarky but I was wondering the same thing. Then I went and looked at a couple of extensions and the cheapest was $2,000. The button says "Buy extension" and right above the button it says
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by choward 7y ago
> it’s to make sure they aren’t carrying drugs or other illicit material "Make sure"? Yeah right.
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by choward 7y ago
> a search engine for shopping That would be nice especially since hopefully it would mean there would be a search engine I could use and not get shopping results. It seems like anytime I search for something I get shopping results so I
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by choward 7y ago
That isn't context unless this video stream is a direct result of that story.
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by choward 7y ago
You should be validating inputs to your application anyway.
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by choward 7y ago
> I think journalism needs a Spotify-like model to sustain itself in today's world. That's an interesting idea. I love getting paywalled by some web site because I clicked a headline, especially when it's some a local news
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by choward 7y ago
> "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm." Wow, why would anyone think this is an okay viewpoint to have? Because capitalism?
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by choward 7y ago
> However, the modularity they provide out of the box is mostly cosmetic Isn't being cosmetic pretty much true with everything in Ruby/Rails? You can override constants/classes, override method definitions (public/pri
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by choward 7y ago
> the whole thing is indeed OOP because... Scratch is OOP. Right. I guess that's the core of my problem. I don't think you should be teaching beginning programmers OOP. It pollutes their minds too early and they don't appr
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by choward 7y ago
As I understand, cooking rice usually has a constant amount of water lost to steam. You need to have a rough idea of how much water your rice actually needs to absorb and how much is lost to steam. In my experience with my setup, rice usual

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