cocoa19

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by cocoa19 6y ago
Chip is fairly common nowadays in the USA. Fraud liability was shifted from card brands to retailers if they don't support chip. That was a big deal to start supporting it.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Maybe Gmail was not the first free email, but was definitely the first massively adopted free email with a very high storage capacity. At Gmail's launch, Hotmail was offering only 2MB of free space, while Gmail was offering 1GB. At the
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by cocoa19 6y ago
"How will I pay my rent this month?" That's something I'd say to be funny, especially on reddit.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
I don't buy the single payer/Obamacare/more regulation speech as the single healthcare fix. NHS has a ton of problems of their own. We need a lot of doctors, more than what we are producing. It's baffling you need 100s o
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by cocoa19 6y ago
I do applaud Twitter and Facebook for blocking dangerous rhetoric. I also applaud this ISP for blocking Twitter and Facebook, but not because they blocked Trump. Both platforms are a cesspool of misinformation, echo chambers, self esteem is
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by cocoa19 6y ago
"silence all conservatives" No, only those with extremist and dangerous views.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Might be more convenient to use on a smart watch.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Immigrants won't give up their high salary in the developed world. Employers won't pay a first world salary while living in a low cost country.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Huh, I don't have an iPhone but the offer sounds very good. I pay much more than $10 for only WSJ subscription. Sounds like I'm getting the shaft.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
That reminds me of my time at IBM under Palmisano a decade ago. His goal was to increase the share price by x%. It was no secret one of the strategies was to cut jobs in high cost regions (US) and hire in low cost regions. You'd actual
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by cocoa19 6y ago
It shouldn't be considered an investment vehicle if we follow Benjamin Graham's philosophy (father of value investment, Warren Buffet's mentor). I'd say it should be called a speculative vehicle. The word speculative car
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Probably in a developing country. Most of latin america uses WhatsApp, a result of carriers charging a lot of money (compared to median salary) for SMS/MMS, while WhatsApp has always been free. When I came to the US (mid 2010's),
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by cocoa19 6y ago
I wish this was true, but everyday I see more dev shops moving from windows to mac than the opposite. I don't see as many moving to linux. Moving applications to the cloud and the slow deprecation of old windows apps made this possible
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Positioning jokes aside, learning CSS is easy. Where most of us developers struggle with is making beautiful websites vs just something that works but looks ok. One of the reasons bootstrap is so successful is that it's easy to use&#x2
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Yikes... I guessed they skipped the mandatory corporate ethics training videos or they just didn't care. This is the reason large employers have mandatory yearly training videos on ethics, sexual harrassment, insider trading and a plet
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by cocoa19 6y ago
They can't sell the keys since they don't have them. NSA could still mount an attack by asking the CA to register NSA's certs as valid, and tamper the victim's network connection. What makes certs secure is our trust in
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by cocoa19 6y ago
In other countries, if you are speeding, you get a ticket by mail. If you are driving under the influence, you are sent to jail for the night. Why do taxpayers have to pay expensive court proceedings, and offenders have to spend a lot of mo
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Perfectly valid decision. For my own desktop apps, I'd choose Qt, since cross platform support is top notch. With that said, I understand that nowadays, C++ developers are harder to come by, and memory corruption issues are not fun to
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Technically wearing a mask helps "protect themselves" by second order effects. We should never encourage lying or deceiving people (pushing not technically true narratives). This just erodes trust in society.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Call me old, but I can't understand how people can sit in the most uncomfortable chairs for hours, tilting my head and neck down towards my laptop. A workday at Starbucks would cause me head and shoulder pain for days.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
And Eclipse was hands down the best tool for Java development... Until it was left to rot, and JetBrains came along.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Pairing is so painful, that I use two headphones. Wireless headphones for TV, wired headphones for everything else (cellphone calls, laptop, desktop computer). I'm considering buying one of those multi-point bluetooth headphones, but I
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by cocoa19 6y ago
"He says drivers should freeze their credit and change their account passwords." Why would I want to change passwords? Either he doesn't know what he's talking about, or breach is worse than reported, e.g. DMV website p
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by cocoa19 6y ago
I dunno. Maybe he's so skilled that his employers (e.g. hospital) disregarded his appearance? Or perhaps you were thinking if he's sloppy with his appearance, he'll be sloppy providing care.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
IntelliJ Idea Community is for Java without Spring support. If you want Spring support, or you want to use other JetBrains IDEs for other languages, you have to pay. Personally, I'm happy to fork my money to them. They make the best ID
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by cocoa19 6y ago
And plenty in our current times as well. Mexican politicians buy votes with a one time delivery of grocery bags or 20-50 dollar grocery store cards.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
The opposite of micromanagement can be damaging as well. Let's call this "no management". I quit a job where I would only see the manager on 1-1 meetings, and was clueless about the state of the business and how to help team
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Life extension, disease research (cancer, viruses, etc), new physics discoveries, astronomy. Plenty of things would be exciting to work on that makes human society better.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Amazon and Craigslist are competitors and serve most people's online shopping needs. Everyone used eBay like 20 years ago. Now, not so much.
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by cocoa19 6y ago
Ironic that people buy it for streaming media (pirated or not), but RPi is terrible for video playback. I have an RPi4, tried kodi (libreelec OS) and vlc on raspbian, both apps stutter with most videos at 1080p. Luckily I repurposed it for

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