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7y ago
I've never done a take home test that produced anything that could have been vaguely useful for the interviewing company. Usually the problems are pretty artificial.
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7y ago
Could Apple have slowed down VoIP notifications before, to negatively affect FB messages vs iMessage?
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7y ago
The title says "phone" but the article refers to apps from "Facebook, Instagram, Chrome, SnapChat, YouTube, and Amazon", so I think they include apps. I haven't used iOS in a while but hasn't it always been ext
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7y ago
I tried the pill and eventually turned it off. Android 10's navigation seems a lot more fluid, though maybe a little less discoverable. edit: to be clear, I now have the option for traditional 3 buttons, 2 buttons (pill), and no button
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7y ago
It's the increased prominence of languages with garbage collection that is ruining children. They need to learn proper memory management!
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7y ago
This is actually the one use case where I'm happiest with the Mac + touchbar. OSX lets you screenshot a portion of the screen, a particular window, or the entire screen, and save it to clipboard or desktop, and the keyboard combination
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7y ago
Stratechery digs more into this comparison, which really helped me understand the value of WeWork. https://stratechery.com/2019/the-wework-ipo/
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LockGit: A CLI tool for storing encrypted secrets in a Git repo
(github.com)
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7y ago
That's my biggest frustration, when I search for "X Y" and they return me results without "Y" at all, and even call that out in the results. I end up having to put everything in double quotes just to get results tha
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7y ago
Is this the same process that doomed the supply rocket to Mark Watney in The Martian?
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7y ago
I don't know anything about databases. How do you roll back a significant schema change?
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7y ago
Last time I got into a discussion on Facebook about 5G someone ended up responding with this article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5... The Lancet, from what I understand, is a p
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7y ago
How would someone financially do something like this in that era? Carry a lot of currency with you (seems dangerous?) or rely on lines of credit (how?) or...? I assume they need some way to pay for food and lodging along the way.
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7y ago
Yes. Try this link from the article to see it in action if you have (or had) Zoom installed: https://jlleitschuh.org/zoom_vulnerability_poc/ WARNING, this will open a video chat with random strangers, and will turn you
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7y ago
Chrome now requires your machine login to do this (on Windows at least where I tested it.)
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7y ago
Wouldn't the proper solution be to improve the bus routes?
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7y ago
I don't know anything about cars. Why did you need work done on your brakes on a diesel but not on an electric?
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7y ago
seems a little disingenuous to quote Wikipedia stating no discernible increase in the rate of cancer deaths but then skip out this a few sentences later: > As of February 27, 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government has tallied 2,129 “
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Lyle Gun
(en.wikipedia.org)
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7y ago
IMO the small changes they've made have really helped. I like how they keep off topic conversations from overflowing into the channel, and the little notification about unread threads helps me not forget them. Plus you can go back to c
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7y ago
ICQ offered offline delivery, which was missing from many chat apps for a long time, too.
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7y ago
Love it. One of my early websites was trying to build something like this (in style at least, I didn't have any interactivity).
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7y ago
There was a really great real-world-ish equivalent of this called Chain World. A game of Minecraft on a USB stick that you were to play as normal but promise that, if you died, you'd quit the game forever and give the USB stick onto so
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7y ago
That's easy to say, but if the deployment server is down you might not be able to do it easily, and if you try to do it manually you need credentials which were stored on in a text file on another server that's down... etc.
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7y ago
It's genuinely less hassle. Where do I park my bike? How do I prevent it from being stolen? It got a flat tire, what do I do? These seem like simple questions but bike sharing provides such a simple solution to them, plus more: you cau
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RPCS3 – Progress April 2019
(rpcs3.net)
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Maybe if you had to say "DELETE" out loud when hovering over the "are you sure you want to delete this?" confirmation to verify it.
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7y ago
I'd like to know how someone found out it was recording. Wireshark after noticing unusual bandwidth usage? Decompiling an APK?
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Command and Conquer in the Browser
(adityaravishankar.com)
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7y ago
If you're concerned (or curious) about the effects of latency on things like mouse movement, here's a simple little tool to test it: https://codepen.io/crummy/pen/YboVMQ Personally 30ms seems fine, 50ms
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