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by cwyers 9y ago
Except MoviePass has no discount on purchasing movie tickets -- they pay full price.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Shockingly, their terrible business model allowed them to grow quickly as long as they could lose prodigious amounts of money. They're facing competition now from the theater chains (Cinemark, who runs my nearest theater, has a discoun
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by cwyers 9y ago
Fair enough.
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by cwyers 9y ago
> Like he said in his defense, if he had labeled it "Eric's Restore Disc" instead of putting the Dell and Windows logo on it, he probably would have skirted any real repercussions. How is that a defense?!? Yes, it's t
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by cwyers 9y ago
You aren't reading that table correctly. It's about functional dependency checking, not about whether you can use a WHERE clause.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Everybody is reading this wrong, which isn't a huge surprise because the Post seems to have nobody on hand who understands the facts of the case and relied on an interview with Lundgren heavily. He was not providing people with restore
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by cwyers 9y ago
They sunk four years of time into this, with developers, UI people, A/B testing... all of it. So they could have thumbnails when you hover over links. And they can't pay the people actually writing the encyclopedia. I hate our cur
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by cwyers 9y ago
If this is about preventing competition in the browser space, then why doesn't one of the browser makers with lower market share defect from Google's position?
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by cwyers 9y ago
I think you have the cart before the horse here. WHATWG is just a codification of what is. If we didn't have WHATWG, you wouldn't be freed from the burden of supporting current webpages, you just wouldn't know what that burde
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by cwyers 9y ago
Why is "creating a rendering engine from scratch" the bar here? A new player could fork Blink or WebKit.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Not just X10. There's powerline Ethernet adapters out there, I use them because I don't want to run a bunch of Cat-5 all over the place but I also don't really want to use the Xbox over wifi.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Nobody is forcing you to do anything. The developers of Python aren't volunteering their labor to continue to support older versions of Python. RHEL is deciding not to continue to support older versions of Python past their EOL per the
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by cwyers 9y ago
So keep using Python 2.7 on some previous version of RHEL? There's still banks using COBOL, man. We don't insist that RHEL ships IBM COBOL with it.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Excel is certainly a reference for what your end-users expect your software to be able to do.
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by cwyers 9y ago
This article feels so slanted it's unreadable. Conceding that Facebook and Google probably actually do need to be regulated happens near the very bottom of the article; until then you'd be forgiven for thinking that the ISPs made
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by cwyers 9y ago
> Trial versions never expire. They do not report p-values, and cannot save or export. Requires OS X 10.10 or later. Maybe this makes the trial versions better?
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by cwyers 9y ago
Steven Sinofsky led the Windows division from 2009 through 2012.
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by cwyers 9y ago
This provides a lot more detail on what's going on, instead of focusing on the (admittedly shocking) news about Myerson: http://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-and-why-microsoft-is-...
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by cwyers 9y ago
E-mail is largely centralized now. There's a handful of major companies who are able to run an e-mail service and communicate with the hordes of GMail's users who are living behind GMail's spam filters. (Spam filters, it shou
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by cwyers 9y ago
He said he's never seen one, not that they don't exist.
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by cwyers 9y ago
It was a sample. Wansink's conclusion wasn't that the Joy Of Cooking got fattier, it was that home cooking got fattier, and Joy of Cooking was a proxy for that. So it was a sample from the larger universe of home cooking.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Nobody actually wants to make the most informed decision, what they really want is to make the right decision. There's all kinds of places where additional information leads to worse decisions: https://ignoranceanduncertaint
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by cwyers 9y ago
Cooks Illustrated (subscription required) is based out of Boston, and they prefer the domestic brands: https://www.cooksillustrated.com/taste_tests/231-canned-whol... Splendid Table is based out of Minnesota, I believe
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by cwyers 9y ago
Pretty much every blind taste test you'll find done in America of grocery store canned tomatoes has brands grown in California vastly outperforming imports.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Sure, but is there a popular, modern C compiler out there that doesn't compile C++ as well? Clang, GCC, Intel, MSVC... all of them compile C++ as well as C. I don't think it's possible to have first-hand support for C and not
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by cwyers 9y ago
I don't know how much I agree with the premise of this article. People aren't resistant to retracting faulty research because the people who point out faulty research sound like cranks, they do it because their incentives are to m
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by cwyers 9y ago
I have to say, the stylesheet for that page is amazing and gives me such nostalgia.
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by cwyers 9y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...
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by cwyers 9y ago
So she was in position to make an introduction. She wasn't even on IBM's board, not like it was nepotism or something. Yes, having connections helps. There's many ways to get them (and if you're a startup taking VC, your
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by cwyers 9y ago
Sure. It just seems odd to list "Flutter could do X" as a benefit if React could do it, too. Yes, React doesn't do it yet, but it also could .

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