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by daxelrod 10y ago
I've had that experience tons of times, where companies are happy to unsubscribe me if I just give them the account number that I don't have because I'm not their customer. On the other hand, I was getting Allstate billing no
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by daxelrod 10y ago
I think you may have misread the parent. GitLab uses git http://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/
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by daxelrod 10y ago
This reminds me of an op-ed in my private college's newspaper written by a self-described libertarian that using a portion of tuition to create a scholarship fund was a socialist redistribution of wealth.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Agreed. I'm having trouble thinking of any product category where Apple was actually first to market.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
GitHub and GitLab are neck-and-neck and both pushing each other to innovate. Here are some recently-announced GitHub features that GitLab had first: * Rebase-and-merge button * protected branches * Trello-like view for issues * Changing the
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by daxelrod 10y ago
It sounds like you're making a pretty good argument for "push users to update and they will".
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by daxelrod 10y ago
> Everything is inaccessible by default In the early days of the web, when web pages were mostly text, and people weren't using tables for layout, things were a heck of a lot more accessible by default than they are now.
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That's not exclusively true anymore. For example, New York City has nyc.gov .
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Which ones?
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by daxelrod 10y ago
There are tons of ways that unmodified software will deanonymize you. For example, WebRTC and Flash can leak your true IP from your browser. Fingerprinting attacks are possible with lots of network-enabled software.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
This is great additional detail on the WoSign fiasco. Also discussed yesterday here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389573
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Almost all of the navigation redesign was excellent. The information hierarchy was made much clearer. The only thing that confuses me and my coworkers about the new design is the decision to hide the left navigation bar behind a hamburger m
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Hate speech is absolutely protected under the US's First Amendment. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-colleges-hat... Here's a quick summary of Supreme Court hate speech cases: http:/
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by daxelrod 10y ago
How do you do this verification when someone rents a car? I've rented a car before where the only thing they verified is that I presented a credit card with the same name as the one on my driver's license, which they never asked t
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Sure, but you can't assume a well-functioning district. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/controversy-surround... Since your company's workforce likely comes from a bunch of different districts, it&#x27
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by daxelrod 10y ago
No, the commit doesn't just vanish when they pull. They'll be asked to reconcile their local repo with the diverged upstream.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
If you wish to sue someone for copyright infringement, you usually need to hold the copyright in question to have standing. If you have been injured in some other way, you are welcome to try to sue for that instead.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
The good news is that you can at least remap what the zoom knob does using MS's IntelliType software. But you're right, hugely missed opportunity.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
People have found that the game is using an invalid Google Maps API auth token. The speculation is that this was done deliberately to ease server load.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
The fitness app [Human]( http://human.co/ ) sits in the background and provide a map of where the user has moved throughout the day, and a timeline of when they moved (for example, that there was a walk from 10-10:30 AM, a jo
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Elpis is a fantastic Pandora Windows desktop client. https://github.com/adammhaile/Elpis
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Yes, several million Treos alone were sold, and the Palm ecosystem was much larger than just the Treo line. http://blog.treonauts.com/2006/03/sales_double_ov.html For a number of years, Palm OS was the dominant mo
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by daxelrod 10y ago
On my Palm Treo, apps were plentiful and there was no intermediary.
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No, the problem is that the TOS that App Store users must agree to before downloading the app conflicts with the GPL. See http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-... for more detail.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
It's OK for a copyright holder to dual-license and release their own GPLed code as an app in the App Store. Otherwise, you're correct. http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance
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by daxelrod 10y ago
They do some prebaking of the pies before they enter the truck, so I'm wondering if the truck ovens don't get that hot.
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As with most nutrition topics, it's more complex than that. There's evidence that fructose consumed as part of fresh fruits doesn't affect the body the same way as fructose added to other foods, or even the same way that frui
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It looks like the individual ovens allow them to cook each pizza for a precise amount of time: At precisely 3 minutes and 15 seconds before arriving at the customer's location, the cloud commands the oven to turn on and--
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Brett Victor's Aligator Eggs helped me to finally understand beta reduction in Lambda Calculus. http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/ Something about the colors and pictures clicked in my brain in a way that Greek
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by daxelrod 10y ago
The video doesn't even show that. Most people on this site could construct a web page that acts that way. Like you, I believe her. It's just hard to prove things.

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