derrikcurran

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by derrikcurran 7y ago
You just did learn more about human nature ;-)
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
I recently had some suspicious activity on my HBO and Hulu accounts. I checked my email address on haveibeenpwned.com and found some pastebin links at the bottom from August 2019. Sure enough, my email and password for HBO were there in pla
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
I understand what you're saying. Some of the other commenters are being inconsiderate. It's dangerous when a nation loses the ability to criticize its government.
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
Yeah, I've always found that behavior really annoying. And it's basically impossible to fix it after the fact without making a separate account. The trick, if you know it before hand, is to make a local account (I guess you need t
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
* "black color light" does not exist. Light cannot be black. * Each pixel in an LCD has 3 subpixels (red, green, blue). There is a light source behind the pixels. To display black, white, or anything in between (gray), all 3 subpi
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
> I doubt anyone wants to read white text on a black background. I do! Much less eye strain and easier to read for me. In fact, I read your comment in white text on a black background. My eyes are very sensitive to light in general thoug
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
I'm surprised you consider Microsoft's data collection practices to be worse than Google's. Would you be willing to elaborate on that at all?
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
I'm still trying to figure out how it happened. Did they have some kind of automated case cleaning system or something?
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
I'm normally exceptionally thick skinned but reading this has left me offended on so many levels that I'm unable to formulate a high quality response. And yet I'm emotionally compelled to express my outrage anyway. I'll
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
I have never once heard this opinion of JSON. JSON is a breath of fresh air. I'm really struggling to imagine what sort of software you work on.
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by derrikcurran 7y ago
What is the sidewalk called in British English when the sidewalk is not paved?
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
Its not the same thing. "Autopilot" is not the name of an established standard. also, from Wikipedia: An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant 'hands-on' control by a human
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
Recursive setTimeout is a great way to allow for easy timing/speed changes on the fly.
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
You must have a knack for choosing companies with great customer service. I do not.
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
Just to make sure, have you tried an E Ink display? They really make the difference for me. They look very much like paper and ink.
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
Those are great points. Trying to keep RAM usage low doesn't hurt anyone. It depends on the degree. It's one thing to be cognizant of RAM usage throughout development but it's another to trade time that could otherwise be s
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
It supports multiple windows. Telemetry is opt-out. I personally don't care but I understand the concern. Why would 50mb or even 500mb be a problem? So many people are concerned about memory and I don't understand. I never have me
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
A part of me misses blue collar work. I'm a software engineer now and love my job but I'm often mentally exhausted, have less time to think, and find it much harder to stay in good physical condition. Besides, in a lot of meaningf
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
Microsoft was actually highly successful under Ballmer. Just not in terms of image or in the consumer-facing world.
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
They may have just done that as a cheap and easy way to comply with the new regulations while they wait for the dust to settle. Especially since the text-only version already existed. Also, I wonder how much of Washington Post and NPR'
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
Is it reasonable to attribute ignorance of laws on another continent with stupidity? Is nobody outside of America ignorant of these laws? Also, how much of the internet technology and content you use and consume was created by Americans? Pr
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
What's NPR doing wrong? Are they redirecting to the text-only version for EU IPs or something?
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
A non-developer who has access to developers. A developer can be paid to write the widget, which would likely be cheaper, easier, and faster than paying a developer for every minor change. It really depends on context. In a larger organizat
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
Achievement and guilt help regulate those environments. A person who is successful because they live in a place that has plenty of food might work to bring food to places that don't in order to feel a sense of achievement. That would i
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by derrikcurran 8y ago
I think vkou might have been talking about the precision of Stuxnet.
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by derrikcurran 9y ago
Will I be able to search my Hangouts Chat messages on Android? Because I can't with Hangouts. Seriously.
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by derrikcurran 9y ago
There are so many accounts of Windows 10 being installed, (re)installing apps, adding tiles that were previously removed, etc. without permission... but none of it has ever happened to me and I don't understand why. It's bewilderi
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by derrikcurran 9y ago
You don't need to be a developer to be tied to an ecosystem. Maybe she wouldn't want to lose her Candy Crush purchases?
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by derrikcurran 9y ago
As mentioned, JS devs seem to favor Macs heavily and the majority of popular JS-related tools seem to be built for *nix first. As a Windows user, I frequently ran into annoying friction. Like some step in a complicated build process failing
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by derrikcurran 10y ago
This appeared while I was searching for something related to Angular a while back. It said something like, "You're speaking our language. Ready for a challenge?" Unfortunately, I was insanely busy at the time and lost the tab

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