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by dperfect 11y ago
Good points. Still though, I'm not sure install base alone will expand the overall market significantly, at least not quickly. Everyone I know with those devices already spends money on music in some form (subscription-based or digital
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As others point out, it doesn't make much sense for Apple to attempt this (not paying content producers during a 3-month trial) for the sake of money alone - they have the cash (even if subject to high taxes) to pay for a loss leader l
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Honest question: do other software engineers write code so quickly that keyboard efficiencies really make a significant difference in productivity? I agree that familiarity with a keyboard layout is important, as is familiarity and confid
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I suppose one could say this is an argument against using the "computer the size of the universe operating for a trillion trillion years"-type illustrations. Statements like that reflect the current theoretical strength of an algo
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I feel like this gets missed in the debate over the "best" hash algorithms. It seems like the message is always "use XYZ algorithm for everything - it's practically perfect and the only one you'll ever need". I
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Hmmm... so the takeaway for me is that when designing critical systems that rely on hashes/fingerprints as identifiers, we should probably treat those as transient identifiers with a reasonable expectation of migrating them as newer al
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Cool - didn't realize the difference was so great. I've always known that the good algorithms are better because they're more difficult to brute-force, but always wondered if it's just a matter of a few years before the
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Aren't all hashing algorithms vulnerable to the possibility for collisions (albeit with different degrees of difficulty)? It sounds like the problem here is more related to the logic that relies on a hash alone to make important decisi
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I agree, especially about Netflix and Pandora's poor recommendations as a product of their limited catalog. I don't however think that humans are any better in this regard. Humans also tend to recommend near the center of a distri
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I've been an avid Rhapsody user since the early days. One thing that still annoys me about Rhapsody on iOS devices is that if the app has been closed or backgrounded (not playing music) for long enough, hitting the "play" but
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"Free reign" or not, the last thing we need right now is more music shoved into our ears because it's what a few people think we should listen to. "Really great" is subjective in music, movies, and pretty much anyth
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My initial reading of this comment caused me a bit of confusion. We really do feel acceleration in a literal sense, but I think the point is that as human beings, we're accustomed to the constant force of gravity, so any constant acc
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> Constant acceleration is what you feel when you are standing on the ground Acceleration only occurs when there's a change in velocity. What you feel while standing on the ground is a constant force , but due to the normal force (
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Most successful technologies didn't succeed because they are and always were perfect; they succeeded because they were good enough at the right time. Who knows whether or not Bitcoin is past that threshold - time will tell. But I hav
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> The result is that you get to mine at a lower difficulty than the rest of the population. Everyone mines at the same difficulty. If you choose not to mine for a period (and the difficulty adjusts to a lower level), you're just enc
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by dperfect 11y ago
Stripe plans to use the iFrame "loophole" to enable Stripe.js customers to qualify under SAQ A-EP as mentioned on their website[1]: > The new version of Stripe.js meets these criteria by performing all transmission of sensitive
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The Problem with Stripe(medium.com)
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As if this weren't impressive enough already, according to a comment made by Scott Manley[1] it sounds like the final maneuver (where it appears the rocket is making a fairly strong lateral correction) is entirely intentional. Not sure
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From the XFINITY WiFi FAQ[1]: > Does the new Home Hotspot impact my Internet speeds or data usage? > The broadband connection to your home will be unaffected by the new feature. Doesn't sound consistent with the prioritization cl
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I'd be hesitant to rely 100% on this approach (and from the notes it sounds like FB still runs the other tests - just less frequently in some cases), especially where the code coverage tools aren't guaranteed to account for uninte
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As someone who's met Chris and knows a mentor for The Last Mile, I can't say enough good things about this. In my opinion, we desperately need more of these kinds of out-of-the-box solutions to social problems. This is what progre
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by dperfect 12y ago
This is great, though none of the examples have any fills - just stroked paths. From what I understand, this would not work with filled paths (or it would only animate a stroke, not the fill), right?
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> if there were dom nodes for all of the components, nothing would be able to render them Once the components are parsed into whichever data structure is used internally (by the rendering library), wouldn't the memory and processing
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The location and context of these credentials seems to suggest that they were intended for mostly internal use. Another comment here mentions that the updated client contains just an api_key and client_secret (makes sense), implying that fo
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by dperfect 12y ago
> ... heads up to fellow Mac Admins and anyone else who uses or deploys Box Sync to ensure that the 4.0.6035 update is applied ASAP. There is no way of knowing who else has been aware of the exposed information before me and whether or n
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Adding to what's been said, I believe the worst situation (in terms of seeing dust on a lens) would be: 1) wide aperture 2) depth of field that (even partially) includes objects on the lens itself In normal situations, these two condit
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Upon re-reading this quote and its source article, I believe he was probably referring to moviemaking at a more meta level; i.e., there's no decision-making process wherein all (or many) filmmakers discuss and agree upon a narrow choic
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> There's no specific colour decision-making process where we sit in a room and say, 'We're only going to use complementary colours to try and move the audience in a particular direction – and only use those combinations.&
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Let's hope they aren't using MongoDB to power the exchange platform. The Coinbase careers page seems to suggest they still use MongoDB[1], though to be fair, it also lists postgreSQL (I'm only aware of Toshi[2] using postgreS
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I find it interesting that these cameras and videos claim to capture photons as they travel through the air. Don't the photons still have to bounce off something (toward the camera) in order to be imaged by the camera? In other words,

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