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by drakenot 8y ago
Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard of outline.com before, but seems like a useful service.
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by drakenot 8y ago
"Alphabet’s role in funding the 350-person firm comes soon after it lost out to Microsoft in the bidding for GitHub. " Can someone describe to me how bidding for companies like GitHub works? Is it a blind bid where the highest bi
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by drakenot 8y ago
It broke scrolling to the point that my favorite Chrome extension Vimium had to special case the reddit redesign.
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by drakenot 8y ago
I created an account for a 401k vendor that our company recently switched to. During the registration process I used a password manager to generate a 14 digit random password. Imagine my surprise when I went to login to the newly created a
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by drakenot 8y ago
But for how long?
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by drakenot 8y ago
Why wouldn't he contribute the 2017 max of $18,000?
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by drakenot 8y ago
From the linked article: "Geekbench comparisons between phones and laptops used to be pretty meaningless, as the tests were not directly comparable, but that hasn’t been the case for some time now. Founder John Poole confirmed that it
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by drakenot 8y ago
This was not the point of creating Maps at all. It was to be able to approach the negotiating table with Google over maps from a more favorable position. Google was making certain demands to add turn-by-turn directions to the original maps
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by drakenot 8y ago
Physical locks are trivially exploitable. I don't really see this as increasing the attack surface greatly when physical locks are so weak.
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by drakenot 9y ago
Is there an archive of his show that we can listen to?
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by drakenot 9y ago
I recently built a new PC so I had to wade into this space again. The main difference I believe is that many components themselves now have their own LED lighting. Before, it was primarily LED fans or light strips. Now, motherboards have
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by drakenot 9y ago
So we continue to play wack-a-mole with the C++ codebase rather than develop in a language that makes whole classes of exploits impossible? Firefox is not safe. It’s been routinely exploited by law enforcement and hackers alike.
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by drakenot 9y ago
> Currently, we are only revoking the certificates if we received the private keys. There are additional certificates the reseller requested to have revoked, but DigiCert has decided to disregard that request until we receive proof o
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by drakenot 9y ago
It is an extremely popular approach. It might not be the best way, but I’d argue it is the default for most people.
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by drakenot 9y ago
The /r/buildapc/ subreddit is depressing right now. As long as I can remember, it has always been the case that you can build a higher quality and faster computer than you can get for the same money with a pre-built. However
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by drakenot 9y ago
I worked as a "UPS Delivery Helper" in college during the holiday breaks. I was assigned to a UPS truck and my job was to take the packages from the truck to the door while the driver scanned the next package to be delivered so h
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by drakenot 9y ago
This was very far along when that April meeting occurred. Many people speculated that this was going to be their answer to the Pro market, but they took the feedback, held that meeting and promised to release a new "modular" Ma
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by drakenot 9y ago
They still taught double space after period in typing class in the late 90s. It has been a difficult habit for me to break.
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by drakenot 9y ago
There is a subreddit dedicated to this idea [0]. There is lots of good content there to go through. [0] reddit.com/r/financialindepdence
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by drakenot 9y ago
A former lawyer on Planet Money discussed this case and said that it may not throw out the conviction. That the "Good Faith" exception may allow the conviction to stand.
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by drakenot 9y ago
Everyone lamenting the loss of the headphone jack reminds me of the same people lamenting the loss of the CD-ROM drive in the MacBooks. The headphone jack is a legacy, bulky port. I would not be surprised to see a port-less phone in the nex
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by drakenot 9y ago
This is wrong. You can easily read messages and reply to them from the lockscreen.
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by drakenot 9y ago
I can't believe that video plays "under" the notch. I would have bet money that they would have blacked out the status bar during video playback.
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by drakenot 9y ago
I much prefer Tim Gerald Reynolds and Steven Pacey. Listen to these previews for each of them respectively. They were able to bring the characters to life in a way that Guidall was never able to for me. Steven Pacey: https://www
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by drakenot 9y ago
Accidental Tech Podcast - A tech podcast with a strong focus on Apple. Commentary by Siracusa makes this one worth it. Film Sack - Film reviews of bad, strange or unique movies. They only do movies that are currently available via streami
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by drakenot 9y ago
It isn't about the "hissy fit" an employee threw. The resignation would be because of Sundar's intellectually dishonest characterization of the memo, and his subsequent handling of the situation. I don't know if he
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by drakenot 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQL37AC_YM A video where he talks about never installing his own OS.
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by drakenot 9y ago
There is a social stigma, but, as far as I can tell, it seems to largely be a stigma between women themselves. Even if there is some wider social stigma, I don't think that it constitutes "being kept out." There is a similar
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by drakenot 9y ago
The statement of "Facts are the opposite" isn't a compelling argument. I wrote that there is a social stigma against women, in the United States, against going into technical fields. If you want to view that as "society
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by drakenot 9y ago
I've been hearing about the lack of diversity my whole career and I'm sick of it. Women aren't being kept out. They keep themselves out. There is a social stigma in the United States against going into technical fields in th

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