elwell

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   by elwell 6y ago

   > PERMANENT DISCOUNTS That's a bold promise if Apple shuts the practice down. Will need to go back on the promised permanency or take the loss.
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   by elwell 6y ago

   That's a little myopic; it's just another business model. They could instead price an app itself at $99 or whatever is desired to support development, marketing, profit, etc costs, and not have any in-app purchases.
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   by elwell 6y ago

   > most people don’t even take a deep liking to a song in their first listen It's very rare for me to really like a song the first time I hear it. Once my brain has become accustomed to where the song goes (even for a jazz song), t
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   by elwell 6y ago

   I didn't know you could embed CSS animations in an SVG file. It's a thing of beauty: https://nyan-sat.com/assets/licensed/orbital_comparison.svg Be sure to view page source.
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   by elwell 6y ago

   > Programmers love to complain about Excel In Apache POI HSSF/XSSF (Java Excel API), the HSSF actually stands for "Horrible Spreadsheet Format". As a fun example, note that we need isSheetHidden() and isSheetVeryHidden() f
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   by elwell 6y ago

   > The research also found that modern cars, with a more aerodynamic body shape, killed more insects than boxier vintage cars up to 70 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon#United_K...
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   by elwell 6y ago

   > The windshield phenomenon is the observation that recently fewer dead insects accumulate on the windshields of people's cars. It has been attributed to a global decline in insect populations caused by human activity. > The rese
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   by elwell 6y ago

   Hmm... chess with the feel of poker; that could be fun.
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   by elwell 6y ago

   1. Encrypt secrets 2. Don't save encryption key 3. Buy life insurance, a few million dollars 4. ... 5. Beneficiary uses insurance payout to spin up some u-24tb1.metal AWS instances 6. Crack encryption key 7. Profit
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    by elwell 6y ago

    1. Encrypt secrets 2. Don't save encryption key 3. Buy life insurance, a few million dollars 4. ... 5. Surviving spouse uses insurance pay out to spin up u-24tb1.metal AWS instances 6. Crack encryption key 7. Profit
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    by elwell 6y ago

    I can only imagine the "Testimonials" section on the marketing site.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    I wonder how many of the upvoters of this post similarly didn't bother fact checking the correction. Not commenting on its veracity, however I think the truth is somewhere in between (Apple has the right to hold onto the 30% commissi
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    Highlighter News(news.ycombinator.com)

    2 points by elwell 6y ago|0 comments
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    by elwell 6y ago

    "too much" implies that it is bad; otherwise, it wouldn't be too much.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    I think for about 250ms, yes. Because that's the start of the Unix epoch.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    > why would you think that using open source software to access bits off of global internet is unethical/illegitimate? "It's just bits." That's a slippery slope. One might argue that circumventing the intended pu
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    by elwell 6y ago

    > On March 4, 2020, Judge Schulman ... entered a judgment in Google’s favor against Mr. Levandowski in the amount of $179,047,998.64. > As a result of Uber’s breaches, Mr. Levandowski has suffered damages in an amount to be proven at
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    by elwell 6y ago

    All @apple tweets removed? @Apple hasn’t Tweeted When they do, their Tweets will show up here. https://twitter.com/Apple
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    by elwell 6y ago

    "In the new reconstruction [atheism], we do not see the promised greatness or harmony. Instead we are trapped in a world of violence, discord, emptiness, alienation, and racial hatred... The infrastructure of our society has become min
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    by elwell 6y ago

    Not sure if I'm more surprised about the support for Cherokee or JSONP.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    Nice start; what are you plans for future (killer) features?
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    by elwell 6y ago

    Either sling or hulu, forget...
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    by elwell 6y ago

    I must have seen their (annoying, to me) ads over a 100 times already.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    I use Notes mostly, because it's synced to my phone and I can paste images (usually screenshots) in it easily.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    How many fractal iterations is that?
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    by elwell 6y ago

    There are other reasons for separating logic into functions besides just keeping it DRY. It's an opportunity to encapsulate concerns and then, in some other place, compose the story poetically and clearly.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    Compression is just a bad encryption algorithm. Encryption is just a bad compression algorithm.
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    by elwell 6y ago

    How about hives of H20 molecules? Those things can work together to take out many thousands of people!
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    by elwell 6y ago

    I spent 15 seconds trying to figure out how that 'Perl code' runs...
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    by elwell 6y ago

    Google Maps does this, and it saves a couple taps. If you have an address on your clipboard and then tap on the address input it will be the first suggested result.