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by epicide 8y ago
Probably. The particular wording makes it sound like there might be more to the 7 day thing than just a cooloff period. Not sure what that would even be, really.
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by epicide 8y ago
They mention they use the seven day period "to verify that the request was made by you". I am very curious as to what that includes.
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by epicide 8y ago
> I actually prefer vanilla javascript to ES6-7 ES6 is vanilla JavaScript. Most modern browsers have support >98% of added ES6 functionality for several major versions at this point. Admittedly, Node.js is still lacking, but it&#x27
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by epicide 8y ago
I don't take issue with them making the hardware and selling a product. I have an issue with them being so heavily involved with the police side of things. There's a big difference between a feature that allows consumers to report
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by epicide 8y ago
The technologies aren't either/or, but the implementation, control, and regulations are. I'm all for neighborhoods policing themselves, but this isn't even close to that. I would be fine with there being additional tools
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by epicide 8y ago
Surveillance is not always mass surveillance. CCTVs are one thing. Giant companies and government entities automating the tracking of people in other countries is another.
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by epicide 8y ago
Oh absolutely. No language is immune to bad code and bad APIs. A good developer experience requires diligence. That starts with a good understanding of the language.
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by epicide 8y ago
This is what I try to convey to a lot of people who keep making jokes about JavaScript being unpredictable and hard to program. Just like everything else (especially programming languages), you are limited by your understanding of the conce
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by epicide 8y ago
This is especially important when considering what you'll see in codebases. e.g. Java may be adding support for more async stuff, but most of the Java codebases I've worked with won't use it.
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by epicide 8y ago
I really like reading 2600. Some articles get kinda... biased, but I think they do a decent job of striking a balance. It's nice reading about tech-related things that aren't just blockchain or Facebook. The particularly fun ones
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by epicide 8y ago
> I can't even talk to other people about it because everybody's noses are in their phones everywhere. Is that weird? I try to make it a point to ignore my phone while I'm eating lunch with people. I do wish others would d
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by epicide 8y ago
> If your users can effectively create new items, new maps, DLC, new missions, new characters etc what do you sell to them after your initial release? You're discounting the value of good design and creator experience. There might b
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by epicide 8y ago
When I say "getting the energy back out", I do not mean exchanging it for something equivalent. I mean actually doing something with Bitcoin other than exchanging it for something else. It is intentionally a silly proposition. I
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by epicide 8y ago
I never said the energy is lost. I'm saying I, the owner, cannot extract it back out. This is also true for gold-backed currency, but USD, among others, hasn't been backed by gold for some time now. My understanding is that a curr
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by epicide 8y ago
That's just buying computing power like you would do with USD.
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by epicide 8y ago
"Value" implies you can retrieve that work back out of it. Otherwise, it is a cost. Seeing as how I can't retrieve the computing power back out of Bitcoin that was mined, it is a cost.
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by epicide 8y ago
> time spent on a task generated by the email as 'doing email'. This probably accounts for a large chunk of the reported hours, as well.
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by epicide 8y ago
Because everybody needs breaks and it is way more acceptable to say you are "checking email" than "staring at clouds". Even if they won't admit it, I'm sure some people open their inbox and stare blankly as a s
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by epicide 8y ago
I'm honestly not sure how that wasn't obvious to me.
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by epicide 8y ago
These are the sorts of projects that make sense to me for Google to be playing around with. Namely, they are highly experimental and pushing what might even be possible, but have the potential to (especially if Google shows success) suddenl
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by epicide 8y ago
The point wasn't that Facebook is a necessity. It's that Facebook is unavoidable. Unfortunately, whether you created a profile or not, you can't just "not use Facebook" with their whole shadow profiles. Sure, they a
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by epicide 8y ago
Why have costly government regulation when people can just not breathe polluted air? There are some things users/people did not sign up for and cannot (reasonably) opt out of that still harm them. This is what regulations are for.
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by epicide 8y ago
This is basically the only reason I don't "delete" my Facebook account. I have so many family members and friends that I cannot realistically prevent putting pictures and the like about me on Facebook. At least I can see some
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by epicide 8y ago
Of course, but I can guarantee Facebook has run the numbers. They are currently doing what makes them the most money. That happens to be ads. The user data they sell to advertisers has a lot to do with your social network. Who you know, wha
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by epicide 8y ago
> all your personal emails are stored in [someone else's] servers. Well, yeah. That's true for everything except for hardware you actually own. They're saying it's better than storing it on Google's servers, no
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by epicide 8y ago
I keep trying to use Safari as my main browser. I want to use it so bad. I keep switching away from it due to lack of favicons and lack of extensions. I don't personally mind paying for a dev license to release an extension, but it def
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by epicide 8y ago
> is it enough an improvement to justify the cost of switching? This is the main question everybody should be asking about potential contenders [0]. For most places, switching would be a huge undertaking. Even if there's an import t
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by epicide 8y ago
It can help you differentiate between whether it register a quick tap on the touch screen vs a force press. Not that they do it on the watch, but it could also have a ratcheting-type feel when you scroll to indicate a) that you're scro
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by epicide 8y ago
Depending on exactly what you need to do, don't discount being able to run Linux boxes on a VPS for very cheap. For example, I have a small dev/bastion box that I just use Mosh to SSH into. If you're comfortable on the comman
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by epicide 8y ago
I'm waiting for the day I can just carry my phone, a small keyboard, and some (relatively) small VR glasses.

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