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by fotbr 11y ago
Having (very briefly) owned a fitbit flex (I think -- it's the one that got recalled for giving people a rash), does anyone know of a similar device with fairly high time resolution, that does NOT require an account, subscription, or c
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by fotbr 12y ago
What's wrong with a web browser being just a web browser?
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by fotbr 12y ago
It would seem they're neglecting the elephant in the room: The average millennial doesn't have much disposable income. Sure, it's not all of them. But many of them are struggling financially, and a new car, no matter how &qu
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by fotbr 12y ago
Sounds like a promising start for them, and I hope it goes well -- especially now that they're taking steps to partner with the actual music providers. However, like anything associated with the music industry, I'll take a wait an
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by fotbr 12y ago
It does happen. I refer you to the Therac-25. http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf http://courses.cs.vt.edu/professionalism/Therac_25/Therac_1.... plenty of other reading: https:/
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by fotbr 12y ago
It's what the cool kids at google were doing, so mozilla had to copy them, as usual, without any real thought as to whether it made sense.
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by fotbr 13y ago
It still doesn't change the fact that it's owned by a company that many despise and want nothing to do with, no matter how shiny their product may be. I don't think anyone said FB was going to buy it and kill it. The fear, w
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by fotbr 13y ago
I believe it. I'm there with him. I swore off everything sony after the cd rootkit episode. How long has that been, 12, 13 years now? I still don't even consider sony for electronics, even if they offer the best -insert device
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by fotbr 13y ago
Add another person that was formerly excited about Oculus and is now walking away from it. Yes, I dislike facebook and their business practices enough that I'll turn my back on a very promising bit of technology I was looking forward
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by fotbr 13y ago
I don't comment often. I came here following the dice purchase of slashdot, and found a quality tech oriented site without too much crap. At the rate I (slowly) accumulate the imaginary internet points here, it will be the better part
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by fotbr 13y ago
That's one of many such companies. It's simpler than that, though. On a local level, away from the large cities, it's not uncommon for the guy or gal that owns (not necessarily the same as the name is on the sign though) the
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by fotbr 13y ago
But in wiki-land, that won't be acceptable, because it wasn't published anywhere else first.
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by fotbr 13y ago
Here's why I won't use it if I have any other option: As an example to see if it's still an issue -- I tried clicking your islington.cc "sign-in or register" button. I'm greeted with a popup saying "We a
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by fotbr 13y ago
Hopefully iceweasel will not be so stupid as to follow this decision in the first place.
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by fotbr 13y ago
With the way Google has been acting over the last, oh, 5 years or so? Yeah, I try to avoid google for the most part. I'm firmly in the camp of "You (the server) provide the content. I (my computer) decide which pieces of that co
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by fotbr 13y ago
Biggest rewards available in SV? Hah. Maybe if you want to do fluff "social" and web work, or if you count money as the only reward available.
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by fotbr 13y ago
I'll take the average programmer from the middle of bumfutz nowhere over someone so self centered that they think anyone that doesn't buy into "SV is the best place in the world" is crap, even if that person is a "r
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by fotbr 13y ago
Stuff for work? No. I develop, other people use. I have no need to do the things I write software for - nor do I want to. My personal code projects? They're not products, they're tools: they get written to solve specific probl
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by fotbr 13y ago
It depends. I go through phases. Some weeks, I want nothing to do with a computer when I'm not at work - I read, I work in the yard, I mess around in the shop with whatever idea has popped into my head. Other weeks, you can't p
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by fotbr 13y ago
Exactly my thoughts as well. Since I've never been keen on Google's ambitions to rival the various alphabet-soup agencies on what they know about everyone, I guess I can cross that off the list of upgrades I'll be doing when
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by fotbr 13y ago
That's not accurate, since making a proprietary fork of, say, a BSD project, does not deprive anyone of the original project.
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by fotbr 13y ago
Except you don't "turn it into" anything else ... the original is still out there, and still available to be used as anyone else wishes.
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by fotbr 13y ago
Not necessarily. I've worked on projects where a high six figure yearly price tag was "trivial money". It still took approvals from several steps up the line, but they were the rubber-stamp variety once something was seen a
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by fotbr 13y ago
At least they HAVE pricing pages. Quickest way to lose a potential sale (and all future potential sales and references) is to not provide pricing information because you're stuck in the sales-rep model where I have to call/email&
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by fotbr 13y ago
You're not the first. There have been several women in indy before you, and there is at least one, Simona Di-something-or-other, who is already in the series. Coming on a tech website with your blatantly false spam isn't the way
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by fotbr 13y ago
So they'll be a mid-pack team with an owner that goes whining to the officials anytime something doesn't work to his benefit? Not exactly the "reppin'" I'd like to see for the USA in world motorsport.
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by fotbr 13y ago
Actually, the engines (and gearboxes, for that matter) don't get rebuilt. Breaking the FIA seal means they might as well replace the engine with a fresh one, since the same penalties apply.
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by fotbr 13y ago
To be completely honest, it was a bit of getting lucky, and a lot of realizing that if I needed to modify one object in that particular library to satisfy a legal requirement, it was only a matter of time before a decree would come down tha
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by fotbr 13y ago
Another point of anecdata: Once upon a time, early in my career, I spent half a day automating and error-proofing a 15 minute task. My boss, at the time, was slightly annoyed, and slightly amused. Fast forward two months from that point,
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by fotbr 13y ago
If your attorney isn't in the room, there's no such thing as a "Good Cop". If your attorney is in the room, there's still no such thing as a "Good Cop", so listen to your attorney.

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