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by gboss 7y ago
Depending on how "hydration" is done it can still waste cpu cycles and hurt time to interactive on mobile devices.
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by gboss 7y ago
My team which manages our company's ecommerce website inherited maintaining an iOS app that was being developed by a contracting firm. No one on my team had much experience in iOS. My company is extremely frugal. I bought an intro to i
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by gboss 7y ago
Do it! The coast starlight is great. I have taken it a few times from Los Angeles to Oakland. It is so relaxing, the diner car is great and so is the observation car which is a fantastic place to camp out with a book. I've been meaning
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by gboss 7y ago
This has been a huge Pita, for my team. Good news is it has gotten some of them to switch to Firefox for debugging. It really is awful that bug slipped through.
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by gboss 7y ago
This is a shame for mobile developers as well. Deep linking from one app to another can be tricky to get right. Loading slack from the Android emulator browser was an easy way to test various deep links. Not sure why they would care.
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by gboss 7y ago
This is exactly what the print media query is for, which is supported in all modern browsers. https://joshuawinn.com/css-print-media-query/
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by gboss 7y ago
PostgREST is a project that does that automatically for PostgreSQL. It takes your schema of your db and creates an api based on table relationships and provides security through a database design pattern of enforcing row level security. Sid
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by gboss 7y ago
What about raising taxes to pay for the pension gap? They always talk about Social Security being in some kind of crisis. Social Security is taxed at 6.2% of income for the first ~$130k of a person's income in a year. While the taxabl
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by gboss 7y ago
There are definitely more deer than in the past. The elimination of natural predators and the decline of hunting have let their numbers explode. https://blog.nature.org/science/2013/08/22/too-many-deer&#x
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by gboss 7y ago
I really enjoyed the book Third Plate by Dan Barber. ( https://www.amazon.com/Third-Plate-Field-Notes-Future/dp/014... ) While I don't know if the methods explored in the book will be able to sustain the entire
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by gboss 7y ago
I'm pretty sure my Samsung smart TV has accessed the internet through the hdmi cable connected to a roku device. I never use the built in smart functionality but it definitely tries to insert itself whenever possible. It's very fr
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by gboss 8y ago
The US doesn't actually have an AAA rating anymore according to S&P it's an AA+. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_govern...
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by gboss 8y ago
I'm pretty sure my Samsung smart TV that I never gave my wifi password has gotten internet access via the attached Roku.
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by gboss 8y ago
The PBB crisis realy was astounding. My dad and the rest of our extended family lived in Michigan at the time. He developed type one diabetes in his mid thirties. We have no known familial history of the disease. I have always wondered if t
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by gboss 8y ago
A long time ago I went to an opera with real time subtitles, it worked well. I didn't know that it was uncommon to be subtitled when in a different language than the one spoken in the area.
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by gboss 8y ago
You actually can throttle your cpu with chrome developer tools. I often use it when profiling my client side code. I also don't like to have the fastest phone, I have a Nexus5x, because it helps me know if it works on my phone it will
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by gboss 9y ago
Are you using a touchscreen computer? There's a bug on the NYT site with Touchscreen computers that disables highlighting text on Firefox. It's been bugging me forever, on my Surface Pro.
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by gboss 10y ago
I really don't understand what the issue is with tipping. I am American and I love the custom. I feel being able to pay directly the person I have received a service from is very powerful. I think it does incentivise a better work ethi
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by gboss 10y ago
I run a Windows 10 PC at work with the Linux Subsystem enabled. It has been a godsend. We are historically a C# shop, but have a new front-end web server in NodeJS. I continue to work on a PC because the NodeJS site consumes C# web services
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by gboss 10y ago
I think you're actually validating the GP's point that the clock app UI is so cumbersome it's better to get SIRI to deal with that mess for you.
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by gboss 10y ago
Actually Mozilla ditched Google as their search revenue partner and now is partnered with select search engines depending on the market. Yahoo for the US, Yandex for Russia and Baidu for China, for example. Mozilla to my knowledge no long
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by gboss 10y ago
Did you mean ambivalent?
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by gboss 10y ago
As long as it's not hot/warm water from the faucet. Many water heaters can leach metals into the water and while safe for showering you shouldn't drink it. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/h
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by gboss 10y ago
There are altitudes within Venus' thick atmosphere that are actually quite reasonable, with it being proposed that humans would only need a simple oxygen mask to survive. The idea of setting up a "floating" colony in Venus&#x
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by gboss 11y ago
I don't really think that's a no brainer. They're completely different products. I'd much rather watch a movie on netflix on an IPad Pro than deal with the very poor resolution of a Mac Book Air. Also an IPad is a touch
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by gboss 11y ago
>"Compare this with 'decompression freezing' of water: when you open a really cold beer bottle, ice often forms in the beer. The phase transition for H2O is such that liquid is stable at higher pressures than ice (I think
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by gboss 11y ago
2000mg = 2 grams not 2 kilograms. So it would be 2 grams per kilogram. 2kg = 20000000mg. Hope that clears that up.
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by gboss 11y ago
The full phrase is actually: "Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_... Puts a different spin on it.
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by gboss 11y ago
These are not transactional emails, but triggered emails that are automated by a user's actions. Transactional emails typically revolve around a transaction, example emails include an order confirmation, shipping confirmation, or order
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by gboss 11y ago
Well it's possible and reasonable that you don't want to have what products your browsing to be snooped on by some sort of MITM attack. While probably not from MITM snooping, Target found out a teenage girl was pregnant before her

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