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by georgehotelling 10y ago
Well you can't prove a negative, you can only disprove a positive. In this case there was a (vague) assertion made, so you can try to disprove that.
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
Isn't that basically happened to IBM when they emulated Windows in OS/2? Devs didn't bother to build anything for OS/2.
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
The wirelesstags.net stuff looks good, but it also is tied to their cloud services. I couldn't find a local API to talk to their bridge device. The nice thing about Hue is that their bridge can run completely disconnected from the inte
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
Say you wanted to build a protocol for IoT stuff. What would be on your feature list? Low power: it should not require much in the way of network traffic or heartbeats so that you could leave the radio mostly off. Mesh networking: ideally t
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
In Firefox the scrollwheel is hijacked regardless of where the cursor is.
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
Awesome, I did not realize you could use filename templates for SSH keys. Thanks!
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
> Use unique SSH keys for each service (sharing a SSH key on your GitHub/Gitlab account, network router and AWS/Azure instance is a very stupid idea); use ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 to generate a 4096 bit RSA SSH key. I tried th
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
I'm an ex-Quicken Loans employee, and my best guess is that Dan enjoys Comic Sans so much because of the reaction it gets. The billionaire equivalent of trolling. To that end, while working on the web team we added a Konami code to the
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
Someone should send a Lync message to them about writing a Linq query to find all the links for projects with similar names.
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by georgehotelling 10y ago
My understanding is that OnHub routers are managed through a mobile app via Google's cloud. If Google end-of-lifed that service, owners would have no way to manage their routers.
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
My job for the past 2.5 years has been remote and one thing that I have a problem with is getting out of the house. I (kinda) followed "Invest in yourself" to the point where I have a desk I like with monitors I like and my cozy l
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
I'm having trouble finding any numbers that suggest greenfield development is more common than maintenance development. My own experience is that most of my work is done on existing code bases, and I am more productive when the coders
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
Thank you, yes, it's COPPA.
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
> Age restricted products or services Doesn't this cover any website that collects personal information, since the Children's Online Protection Act prohibits that for people under the age of 13?
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
The "shruggie" Instant Answer has been helpful with the rise of Slack et al.
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
That was pretty much how YouTube started. Content ID wasn't part of their MVP.
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
Look into the Kinect - it has open APIs and good microphones
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
Is it possible to get all the stuff in the article integrated with Hangouts?
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
What's the difference on month 25 if you don't upgrade? That's always been annoying to me about contract prices: your phone bill didn't go down when your contract was up and presumably your phone was paid off.
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
A, B and D would be affecting on-site developers just as much as the remotes, but C (communication) is the thing that requires unique abilities for a remote worker. If either the worker or the company is not good at communicating, that will
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
Someone uncovered a Steam ID that suggests the PC developer Iron Galaxy only received the game 2 months ago: https://steamdb.info/sub/45433/
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
Well it's already $0 in some situations, so... charging people to be interns? You just might have a future in finance.
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
You could find a coworking space in your area and set up shop there. They exist to provide that kind of atmosphere to freelancers.
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
If you don't like this article, why not go start your own website or find a new website to read? There's nothing forcing you to stay on this website. Or maybe there is more to consider than just one issue, but it's still wort
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by georgehotelling 11y ago
> username = r.config.logged; // stealing reddit username and sending them to your own server That seems like a pretty good unique identifier, but I think it could be hashed for privacy. > socket.on('alert_autoclick&#x2
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by georgehotelling 12y ago
One faction known as the Knights of the Button created a Chrome extension called Squire to coordinate button presses in order to keep the timer running for as long as possible. The craziest thing I've seen so far is that another group
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by georgehotelling 12y ago
That assumes that the goal of the button is to get as low of a flair as possible. It may not be the creator's intent.
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by georgehotelling 12y ago
I once heard someone say "Being in San Francisco is like having good cell reception, except for apps." Every time I see something like this that's what I think of.
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by georgehotelling 13y ago
I suspect it will be a while for ebay, given that they own PayPal. Bitcoin directly competes with PayPal's business model.
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by georgehotelling 13y ago
While not enforced at the language level, PSR-1 states that "Files SHOULD either declare symbols (classes, functions, constants, etc.) or cause side-effects (e.g. generate output, change .ini settings, etc.) but SHOULD NOT do both.&quo

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