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by gregmac 7y ago
Well, what is the downside to having duplicate* questions? I would guess the vast majority of traffic to any specific question page is search, followed by specific links people have posted (on or offsite), and relatively little will come fr
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by gregmac 7y ago
> The thing I hate about password managers is I am afraid I would stop knowing my passwords. That is a feature. The handful of passwords I know are mostly long passphrases. The rest are long random strings, generally up in the 30-somethi
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by gregmac 7y ago
One of the things with using commercially-licensed components like this in your stack is that is greatly increases complexity. You have to worry about counting instances vs licenses. This might sound trivial, but months down the road, are y
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Fox Sports’ NFL 4K HDR Fiasco Is an Embarrassment for the Whole AV Industry(forbes.com)
7 points by gregmac 7y ago|5 comments
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by gregmac 7y ago
Earlier discussion about the $35M fraud from a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20941039
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by gregmac 7y ago
> Copy.from('foo').to('bar') Funny, I don't think I've actually seen a fluent file API like this before. I guess most languages have file I/O built in to their standard libraries. My immediate reaction
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by gregmac 7y ago
There's a lot of hate for open offices, yet they're everywhere. There's high demand for developers, and accordingly, the salaries are high. Open offices mainly exist due to cost savings (lower sqft per employee), yet for most
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by gregmac 7y ago
> two sequential lines of code are no longer two truly sequential instructions I've done a lot of async/await and I really can't think of any situations where this has been a concern for me. If you're mutating state i
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by gregmac 7y ago
I find a similar thing happens with a lot of the non-fiction I've read (or tried to read): it's something that could have been a really good few-dozen-page essay, but as a couple hundred page book it's just protracted and rep
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by gregmac 7y ago
If would be interesting if you could allow a site to "open as application" (instead of open in new tab) - or this could even be called "install". The site would then appear in your OS like any other app, and may or may n
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by gregmac 7y ago
This is also one of the reasons these types of businesses are hard: I don't want to build on a platform that might suddenly set me into fire drill mode where I have to basically stop all work and port to a different technology. Going w
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When You Electronically Sign Documents, Always Keep a Copy(twocents.lifehacker.com)
5 points by gregmac 7y ago|2 comments
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by gregmac 7y ago
I think this is being framed incorrectly. It's not about voice vs text, it's about sync vs async. By default, phone calls (and face-to-face conversations) are synchronous. You call someone, they have to stop what they're doin
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by gregmac 7y ago
> Some cafes pay tipped employees less, though they are guaranteed $15 an hour if tips don’t make up for it. This means your tips are largely not going to the employees, but instead are simply allowing the business to lower their payro
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by gregmac 7y ago
Does that include slowing down and stopping, or would you be at max speed by the time you got there? I always thought that was a very well thought out aspect of The Expanse: spend half the trip accelerating, then flip the ship around and sp
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by gregmac 7y ago
This was confusing to understand, because multiple bad things happened. Normally: * Step 1: Transfer funds from each Employer's account to Cachet's holding account * Step 2: Transfer funds from Cachet's holding account to eac
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Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver(openprivacy.ca)
265 points by gregmac 7y ago|110 comments
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by gregmac 7y ago
The FancyZones backlog page [1] links to a bunch of issues from a project that no longer exists [2]. However, the same org has a new fork of the Microsoft repo called powertoys-staging [3]. Anyone have insight into who Janea Systems [4] is
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by gregmac 7y ago
The content on YouTube absolutely differs from the content on regular television. Most children's television content has some value: a lesson, moral or at least an actual story . Others have mentioned the horrifying inappropriate
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by gregmac 7y ago
I've experienced the same thing before. First of all, there's often a subtle difference in the questions despite being flagged as duplicate. And pretty much as soon as it's flagged, other people are all to eager to use their
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by gregmac 7y ago
Cars have the same problem many other "smart" products have such as TVs and refrigerators: the technology lifecycle is significantly faster than the overall objects lifecycle. It's not unreasonable to expect a fridge or TV to
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by gregmac 7y ago
I was just reviewing my call detail records on my "home" number yesterday, and realizing that the vast majority are spam - we pretty much don't answer that phone. This got me thinking about alternatives to even ringing for an
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The ISS Now Has Better Internet Than Most of Us After Its Latest Upgrade(sciencealert.com)
10 points by gregmac 7y ago|2 comments
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by gregmac 7y ago
With old TV, you at least had a unified interface - channel numbers or DVR - to access everything. You were also a bit limited with devices - TV of course worked, but being able to use a pc, tablet or phone was only for the few of us savvy
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by gregmac 7y ago
I think it's good practice to always use long arguments in (bash) scripts, for the same reason that a variable named `userLastName` is better than one named `str2`. Because you mentioned it, PowerShell has a similar readability issue w
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by gregmac 7y ago
I agree, and it would be great if git adopted the general philosophy that it would never do a destructive change without stashing it in "trash" first. This could even go as far as adding a "git undo" command.
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by gregmac 7y ago
> exposed MongoDB instance > Choice Hotels says the database, while linked to the firm, was operated by a partner vendor and no internal Choice Hotels servers were accessed. "The vendor was working with the data as part of a prop
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by gregmac 7y ago
Glad to see this at least orders by votes. One of the problems StackOverflow is facing due to its age is that what was (correctly) accepted as the best answer 5 years ago isn't always the best answer today. For some questions, the bett
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by gregmac 7y ago
Tweet deleted, archive [1]: > At a stealth startup, dozens of engineers relentlessly worked 20-hr days, for many weeks, and overcame many obstacles thrown at them with the vision to make the public internet native to real-time comms. Th
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by gregmac 7y ago
Using 4.43 KM per kWh (based on the plug-in hybrid model [1]), that means the six hour charge is 0.8kWh. At 12 cents per kWh, that means if you get six hours of solar every day (365 days), you'll save about $44 per year in electricity

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