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by hnzix 8y ago
I wonder what Yahoo would look like now if Jerry had accepted the Microsoft acquisition. Yahoo was already in troubled waters at the time, in hindsight it looks like a missed opportunity.
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In some Universities these mandatory Liberal Arts "electives" are fluffy filler topics where you are forced to buy the textbook written by the lecturer. You can only choose between four equally fluffy filler topics per semester. I
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The "keep the A10" camp is specifically arguing that the A10 is crucial for providing air support to ground troops against insurgent-style opponents, and that there's no equivalent available if the A10s are mothballed. There&
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Fair enough - your product is clearly operating at a high level of trust. My concern with required verified phone numbers is if they become a widespread pattern, I now need to treat eg my Reddit porno alias as if it is linked to my street
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At the meta level: I use a variety of online systems that I trust to varying degrees, from high to low. Currently I can control my level of information disclosure by using different email addresses. If these systems now require a verified p
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The implication being that if a system requires a verified phone number to use, then breaches are intimately tied to an individual's real identity. This is far less true of email addresses.
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>The broader point is that collection of phone number isn't intrinsically a bad thing Phone numbers as usernames is intrinsically bad for user data security at the meta level. If a service requires a verified phone number to sig
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> Turns out that phone numbers, whilst also subject to flux, have better long-term congruence to identity Exactly why using verified phone numbers endangers a user's data. A phone number is much closer to a their true identity tha
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If you just chuck a random dev at the interviews sure. If you handover gently and make sure they've internalized your interviewing process it's a different equation. In enterprise, I've mostly seen hiring broken because there
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€5 seems high, but it's fairly common in eg Australia for smaller merchants (corner shops etc) to charge a card processing fee if your transaction is below a minimum threshold, usually $10. The driver was probably trying to cover the t
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Interesting read, thank you. A friend of mine has a genetic immune system condition and definitely fits the spoons model - their stamina is hard capped per day, although the cap fluctuates with their health. Whereas if I'm going throug
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Turbolinks works fine with VueJS.
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> spread like kudzu. I see this cargo-culting all the time, it spreads via breathless blog posts as well. People applying patterns from FAANG totally out of context because it sounds cool. Google uses Kubernetes, therefore I should han
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Can we crowdfund some patent troll busting? Or take down Amazon's stupid one-click patent. Preferably using proof written on an 1800s parchment with quill ink.
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I have a pseudonym FB account that I am forced to maintain for this reason (specialist interest groups). It's the new phpbb even though it completely sucks as a forum tool. The same questions get asked over and over. But worse is bette
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Sure, the banks will make their staff sit through mandatory anti money laundering training videos. But HSBC is routinely fined for money laundering, and in Australia the big 4 banks are constantly being dragged through commissions around pr
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I would love some good Bhangra sources. Spotify is good for "Hottest 100" lists but digging deeper seems hard from within the app, I rely on external blog playlists like Dummy. I've yet to see a music app nail discovery.
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One of my clients is a relatively major educational institution and they still use ColdFusion to drive some in-house CMS abomination. If it ain't broke? I do still use Dreamweaver templates sometimes though! The awesome static site gen
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"Once fully wound, the animal shuffles forward for up to ten paces, twirls its tail, rotates its head and displays its fangs: a spectacle fit for a king." Leonardo prefigured the Aibo 500 years ago!
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Who Killed Tulum? Greed, Gringos, Diesel, Drugs and a Disco Ball in the Jungle(medium.com)
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It sounds like a new spin on 1980s-style corporate raiding? Pillaging a company then moving on, leaving behind the carcass. I can't see how this behavior helps us as a society, it's legal but unethical.
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A button that looks like a physical real world button that I'd push, with a clear text label beneath it, is less cognitive overhead for me than an abstract squiggly icon with no border or text that I have to interpret. Bonus points if
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> old GUI paradigms were just right It's a permutation of "worse is better". Skeuomorphism and hierarchical organization cargo-culted as evil, ignoring that our traditional built environments work using these paradigms.
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> implying that you should be working your ass off for those 8. TFA is saying you have a budget of 8 hours to allocate. The article explicitly states that relationships often consume a large chunk of that budget. It is descriptive, not
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> replace the user's custom ROM with a stock system? Yes. I can't see any technical reason why Google disallows factory resetting my device without re-flashing a ROM.
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I jailbroke my Android tablet. El Goog won't let me update it unless I flash a new ROM. Because how dare you control your own device!
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I inherited a Symfony2 app and it was a bitch to deploy. It definitely had an asset pipeline. php app/console cache:clear --env=prod --no-debug php app/console assetic:dump php app/console cache:warmup --env=prod --no
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> The "it's just a job" rationale falls apart when there's no alternative to having that job. If there's no alternative, doesn't that mean they'd starve? Are you saying death by starvation is preferab
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Removing the gender trigger words, having one partner look after domestic duties while one partner works is a perfectly healthy model for some people. I've minimized my lifestyle so that it doesn't require a double income to susta
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> I worked on a huge JVM based project and even though no one in the company knew Java there was just no selling upper management on using Clojure. Just tell management you're using a Java library called Clojure, they'll neve

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