jcrites

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by jcrites 5y ago
If "git pull --rebase" succeeds without reporting a merge conflict, then it's tantamount to having executed the command with "--ff-only". I believe you are incorrect however. "git pulll --rebase" will not
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by jcrites 5y ago
The command you want is "git pull --rebase". There are configuration settings to make "git pull" rebase by default, and I'd recommend always turning that on that default (which may be by why the person above omitt
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by jcrites 5y ago
I think you are mistaken about Ethereum being classified as a security. This is just a quick Google search for the first result but: > On Thursday, June 14, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Director of Corporate
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by jcrites 5y ago
Not all cryptocurrencies are securities. They don't all fall within the purview of the SEC. Bitcoin is not is a security. Neither is Etherium. I'm not an expert on this area but I don't believe the SEC has the power to regula
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by jcrites 5y ago
I joined Facebook (WhatsApp specifically) in January after working at Amazon for many years. It's evident to me that the company has been and continues to invest massively in privacy and privacy protection – to the extent of inventin
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by jcrites 5y ago
There's an XKCD blog (?) that explains space launches in an intuitive way, with pictures: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ Getting space isn't about getting "really high" (although of course you need to
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by jcrites 5y ago
> There's been no statement that this is going away. Implementing this functionality with E2EE backups seem highly problematic. No more problematic than WhatsApp offering WhatsApp web (web.whatsapp.com) or Signal offering its deskto
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by jcrites 5y ago
I read the blog post, but not the URL (Do browsers show the full URL any more?). I scrolled directly down to the content. I didn't realize he was the author. He's a surprisingly insightful author, then. The first post in the serie
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by jcrites 5y ago
What do you mean by Snowden's post? He didn't make a post. He handed over classified material to journalists, who made decisions about what was in the public interest to publish in their newspapers. Maybe in the years since he&#x2
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by jcrites 5y ago
Alexa and iPhones with Siri enabled, and Android phones, are all continuously listening with their microphones for their wake word, unless you've specifically turned the feature off. The difference is that the Alexa connects to your wi
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by jcrites 5y ago
No, but a history of what you’ve previously searched massively improves search results in just a few queries.
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by jcrites 5y ago
> With webhooks, they can offload events at their own pace. They can't offload webhooks at their own pace if the two parties want reliable delivery. The server providing the webhook might be experiencing a prolonged outage, in which
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by jcrites 5y ago
How much cash a corporation holds should be a matter for the corporation's CEO, board, and shareholders to decide. If the shareholders are comfortable with the company sitting a on large amount of cash as a rainy day fund, or a reserve
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by jcrites 5y ago
Honest question: what is the reason for there to be a corporate tax at all? When corporations distribute profit to their owners/shareholders, those people must pay income tax on it. Why not have the government get its share from income
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by jcrites 5y ago
You don't have contact information listed in your profile. I posted a comment in this thread offering to pay for your legal fees (and many people, upon seeing my comment, contacted me offering to help). It'd be helpful if you coul
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by jcrites 5y ago
Do you think Repl.it's investors and board will be happy with the company using its money to pursue this lawsuit that is unlikely to prevail?
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by jcrites 5y ago
According to the California Business and Professions Code Section 16600, “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.” https://leginfo.
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by jcrites 5y ago
California law does not recognize non-compete agreements. Your heardquarters are in San Francisco. Good luck. Unless you have ironclad evidence that he stole intellectual property from your company you don't have a legal case to stand
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by jcrites 5y ago
This is sadly ironic given that Repl.it is largely copying what Cloud9.io (a small company acquired by AWS), as well as a number of other companies already built and launched. It looks like the history of Cloud9.io's independent websit
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by jcrites 5y ago
I think the doctor was asking, relative to the situation that you're in, how are you? In other words, given that you're in this shitty situation, do you feel worse or better than you expect? If he's still in a lot of pain t
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by jcrites 5y ago
That's an ambiguous question in native English too and could only be fully, precisely understood from context. While I would interpret the sentence from only the context you provided in the way that you describe, I would characterize t
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by jcrites 5y ago
The US sent an Aircraft Carrier battle group to the region because of these tensions: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-usa/u-s-car... (Jan 24, 2021) A single US aircraft carrier is accompanied by a
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by jcrites 5y ago
New C++ code that your team has written, sure. What about all the libraries that you integrate with, that all have different models for allocating/using/freeing buffers? Or system APIs? (At best for those you can build a wrapper l
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by jcrites 5y ago
If you ever need to work with PHP, use PHP/Hack developed by Facebook: https://hacklang.org/ It's a compiled language built partially in Rust, being rewritten entirely in Rust, JIT compiled using HHVM: https:&#x2
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by jcrites 5y ago
I believe that Rust is positioned to be the Next Big Language for server-side and application programming, taking over for C/C++/Java. I'm not sure if there's a .NET-compatible implementation or interop but it'd lik
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by jcrites 5y ago
They could build in a requirement that the software has undergone penetration testing by a security firm, and that a copy of the penetration testing report along with any mitigations applied to the software be provided. I've never even
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by jcrites 5y ago
WhatsApp (which is owned by Facebook) employs end-to-end encryption between individuals for its 1on1 and group conversations, and no one else in the world besides those parties (or possibly backup companies those parties decide to use) has
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by jcrites 6y ago
Yeah, I've personally run into that myself. It's not that the listings are being renamed, it's typically that the seller is listing their product as a "variation" of the other product has has good reviews. What you&
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by jcrites 6y ago
Amazon cares substantially about stopping these things. As is the case when you are fighting against other humans, who are crafty, financially-motivated, and are willing to break the law, and may be operating from different jurisdictions wh
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by jcrites 6y ago
Wasn't it hypothesized that the collapse was due to an Ice Age? I thought there was strong geological evidence for that, and the challenges it put on human population, but I don't know enough about history to place the last Ice Ag

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