jfuhrman

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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>So the question is, if a country (like Spain or Greece) >If, say, European Union provides better shield, would Apple move its HQ to Germany or Spain? Two words. Labor laws. http://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-employee-
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Fragmentation is harmful when it's mostly similar ones with minor incompatibilities, like ten thousand Linux distros and Window managers. Not to mention the various stock browser versions on Android phones. Across a market, having two
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Newly discovered vessels beneath skull could link brain and immune system(theguardian.com)
2 points by jfuhrman 11y ago|3 comments
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>I'm surprised you point out iDevices, what we should be worried about is keeping them away from the Windows ecosystem. I thought iDevices meant only iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch(es?).
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“Have you read the source code?”(twitter.com)
2 points by jfuhrman 11y ago|0 comments
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>Why is rollout of contactless so slow, and why is it being reported as being specific to Apply Pay? It's a response to all the "Apple Pay to singlehandedly revolutionize and popularize contactless payments" articles seen
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Google hit with EU antitrust complaint for banning Disconnect from Play store(zdnet.com)
4 points by jfuhrman 11y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft shows off two tiny Windows 10 PCs including one inside a power adapter(windowscentral.com)
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Goldman Sachs analyst found dead after complaining to father of '100 hour weeks'(independent.co.uk)
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
I believe they have been given notices longer than a month. Anyway, it's a financial transaction for knowledge and labor like any other, if you think you're getting a raw deal, you should not accept the deal. Not sure how it is f
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
I was referring to the laid off employees, not the new ones.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Or they're paying a 10% bonus of yearly salary as payment if they're willing to train their replacement. If someone offered me $10K extra on top of my salary to take the trash out and clean the company kitchen for 2 weeks, I would
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>(and not to be snarky at all but I find it fascinating that that was your take away after reading it) It might be because I have a low tolerance for clickbait headlines and articles.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Isn't this at will employment? Companies can ask any employee to take the trash out or even clean up the kitchen(barring physical disabilities and strength). If you refuse they can fire you, same as you can quit anytime for any reason
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>Show me some cutting edge company/startup in the IT sector that is using Microsoft products and is not a statistical error. Stack Overflow http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Windows Server takes most of the profit in the web server market. SQL Server does very well even with PostgreSQL and MySQL being given away for free. They compete with free as in beer offerings and keep making a ton of money. Here's a
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
This feature is more useful on Windows Server.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>two liner to scrape a web page, parse it and call a REST endpoint with the parsed data as JSON in PowerShell Can you post this 2 liner? Sounds interesting.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
What platform does not have 0-day security vulnerabilities? Hurd?
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
The issue with search engines is that they tend to get very good by using clickthrough data, so the more you use something the better it gets. Indexing and ranking algorithms can only do so much. The interesting question is that does Google
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
I am sure there are tens of thousands if not more. Server admins are very risk averse and don't tend to turn off machines just to check if someone's using it. And in large organizations, it's hard to keep track of who's
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
WCAG 2.0 level AA requires a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text (14 point and bold or larger) and 3:1 for large text (18 point or larger). Level AAA requires a contrast ratio of 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. http:&#x2F
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
It comes up with a blank teal(?) color page for me. I disabled all extensions to make sure they're not causing the issue.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
>Hardly. Mozilla/Gecko may have been obscure at the time, but it was under active development. O Firefox had about 3% share at the end of 2004, even less before that. >Opera is very definitely dead Huh what? Opera is still under
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
That's exactly what people said with their "Designed for IE" websites back during 2000 to 2004. Whatever happened to coding according to web standards? This isn't a small boutique shop that cannot afford testing, this is
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Well at least it loaded for me in Opera, unlike the Google I/O site which reminded me of the dark days of the single browser web.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Will there be an official Android M for the Nexus 4 ? It's a very powerful device even by today's standards with a quadcore and 2GB RAM.
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
I stopped using Facebook when a stalker mentioned to me about a post they saw that I thought was private which ended being creepy to me as it was quite personal. I had set everything to private and FB helpfully shared it with everyone. I st
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
Google tracks what physical retail stores you visit[1][2] on Android phones and iPhones(if you use Google Maps app). People don't care about that, do you think really think they will care about photos? Actually, scratch that, most peop
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by jfuhrman 11y ago
> 1.5B casts from Chromecast Interesting, I didn't know that every cast was reported back to the mothership.

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