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joelhaasnoot
6y ago
Yeah, Postman has gotten dirty. Why the hell should a REST client/testing tool transmit everything to the cloud?
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6y ago
Can you send them a screenshot of Safari returning Covid results?
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6y ago
On-premise or own-cloud hosting is quite import for some customers.
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6y ago
They also don't serve a lot of regions and still bait you into creating a profile...
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7y ago
Note that the functionality is actually attribution for the app adds platform on Facebook. If you run ads on FB for an app, this ensures installs are tracked, and doesn't show the user the ad if they already have it.
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7y ago
Didn't they just get a huge fine for this behaviour? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/apple-fined-1point2-billion-...
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7y ago
Larger companies have great programs, but also have large company problems which in many ways often aren't IT problems.
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7y ago
Am I missing something? Why does said customer just self host the open source software and purchase support. 90% of the sensitive issues will be solved
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7y ago
This is the official viewer by the creators of the dataset, Kadaster (our land registry office): https://bagviewer.kadaster.nl/lvbag/bag-viewer/index.html#?g...
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7y ago
Regus is the 1990s business services company that has never heard of the internet...
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It was settled for $25 million, so we'll never really know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University#Allegations_o...
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7y ago
It would be interesting to see if they could move their hosting to Linux with something like Mono, even if just testing and seeing what the performance difference is for web nodes. I guess those are rarely the actual bottleneck, but still.
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7y ago
> Older people losing their cars is often the start of a decline unto death I'm not sure this is just because of the way neighborhoods are set up. It's also a lack of social structures to catch this. The richest country one ear
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7y ago
Yeah, this wasn't thought out the greatest. I have a bunch of USB-C to USB-C cables for my computer to phone (mobile dev, so use it a lot). Some of my cables actually automatically force my phone to charge my laptop (who would want tha
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They spend months if not years on the design and crank out millions. Getting USB-C right seems like a no-brainer!
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7y ago
There's also the usual Apple Upgrade tax, the old charger was 85-90 euros and came with 4m of cable. The new one comes without a cable, is 99 euros and needs a 30 euro USB-C PD cable.
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7y ago
I don't fully understand the context, but I'm guessing that if you provide a service using software that's AGPL licensed and use Square to sell it, they have no way of complying to the AGPL terms of providing end users (your
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7y ago
You can switch any iPhone to accessibility mode. Those with vision impairments love their iPhone because generally "it just works"
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7y ago
One of the tough things about open source software and especially HomeAssistant (long time user here!) is that HomeAssistant connects to many services, a lot of which use some sort of oAuth protocol, which in turn requires a client key/
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8y ago
Yeah, you can only use the GPS source for that flag.
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8y ago
The easiest way of doing this is to assume time will never travel and store the latest computed date right? If you've seen 2001, it's never going to be 1999 again, so it must be 2019. I understand that will require either flash or
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8y ago
Note also that kerosine and plane tickets are exempt from sales/value added tax, but train tickets aren't
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8y ago
On new devices, this often opens an empty file picker. That's so helpful to a user...
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8y ago
Lived in the middle of nowhere many moons ago and this was our doctor! As a teenager growing up I read this out of boredom and when all the other books we had were already read
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8y ago
See this PDF: https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf : "On March 13, 2019, the investigation of ET302 crash developed new information from the wreckage concerning the aircraft's c
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8y ago
Ironically, Elastic's cloud offering I believe runs on AWS...
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8y ago
Once upon a time one didn't need to login to read Quora stuff.
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8y ago
If you're running a e-commerce site, why would you connect to a rogue MySQL server? I've never had that urge...
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8y ago
Loading a CSV is a common use case. PostgreSQL has a similar \COPY command used for a similar purpose (but that's a client side command not server side as far as I know),
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8y ago
The other thing to realize is there is essentially two main players on the Dutch Internet market: ADSL (over phone lines run by KPN but any ISP can wholesale their services) and Cable (run mainly by a Ziggo/Vodafone). Cable requires a
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