johnasmith

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by johnasmith 5y ago
It seems presumptuous to speculatively be outraged and it seems unfair to assume that because a person was once employed by Facebook, their efforts at Mozilla will be corruptive. Lets wait and see.
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by johnasmith 5y ago
I think this is unlikely, but should it become the case, you can easily install an alternative launcher, something presumably impossible on the sheild. Also, the default launcher happens to be something heavily customized by each OEM (likel
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by johnasmith 5y ago
2FA is a layer of security on top of your password. Nothing stops you from using a strong password stored in an encrypted place.
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by johnasmith 5y ago
I think the OP is describing an abstract ideal, but not something that bears out in practice. When navigating old code, or very large code bases, or code weighed down by technical debt, or mathematically complex code, or just poorly/ha
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by johnasmith 5y ago
Google has stopped mandatory arbitration for all employment disputes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rakeenmabud/2019/02/26/worker-o...
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by johnasmith 5y ago
> The plan [...] to take 60 black-and-white images and five colour images Why black and white? Why not all colour? What constraint are they working around? Storage? Camera speed?
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by johnasmith 5y ago
I work for a company you've heard of, and that's their policy. _However_, if I had a side project I wanted to work on, I can get clearance to pursue it, so long as it doesn't compete with any of the company's ventures. I
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by johnasmith 6y ago
Different programs present content in different ways. If you're learning with Duolingo, it's convenient to have the content organized in the same way.
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by johnasmith 6y ago
Is this ballot measure representative? This ballot initiative was two months before the NRA filed for Chapter 11, so I'd expect their spending was constrained.
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by johnasmith 6y ago
The pixel series has been very reasonably named. Pixel 1, Pixel 2, Pixel 3, Pixel 3a, Pixel 4, Pixel 4a, Pixel 5. You're mixing in Nexus 6P, of the Nexus line, which ended five years ago.
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by johnasmith 6y ago
It's an (awkward) user friendly spin on what's ultimately a security update. Previously, if an app like FB wanted a bubble, they'd draw a screen overlay via `WindowManager`. That's the same API often misused to draw invi
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by johnasmith 7y ago
> The Black Economy Taskforce recommended this action to tackle tax evasion and other criminal activities.