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by joncp 8y ago
the article addressed that.
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by joncp 8y ago
I bet they'll be hearing from NPR's lawyers
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by joncp 8y ago
> For whatever reason, I rarely see the idea of anonymous cash cards discussed in these types of conversations. Because it's really really hard to prevent forgery. Maybe impossible.
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by joncp 8y ago
The difference is who is using them. In this case it's a trillion-dollar company that's also going to resell the fork as a service to their already locked-in customers. You betcha it's a threat to Elastic.
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by joncp 8y ago
What a relief to know I’m not the only one!
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by joncp 8y ago
It also doesn't restore your patience for corporate BS.
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by joncp 8y ago
And their indestructible canoes (that weighed a ton).
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by joncp 8y ago
The reverse is also an issue. You go to the in-network doctor's office for a routine visit and then get a multi-hundred-dollar bill from their affiliated hospital. So, doctors can't pay their own rent?
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by joncp 8y ago
Also, watch out for business people disguised as tech people. They're the most dangerous of all.
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by joncp 8y ago
As long as you don't let them plug it into anything and it doesn't leave your sight, that should be fine. As soon as it leaves your sight or they plug in a hack-yo-phone box, you might as well throw the phone away. Who knows what
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by joncp 8y ago
Exactly. An on-the-job developer who hand-rolls some tricky but well known algorithm from scratch is being foolish. It would be much more productive to see how their google-fu is. Do they know which algorithm families to look up? Do they kn
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by joncp 8y ago
My biggest pet peeve is when sites use js to try to "help" me scroll. What. The. Hell. is wrong with developers who think their users' browsers can't scroll? Am I the only one?
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by joncp 8y ago
What's with the full-page splash that just says "Common Lisp" with no indication that you need to scroll to get to the content. This is worse than the 1990's "Click here to enter the site" silliness.
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by joncp 9y ago
It sure seems that way. It's almost as if Netflix is giving in to pressure from content owners (which now includes themselves) to downplay or even weaken their suggestions. First, they got rid of those wonderful ranked lists that made
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by joncp 9y ago
"Committing twitter" sounds like a crime. An all-too-common one at that.
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by joncp 9y ago
The article addressed that. Infrasound can affect quality of life and different people respond to it differently.
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by joncp 9y ago
Ditto. I think Amazon is used to having complete supervision of people in their warehouses, where any slip-ups are found and fixed quickly before a package goes out. The delivery driver, on the other hand, needs a certain level of street sm
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by joncp 9y ago
It looks like casters could easily be added. Or you could even land it on a dolly.
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by joncp 9y ago
This has already been fixed. With newer planes, the seat's pivot point is above the knees of the person behind.
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by joncp 9y ago
Imagine, though, a time when the automation reaches a stage where all weeding and most insect killing can be done mechanically with a robot instead of chemically with pesticides. That will be a huge boon for the environment and for farmers&
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by joncp 9y ago
Following your metaphor of the PT Cruiser: it seems like they followed a waterfall process. They came up with a list and then built a car that fulfilled that list without evaluating what they were building st every step along the way. If th
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by joncp 9y ago
Never go up against a guy named Simon Tam.
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by joncp 9y ago
I'm not clear on how US courts were allowed to hear a case about events in Canada. Is that a thing?
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by joncp 9y ago
Content aside, it feels odd that the banner image is bigger than the whole article. What's driving the recent trend to put big images at the top of every webpage?
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by joncp 9y ago
Have I been on different airlines than these people who fight? In my experience airline seat backs pivot at a point somewhere around knee height, so reclining a seat doesn't affect legroom at all. When the person in front of me recline
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by joncp 9y ago
Even if I wipe my phone, I worry that they'll plug it into some rootkit-on-demand Cellebrite device. What if I remove one of the data pins from the USB port so that it only works as a charger? Is that enough to protect the phone from o
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by joncp 9y ago
Imagine your grandmother managing her certs. Ain't gonna happen.
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by joncp 9y ago
I bet he's now glad he doesn't work with people with attitudes like that.
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by joncp 10y ago
I don't get it. If Lexmark is so hell-bent on preventing refilling, they could just simply change the purchase to a rental. Then, if don't return the cartridge to them you don't get your deposit back. They could even spin it
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by joncp 10y ago
Neat! To convert more visitors you'll want to show more examples. I found myself thinking "but what does it look like?"

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