k-mcgrady

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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> Reaching the level of mastery where one can sightread any of the Beethoven concerti or a Liszt etude requires a lifetime of years/decades of dedicated practice, but it is true that once you're at that level, you can find
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> This is pretty dangerous thinking. The EU only has half a billion people. Thus, the truth is: Over time, these companies will make infinitely more from developing nations outside of the EU than they would from the EU. especially if
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> I wonder what will happen to a generation obsessed with idols who don't contribute anything to society Unlike the previous couple of generations who contributed a global financial crisis, multiple unnecessary wars, massive env
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> Face ID is pretty much a hack >> I didn't watch the keynote This is nothing like the version that's been available on Android for years. Read up on it or watch the keynote before jumping to wild conclusions.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
I don't know if it will work they way you want. I thought instead of making a service available to everyone in the EU it ensured that if you sign up in one EU country you get the same access in all others. So - if I sign up for Netflix
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
New York Attorney General [0] says it's unenforceable. Something I'm surprised people didn't just assume given how ridiculous the clause seems. [0] https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/906195350
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Giving up your right to sue in exchange for Equifax providing you the monitoring service would seem like consideration to me. Whether the term highlighted in the post is valid or not is another thing. Not sure about the US but in England I
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> especially among the millenials who think they can outsmart everything and everyone and feel entitled so While I agree with your comment mostly this bit seems ridiculous. When it comes to going to the cinema in particular I find (a
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Don't know if they're the same as yours but yes, we have credit unions. I think they were much more popular a generation or two ago however. I still know some older family members who use them.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Can anyone verify if this is true? I know it was in the past but AFAIK when the App Store took off they removed this restriction allowing you to select 'none' as payment method and still download free apps (otherwise at the time a
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Have you considered your account details were compromised and somebody else logged in and reactivated it in the process?
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
My idea was more of a site like Facebook but ONLY available over TOR. Something people want/need to use and TOR is the only access method.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> The dark web showcases the worst parts of the internet Are there any useful websites on the 'dark web'? I'm thinking of the kind of things we hundreds of millions use every day that are legal (social networks, email,
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
£45k seems way off to me. Starting out of university in London is around £30-35. With a couple years experience you can be on £45k quite easily. Also worth noting there are a huge number of contract positions in London paying £300-500 per d
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
That wasn't what I was trying to imply at all. My point was - maybe we should listen to the experts instead of self-serving politicians.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
I believe this was said while he was campaigning for Brexit. And it worked. There's a fascinating article in the FT today where people who voted leave are asked what they think of the current status. It is astonishing how uninformed th
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Your site seems like a good example of the point of 'brutalist' web design. People seem to be getting hung up on brutalist architecture having shortcomings but in the discussions I've seen around 'brutalist' web des
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
If you haven't seen it checkout Soundcloud GO. Essentially they pivoted to a Spotify competitor a couple of years ago but they still have the old, non-subscription version of Soundcloud available too.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> I don't know why. Wouldn't that be mass copyright infringement that Soundcloud would have a duty to prevent?
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
I’ve commented extensively on this before if you check my comment history but basically they need to go back to their roots. No commercial music. No copyrighted music. It should be a great place and community for indie and unsigned artists
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
I use it in combination with programmatic UI for more complex things but find it's so much easier and faster when doing auto layout to just use storyboards.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
AFAIK Swift 3 was supposed to be the last version to introduce breaking changes. Have they changed that policy? I know that the last Swift update I did was very manageable compared to in the past (where I'd easily lose a day or two).
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> For ios : look at the number of various apis you can use to do widget positionning and animations : calayer, uiview spring n struts, constraints, physic based, and yet none compose well with each other. IOS also doesn't have a
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
This thread seems to be a perfect demonstration of the problems when it comes to diversity in tech. People just don't seem to get it. I see the same thing in threads around big SV names sexually harassing women (and in those cases it b
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
And fighting 'defensively' also has a large range. Most recent wars involving western nations would probably be categorised (at least by them) as defensive whereas I would disagree. There's a huge difference between fighting
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Game of Thrones hackers demand ransom(bbc.co.uk)
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
:/ This was exactly what I was looking for but doesn't seem like it's location aware. Every movie so far it has suggested is not on UK Netflix.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
It's a terrible example. I was in a hurry and for some reason it was the first thing that came to mind.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Sounds good to me. Following the authors login why make anything an offence? It doesn't stop people from doing it anyway. It seems like this is intended to stop dodgy marketing companies re-identifying data not hackers. And there doesn
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> It is no great virtue to think that when you have wealth, but try living like that when you are poor and all of your meagre possessions were hard-earned. >> Minimalism is an ostentatious luxury. Those are separate things. Min

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