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by k1t 7y ago
This has been my experience exactly. I used to think that the team building the product was a profit center. The more time we spend solving customer problems, the more revenue the company generates. The reality is they view engineering team
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by k1t 7y ago
If you mean the TV series, it's: The 'black mirror' of the title is the one you'll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone. https:/&#x2F
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by k1t 7y ago
It could be DNS over https, which Mozilla have been experimenting with. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
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by k1t 7y ago
Rather than pressing a button when you run out, I think (totally anecdotally of course) people just use subscriptions. Send me 12 rolls of kitchen roll, every 3 months, a bag of cat food every month, etc..
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by k1t 7y ago
The actual download might be hosted by 3rd party mirrors. You can compare the checksum to the one on the author's site to ensure the mirror provider didn't alter the file.
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by k1t 7y ago
When faced with building a simple web page, Team 1 spends a couple of days producing a single static html page and builds on it as necessary. Team 2 spends 6 months showing upper management architecture diagrams and flashy mockups. They blo
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by k1t 8y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of this story? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/11/smith-family-p... When the Smiths of Missouri – an all-American family with the regulation two blond children –
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by k1t 9y ago
While I agree with others that honesty is best, even if it hurts in the short term - there was a corresponding (perhaps even far worse) bug in the Windows version recently with no corresponding blog post or announcement. I think it was the
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by k1t 10y ago
(Disclaimer: Not a fisherman) There is no such thing as a "fishing troller". I assume you are thinking of a "fishing trawler" which catches fish by trawling. Trawling: to fish (the sea, an area of sea, etc) using a trawl
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by k1t 10y ago
I'm sure it's just a typo (years reversed) and should read: "% change from 2015 to 2016"
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by k1t 10y ago
It says so in the article and even provides a supporting link: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/radio-spectrum-and-the-law...
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by k1t 10y ago
It seems to be Apple's view that it is the app developers who are distributing the apps (using Apple's distribution service). Seems akin to FedEx saying they do not distribute packages, they merely sell distribution services to sh
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by k1t 10y ago
Sorry, I think you missed the context from the parent post. This is just the same as the Location tab in Google+ (which used to be a separate app, Latitude) - it's only contacts who have chosen to share their location, but integrated i
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by k1t 10y ago
You need to choose the "Demo Test" link.
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by k1t 10y ago
I made the same complaint to a Googler friend - but he showed me his copy of Maps complete with contact's locations. I assumed it would be coming soon in a future update, but this was more than a year ago.
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by k1t 10y ago
The Windows rename command doesn't support recursively processing subfolders, but it can be achieved using one line of powershell: Get-ChildItem . -Recurse -Include *.cha | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -Replace '\.cha',
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Thimbleweed Park Blog- State of the Game #3(blog.thimbleweedpark.com)
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by k1t 11y ago
Almost certainly. Which reminds me of a (partial) Haskell git implementation: http://stefan.saasen.me/articles/git-clone-in-haskell-from-t... Previously posted to HN a number times, e.g. https://news.ycombin
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by k1t 11y ago
You don't say which phone, but this behavior sounds like Samsung Smart Pause[0]. It's possible that it was not related to the app/ad vendor. [0] http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/skp/faq/10
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by k1t 12y ago
That is the standard meaning, and is identified in the article: "bypass a site’s home page, whisking you straight to some specific location or product" (It would still be a deep link without the affiliate tracking info.)
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by k1t 12y ago
Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to www.backblaze.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). (Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap) Oh dear, please upgrade
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by k1t 12y ago
'Cleverer' is correct[0], but definitely an ugly word. 'More intelligent' would probably have been a better choice. [0] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cleverer?s=t
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by k1t 12y ago
Although, in the UK some big chains moved away [0] from the .99 prices because everybody knows that it's just a marketing trick and having round numbers seems more 'honest'. That was a few years ago, maybe they've gone
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by k1t 12y ago
Probably also worth mentioning the commandline tool that I assume this (howdoi-direct-paste) is based on: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270
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by k1t 12y ago
It can get much more extreme than $16,000! Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475854
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by k1t 12y ago
Related reading about planned obsolescence: http://www.hugtherhino.com/2013/04/planned-obsolescence-dark...
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by k1t 12y ago
It's not quite as clear as that, the California Driver's Handbook states: "Do not enter the intersection if you cannot get completely across before the light turns red. If you block the intersection, you can be cited." [