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by kedean 11y ago
That's not "atrocious css", that's minified CSS. They're running their backend code through a resource compression system like JAWR to conserve bandwidth. Who cares if the CSS that's presented to you isn't
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by kedean 11y ago
Click-bait titles dont' mean the article is crap. It's a good article with a clickbait title, plain as that. Clickbait is when some information is left out of the title in an obvious way such that readers will click in pursuit of
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by kedean 11y ago
Sure, but unless they stop supporting external hardware, nobody is going to. It's kind of like embedded GPS in cars; it's cool at first, but nobody actually pays Garmin and Tomtom the ridiculous fee for map updates, they just use
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by kedean 11y ago
You may be thinking of this example: http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1987628,00... TLDR; sending a surplus of tshirts to Africa did nothing but crash local textile industries by introducing
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by kedean 11y ago
Of course there's always going to be attack vectors, but clearly it's safer to execute a known program (Firefox) from a trusted website (firefox.com) than it is to use an unknown program (Jons Legit Calculator App) from an unknown
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Most terminal users these days are intelligent enough not to download a random executable from a google result and run it locally under root (without researching it). We've been well inundated not to ever run sketchy programs that you&
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That's besides the point. Apple is still restricting what you do on your laptop by having the underlying system preventing you from creating that yourself. The homebrew issue is just a symptom of the restriction.
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by kedean 11y ago
I disagree. Instagram, yes, as it's pretty much a facebook addon these days, but: - Twitter is generally a way for people to follow famous/semi-famous people nowadays. Most people don't go there for their friends. If they fol
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It's not really about their intentions, it's about the possibilities. Even if everyone involved right now has good intentions, who's to say everyone in the future will? The problem with collecting big swathes of data, or sett
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Depending on where you live, at least. In my section of the midwest, I've never met someone who uses Venmo for anything.
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Both sides have their arguments, as outlined by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10425913 , so it's really not a black and white 'technical error' issue.
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In this entire post, bundling refers to software that includes a specific version of each library in its own binary, while shared refers to software that uses the system version and requires dependencies to be installed out of band (possibl
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by kedean 11y ago
That's an opinion. There's a whole debate on bundling vs sharing, and neither opinion is canonically correct. That said, it is only a 'technical error' in your view that shared libraries are the only way.
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You need an activity to connect them, though. Erdos numbers are based on collaborative math publications. The problem here is that some are researches (you could do cs publications), some are software developers (torvalds, gates), and some
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On the flipside, neither does a person in their 60's, most likely. Kids probably have all moved out, mortgages are probably paid off. As a person ages, they become more able to shift themselves, barring special circumstances like a sic
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by kedean 11y ago
Then that is what lawsuits are for, not preventative law that can be super abused.
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I mean, it's been in the works publicly for quite some time. I remember watching documentaries about efforts on self-driving cars in an 'exploring tech' class back in 2002.
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by kedean 11y ago
I mean in theory, that's what Uber is supposed to be. Drivers share space in their car while on the way to places, and make some spare change. In practice, drivers pick it up as a part time job and just drive around looking for pickups
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by kedean 11y ago
I'm not convinced that cereal as a product is bad. Sure things like Lucky Charms are clearly terrible for kids, but Cheerios or Honey Bunches of Oats? They are the best combination of cheap, easy, and quick that someone can get for bre
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That's not really the point. We accomplished the same effect (albeit over a smaller area) already, and it clearly didn't stop WWII from happening.
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It doesn't sound like it's meant for private social media, it's an alternative to the ultra-public social media that's gotten popular in the last few years. It's about broadcasting yourself, not contacting a small s
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Devils advocate, the only reason for that last part is because patent and copyright are only useful at the point where enough money is flowing around that lawyers are involved. Artists definitely care if someone steals their work, but you d
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by kedean 11y ago
We don't really have a reliable measure of how many attacks are happening on Android and iOS, though. Unlike with a PC, users are much more likely to attribute malware-related problems to 'my phone is just old, I need a new one&#x
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What exactly does that accomplish? It's not like it's a binding contract, it's a child.
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I disagree, dichotomies aren't always the natural way to do things. Facebook was never meant to be a discussion space like Reddit, it's an echo chamber where you can share things with people who will only acknowledge when they enj
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Because that's largely what boot camps focus on. They are there to teach you what's popular right now, which is web dev. They aren't going to teach you kernel development, or backend application development, or graphics skill
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by kedean 11y ago
Something like the radial keyboard used in Steam's big picture mode could be really useful here. It would reduce potential error surface by quite a bit.
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All of those problems existed before fully electronic cars became the new thing. Were modified odometers a huge problem when they were mechanical? Not really. The encryption on fob-based door locks was broken YEARS ago (it was laughable), b
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by kedean 11y ago
Slight correction: Facebook still does not own Snapchat. It is still an independent company.
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So the complaint is that, because you choose not to regularly renew the software, you don't get the discount that comes with it? That sounds kind of entitled, honestly.

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