kemitche

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by kemitche 8y ago
I disagree. You're assuming that only direct punishment can affect behavior, when the _threat_ of punishment after first offense can also affect behavior. As a ridiculous hyperbole: assume a life in prison minimum sentence is establish
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by kemitche 8y ago
"shares held(000s)" reads to me like "thousands of shares".
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by kemitche 8y ago
The US allows states to skip DST but places fairly strict restrictions on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act
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by kemitche 8y ago
Why do that when Inbox did it automatically for me with no effort on my part? It's not that I can't organize things myself, it's that it is nice when Inbox does it for me.
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by kemitche 8y ago
You're right, they'd say that. They wouldn't mention "within 10 minutes drive of my house" or "has plenty of parking" or anything about the return policy most likely. And yet those almost certainly factor
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by kemitche 8y ago
It's a win for those who want to have more time to spend outside after work, during recreational hours. Extra daylight in the morning helps my commute, which doesn't care about artificial light. Extra daylight in the evening can b
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by kemitche 8y ago
Whitelisting while keeping every website moderately functional seems impractical for the Mozilla team, which means the burden of choosing what to allow falls on the end user. While that's a great approach for privacy, the usability los
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by kemitche 8y ago
> It's often not clear which exceptions can be thrown from a function Go 1 failed to solve that as well. "error" as an interface tells me nothing about what could go wrong with a function call. Go 2 is not looking like it
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by kemitche 8y ago
A business making an app has one choice for delivering that app to iPhone users. The iPhone owners could choose to switch to Android, but that's not a choice the business can make for the consumer. The business could choose to launch o
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by kemitche 8y ago
There is nothing wrong with examining the motive behind someone's argument. That's very different than an ad hominem attack.
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by kemitche 8y ago
They already have: the smart phone in everyone's pocket.
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by kemitche 8y ago
I think I lose more of my time on the daily HN submission about page bloat than I actually lose on page bloat.
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by kemitche 8y ago
Climate change is significant, even though I'm certain that temperature charted against 0 Kelvin isn't too visible. Zero can be just as arbitrary a starting point as non-zero.
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by kemitche 8y ago
Which is precisely why it is an antipattern for any program to pass it accept credentials as command line arguments.
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by kemitche 8y ago
Toml is better than a pony. Proof: http://toml.versus.horse
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by kemitche 8y ago
Either sneakernet, or the server is disconnected before the private key is attached, I assume. But sneakernet makes the most sense to me.
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by kemitche 8y ago
Well the majority of California's population is in those cities' metro area. The map only looks that red when it isn't accounting for population.
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by kemitche 8y ago
You're taking that phrase too literally. He's saying that someone in charge of operating or maintaining something as potentially deadly as a semi truck should hold themselves to higher standards of ethics, not that there's so
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by kemitche 8y ago
It's rational only if you expect that lowering prices would result in enough additional volume to increase profits. If you can boost your prices by 50% and only lose 20% of your sales, that seems like a win in terms of net profit.
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by kemitche 8y ago
In the same breath you complain that they don't pay their drivers enough and that their service is too expensive. Drivers aren't going to get more than a few percentage points increase without increasing the price to the end user.
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by kemitche 8y ago
Netflix isn't necessarily trying to reduce the bandwidth on _their_ side. They want to be able to deliver higher quality to users on lower bandwidth connections. The better that goes, the larger their prospective customer base.
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by kemitche 8y ago
A keylogger is pretty much game over regardless of your password strategy. Your passwords can be fully offline but you still need to enter your bank password on a connected device. On the security spectrum, for the vast majority of people,
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by kemitche 8y ago
If Jimmy uses the same password everywhere, and his password has gotten out in a prior leak, then it's likely that his favorite username is associated with that password. If he comes to my site and signs up with that password, an &quot
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by kemitche 8y ago
The answer is going to be "very few." Perhaps enough that a competitor has room to gain some share, but the average user, even for a product like Nest? Nah.
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by kemitche 8y ago
For most scripts, handling file not found isn't gonna happen anyway. Often the result is just printing to standard out "hey I couldn't find file X" then bailing. An uncaught exception works well enough for this in many c
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by kemitche 8y ago
I wonder if these vehicles wouldn't benefit from an onboard CO detector? Automatic shutoff if the vehicle is stationary and CO hits a given threshold. There's indubitably a bunch of reasons not to do it that way...
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by kemitche 8y ago
Ah but what's the ownership rate of bathtubs compared to keyless start cars?
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by kemitche 8y ago
Both array indices and user IDs are numbers. And it's certainly possible in Python to accidentally use a map as a list or vice versa, if the map has integer keys.
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by kemitche 9y ago
It's relatively easy to write a wrapper around your sqlx DB that logs queries before sending them to the underlying sqlx DB. I agree it would be nice to be built in, but then you're kind of locked into the logging interface(s) sql
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by kemitche 9y ago
I use Masterminds' squirrel library to build up queries which cuts down on the amount of hand written SQL I need.

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