kevincrane

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by kevincrane 8y ago
> Car companies absolutely quantify risks and make decisions based on it. It is still more about bottom line than safety. Right, which is why we should increase consequences when there are data breaches so companies may actually care abo
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by kevincrane 8y ago
The point about developers is probably fair (I don't think I necessarily agree with it, but we're an insular enough group that it might not be inaccurate). The headphone jack issue just seems like a solution in search of a problem
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by kevincrane 8y ago
> Anecdotally, dropping the headphone jack (and similarly adding the Touch Bar) has negatively impacted 0% of non-developers I’ve talked to about both. How does removing the headphone benefit users? Also how does being a developer affect
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by kevincrane 8y ago
It wouldn't have ruined his career, it just would've said "maybe we shouldn't give him a promotion to a lifelong job until we thoroughly investigate whether or not he's a rapist".
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by kevincrane 8y ago
> Some woman dated him and then decided she was "coerced" (how?) into doing something she late regretted. Given the modern notion some women have developed that they can change their mind about whether an act was consensual at
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by kevincrane 8y ago
Is that really easier than just not sexually harassing people?
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by kevincrane 8y ago
> spearhead a transit project in your hometown > build 100 libraries with your name on them > fund the cure for the rare disease that killed your mother Tax them at 90% and the government can and should do that all for them.
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by kevincrane 8y ago
At a previous company we periodically flipped a feature switch on our dogfood builds that would throttle all network requests to simulate speeds in developing countries with slower cell networks, and it was really cool to see what stuff wor
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by kevincrane 8y ago
> social justice warriors Never met an adult who's typed that nonironically.
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by kevincrane 8y ago
Audi/VW/Toyota/Holden/Ford/GM didn't name their feature "autopilot" though.
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by kevincrane 9y ago
Mass shooters have a super high correlation with domestic abuse.
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by kevincrane 9y ago
I mean, you linked to a white supremacist's blog to prove your point. Is that a good case for your argument?
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by kevincrane 9y ago
> Don't fight. Don't argue. Just leave. There are men and women who deal with harassment everyday gracefully. That's a horrifically regressive view on this. Why should the person being harassed have to leave? Why can'
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by kevincrane 9y ago
> This is not a problem that will ever go away in general. So people get tired of it. If you're tired of reading about it, imagine how exhausting it must be for women who have to actually live with it.
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by kevincrane 10y ago
> Controlling what my own mechanical device does with the information it receives from other people's machines. "receives from other people's machines" makes it sound like PornHub is seeking you out and sending you st
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by kevincrane 11y ago
> A country needs strong, highly-engaged men who act as leaders. America is losing that more each and every day, and it saddens me. Literally every president in US history has been a man, 80.6% of Congress are men, 95.5% of Fortune 500 C
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by kevincrane 11y ago
Something like this matches up with your last desire. http://www.thehumansolution.com/kinesis-freestyle.html
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by kevincrane 12y ago
I think that's a hardware issue, not an attempt to lock you in. (I assume) you need something special in order to seamlessly switch between networks/wifi. That or it's their own way to filter out demand while they start slow
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by kevincrane 12y ago
Goodie, more things to buy.
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by kevincrane 12y ago
Speaking as a different user, one who looks at the task manager a decent amount, I really appreciate not having 49 different Firefox processes. This is definitely an issue of personal preference as it's been debated back and forth here
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by kevincrane 12y ago
> There is a reason a lot (most?) NFL players go bankrupt shortly after their career of being paid far more than will reflect their contribution to the future of mankind. Is the reason because a very large number of them grew up in pover
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by kevincrane 12y ago
Haha alright Captain Buzzkill, let's give it more than one day before we start burying this one.
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by kevincrane 12y ago
It's on the website, under "Closer Look". "1024 x 767 DLP projector"
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by kevincrane 12y ago
Oh awesome, thanks! I was looking for addons yesterday, but I must've missed this one. It does everything I want, so I'm placated for the moment.
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by kevincrane 12y ago
Yeah, I saw that (the default for one of them changed to 5 for some reason). Searching around, I found this link: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Newtab_page_Tiles/Test_Plan It looks like something about the tabs chan
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by kevincrane 12y ago
It looks like you still have the same number of rows, but each tile got larger so they can't all fit on a laptop screen anymore. If you zoom the page out (Ctrl/Cmd + minus) a few times, the bottom row shows up. Firefox guys in thi
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by kevincrane 12y ago
Is it worth noting? That just sounds like a smear that's unrelated to the posted story to me.
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by kevincrane 12y ago
Yeah, it's "Reddit Is Fun" (my favorite reddit app I've used) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....
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by kevincrane 12y ago
From a few days ago: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/512042070861950976
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by kevincrane 12y ago
> Android is still a terrible, clunky piece of junk, even with so many years to copy Apple. Not in the last few years, not even close. Android is pretty amazing right now, I love it.

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