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by kkarakk 7y ago
Seeing as how i had to learn all the GIS jargon OSM uses by default, it was bad for me. It's not a bad choice but since we as a company can afford the easy of Google maps it's a waste of time
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Unless you're a "brain-washed hippy environmental activist", the markup definitely feels like a ripoff - which is the fundamental problem with any ethical shopping website. I'd gladly pay Amazon price + 5 dollars,any mor
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by kkarakk 7y ago
They were just told to make the portal as a learning teambuilding exercise, choice of tools was entirely up to them - i even told the person company would pony up for anything they ended up spending. HR was being a pain about getting card d
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Does it matter what their fine print says if you have to bang your head against a buggy automated bot process to get support things done? Switched over to MS appcenter recently(they added support for cosmosdb + authentication). Their custom
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by kkarakk 7y ago
> it's not likely to move the needle on any metric they really care about considerably. what about devs too scared to put their CC no in the till coz they've heard horror stories about being overcharged for mistakes? Just recen
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Post articles where the focus is animal welfare? The focus of this article is rats as vermin to be controlled...
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Even if you keep them closed homeless folk tend to have a look and leave them open.
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by kkarakk 7y ago
ipad keyboard is just as weird as the macbook keyboard but in different ways(the layout for example) ive's design group just hates standard keyboard design i guess
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by kkarakk 7y ago
India blocked facebook internet, India is blocking FDI(Foreign direct investments) ie Walmart can't come in and put everyone out of business etc.
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by kkarakk 7y ago
but it works out that way - india is following a similar strategy now and some south east asian countries are following suit
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Short story is the same ol, same ol. Creator creates beloved thing, People want to get to know the creator, Non PR savvy creator says awkward things with good intentions, People recoil and Creator recoils from reaction.Creator self destruct
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by kkarakk 7y ago
same thing happened to donut county, got cloned instantly by cutthroat mobile app devs
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by kkarakk 7y ago
For a real account of how people are going to use smartphones - look at teenagers. they're always glued to their phones, they edit photos on their phones, they make plans on their phones, they write poetry on their phones, kids even do
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by kkarakk 7y ago
I wouldn't buy a Huawei phone, horrible service
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Panic is, ironically, a "moral panic" type of company. When e-culture shifts, they shift their policy accordingly. I would not trust them for stability.
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Apple doesn't toot their privacy horn in countries like China for a reason
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by kkarakk 7y ago
>A Google search seems to reveal that they were targeted by a patent troll in 2018 as well. Seems this company can’t get any slack from life. Sounds like a case of ex-employee leaking their business processes(or lack thereof) to companie
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Well the IRS would have something to say about it for sure, i doubt github would hide the transactions from them...
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by kkarakk 7y ago
nah it'd be better if you could just tip a developer, i'm more inclined to do a large one time "impulse" donation instead of a continuous drip feed also i wouldn't want to be listed as a sponsor in case the dev woun
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by kkarakk 7y ago
it's not even accurate - nintendo labo has shown there is a market for high spec high quality non standard games(as long as there is an assurance of quality behind it) biggest hurdle for playdate is word of mouth - nintendo has that tr
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by kkarakk 7y ago
IF someone managed to rob your account entirely through a mistake of the bank, it is the govt pointing the gun at the banks head (figuratively and literally) to give you your monetary assets. With crypto the government can't get involv
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by kkarakk 7y ago
company whose verb has come to mean "to search" has employees who dislike search
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by kkarakk 7y ago
...was this ever in doubt? i've always thought from day 1 that this is "Go as in made by Google". Even the name branding screams that
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by kkarakk 7y ago
you can see it already on github - survival of the fittest fork
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by kkarakk 7y ago
If your account is banned do your auto reply(canned responses) stop working? Coz that would be a proper stop gap to tell important people(job offers/contact requests for eg) to your website/email you actually use etc.
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Pretty sure Gmail is a product not a life giving service, they still do tend to optimise for people continuing to use their service. The societal effects of X technology seems to be the new scare tactic buzzword. It's an automated emai
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by kkarakk 7y ago
>A lot of ML still comes down to feature engineering i.e. it’s art as much as science. Is it though? Or has this just become the polite way of saying "you don't know what you're doing but I - abe the artistic - do?"
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by kkarakk 7y ago
At the very least they could mention that there is an internal process going on to improve docs. the fact that there haven't been any is an indication of a growing trend at apple going the same way as Samsung/Sony - "who care
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Sure there will be a bypass available on the black market which every kid will pass around to each other as a matter of course. software isn't the same as hardware, it's almost impossible to limit access unless you go full on drac
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Yeah but this is hackernews, if there aren't apple devs looking at this thread(or someone forwarding this thread to an apple dev contact) it'd be somewhat amazing. Making devs feel like they're being listened to is an importa

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