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by kkarakk 8y ago
they fought the govt where the only headlines would be positive. look at all the privacy features they're giving to Chinese citizens who actually need them. instead they literally gave the keys to everything to the Chinese government
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by kkarakk 8y ago
Have people forgotten arab spring already?
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by kkarakk 8y ago
why not just buy an older device? bought a brand new iPhone se as soon as the new iphones x maxx was announced. mobile phone development as plateaued imo, there is nothing out there you really need unless you're fooling yourself. p
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by kkarakk 8y ago
"amazonians" isn't even a thing. there are various articles about how toxic their work culture is(as ordered from bezos downward). right now i'd say they're like how Microsoft used to be under ballmer except with em
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by kkarakk 8y ago
I do see a "+" front and center though,which is not the case on apple devices. even if I don't know what compose means, I do know that + probably means creating a email
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by kkarakk 8y ago
pay for everything you want to save, poor people screwed in yet another way by software.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
no the word gmail uses is "+"
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by kkarakk 8y ago
wow you aren't wrong[1]. they even have a sort by top capability right out of the gate which you don't get on hackernews. i guess i'm shifting there from now on, seeing as how lots of highly upvoted hackernews submissions are
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by kkarakk 8y ago
except when they did throw their weight behind it they did it in weird ways - requiring google+ for youtube but then keeping all youtube tools on youtube and google+ as an abstracted login entity that had some old version of your data(googl
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by kkarakk 8y ago
here's to hoping it happens in the next 5
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by kkarakk 8y ago
the feature is basically replicated on android phones that have the google now launcher page that shows you customised results based on how you search.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
if you keep yourself aware from day one about the issues in your codebase/service and what doesn't scale it is not that hard to switch from monolith to microserviced is the point of this article i think. there's a difference
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>In France, French Canada and Romania, octet is used in common language instead of byte when the 8-bit sense is required, for example, a megabyte (MB) is termed a megaoctet (Mo). taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by kkarakk 8y ago
pull the ladder up after you mentality, how is someone new to your language/stack going to understand your code without a similar level of knowledge? this type of thinking leads to abandoned codebases and full product rebuilds in anoth
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by kkarakk 8y ago
fantastic work, I agree with you - most of the time the "documentation" for open source work is done by more experienced devs answered questions from noobs on forums like stack overflow and this is a crazy state to live in
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>Someone shouldn’t have to learn Programming and English at the same time. However the attitude seems to be very much "learn Chinese/local language or gtfo" from the opposite end wrt localisation ie it is nonexistent. I th
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by kkarakk 8y ago
similar market forces at play - apple users use safari coz it is the default browser so you have to develop for safari first not web first just like ms wanted you to develop for IE first not web first.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
i think the idea is that their(govt/shady entity - what's the difference?) forensic scientists would be able to tell whether the very act of entering a password started changing a system significantly which would count as refusing
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by kkarakk 8y ago
apple doesn't let you fix your computers outside of their service ecosystem and Microsoft actively deletes your files coz users are their testers. i'd say this is very 2018. being superficially attractive(MacBook pro w/ point
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by kkarakk 8y ago
Average joes aren't buying macbooks anymore, iphones and ipads all the way
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>the lack of an atmosphere would prove very damaging. Without the buffering of air around drilling tools, dynamic friction will be amplified during drilling tasks, generating huge amounts of heat. Drill bits and rock will fuse, hindering
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by kkarakk 8y ago
I don't think this is accurate even for the brands you listed. spigen and anker are consistently the most recommended brand even by relatively tech illiterate youtubers. they've built up some trust with me and I've only owned
953.
by kkarakk 8y ago
> We care about only one thing: helping our readers easily find and buy the best products for them they came so close to convincing me and then they had to trot out the platitudes. no business cares ONLY about the consumer
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by kkarakk 8y ago
yup, you can only shop on ali express with the same attitude as someone offering up a tender - you know the product you want and you know the price you want AND you have enough knowledge of the product to discern shoddy work. browsing on al
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by kkarakk 8y ago
using excel isn't not fun, it's just that the mental complexity of excel is offloaded to the user. the user keeps track of the various computations and transformations. anything more than a quick check on some data exponentially t
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by kkarakk 8y ago
even when vice is covering it up? there are nuances everywhere. if you don't trust the reporters/editors to be accountable, the whole system of news reporting falls apart
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by kkarakk 8y ago
i personally think MOOCs need to tie up with actual well known universities to issue certs that count for credits with colleges. otherwise i see no actual value in "paying" for these vs just following along at my own speed. the go
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by kkarakk 8y ago
*Counter-anecdote
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by kkarakk 8y ago
aren't there literally hundreds of "rent-a-tutor" services available now? if you really think you want to pursue it seriously i'm sure you can negotiate something with a teacher on freelancer.com or something like that
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>The way you navigate reviews with side-swipes might sense on a phone but makes no sense whatsoever on the Mac. it makes complete sense, I switched over to mac in 2017 and as I got used to the gestures I tried them everywhere. if i'

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