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by kodablah 8y ago
There aren't new ears here, where we're all subject to this repetition. The commenter was commenting here about fatigue, not as a new-to-tech user on some other site. The issue is not that things are annoyingly written over and ov
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by kodablah 8y ago
Nope. For every post with substance there's a dozen without. But hey, as is evidenced by adjacent comments here, it's ok because FB is bad. Not possible for the valueless deluge of upvoted "news" to also be bad.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Disagree. Instead it's showing the signal to noise ratio has reached a level where the content doesn't outweigh the category. People are in fact slowly falling back asleep to it.
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by kodablah 8y ago
It can seem that way with server-side anti-scraping techniques with brute force detection and the like. But at some point you have to accept that playing the game on the client-side needs to stop escalating once you're making dozens of
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by kodablah 8y ago
Ah, as an anti-scraper/anti-bot method, every user has all these local network requests made? Maybe it's the true reason, maybe not. Transparency is key here to assume anything more than the worst. Of course any of the rest of us
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by kodablah 8y ago
Can you link to where they say that? I would figure someone doing something so helpful for users would at least document it. There's no reason to be surreptitious when doing such a favor. One wonders if they'll start offering a Li
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by kodablah 8y ago
I always discount someone in a discussion, as you might w/ that engineering lead, when they point to the worst examples as the norm. Especially when they trivialize real efforts with things like "just tacking on X and using Y&quot
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by kodablah 8y ago
I think the commenter was asking about quality regardless of cost, especially for the upper tier.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Obamacare was a great first step Disagree, it was a horrible first step directed at the demand instead of the supply. In fact, I couldn't think of a worse step of reducing provider-driven costs than heaping rules on the payers (in
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by kodablah 8y ago
I don't think anyone was arguing it is a success, so not worth debating that non argument. The commenter simply pointed out something that exists.
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by kodablah 8y ago
It's not just about pure R&D, it's about all the financial incentive for all the wheels that will be greased by it all throughout the industry. On the outside we don't like it, but we can't pretend the drive for rese
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by kodablah 8y ago
I went from 0 C++ work/projects to a quality production one right away w/ Qt Creator, their docs, and general bring-you-up-to-speed-on-modern-c++ docs on the web. I only had minimal experience from a decade ago in C++. Very approa
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by kodablah 8y ago
It says "full anonymity" but only mentions an ID. So an ISP can tell I'm using it and what time as opposed to Tor or something which obfuscates the network of whatever messenger? Surely on digital networks we've come to
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by kodablah 8y ago
Hrmm, most of the time I've seen them on ballots locally they are approved.
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by kodablah 8y ago
I think you're confusing telling voters what they're voting for and telling voters whether it's good or bad. Arts and entertainment are too subjective for these journalists to objectively proclaim they are bad deals. In the i
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by kodablah 8y ago
And it was all subject to a vote and is just a slight increase on local sales tax. I too think it is a model example of a community voting for what they want and getting it, even if some newspaper tells them otherwise. Subsidizing entertain
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by kodablah 8y ago
> maintained, unlike QtWebKit these days Seems somewhat revived/maintained by annulen [0] as pointed out in these release notes. Also, QtWebEngine seems to usually be behind a Chromium version or two which, among other reasons, is w
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by kodablah 8y ago
Depends on what you find interesting. Depending upon what you are targeting, the names can be part of the bytecode and the interesting part becomes conforming to their naming standards, preventing clashes, mangling for needed temps for synt
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by kodablah 8y ago
Sure, I acknowledged the "most countries" aspect specifically to avoid these comparisons and focus on the content. I wonder, in current times, if the policies remain more for security or economic reasons. Regardless, my comment is
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Only airlines which have 50.1% EU ownership have ‘flying rights’ to operate between two airports within the EU. Forgive my ignorance towards this law. One wonders if this is economic protectionism or for security (I am aware of similar
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by kodablah 8y ago
Georgetown is also smaller and more affluent. It's not a good measure of a diverse rollout. Anyone in Texas (and surely other states) can choose all-renewable electric companies too.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> We can’t change macroeconomic conditions, but we are undertaking and accelerating other initiatives to improve our results. One such initiative is making it simple [...] As a naive person on the outside looking in, why are there no sug
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by kodablah 8y ago
Switching the context of the discussion by an entire continent might as well be a different discussion.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Chromium also syncs all your data to Google’s servers the moment you login to any Google service. You said something about Chromium and supported it with a link to a blog about Chrome. Though the terms can be confusing, it is very impo
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Maybe a TLD domain that would be absolutely free? Can't easily do this and prevent squatting without onerous identity requirements.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Maybe it's your civic duty as a person based on your ideals, but not as a company's technology lest we think the speed radar companies are bad citizens. Crime has levels, reporting has levels, and to treat both as absolute sans nu
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I don't really care about the reason. If their fear of case-by-case liability/PR aligns with my fear of case-by-case government data sharing it's a win for both of us.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> OK, I went to all the trouble of getting a free trial to NYT to read the article. Sounds like the free trial served its purpose and let you see the type of content you'd potentially pay for.
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Why call it "tax" if it is a fee? Tax instead of a fee because it's unavoidable to do business on the platform. Akin to a sales tax to sell items in an area. Terms are fungible but it's a reasonable term. > I hav
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Why aren't there similar stories of people throwing rocks at Tesla vehicles? Public perception, editor choice, etc. If we were to point out every bit of hypocrisy that is determined by what stories NYT runs vs what they don't

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