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by larkost 9y ago
My wife, and quite a number of friends are from Europe (Austria, Germany, and Hungary mainly), and from anecdotes from them it is fairly clear to me that, at least in hiring practices, Europe is not a better environment than the U.S. in thi
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Rather than use a clip-on version, go with something like AngelCare's line of under-the-mattress ones. False-positives will be the bane of your existence, so you want to avoid things that can fall off. With ours we usually got alarms w
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The hardware is not really stabilizing, if anything the rate of change in CPU and GPU has been accelerating. Those two things are probably the largest contributers to the treadmill of obsolescence. Apple has tried to keep the connectors sta
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Do you have citations to back that up? A quick search turned up a couple of hits (one old, one relatively recent) that both said that Employee owned businesses performed reasonably well. Certainly not conclusive, but a first stab. https:&#
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According to the article the new campus would be for support. Most of that in the U.S. is currently part of the Apple Texas campus. So this would not really alter much in Silicon Valley.
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Google absolutely sells access to "digested" user information. While your first sentence is technically correct since they don't directly give anyone the data, it is misleading at best. Google is in the business of selling se
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Because the U.S. does not have chip-and-pin, we have chip-and-sign. The main reason is that federal law in the U.S. limits the credit-card holder fraud liability to $50, and does so with language around signatures. Those same laws also set
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Apple announced many years ago now that they were not going to update the version of OpenSSL, and that the reason they were not going to do that was because of binary (and source) incompatibilities that OpenSSL routinely causes in major upd
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It needs to be setup using your phone, and also needs to be tied to the same telephone number. So you don't get a separate number (or bill), rather this is an add-on to your cell phone bill.
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The chips maybe, but the antennas still need to provide the right bands: https://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ There is some additionally complexity in that many of these can speak GSM, so have some ability to work in
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by larkost 9y ago
Apple has the money to effectively be an incumbent for this purpose. So their statement is anything but self serving.
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I have to agree with the poster. Piplines are very definitely not first-class objects: - There is no way (in the default installation) of re-running a stage without running the whole job again. - I can't see the history of a stage. - P
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In a former job I had an application that made excellent use of the Query Cache. A number of computers (in clusters across a large campus) that all needed to check on the same computed value that was derived from a query that spanned 5 tabl
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The current MacPro was designed for one group of professionals: those using FinalCut Pro. Both the software and the dual video cards were tuned to each other, and at the time were a killer combination, faster than any other setup for that w
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There are a lot of startups in the area that work on some aspect needed for self driving cars. Some specialize in the mapping tools needed for current cars (they can only go down streets that have been pre-scanned for them). Others handle t
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Depreciated is not removed. Apple is usually very conscientious about depreciating things, then waiting a while before removing them. In some cases they have gone to great lengths... for example the now 5 year depreciation of OpenSSL: first
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Apple's lawyers are definitely educated, and they have put their foot down within Apple. And Apple is not the only large organization where exactly that has happened. You may well disagree with them, but they are the ones far more educ
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Small correction: duplicates are not really "votes", but some managers at Apple do see them as speaking to impact of a bug, and almost everyone takes impact into account when scheduling the resources on fixing bugs. So if you want
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The real issue is not that Apple has not updated Python, but rather that about 4 years ago Apple depreciated OpenSSL. So the OpenSSL library included on MacOS has not seen a major update since then (only back-ported fixes). The article does