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by lostsock 10y ago
Beautifully put!
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by lostsock 10y ago
I think this post is spot on. I remember having a quick exploratory play with React back when the tutorial was like that and I thought it was great. Then when I came back to actually use React in a project the tutorial had changed and all o
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by lostsock 10y ago
The password form on that page _IS_ insecure and it's good that the user is given information about that. They can then make the decision about themselves about the lack of security and how it effects them and the page they are on.
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by lostsock 10y ago
I've often heard that it's lucky to be born in a certain place to certain parents, but I think this is a really narrow view of luck. It may be individually lucky to the person born somewhere (i.e. they had no involvement or choice
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by lostsock 10y ago
Elon Musk has a weird sort of charisma and has built a fair few things.
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by lostsock 10y ago
I just browsed to the first NBC news article I could find and at the bottom of the article was a big button saying "View full experience" which took me to the normal NBC website. I'm not sure I see the big deal?
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by lostsock 10y ago
Static Ice does this nicely. When you hover over the pagination links it tells you what price range is covered by the products on that page: http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=laptop&spos=3
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by lostsock 10y ago
They're already out: http://www.dell.com/au/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?oc=z510898au&... "Ships in 9 - 12 business days"
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by lostsock 10y ago
Apple maps still sucks in Australia. Wife accidentally used it for directions the other day and it took us to a dead end street telling us to continue ahead. By the looks of the tress at the end of the street it's been a dead end for a
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by lostsock 10y ago
> So, not totally unlike the first page of HN. The front page of HN is a single list with headers at the top of the page and a footer at the bottom. It is a numbered list which shows me the title of the article, #votes, #comments, the d
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by lostsock 10y ago
I have no idea where to look on that page (meaning the Drudge Report website). Maybe once you're "used to it" it becomes easy to parse but I've just spent a minute looking at it and I'm not even entirely sure what t
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by lostsock 10y ago
Most merchants that also accept AMEX have a little sticker in their window. There are actually a lot more businesses that allow you to use an AMEX without a surcharge than there used to be: https://maps.americanexpress.com/a
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by lostsock 10y ago
And for a lot of what is stored on them, like music, photos and movies that speed is totally unnecessary. It's the same reason I still have both an SSD and HDD in my computer. I use the fast expensive storage for things that effect per
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by lostsock 10y ago
My wife has an iPhone SE and it's performance under iOS 10 has degraded significantly.
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by lostsock 10y ago
I've also fallen off a jetski at high speeds (~90km/h). The impact of the lifejacket trying to keep me above water broke a rib, but quite possibly saved my life.
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by lostsock 10y ago
"It may take another 24h for my site to come up everywhere. meantime, you could try flushing your DNS cache https://www.whatsmydns.net/flush-dns.html " https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status&#x
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by lostsock 10y ago
10 seconds would be the extreme end of things. Most of the time it takes more like 3 or maybe 4.
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by lostsock 10y ago
Contactless cards do exactly that. There is no advantage in using Apple Pay
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by lostsock 10y ago
Ninite bundled installer has made setting up new computers for family members so mindlessly easy. So glad it exists.
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by lostsock 10y ago
As do I
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by lostsock 11y ago
Ironic that I now get a "Service Interruption" page: http://imgur.com/AJmxdw2
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by lostsock 11y ago
But AFAIK a single driver can have multiple apps installed and respond to which ever one give him a job.
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by lostsock 11y ago
Important to note that the ability to sue does not mean that you are guarenteed to win[0] [0]( http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/austra... )
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by lostsock 11y ago
There will always be a "poor" if there is a "rich" but I have always thought poverty was about being impoverished, and was a separate issue. My understanding was that poverty was about lacking food, shelter and security,
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by lostsock 11y ago
> and the bottom will fall out of the chair market Please tell me that was intentional?
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by lostsock 11y ago
While I agree that a higher IQ does not nessicarly equate to high wealth every source I could find in a quick Google search seems to show a near linear correlation between IQ and income. I'd say this backs up what the GP was saying. Fo
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by lostsock 11y ago
Have you actually even looked at the source code for this project before you jumped in with the snark of it being written in PHP?
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by lostsock 11y ago
Can you give an example of something you would like to do that a framework like Laravel won't let you do or you feel like you have to fight against?
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by lostsock 11y ago
That isn't fully closed. Look at the promo video posted elsewhere.
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by lostsock 11y ago
I really love how your edit is the exact opposite you original statement. Good on you for coming back and adding your further thoughts to the discussion.

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