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by mfer 7y ago
Topics like this, I think, give us an opportunity to go deeper on the issues and concepts surrounding what's going on. I realize that the common quick answer these days is to harshly reject people and organizations we deeply disagree w
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by mfer 7y ago
> actual scientists and > I am a working scientist, which means I have neither the time to keep up nor the audience. For those that don't know about Sabine, who is criticized in the parent, you can read about her at https:/
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by mfer 7y ago
> Microsoft Spain sources have confirmed to Teknautas that they have not received any request from the security forces and bodies of the State to close Tsunami repositories Note, this is a translation. If I understand it right, GitHub is
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by mfer 7y ago
> It was so easy to understand that every person who was able to use a computer would pick it up quickly. I find this hard to believe. I know many people who use computers but are not IT professionals or even hobbyists. Without an easy t
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by mfer 7y ago
This reminds me a lot of Word. You can embed a spreadsheet and you can add code to the document (I even remember using VBScript back in the day). What's old is new again?
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by mfer 7y ago
Testing on older devices is something many (any it appears iOS) doesn't do well enough. I ran into this with an apps verification system. Because of the positioning on an iPhone 7 you couldn't perform verification. When I contacte
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by mfer 7y ago
I hope the inclusion of these new features don't break Gitlab in air gaped environments (or those cases where the DNS is black holed so it doesn't work... though that may be a violation of the terms).
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by mfer 7y ago
I like posts like this. They share where they were, why they changed, how they did it, and were honest about the time it's taken to get there.
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by mfer 7y ago
Next time I'll have to remember my sarcasm closing tag.
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by mfer 7y ago
I'm surprised to see Eric Schmidt on there. I wonder what the criteria was for inclusion.
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by mfer 7y ago
There are many ways to look at this... 1. It is great that Google is working to come up income sources other than ads. This will help diversify their business and motives over time. 2. This may cause some to think that the money is the only
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by mfer 7y ago
> We do not process email content to serve ads This says nothing about email metadata being used in relation to ads or for uses of content unrelated to ads (e.g., generation of search results). If I hadn't seen the leaked selfish le
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by mfer 7y ago
Don't forget it starts out with "universal". It's not just bound to Earth. We have greater aims than that ;-)
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by mfer 7y ago
> SoftBank will pay Neumann $1 billion for his shares, a $185 million consulting fee and will offer him $500 million in credit to help repay his loans to JPMorgan, according to the report. This is from the article and provides the breakd
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by mfer 7y ago
An international body (which included multiple organizations) who didn't want to favor any particular language. We could use more work and thinking like that these days.
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by mfer 7y ago
There is a massive reuse culture out there. It's just not been industrialized by a handful of companies or chased after by VCs. For clothes there are garage sales, second hand shops, and donations to those who are less fortunate (e.g.,
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by mfer 7y ago
> Right now, the bank estimates its private cloud is 25% to 30% cheaper than public providers, though it also recognizes that probably won't last forever. I am glad they shared this situation. We often here marketing telling us that
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by mfer 7y ago
"Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by the Gang of Four. It has sold over 500k copies and has been translated to numerous languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
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by mfer 7y ago
This impacts those using ChromeOS, if I read it right. Disney May want to support that. Isn’t ChromeOS Linux under the hood?
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by mfer 7y ago
Is this really a new thing for China? Reconditioning camps and treatment of people in the manners being talked about are something I read about years ago with other people groups. That being said... reading about this makes me sad.
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by mfer 7y ago
I hope this is as easy as someone writing an extension that restores the functionality. Maybe this can spur some innovation for Firefox users via extensions.
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by mfer 7y ago
If you want your project to get real uptake and usage it's important to have fantastic documentation. Autogenerated documentation does no provide this. It is good as supplemental rather than primary documentation.
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by mfer 7y ago
If you print the Kubernetes API (only the latest stable parts) for what you'd need to workloads to PDF as 8.5x11 (~A4) you'll get over 1,100 pages. This is for the descriptions of all the objects in the API you work with. The mani
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by mfer 7y ago
> But if people choose these products because the convenience is worth it in their estimation, revealed preferences and all that. "is worth it" requires people to be fully aware of what's going on. I've described what
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by mfer 7y ago
The meme is sorta true thanks to the Internet Archive. For me, it even has a snapshot of a personal site from 18 years ago in it.
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by mfer 7y ago
Google Groups isn't available in all markets (e.g., China). There are some other alternatives like groups.io. This is nice for some open source projects that want to have people all over the globe use it.
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by mfer 7y ago
It is really useful to compare a company to itself. If the company as a whole pays less than others and they are self consistent that says two notable things.
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by mfer 7y ago
There are some call outs in this worth talking about... > Apple 2019: only a limited number of hardware works out of the box, even for popular devices like Android phones. Is the Android issue on Apple or on Google. Each is very much int
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by mfer 7y ago
When IE had a huge market share I would use and build with chrome then test and correct in IE. It’s possible to support clients while not personally supporting this.
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by mfer 7y ago
> This has turned into a sad tit-for-tat between developers and Chrome, where no-one is winning. Not the kind of relationship you want to build with an army of advocates

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