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by mh8h 8y ago
Writing tests makes me write better software. The resulting test suite is just a nice side effect.
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by mh8h 8y ago
It really depends on the tax jurisdiction. In some jurisdictions, those perk are taxable benefits.
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by mh8h 8y ago
If I - an American citizen - access a server in China, US laws are not what govern what they can do with my information. That is governed by Chinese law. The US government apparently has a different interpretation. For example, they asked
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by mh8h 8y ago
The first gen was the first 12" Macbook. The second gen was the MBP with the high failure rate. The 3rd gen was the design with the additional membrane that was introduced with the MBP update earlier this year.
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by mh8h 8y ago
FWIW I installed iOS 12 on my mom's iPhone 5s a few weeks ago, and I can tell you it ran much faster than iOS 10 or 11 on that device.
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by mh8h 8y ago
There's also the charging network. At least in the North America the Tesla supercharger network is the only viable option if you are doing a road trip.
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by mh8h 8y ago
>Written on my iPhone 5S (2013) running iOS 8 (2014) - it is still a phone and is just as fast as it was in 2014. Is that planned obsolescence? No. But it probably has known unpatched vulnerabilities, and you're putting yourself and
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by mh8h 8y ago
The person who receives the tip needs to declare that as income.
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by mh8h 8y ago
To me the interesting point was how little data Apple keeps, compared to Facebook or Google.
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by mh8h 8y ago
You can request to delete your account. Not all of your data can be destroyed, due to legal reasons. For example, anything related to financial transactions (e.g. app purchases, subscriptions, etc) can't be deleted.
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by mh8h 8y ago
Even if true, how does that make it a national security risk?
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by mh8h 8y ago
I use a keyboard that is hardwired to Dvorak. I have another normal QWERTY keyboard on my desk as well, and when somebody comes to my desk, they can use the other keyboard. Works perfectly well for pair programming too.
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by mh8h 8y ago
Isn't it this one? https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188794
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by mh8h 8y ago
The ransomeware in this case spreads by exploiting a vulnerability that is now patched in Windows.
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by mh8h 8y ago
Are there open formats for the metadata?
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by mh8h 8y ago
the high price of the new machines isn't worth the marginally improved performance Comparing the base models of the 15-inch Macbook Pros on Geekbench: Single core: 2012: 3216 2018: 4918 (+53%) Multi core: 2012: 10558 2
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by mh8h 8y ago
I wonder how that translates into day-to-day experience. I can download stuff at that speed for like 30 seconds before I hit my monthly data cap.
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by mh8h 8y ago
If you order the regular coffee you get it right away, pretty much while you are paying. The fact that most of the people you see waiting are the ones who ordered the fancier drinks is because of selection bias.
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by mh8h 8y ago
The 32GB memory option is using DDR4 memory as opposed to LPDDR3 for the older models. That's because the current Intel core i CPUS don't support more than 16GB of LPDDR. How is that going to affect the battery life?
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by mh8h 9y ago
It charges pretty quickly. Leave it on the charger while you're taking a shower in the morning, and you're set for the day.
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by mh8h 9y ago
The question is, can the incumbent luxury car manufacturers figure out the technology and supply chain of electric cars and batteries before Tesla can figure out how to manufacture high quality cars?
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by mh8h 9y ago
What's wrong with a PCI-like compliance that ensures companies that affect this many people have their servers patched on a regular basis? Rubber stamps like PCI compliance might look like time wasters. Not all of them are. Given the h
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by mh8h 9y ago
A lot of the problems in the API land can be attributed to what I call the sandbox skills, or rather lack thereof. Those are skills that we were supposed to learn when we were kids and played in sandboxes. Things like how to share stuff, ho
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by mh8h 9y ago
What's the hazard?
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by mh8h 9y ago
I'm curious, given all these limitations in POSIX, what are some examples of software that do better on Windows because of these more advanced OS features?
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by mh8h 10y ago
Datomic is very different from the typical database in terms of the operations it supports. I don't think Google Spanner, or the other similar products, are direct competitors. I don't know much about how they are doing financiall
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by mh8h 10y ago
Amazon sold 426 items per second Christmas 2013. Their average order value in 2012 was around $47. Assuming the average value to be the same, it works out to around $1.2m per minute.
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by mh8h 10y ago
If you need programming APIs, and not necessarily REST, take a look at "Practical API Design, Confessions of a Java Framework Architect": http://www.apress.com/9781430209737
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by mh8h 10y ago
The problem is usually with the assumptions about natural fields being unique, or not change over time. One day you realize they can actually change, or they are not unique. Changing the data model at that time to support a different primar
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by mh8h 11y ago
If you need to link your code against some GPL code, then your code is GPL. But in most cases, a program that runs in a Linux environment doesn't need to link against any GPL libraries.

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