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by mirkules 10y ago
> Joel’s claim is basically that “great” developers won’t have that many jobs compared to “bad” developers because companies will try to keep “great” developers. Joel also posits that companies can recognize prospective “great” developer
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No then we just end up with two standards, like a 9mm caliber which is the same as the .380 ACP and others (diameter wise)
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Most recent one is a bug in lubuntu based on 16.04 where the mouse cursor disappears after system goes to sleep (but is still functional). Workaround is ctrl-alt-f7 to switch to console then ctrl-alt-f1 to switch back to GUI, and the mouse
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Rather surprised you didn't mention vertical alignment. I mean, this year marks the 20 year anniversary of CSS. 20 fucking years of not having vertical align! (before someone says "flexbox", remember it's still in "
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> We still generally don't know the best way to build a complicated website We do. The web was supposed to be a content-delivery mechanism not an application-delivery mechanism. The problem is that it was shoehorned into an applicat
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by mirkules 10y ago
I use over-the-head earphones, which can be tightly placed under a hat. No issues of slipping out whatsoever. TBH, they sound tinny and low-quality but like you it's not an issue since the wind and body movement affect the sound anyway
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by mirkules 10y ago
For the record, I was being facetious on purpose to show how ridiculous this is. But more to your point, the adapter would belong with the phone not with the headphones. There are potentially N number of headphones, and one phone for which
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by mirkules 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. However, pretty much anything over the ear is prone to slipping out for me. Probably has to do with the way my ears are anatomically constructed combined with excessive sweating. Gross, I know, but that's
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No, he should tape the adapter to the phone, using silver duct tape. Or a simple analog jack would work too.
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In addition to the Galaxy being water resistant with a standard audio jack, the watch has a speaker that expels water automatically from the air cavity. That's a brilliant piece of engineering, so one can't help but wonder if the
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What he is doing in not "just" eroding civil liberties, but he is deliberately trying to introduce a weakness that would negatively affect our national security (oh, the irony). Since FBI director is not an electable position, is
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by mirkules 10y ago
I believe ethanbond is alluding to the literacy tests that were instituted in order to vote prior to the federal 1965 Voting Rights Act. The tests were predominant in the South and were designed so that nonwhites would fail them. Here is a
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You can have fire underwater, take for example Magnesium torches. Knowing what we know now about technology, it is difficult to imagine getting to this point underwater. But imagine a life form that lived in these conditions from the beginn
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Every time I hear about Yahoo these days, I am reminded of the movie Frequency. At the end of the movie, the protagonist is driving a fancy mercedes with "YAHOO" as the license plate, implying investments in Yahoo made him rich. H
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by mirkules 10y ago
I completely agree with you about programming VCRs. Despite being in my teenage years around their peak usage, I found it quite easy to do. Xerox and fax machines, on the other hand, are the work of the devil.
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It depends on the medium. On the desktop it's not a huge deal - I just hit the home button and I'm back to the top. If we're talking about mobile, I agree with you partially. In fact, there is a whole lot of improvements to b
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To me, the tipping point was years ago when they changed the logout screen. Now instead of logging out with one click, you "log out" but the next time you come back to Google your profile is automatically selected, waiting for you
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by mirkules 10y ago
I got the impression that the headline was sarcastic, given that it is a direct quote from one of the landlords. Anyway, there was a better quote in the article where a landlord said he is being vilified by the public for doing the "ri
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by mirkules 10y ago
Thank you for the insightful comment. How do you perform your own testing? What I mean is, how do you replicate space (or extreme-condition) failure scenarios on Earth? I imagine that either you need a lab in which you blast your hardware w
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This reminds me of Better Off Ted's Jabberwocky Project: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spyJ5yxTfas Which, of course, is a parody of the late '90s tech boom and some of the useless, fluffy companies that were spawn
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by mirkules 11y ago
A use case for keeping it on is that WiFi can be used to improve your phone's location accuracy ("GPS" services): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system It also significantly reduces th
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by mirkules 11y ago
> It will never matter to you if the Russian government has your data How do you figure that? Aside from the obvious credit card data/identity theft, there is also freedom of speech persecutions that can routinely happen should a fo
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The other interesting connotation is in Battlestar Galactica: cylons (and by extension all AI) are derogatorily referred to as toasters. Your comment kind of brings it all together.
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As ben1040 put it, "the article blows [self-driving] out of proportion." Jklowden hypothesizes that WSJ blew it out of proportion in order to paint a picture that the government is wasting money at best and not letting the free ma
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Further the agenda of his political donors and pave the way for the successor. Or make it difficult for an adversarial successor to pass opposite laws.
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Exactly. Moreover, it's not like there's an immediate cause-and-effect of "use plain HTTP, get owned immediately". Instead, their credit cards and personal info would hit the black market, get aggregated and sold months
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They could train the algorithm that way too.
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Of course, you and I are pretty much on the same page. The complexity and cost would be staggering to redesign the whole thing. But maybe there are smarter, incremental ways to go about it. Perhaps mandate a special paint for lane markers t
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Personally, I feel we are approaching the self driving situation backwards. We are so heavily invested in current technology that we are trying to shoehorn existing tech into doin something it was not designed to be autonomous in the first
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I don't believe this is tied to the San Bernardino case. The topic of weakening encryption has been brewing for the past 6-12 months, and the FBI is using the SB case as a convenient hammer to put a nail in the coffin of encryption. h

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