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by moreira 8y ago
I've often read discussion about how you can't regulate this sort of thing because the industry moves so fast that what's a best practice today can be tomorrow's horrible security (then enforced by law). But, isn't
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by moreira 8y ago
Replace “blockchain” with “database” and everything you said still applies.
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by moreira 8y ago
Odds are, never. If some volunteer open-source developer decides to pick it up, it might happen, but as the company's shutting down, any "soon" promised by them in the past is obviously now a "never". Note: That pag
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by moreira 8y ago
Check out https://www.eatthismuch.com . Does exactly what you're describing, and it's brilliant. I picked it up last year, I couldn't believe it existed.
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by moreira 8y ago
What you’re describing does exist, it’s integration and end-to-end testing. It requires no input from the library developers and will always be safe from their mistakes. SemVer is a simple no frills tool to provide meaningful information in
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by moreira 8y ago
They... should be able to. Per SemVer rules you should be able to do just this. As an example, you should be able to upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.25.99 without a single concern, because 2.0.Z is always backward-compatible bugfixes, 2.Y.Z means n
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by moreira 8y ago
Of course not, but a state is not a country. Germany has 16 states, for example, and the statistics don't count people from different states as immigrants. However, a person from a neighbouring country (e.g. Mexico) would count as an i
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by moreira 8y ago
Your example, though, directly contradicts the point you're trying to make. Apple does have a native feature for showing when there's a native app available, and -yet- we see those third-party banners. Having the native API to do
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by moreira 8y ago
It's just about showing a banner to add to home screen, and the person is not wrong — there is no technical necessity for it. There is already, and always has been, an "Add to home screen" button in Safari. Since the very sta
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by moreira 8y ago
> Developers need to develop several versions of their app (they could spend that time on improving one version). I hear this line so much you'd think the web app world is full of the most amazing light and high-performance web apps
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by moreira 8y ago
It’s a user experience tax, I think. Most utilities on a Mac are a pure joy to use, well-maintained, and integrate terrifically with the OS. If you didn’t care about user experience (or didn’t think it was better) and just wanted to save mo
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by moreira 8y ago
How's it ironic? Nobody claims any of Apple's stuff is "open".
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by moreira 8y ago
I think there's a significant difference between the practice being banned but there being "ineffective enforcement of laws", and being somewhere where it's still allowed and seen as perfectly acceptable.
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by moreira 8y ago
They might be, but is it paid time off? If it's not, then many people may choose to work instead. Especially shift workers being paid on an hourly basis rather than salary.
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by moreira 8y ago
This website might just be getting the HN hug of death if it can’t even serve you the game at full speed. It doesn’t seem like it’s related to how practical it is.
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by moreira 8y ago
Well, if they’re reducing the incidence of dementia, and you would’ve gotten dementia otherwise... they -did- alter your mind. And that’s a good thing. People and their fear of chemicals though. Reminds me of http://www.dhmo.org
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by moreira 8y ago
Email is the most dangerous service for you to be relying on a company that you describe as having "a total lack of customer service". Email is the gateway to all your accounts across the entire Internet.
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by moreira 8y ago
Because a lot of people are not like you. If someone saw that I read their message they might immediately expect a response, and be left wondering why it took hours to get back to them (and react negatively to the delay). Not everyone trea
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by moreira 8y ago
It's a series-of-tweets response to a comment, wrapped up in a blogpost-like format. ... Yeah.
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by moreira 8y ago
I believe the reason is Catholicism. A sibling poster mentioned it being a thing in Poland as well (catholic), and I remember when I was a kid, on Fridays you would not eat meat, but fish was OK. Having that tradition, that every Friday you
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by moreira 8y ago
The GDPR says it should be as easy to say no as it is to say yes. So if there's an "accept" button, there should be a "reject" button. No maze, no panels or toggles. No opt-out by default, either. The default is rej
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by moreira 8y ago
Yeah, but I think the parent posters' concern is that the outcome is "unclear", and I was just pointing out that no matter what happens, the planet will be fine, humans will survive, and our infrastructure is what'll be
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by moreira 8y ago
The planet itself will be absolutely fine. It's been through a heck of a lot worse. Humans (and other animals) are the ones who are going to have to adapt, hard. As a small example, a rise in sea levels would make unlivable countless c
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by moreira 8y ago
The answer is gold. Your $20 is worth a certain amount of gold, and that is what the government owes you. $20 in gold. These days you'd be hard pressed to get the government to give you gold, of course, but that is the answer to your q
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by moreira 8y ago
"who don't get a vote on the matter" -> They elected the representatives that they trust to make these decisions; that's representational democracy, the cornerstone of most of the world's countries. To change it,
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by moreira 8y ago
Has it seriously been half a decade since Google Reader died? That’s one of those “wow time flies” moments for me.
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by moreira 8y ago
Civilization in particular is phenomenal. The Civilopedia was a treasure trove of details about different real-life historical concepts. And the "Women's Suffrage" video in Civilization 2 made quite an impact on me as a kid.
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by moreira 8y ago
Quick - is 'seconds' a valid value for the second parameter? You don't know; there's no easy way to know. If they're constants you can look at all constants available for Intl.RelativeTimeFormat, IDEs can do autocom
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by moreira 8y ago
On that subject: There's an article on the front page right now, from a company's blog (and domain), and the page starts with "Medium uses browser cookies to give you the best possible experience. To make Medium work, we log
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by moreira 8y ago
Living in the UK, I've come to believe that gov.uk is the model that all governments should follow. No matter what I need to do, gov.uk has all the information I could need, and tells me where to go and what to do. Their greatest succe

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