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VSCode opens URL without user's permission(github.com)
2 points by msoad 8y ago|1 comments
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by msoad 9y ago
I thought the point of "Long Term Evolution (LTE)" was not to have this "next generation" thing all over again!
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by msoad 9y ago
Databases. Those are the most fascinating and complex programs I know but I have no idea how exactly they work. Most of complex algorithms and data structures are used in databases.
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by msoad 9y ago
Venmo is owned by PayPal
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by msoad 9y ago
Most leaks are screenshots :D But seriously, ZWNJ is really hard to see when you copy text. The only way to sanitize it is to run it through a program.
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by msoad 9y ago
I don't have time to clean up my inbox. Who thought it's a good idea to require manual work to "setup" a social network? Of course it failed! It was designed by engineers who spend time indenting their code to the exact
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by msoad 9y ago
The tree described in the second tweet is visible in Telegram right now. There are channels that are overloaded with content. I can see Telegram inventing news feed soon.
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by msoad 9y ago
Only if there was an HBO for sports too. I hate watching those stupid ads when I watch live sports!
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by msoad 9y ago
The released video is suspiciously dark. That street has street lighting. Can it be edited?
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by msoad 9y ago
Isn't yarn locking system a proof that semantic versioning has failed?
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by msoad 9y ago
When you allow an app to access your contacts, they grab all of them and upload them to their servers. It's less severe in iOS because they can't access SMS and call logs.
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by msoad 9y ago
He is CEO of a for profit company. What else you expec? He's saying those things to hit their rival, Google of course. Don't assume those guys care about anything except maximizing their profit
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by msoad 9y ago
What if we source control straight up AST instead of code? Each tool can decide how to render it... I bet if Github supports such thing it will become standard
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by msoad 9y ago
> --inspect-brk now works properly for esmodules When ES Modules landed in Node? How do they work? .mjs? :(
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by msoad 9y ago
Repeat after me: A good currency is a bad investment
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by msoad 9y ago
Lyft rents out cars on a weekly basis. If a driver completes enough rides they don't have to pay a rental fee. Rental includes maintenance and driver only pays for gas. That is much simpler to calculate. Someone should do the math on t
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by msoad 9y ago
How many of top 20 apps in App Store are web apps? I agree that web apps are faster to iterate but the user experience is guaranteed to be worse. I've worked on some of the web apps that are usually featured as "see web can do thi
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by msoad 9y ago
We have seen how WebOS and FirefoxOS turned out. Wishing Google good luck with PWAs on slow devices. Having seen Inbox web app animations and memory usage I'm not holding my breath
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by msoad 9y ago
Let's face it, web on mobile has failed. Web abstraction layer for UI is too heavy and very limited. Even today we can't have multithreaded scrolling or manage painting with the latest web standards. Native platforms don't ha
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by msoad 9y ago
Dont underestimate how inefficient public transportation is
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by msoad 9y ago
I worked with CSS Grids back in 2010 when I was working on a Windows 8 app. Since then I hated any other constraint resolver including Box Model, iOS Auto Layout and Flexbox model. CSS Grid is so intuitive you forget how difficult this prob
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by msoad 9y ago
Since when a Blind post is a credible source for news?
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by msoad 9y ago
Because propTypes are leaking into runtime. ASFAIK Flow originally wanted to use propTypes but decided to use compile time only type annotations
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by msoad 9y ago
There is a Reddit community for Generative Art: https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/ Computer generated art is fascinating
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by msoad 9y ago
Why Node.js comes with a client for a for profit company is still baffling me. NPM team has proven time and time again they are not competent enough to handle this responsibility yet they are given the free ride by the Node.js foundation. N
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Didi Chuxing acquires 99, Brazil's ride-hailing leader(didichuxing.com)
2 points by msoad 9y ago|0 comments
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by msoad 9y ago
I would like to introduce you to the world of computer generated content and commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
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by msoad 9y ago
Yes, but scale of countries like Bahrain doesn't make a dent. Also, in each of those countries Uber has a competition that is usually more successful than Uber. That's not true in Brazil and Mexico and that's why Didi is rush
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by msoad 9y ago
A few observations: Softbank has stakes in Didi, Didi has stakes in Uber, Uber has stakes in Didi, with this Softbank got stakes in Uber. Uber is mostly successful in North America and Southern Americas. Didi is obviously successful in Chin
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by msoad 9y ago
Can SSO be used for SSH like Google Cloud? That's the coolest thing I miss from Google Cloud

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