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by nness 8y ago
I would assume the negative connotations surrounding the 'Facebook' brand, specifically Cambridge Analytica and 'Russia's election meddling.' Anything associated too closely with the Facebook name could become asso
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by nness 8y ago
Flash has had a arduous history, but its hard to argue that the Flash-era wasn't a lot of fun!
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by nness 8y ago
As someone who has undergone keratoplasty (corneal graft) to treat fairly progressed Keratoconus, news like this fills me with the hope that the disease will eventually disappear and no one will need to go through the same physical and emot
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by nness 9y ago
[The] U.S. the third-highest rate of fraud worldwide, and was the only country to remain in the top three from 2014 to 2016. Additional research from the Nilson Report, October 2016 stated that in 2015 alone, the U.S. accounted for 38.
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by nness 9y ago
Also true for banking — The prominence of Apple and Android Pay is a direct response to the U.S. banking industries anti-competitive prices and poor adoption of global standards. Broadly speaking, Europe and SEA had contactless EMV chip pay
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by nness 9y ago
iOS and Samsung’s U.S. market share is now tied [...] iOS is up 3.7 percentage points year-over-year, to achieve 35 percent market share, while Samsung only grew 0.8 points, reaching a 35.2 percent share [...] Android is still far ahead i
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by nness 9y ago
Reminds me something Ze Frank said whilst talking about this exact question: > Our definition of work is quite different than our experience of work... Without the discomfort, why would it be hard [work]? He goes on the describe a "
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by nness 9y ago
Similarly, the game "Hyper Light Drifter" had a number of challenges, and even a pretty hefty achievement, which required the character to dash really quickly without touching any boundaries. On PC, you could use a keyboard script
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by nness 10y ago
I would guess that, in most cases, a mobile-specific site accessed on a desktop is still going to be far more usable than a desktop-specific site accessed by mobile. Either way, as you mentioned, its a solution to a problem where the origin
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by nness 10y ago
To that point, FastCo has a good article on the "golden age" of flying: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3022215/terminal-velocity/what-...
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by nness 10y ago
In many countries, even trying to access child pornography (even without necessarily having success in doing so), is a crime. I'd assume the US to be the same.
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by nness 10y ago
Anecdotally, from my own experiences, probably nearly all of them. Across banking, across telecommunications, every industry I've worked with are predominately if not entirely disinterested. Unless they have a strong internal technical
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by nness 10y ago
Not so crazy, Apple licensed their OS before, and then ended up paying-out the clone manufacturers contracts years later then they first released OSX. The model worked for Microsoft in the 80's (I bet the Big Blue is still kicking them
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by nness 10y ago
Reminds me of: https://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/ Fascinating how resilient JPEG's can be. I imagine you could do the same with a BMP with minor side-effect. Formats like PNG's would be far more susceptibl
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by nness 10y ago
At this point in time, ISP's are just doing DNS redirection. You can get around the restrictions by setting your browser's or router's DNS to Google's on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
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by nness 10y ago
Coincidentally, Australian's can apply for a high-skilled 2-year working visa with the US, the E3 visa (separate from the H1B). Whenever I hear the US discuss visa reforms, I panic a little that they'd alter or outright scrap the
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by nness 10y ago
Jira's can be very unwieldy. It is a hard one to google answers for and the Python interface is practically undocumented. It's seems to be often out-performed by the site itself.
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by nness 10y ago
Skype for Business, the Lync replacement, is equally if not more of a mess. You can break conference calls just by muting people.
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by nness 10y ago
I would resist any features which have the effect of punishing people for the very real constraints of maintaining OSS work.
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by nness 10y ago
Does that make Silicon Valley's "brain rape" scene eerily accurate? (Of course someone uploaded it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc )
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by nness 10y ago
The survey include a 50/50 mix of interns and full-time positions, so some of that data might be for FTE's.
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by nness 10y ago
Sample size for interns\graduate hires was 352 (57 female, 278 male). Which I don't suspect is a large enough sample.
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by nness 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
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by nness 10y ago
I usually combine flask_restful, SQLalchemy and a SQLite database. Stupidly easy to build an API this way...
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by nness 10y ago
Maybe its just to avoid confusion with date handling? Seems that a call to setDay would really just be a call to setDate with +/- 6 days.
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by nness 10y ago
Better accessibility? Just to note that position fixed with an input element receiving focus will break on iOS. Its a long-standing bug with very few work-arounds. (that said, I realise you can't apply these styles to iOS anyway, it is
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by nness 10y ago
Probably broad-ranging redundancies? Seems to be relatively common after large acquisitions, regardless of product or industry.
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by nness 10y ago
Office for Mac was certainly a third-class citizen for a long time. Thankfully its improved quite a lot Office 2016 for Mac, and they are somewhat comparable now. That is until you have a MSSQL connection in your Excel sheet... it was surpr
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by nness 10y ago
I think this submission is more to promote the Arguman service than anything else. Because most of the submissions come from just two people, who both joined the service less than 24 hours ago.
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by nness 10y ago
Might be specific to the Galaxy — Samsung still forces its own browser on phones instead of the stock Chrome other manufacturers rely on.

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