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by noxToken 8y ago
I don't want to create a false dichotomy, but it looks like you're saying you can have either one of two things: increased comfort with a higher chance of death and cost or a maintain to the low level of comfort with a higher chan
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by noxToken 8y ago
IF you like a smart TV but not the smart features (but have no dumb alternative), then don't connect it to the Internet. Now it's just a dumb TV.
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by noxToken 8y ago
> What I really don't like is shopping sites that require me to enter my payment details Would this soften the blow if they used an indirect payment system like PayPal instead of directly entering card information? Otherwise how e
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by noxToken 8y ago
Informed enough to talk (read bullshit) your way through an interview. Honestly though - think about all of things on your resume that you said you had experience with (when it more of a resume of hope and less of a CV of experience). Was i
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Logical clock(en.wikipedia.org)
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by noxToken 8y ago
Most of the time that a demo is done where the presenter is typing, it feels like I'm better served by the result of the code itself than watching someone stand quietly, type, and frantically hit backspace to fix the errors. If the a
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by noxToken 8y ago
Classic tactic in the military: I wasn't a smoker, but under certain circumstances, I'd carry a pack with me so I could have a "smoke" break. Sometimes people would call me out, so I'd light one up without inhaling
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by noxToken 8y ago
This isn't a sarcastic question nor an attempt at snark: have you ever moderated a message board, forum, subreddit, facebook group, etc. with decent post traffic? It's tough. Even something that has a hyperfocused topic (e.g. a su
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by noxToken 8y ago
Off-topic: your app is one of the few mobile apps that I've bothered purchasing/donating to. Tons of time spent in the original and 2nd version.
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by noxToken 8y ago
As a whole? Probably not. As an online merchant. It's unlikely but possible. The HN crowd and its ilk have been complaining about quality control for a while. Electronic components and labor for assembly are getting cheaper by the year
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by noxToken 8y ago
Everyone talks about how confusing Git is, and I think it's because they do'nt understand what the commands do. Don't get me wrong: you can royally screw up your repository with the wrong command, but 85% of your issues can b
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by noxToken 8y ago
Agreed. I think I understand what he was getting at, but when I read the analogies, I start to second guess whether I really understand the message.
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by noxToken 8y ago
> It makes me wonder how the men who have the focus and discipline to get in to those positions of power have not learned the discipline of controlling their sexual urges. I have nothing to back this up, but I think it's one of tw
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by noxToken 8y ago
> a lot of books are tripe worse than TV shows and video games I've never been a fan of this line of thinking. There are plenty of people who use critical thinking skills and participate in mentally stimulating activities througho
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by noxToken 8y ago
Adobe[0] has an entire analytics/tracking platform. Microsoft is likely about the telemetry stuff happening in Windows 10. They're not supported by ads, but the tracking baking into the OS is a non-starter for a lot of tech folks.
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by noxToken 8y ago
This bit is curious. I was issued a CAC while I was in, and as you said, it eliminated the need for passwords. But the internal sites (no matter if it was a laptop from the comm section, a hardwired desktop in a unit's building, or a d
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by noxToken 8y ago
> I just checked the certificate of networthiness page and they don't have a valid SSL certificate. I recall that being the case years ago too. I wonder if it's been that way for the last 7 years? That's a cute little terr
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by noxToken 8y ago
What if a client/user doesn't read/write English?
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by noxToken 8y ago
This is regulated in the US. You're not allowed to spam calls nor fraudulently impersonate someone's bank, the IRS, a healthcare provider, a collections agency, etc. There are dedicated lines for reporting these types of calls to
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by noxToken 8y ago
I didn't mean to say that Wal-Mart was a threat. If the data is held internally, then it's up to the public to trust Wal-Mart's data. This is more a comment about a blockchain being moot than calling Wal-Mart a bad actor, but
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by noxToken 8y ago
> blockchains (as in bitcoin) are about being completely decentralized and trustless. It's an "and" not an "or", if you remove one of these imperatives they're completely pointless. You're completely
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by noxToken 8y ago
Second this. Whoever collects your trash (municipal or commercial) will likely have instructions posted for what is and isn't recyclable. If you can't find it, call or email them. It's almost guaranteed that someone will give
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by noxToken 8y ago
I'm certain that at least 95% of our code would be safe if you replaced === with ==. We likely have some edge cases that would blow up, but by and large, we don't really depend on the type checking of identity. We write code as if
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by noxToken 8y ago
I assume this site is being hammered, because it would otherwise be the worst UX ever. I chose Zork - a classic. The loading icon spins....and spins and spins and spins. Each line of text is actually a POST to the server, and the response i
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by noxToken 8y ago
But why? I'm having a hard time understanding why you'd outright ban identity (===) and only allow equality (==). I can think of one instance where I needed identity instead of equality, and I took the time to refactor to ensure t
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by noxToken 8y ago
> The first is, have we decided that the ends always justify the means? It seems in other domains public shaming is unacceptable. Troy himself despises Donald Trump, but one of the things most heinous about 45 is his use of Twitter to pu
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by noxToken 8y ago
A few weeks ago, a coworker asked about adding and additional library to parse some data. The current library is at EoL, and we've had to make a few in-house patches plug the holes. We don't currently have time to do a complete re
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by noxToken 8y ago
ever been to an Episcopalian service? I've been to a few dozen at a few different churches in a few different states. They are a split from Catholicism, so the rituals during service can seem familiar. However, the sermon feels like yo
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by noxToken 8y ago
Pronouns aside, that's business as usual here in the US. A cop screws up, the cop goes on paid leave, IA finds no misconduct, and the world keeps spinning. A situation that turns out different is out of the ordinary.
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by noxToken 8y ago
For what it's worth, I like this much better. I had the traditional method of graphs and tangents. I was slightly lost on it in Cal I, and I could regurgitate it in Cal II. "The derivative of a function is the amount of change of

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