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by nxc18 9y ago
This was a transparent attempt to use techies love of Waze to influence opinion about ultra conservative public planning ideas. Building more roads does not make traffic better. They shit on public transit while completely ignoring any othe
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by nxc18 9y ago
Windows does something similar. https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pros-and-cons-of-window...
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by nxc18 9y ago
Autonomous braking is a huge step, and, imho, more exciting at the moment than full autonomous driving because it can save lives right now, and is unlikely to take them (shots fired at Uber). But buyer beware. Even within the IIHS safety st
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by nxc18 9y ago
Very interesting. Anyone know if this applies to antibiotics? I think a lot of people, myself included, are hoping that new drugs will buy us enough time to solve the sociatal problems (e.g. heavy use in ag) causing antibiotic resistance.
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by nxc18 9y ago
This is a really good point. I agree that there are much more important things to learn, and reading old material (old enough that the English is barely recognizable) isn't generally valuable. More scientific literacy would be a great
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by nxc18 9y ago
There were so many overtly biased and misleading statements in just the first page that the whole work lost credibility.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Sounds like you're permanently stuck living in amateur hour... I have never seen anyone past high school level CS try to pull the shit you describe. Those aren't problems of static typing, they're problems of poor dev talent.
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by nxc18 9y ago
I've been amazed at how bad people in my peer group (I'm 23) are at reading and writing. Even in college it seemed no one was up to the task of writing a five paragraph essay without major stress. Heaven help them if they tried to
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by nxc18 9y ago
1) having to talk over the other restaurant staff; receiver can't hear you. 2) reading my credit card number over the phone 3) explaining the details of the order. The human always messes it up. 4) getting surprised by the cost, or h
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by nxc18 9y ago
Maybe you just have a bad dominoes. There are some great local pizza places where I live (SoCal), but they're 2x the cost, but not 2x better.
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by nxc18 9y ago
I deleted my Facebook to the best of my ability about a week ago. Fun facts: * They switch around button colors to trick you into undoing your actions * They are very eager to log you back in if you, for example, try to access help. This re
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by nxc18 9y ago
This could be accomplished just as well with long taps. I was a heavy force touch user, but I did not miss it on Android. Oreo even shows it's possible to have jump lists without force touch (gasp!) which was really the only particular
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by nxc18 9y ago
Not in the United States. Rail coverage is terrible. If you can get to your destination, good luck doing that without switching trains.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Skimmed the video, and it's interesting. I find the (implicit) premise that you might not already care about types hard to believe... Migrating a JavaScript project of any complexity to typescript almost always reveals errors "for
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by nxc18 9y ago
Have you tried stock Android lately. I just switched to a cheap (<$300) Android phone from an iPhone and it's been better in every way except the camera. iPhone used to be miles ahead of Android, but the lack of product focus and th
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by nxc18 9y ago
Microsoft also has Dynamics CRM
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by nxc18 9y ago
You're getting downvoted because driving and street racing are totally incomparable. Street racing is a distinct, illegal, reckless behavior with no possible upside (for society) whatsoever. Even worse, many of the victims are not invo
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by nxc18 9y ago
In many (most?) cases, that company making water, coffee, and tea is Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Coke has been particularly prolific in this area.
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by nxc18 9y ago
They could, and then it would be Taiwan or India's problem.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Organizations that willfully violate the law, especially in ways that pose threats to the lives and property of others, should be terminated. The US government granted them incorporation (or some similar status) and all the privileges that
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by nxc18 9y ago
Came here to say this. I was on slack in 2015, took a break and came back in 2017. Nothing changed - no new features, and yet it was less reliable than I remembered. They aren't even up to date on emoji. I just can't find symbols
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by nxc18 9y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h... “Just a wrapper” is misleading, but DDG returns bing results at least some of the time.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Not at MSFT but no. Easter Eggs aren’t worth the security risk of added code. See ‘Trustworthy Computing’ initiative from the 2000s.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Not trying to sound mean with this suggestion, and I know it’s easier said than done, but have you considered telling him? It will be awkward, but walking around smelling is going to hurt him in all areas of his life.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Tesla is a MapBox customer. https://electrek.co/2017/07/03/tesla-map-navigation-open-sou...
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by nxc18 9y ago
It has been for a long time, too. Bing lead Google on image search features for a solid 5 years (at least) before google made an attempt to catch up. Now Google is losing features, although I wonder if Bing will need to do similar things fo
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by nxc18 9y ago
Git for Windows installer does the same thing, I learned recently.
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by nxc18 9y ago
There’s lots of stolen shit on github, including (as of a few months ago) the Windows 2k3 kernel. I’m not surprised by this leak. I am surprised more people aren’t aware of this.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Yes it still is. I found both the NT 4 leak and the Windows 2000 leak while I was doing some research into the Windows kernel. Lots of cool stuff in both; the NT 4 leak had a lot more of the cool kernel stuff, like a DEC Alpha HAL. I don’t
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by nxc18 9y ago
Windows Phone 7 Series had the concept of hubs (e.g. People Hub). It was an innovative model, and having so much functionality built in eased the pain of missing or poor quality native apps for things like facebook/Twitter. It was help

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