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by odbol_ 10y ago
This is why I'm always skeptical of people zealously claiming "all GMOs are perfectly safe! It's been proven !" Yeah, proven by expensive studies that were funded by the company making the GMO. Who is going to pay for a
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by odbol_ 10y ago
The trick is to frame it as a question, so the original creator "solves" the problem on their own and thinks it's their idea. E.g. Instead of saying "make this blue darker", you ask "this might be hard to read
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by odbol_ 10y ago
So, everything you do on a computer is instant? Oh, it's not? Could it be because all those little inefficiencies add up to a big slow mess when all programmers operate under the assumption "oh I have 8GB RAM all to myself, no nee
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by odbol_ 10y ago
My OS X Terminal is already slow enough with my 20 windows open... There's no way I'd switch to an even slower, bulkier implementation with the overhead of Chromium. WTF
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by odbol_ 10y ago
It's not really "lossless" if it only works with a lossy format though, right?
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by odbol_ 10y ago
The ideas they talked about at this summit were really exciting: my favorite is the Interplanetary File System: a decentralized way to share files without a server. They did a crazy demo of a chat room where you could chat live, drag and dr
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Garbage article, doesn't even give details on what they violated.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
It's not about encouraging complex markup, it's about discouraging or just fully disallowing it.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Some people may be willing to take less pay in order to have more control/freedom in a small startup, rather than just being a cog in the machine at Google or Microsoft.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
What is with capitalism's obsession with constant growth? Buffer is a great app, I use it every day, but how in the f*ck do they need 100 employees to maintain it? My company is writing an entire smartwatch OS, including companion apps
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by odbol_ 10y ago
#define is part of the preprocessor, which does very basic string substitution on the code before compiling. Useful in small doses, but also regularly abused.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
This is why I use Google calendar in the special "4 week view". Always shows the current day at the top so do you only looking at the future.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
For example, Walmart makes so much in government subsidies and tax breaks, and they pay their employees so little that their employees have to live off food stamps. The Waltons (owners of Walmart), are one of the richest families in the U.S
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by odbol_ 10y ago
Theoretically, that's what your doctor is supposed to do at these "preventative checkups": convince you to exercise, diet, etc.
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by odbol_ 10y ago
The more jobs are lost, the quicker the demand to fix it, with Universal Basic Income or something similar. We know it has to happen eventually, but the sooner we man up and go for it, the sooner millions of people can get relief from their
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by odbol_ 10y ago
You could easily sign the log with the same certificate that is providing the DRM on the book itself. Or a different certificate. Encrypting things is not new, nor hard.
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by odbol_ 11y ago
That seems possible with a strongly-typed language, but for something like Python, they'd basically have to recompile the code on every keystroke, right?
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by odbol_ 11y ago
I agree. Why would they even need to upload/store the whole file? It seems like it's basing the suggestions on the line you're typing at that moment, so it doesn't seem that hard to just throw away the history immediatel
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by odbol_ 11y ago
The juxtaposition between seeing this on the frontpage today, and the VIM 8.0 announcement on the frontpage yesterday, is hilarious.
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by odbol_ 11y ago
Apple don't give money to no one. Possibly the least altruistic company ever, which is disgraceful considering they're also the wealthiest.
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by odbol_ 11y ago
I wrote poems for all my commit messages in one of my personal projects: https://github.com/odbol/Reddit-Scheduler/commits/master People definitely gave me flac for that.
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by odbol_ 11y ago
Discounting the fact that Airdrop only works on Macs (sending to a Windows machine or an Android phone doesn't work, even though those devices both support Bluetooth file transfers), I've never even been able to get Airdrop to wor
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by odbol_ 11y ago
They charge you for the privilege to visit SF, not to leave it.
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by odbol_ 11y ago
I read the post, then looked up ServiceWorkers and this progressive web app stuff, and it doesn't seem that useful. You don't have access to files, or hardware (Bluetooth/sensors), or notifications, so what's the actual
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by odbol_ 11y ago
> fragmented applications and processes that dont work side-by-side with eachother Are you joking? I just tried to email some screenshots to myself from my iPhone. Couldn't do it. It only let me send one image at a time. There was
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by odbol_ 11y ago
I severely doubt that. Would love to see it though!
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by odbol_ 11y ago
I have no idea what's happening but I think you just won
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by odbol_ 11y ago
The great thing about adding emoji Reactions to all our social media posts is that now AIs can finally learn human emotion. I'm sure Google is already training theirs on how different keywords make people feel.
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by odbol_ 11y ago
Haven't tried HockeyApp. I use Crashlytics Beta now and it's amazing. Literally "press of a button" deployment: no dealing with provisioning profiles, device UUIDs, or any of that garbage. Just build and deploy, and all
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by odbol_ 11y ago
Ugh, I'm skeptical of giving Apple ownership of any kind of developer tool. We all saw how badly they screwed up TestFlight, and now you want to give them the only OSS package manager?

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