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by paxy 9y ago
MySQL still has massive usage, and isn't going anywhere.
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by paxy 9y ago
This one (from March 2016) is way better in every way. Not sure why this TechCrunch article even needed to be written now. https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...
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by paxy 9y ago
Have you read any of those credit card or loan applications you've been signing? You are authorizing them access to your information.
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by paxy 9y ago
Problem is "at the border" isn't always interpreted as "crossing the border". 200 million people live in border-zones (within 100 miles of a border), and a lot of courts have given border patrol even wider jurisdict
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by paxy 9y ago
> The exact proposal of the authors is that findings with p-values of between .05 and .005 would now be referred to as “suggestive” evidence > The paper presents research suggesting that it could reduce the number of false results i
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by paxy 9y ago
For text based communication SMS absolutely dwarfs email.
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by paxy 9y ago
Same with India and WhatsApp
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by paxy 9y ago
If you want to send plain text, yes. There is a lot of variation among clients when it comes to formatting and layout however. But then by those constraints you can also count HTTP or SSH or Telnet or any other protocol at that layer.
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by paxy 9y ago
Same. I wonder if they timed it for this very report..
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by paxy 9y ago
He was always supposed to be replaced after the founders had enough experience, and is still the executive chairman. Maybe Uber should have done the same to begin with?
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by paxy 9y ago
> and would be a huge win for free/open source software It would be a huge win for companies with large software patent portfolios, which is the opposite of what the free software movement is about.
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by paxy 9y ago
Exactly. The "BSD + patents" license applies to _all_ of React, not just the parts of React that use Facebook proprietary technology/patents (and they haven't even identified those parts). I'm never going to use Rea
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by paxy 9y ago
Bit premature to list Flash..
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by paxy 9y ago
In every tech company with an open floor plan I've been to executives, and sometimes even CEOs, have a desk just like everyone else.
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by paxy 9y ago
Not really a "hack" as people are calling it. Heck, there's no reason for the firmware not to be open source in the first place.
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by paxy 9y ago
Sounds like a pretty solid case of "grass is greener on the other side". The bullet points in the article can be applied to every city, and Cleveland has the same problems that residents of these cities generally complain about. P
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by paxy 9y ago
There is no way I'm ever staring directly at the (full, non-eclipsed) sun for 15 minutes, no matter how good the glasses claim to be.
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by paxy 9y ago
Venmo already works pretty seamlessly with Splitwise.
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by paxy 9y ago
How is the GitHub marketplace a runtime dependency? Code review, project management, build bots or whatever else should NOT affect the availability of your website.
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by paxy 10y ago
> "They were built the old-fashioned way," said Mr. Debly, himself 80, "the way we did it in the '60s." Not exactly the "independent third party" you are describing.
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by paxy 10y ago
This is one of those "aha" solutions that people keep mentioning, but completely ignore how it would work in a non-ideal world. • What 2 hour project can you assign that would let the candidate go into enough depth for you to judg