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by petilon 10y ago
This doesn't go far enough. That there is a link between high cholesterol and heart disease is only a hypotheses, not a scientifically proven fact. Lowering cholesterol does not necessarily lower heart disease. Read more here: http:&#
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by petilon 10y ago
Content Security Policy headers can be used to prevent XSS attacks. Caveats are, user must be using a modern browser, and you have to move all inline scripts out to a .js file. Read more here: http://content-security-policy.com&#
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by petilon 10y ago
It shouldn't be "just a search". In other words, it should be possible to go to a web site, enter an address and find out who owns the property at that address. But the same site should not allow the user to enter the name of
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by petilon 10y ago
The opt-out is for information they added on top of what is in your voter record. They don't let you opt out of information that's in your voter record.
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by petilon 10y ago
In the United States, if you register to vote your name, age, address, and the names of people who live at the same address all end up on https://voterrecords.com and they don't let you remove it. If you are 40+ this may su
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation(nytimes.com)
274 points by petilon 10y ago|233 comments
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by petilon 10y ago
I agree mostly. One of the biggest issues with async/await in C# is that if not used carefully you can get deadlocks. If you get even one such deadlock, the cost of debugging it can wipe out all your hardware savings. For that reason m
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by petilon 10y ago
You will still have a large app--instead of having MVC in the browser you will likely have MVC in the server. And MVC in the browser doesn't need to be complex. It can be tiny as seen in this MVC lib for React: https://githu
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by petilon 10y ago
Apple and Facebook have "strong" patent retaliation clauses while Microsoft has a "weak" patent retaliation clause. More on strong vs weak retaliation clauses here: http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj9.htm Can&#x
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by petilon 10y ago
> JSX support in TypeScript is not wedded to React. Agreed. Here's an example of JSX in TypeScript that has nothing to do with React. UI Builder is a templating library, just like Mustache, but much better because you get full int
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by petilon 10y ago
I evaluated React and Angular 2 several months ago and picked React. Some of the issues I found in Angular 2: The HTML template in Angular 2 is stored in a string. This has several disadvantages: 1. Editors can't do syntax coloring. 2.
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by petilon 10y ago
Grown-ups can play with Lego too! Here's a GBC (Great Ball Contraption); looks like lots of fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUtS52lqL5w
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by petilon 10y ago
The World Trade Organization has a provision known as "Compulsory Licensing" which can be used in extraordinary situations such as this. Compulsory licensing is when a government allows someone else to produce the patented product
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by petilon 10y ago
EVERYTHING beautiful is skeuomorphic. The page turn in iOS 6 iBooks, page curl in maps, cover flow, the shred animation in older versions of Passbook, the date picker in iOS 6, rotating settings gear (when updating iOS 6), the Time Machine
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by petilon 10y ago
You are missing the point of mimicking real world objects. It doesn't matter that some people may never have seen an actual contact book. Nobody has seen a real time machine either. But you can imagine one in your mind and how it might
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by petilon 10y ago
Here's another blog that documents the decline of Apple's user interface design: http://uxcritique.tumblr.com/
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by petilon 10y ago
The problem with React is its patent rider. React.js comes with a BSD license, but has a patent rider that gives you a license to React's patents. This sounds like a good thing, right? But this rider has a "strong retaliation clau
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by petilon 10y ago
In California the supreme court has ruled that you can be sued by an accident victim for being a Good Samaritan: http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1871331,0...
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Microsoft's hover gestures for Windows phones are magnificent(theverge.com)
3 points by petilon 10y ago|0 comments
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by petilon 11y ago
TypeScript also validates the expressions that supply the values. And if you use Visual Studio you get intellisense and validation for HTML, and intellisense and instant validation of your javascript expressions. These benefits are awesome,
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The Future of Microsoft Is Chatbots(bloomberg.com)
22 points by petilon 11y ago|1 comments
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by petilon 11y ago
>> In the American system, we are biased for innocence Not enough, in my opinion. Watch this PBS show about the story of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death by Texas for the arson-murder of his three little girls: http:/&#x2F
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by petilon 11y ago
> but high magnesium levels apparently can lead to arrhythmias Not true. It is low levels of magnesium that can cause heart disease. See: http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1121693
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by petilon 11y ago
Some days I wake up after only a couple of hours of sleep. Other days my brain simply won't turn off. I try to sleep, but the brain simply won't stop thinking random stuff and staying awake.
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by petilon 11y ago
Possibly, not sure. I don't think I dreamed much before taking magnesium.
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by petilon 11y ago
It made a big difference for me. No, not subtle.
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by petilon 11y ago
I have had sleep issues for many years. I have seen sleep specialists regarding this issue. They basically tell you to reduce stress. But my daily life is not particularly stressful. But my job as a software developer involves brain-intensi
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by petilon 11y ago
Here it is: Creators of Ember talking about moving away from two-way data binding: https://changelog.com/131/ (skip to 0:43)
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by petilon 11y ago
How invested is the user in your app? If this is an enterprise scenario and your user makes a living using your app he'd probably be willing to expend the time to learn the meaning of your icons, and eventually he will be more producti
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by petilon 11y ago
People exploiting other people happens in all cultures. In this particular case it is H1B related, and it so happens that India is a good source of inexpensive English-speaking labor. This is because India is a former British colony, unlike

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