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by poink 5y ago
In my experience, the most an American cop is going to do to help you resolve a property crime is take a report. If they happen to find the item, you _may_ get it back.
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by poink 5y ago
> I'd say instead, users are often unthinking and need to be educated. Oh, is that all?
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by poink 5y ago
> which from an outsider's perspective seems to have some severe quality and customer service issues when it comes to maintenance and repairs. From another outsider's perspective they have these same issues when it comes to jus
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by poink 6y ago
I don't think, "Most people are oblivious," they just don't care and/or don't understand the implications. The idea that the government can use your mobile phone to spy on you is so widely understood that even
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by poink 6y ago
There are all kinds of things NPM users can do to mitigate security problems. The only interesting question is what the default is.
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by poink 6y ago
Apple is caught in the constant push/pull of "we're compatible with stuff" vs. "there's a reason why you buy a Mac." Curating apps and keeping iMessage for Mac users falls into the latter category right no
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by poink 6y ago
I don't want to downplay the mental aspect of it, but I do want to point out that sugary drinks like soda taste differently if you drink them all the time vs. only once in a while. Once you get used to the overpowering sweetness the ot
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by poink 7y ago
> Putting things in the title bar saves screen real estate! This is true to some extent, but screen real estate in general isn't much of a problem anymore. Doubt. I may have 3x27" monitors on my desk now, but I work on a 15&quo
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by poink 8y ago
I don't know about you, but my family and teachers were at least as fat as I was. The ones that weren't were more likely to owe that fact to cocaine and/or nicotine than a healthy diet. They could all tell you that you needed
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by poink 8y ago
It's almost like `mapStateToProps` is a thing and Dan Abramov has built a web app before. You have to store and transform your data in a normalized form, but you can consume it however you want. Restrictions are the price of solving ha
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by poink 8y ago
I read the thread. You hand-waved away a non-trivial problem by "explaining" properties are a thing. Thanks, bud. I'm sorry I didn't cite your favorite source to your satisfaction, but I quoted the relevant parts of the
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by poink 8y ago
If you maintain a popular public project, you help the entire JavaScript community if you use TypeScript, because then you can ship perfectly accurate type definitions along with your code. Even if the user is using plain JavaScript, their
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by poink 8y ago
If you're giving me the choice between dealing with this: > Often, as you learn about the structure of the data, it becomes useful to change how the data is structured and stored. In global state, you can change that in reducers, su
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by poink 8y ago
$70+/mo major provider "unlimited" plan + $50+/mo flagship phone
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by poink 9y ago
Fountain pen-related stuff seems to do pretty well on Massdrop.
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by poink 9y ago
> Secondly, you get a wireless mouse and extended keyboard. Both have to be plugged in to charge. In the case of the mouse, the cable plugs in at the bottom, rendering it useless during charging. Truly a bad design. The Magic Mouse 2 is
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by poink 9y ago
http://cssgridgarden.com/ is a gentle intro to grid in the form of a game. http://flexboxfroggy.com/ is equally fun and instructive.
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by poink 9y ago
As an alternative to takeout (of which I've been a compulsive consumer the better part of my adult life), I've been using DIY Keto Chow as a way to free up time I normally spend dealing with food. I make two weeks worth of powder,
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by poink 10y ago
I'm on my third Naga. Once you get used to the extra buttons of "MMO mice" it's hard to use anything else. I tried to switch to the Logitech G600, but the shape is all wrong.
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by poink 10y ago
Even Razer's mice are pretty shit quality. I've had them going back to the original Boomslang, and I don't think I've ever had one last more than two years. I just like their ergonomics and features -- and the fact that
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by poink 10y ago
Ain't that the truth. Mine is around here... somewhere. I periodically find it while cleaning up, put it on my desk, and then inevitably lose it before I need it again. Also, I find that mine accumulates a blob of ink on the tip after
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by poink 10y ago
Gateway used to ship some pretty righteous hardware. The computer my parents bought back in the early 90's, for example, came with this keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_AnyKey
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by poink 10y ago
Bikes aren't an option in a lot of cities, either. I live ~1.5mi from my office in Atlanta, but I'm nowhere near crazy enough to ride a bike down Piedmont Rd.
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by poink 10y ago
I'm not the person you replied to, but I don't love this: http://imgur.com/a/P4TTE
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by poink 10y ago
Is it just me, or does it feel like "conservatives" have finally discovered the internet? Over the last few months, it feels like friggin everything has become Obama's fault, or suddenly "leftists" are responsible
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by poink 10y ago
The easiest way to start answering that question would be for you to share a traditional value with us.
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by poink 10y ago
From my limited experience with the tech scene here, Atlanta seems to have a ridiculously good compensation to cost of living ratio.
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by poink 10y ago
You can go to the beach whenever you want, but even in July the water is friggin freezing.
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by poink 10y ago
8/40. Reading this has been a, "Hey! That's me!" moment. I've tried to discuss the whole, "You can't really see things in your mind, right?" thing with people before, but nobody believed me when I sai
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by poink 11y ago
> 1Password is SUPER expensive for what it is. I don't know about that. LastPass wants $12/yr for their premium service. 1Password charged me $60 for the Windows + Mac bundle back in 2011. Other than the fact that you have to p

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