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Android devs get new UI toolset(devclass.com)
2 points by purple_ducks 7y ago|0 comments
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
Try delete it from your watch history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history Your recommendations may return to normal.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
So why bother with an extension then? As you point out, they own Calendar, they could just add it there.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
The commit messages would eventually all be WIP or somedoc_version_xx.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
> The "refl.me" key must always be true, otherwise an error will be called. Why?
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
I went against my gut feeling and took a job at a <1 yr company(new startup/spinout backed by $$$$ org) because i'd get exposure to certain tech. Manager was (& is) a nice person but didn't instill confidence when talk
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
i now realise you/parent were talking about the about:addons page, not the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ web page.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
That's not your data - it's theirs (the respective persons)
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
uMatrix defaults to blocking GA and indeed blocks the request for analytics.js on that page.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
> The Art of Computer Programming I'm guessing like most people who bought it, it sits collecting dust on the shelf. Youthful naivety is the only reason I bought it. Completely impenetrable but look, "I'm a real™ software
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
> While Cypriot ones are of course, a minority these days in Cyprus schools. I don't follow.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
2015...
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
> I strongly disagree with the hypothesis that people are not responsible enough to make decisions for themselves. Well, with all due respect, you've lived either a short life or a sheltered life. People have weak moments in their l
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WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff as anger towards Adam Neumann grows(theguardian.com)
25 points by purple_ducks 7y ago|10 comments
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
> I have no doubt Dyson could have made a decent one, I have nothing but doubt Dyson could have made one, let alone a decent one.
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Poll: Would you consider yourself libertarian?
2 points by purple_ducks 7y ago|2 comments
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
Yes
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
No
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
I'm flirting with the ideology
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
I'm specifically asking about instagram staff because desktop instagram.com is embarrassingly buggy when it comes to basic core functionality such as the initial display of comments, and loading more comments using the plus symbol.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
Does anybody from instagram actually use instagram.com? Because the comments side panel on pictures is probably the buggiest implementation of _anything_ i've ever seen.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
Yes and it would eventually become the thing that everyone hates...with code written by academics and not software professionals.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
You understand the phrase though right? There was no ambivalence on his meaning or usage. > Appropriately enough Ironically enough, you're misusing this phrase.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
Until it fails and the surrounding environment and people are destroyed for generations.
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API versioning is wrong – I decided to do it 3 wrong ways (2014)(troyhunt.com)
3 points by purple_ducks 7y ago|0 comments
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
How would the burning of private bondholders to the tune of €140 billion have affected the Euro currency? > you don't ultimately control your own affairs you share them with the others who use that currency The currency had nothing
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
it's a literal stand up so people don't dither. lot easier to become restless standing around than sitting down.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
That's unrelated. My point was the Irish government could have burned the bondholders (German/French banks) and let the losses hit their profits instead of piling the Irish taxpayers under a mountain of (private) debt.
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
From the parent article: > A political investigative blog called Guido Fawkes somehow obtained a list of the Anglo Irish foreign bondholders: German banks, French banks, German investment funds, Goldman Sachs. (Yes! Even the Irish did th
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by purple_ducks 7y ago
> having the highest mortgage rates in Europe in order to get the banks into profitability That is not the case. Any EU bank can sell mortgages in Ireland. They choose not to because there is not a functioning property market. Homeowners

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