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by pxtail 7y ago
And that's the problem with bash scipting - very quickly it gets very cryptic, difficult to follow and understand without knowing various "clever tricks" and gimmicks. This is all fine and dandy for personal usage but god for
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by pxtail 7y ago
I own this keyboard as well and it is very well designed and very convenient to use, when I'm working outside of home office I'm taking it with me even if there are other keyboards available at the office. It hits sweet spot - it
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by pxtail 7y ago
It so weird that there is no incentive to fix many usability shortcomings like this one and too tiny UI elements on mobile etc. - all of that despite multiple complaints over years..
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by pxtail 7y ago
On the other hand it looks like his channel has plenty of videos with same theme: he is sitting in dark room, looking straight into camera and bashing evil corporations with broken voice and apparently broken hearth. It's almost like e
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by pxtail 7y ago
Lol, of course not - it would be (and will be!) illegal if you would be doing it, google can crawl and scrape whatever it wants.
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by pxtail 7y ago
> a group of 100 friendly, skilled, independent developers > Application Process > Submit the Developer Application > Phone Call (30 minutes) > Technical Interview (1 hour) All of this for some reason looks sketchy a
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by pxtail 7y ago
I really hope that there is a method in all this madness. I'm not sure about it but my guess is that he is keeping dirty look on purpose to make it less appealing and lower risk of theft or robbery. If this is not the case then I'
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by pxtail 7y ago
My god, this is horrible, it looks more like an ascii art than usable piece of code. Personally I don't even try to fiddle around with languages or libraries which are trying to get too fancy or too "clever" with their synta
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by pxtail 7y ago
Funny thing is that it is legal for them and same rules do not apply for tiny plankton. So when it comes to scraping there is no choice but move in the gray area, hope that you don't get caught (or that they will notice too late an
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by pxtail 7y ago
> Oh boy. Gonna have a huge RSVP line Looks like great opportunity for calling food trucks/bringing barbecue equipment and throwing some geek party ;)
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by pxtail 7y ago
I'm amazed and amused reading some replies - it looks like some people would love to live in a world where single corporation fulfills all their basic needs: * restaurants from amazon * home real estate market[0] * shopping from amazon
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by pxtail 7y ago
I'm not sure if it's intended or not but every time I'm looking at this name I need to correct myself to not read/perceive it as ActiveX
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by pxtail 7y ago
Applause, that's how disruptive unicorns are invented.
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by pxtail 7y ago
> TrueCaller is Facebook's face recognition for phone numbers This is very good analogy - in fact I think that it's even more dangerous because when it comes to Facebook people are slightly more aware about privacy-related issu
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by pxtail 7y ago
Is actually anybody using web notifications? Despite being prompted hundreds (thousands?) times - before I disabled it via about:config and dom.webnotifications.enabled - I never opted in for it.
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by pxtail 7y ago
> I had a UAV related startup several years ago and got to know some of the security folks. Oh, excellent, you are confirming that 'spying' issue is real and you seem to be the one who can give us some real insight - can you pr
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by pxtail 7y ago
Same thing goes about almost all controls and UI elements existing inside web browsers. I'm around web development for years and it's very saddening and heart breaking for me to see all this milling around in one place, round and
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by pxtail 7y ago
I'm always perceiving this tunnels initiative as a testing ground for tech which could be potentially used on Mars mission. Let's be real, for commuting purposes in big cities it will be terribly inefficient and it makes almost no
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by pxtail 7y ago
I'm wondering - won't it trigger some antiscrape / antibot measures and lock account?
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by pxtail 7y ago
Are you going to put it on github? I bought Flutter course as well (the one from appbrewery recommended on googleblog [0]) but haven't got time to get started with it yet. [0] https://developers.googleblog.com/2019&#x2F
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by pxtail 7y ago
"In Maps, ads will now appear in recommended search queries, on routing pages and during navigation " Ugh, this is sad and clever at same time - during navigation screen is on all the time and one usually glances at route from ti
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by pxtail 7y ago
I think that all of this: AMP, AMP Stories, mini apps[0] and recently announced Portals is a road to create behavior and ecosystem similar to WeChat where user can do as many things as possible without leaving the app. The problem is that
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by pxtail 7y ago
Maybe details are not visible but overall body shape can be figured out and... unless it's full placeholder then for me it's completely disappointing. I'm aware that design was decided, created, analyzed and discussed by team
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by pxtail 7y ago
Your project looks very promising. I'm not sure if this feature doesn't exist or I cannot find it anywhere on demo account, but: what's missing for me is fine grained ACL/permissions management. In our company we are usi
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by pxtail 8y ago
Embedding content inside walled garden and taking away control from content creators is a little bit more than "sacrifice usability"
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by pxtail 8y ago
> I think the real reason is that Google wants to build a walled garden Exactly, this is the real reason why this abomination came into existence - all of this is masked as work for greater good all for those poor kids with limited netwo
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by pxtail 8y ago
I'm wondering if they are recording some fun conversations or maybe telling family/friends: "hahahah, hey Mike, you wouldn't believe what this weirdo said to Alexa... and he lives there ..., yep there ... just three bloc
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by pxtail 8y ago
I always find it weird that everyone is bashing jQuery nowadays and offers Ract/Vue as replacement - isn't React/Vue working with blank slate and injecting page content into container? jQuery usually works as "enhancemen
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by pxtail 8y ago
I think that screen share ability should be mentioned in features in prominent place, I was skimming website in order to find out what is it and seemingly non-existent screen share was the reason why I discarded it immediately without even
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by pxtail 8y ago
One more important thing, one should never, ever make mistake and spontaneously watch any random, interesting video without using incognito mode - few mistakes like this and your feed will be pure garbage river, flowing uncontrollably.

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