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by rqebmm 10y ago
It's also interesting to see that they knew notifications were crap circa 2011 and _still_ haven't done anything to get ahead of Android.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
It's hardly surprising. I mean, since when has Apple done anything to show love for the developers on their platforms? Developers are locked in because Apple has the highest paying userbase, not because they provide the best tools. Sad
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by rqebmm 10y ago
India is less a security threat than a destabilization threat. I'm sure the US is more worried about them firing nukes at Pakistan than California.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Yeah, because I trust LinkedIn with privacy.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Isn't the goal of security to remove the lowest hanging fruit and keep at it?
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> It seems philosophers STILL haven't learned the importance of applying the scientific method before leaping to a conclusion To be fair, if you can apply the scientific method it's not really philosophy anymore, it's scie
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Maybe, but it's definitely easier to break into a million PC's than a million houses.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
"We could create more jobs if we just got rid of these onerous regulations that require us to hire accountants!"
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Not to mention the inability to negotiate. "Excuse me sir, I know I might be having a heart attack, but can you please provide me a quote for this ambulance ride? I'd like to do some due diligence." Said exactly no one.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Since the last few generations used weapons research to fund scientific advancements, I guess this is progress after all!
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Agreed. The LinkedIn UX is awful, but I'm not sure Microsoft are the people I'd want to address a UX issue.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I agree. It may be a necessary evil to counter the effect of money on litigation. As a result it should require transparency about who is funding the 'maintenance' in order to clarify any conflicts of interest.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
The problem is no serious competitor wants to try because of the specter of U/L deciding to comply and showing back up.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
iOS and the Cocoa framework also have their fair share of hard to work with APIs. Like the OP said, you're always going to have to make compromises between conflicting requirements.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
It's important to remember that "free market" does NOT mean "no regulation". A market inherently requires regulations (i.e. contracts, trademarks, currency policy, etc). Even Adam Smith knew this. [0] http:/&#x
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Switzerland's extremely strong financial privacy laws.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
require != want
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by rqebmm 10y ago
This is all very true, but on the other hand: if you're coding and you're tired it's exceedingly unlikely that your mistake would kill someone.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
But that's by definition the opposite of austerity.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> hence austerity in the form of government bailouts. I don't follow your point here. "Austerity" and "government bailout" are antithetical.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
We also use Stash and just enforce that PR descriptions should be the "clean" version of your combined commit messages. This way you: a) Never change pushed history b) Have the Pull Request act as a single source of what changed i
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> I doubt human and AlphaGo would have any advantage over just AlphaGo I know what you're saying, but I think it's important to remember that AlphaGo was created by humans. The nature of Go pattern recognition was almost assure
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Because electric cars need a critical mass in order for charging stations to reach a critical mass in order for electric cars to become ubiquitous.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
They're revolutionized 3 industries (consumer PC, portable music player, mobile PC) and whiffed on several others that went to similar competitors (business PC, servers, "cloud" SaaS). In every case there's two things i
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by rqebmm 10y ago
He mentioned he didn't have good data for housing advertisements during that time frame, so one possibility is that during the boom lots of people started advertising rooms for rent instead of entire houses or apartments.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> Knowing that mobile became a huge hit in 2010 doesn't really help the folks writing apps for NewtonScript in 1992 or Palm in 2000. Which begs the question "were predictions too early, or were early executions insufficient&quo
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by rqebmm 10y ago
This concept already exists, and is called a Flat Tax. The problem is it's regressive, which is the opposite of what the current tax code is attempting to do.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Here's a corroborating source written in 2013 for the Congressional Research Service > leaks of classified information to the press have relatively infrequently been punished as crimes, and
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by rqebmm 10y ago
tl;dr: A few members of the Pennsylvania Senate have pushed a bill—Senate Bill 874—that changes how cemeteries handle funeral merchandise (caskets, vaults, bronze markers, etc.) ... One of the senators sponsoring the bill happens to own a l
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I meant as a UX design pattern.

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