scarlac

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by scarlac 7y ago
Some of your statements are partially correct, but a few of these assertions are flat out false for React Native. Let's look at them: > - Binary size. A basic Flutter/RN app easily pushes you past 20MB in app size on iOS, where
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by scarlac 7y ago
I have indeed asked this question to several candidates, yes. They were faced with a debugging challenge and some of them weren't sure what .repeat() (JavaScript) did/what the argument meant. I literally said "What would goog
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by scarlac 7y ago
Several specifically pre -GDPR issues are mentioned but still attributed to GDPR. GDPR is a win for the consumer. Not perfect, but overall a great step forward. But I do think The Right To Be Forgotten is a terrible idea. However, it was N
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by scarlac 7y ago
Indeed. What people seem to miss is not just that "you are the product" but more "what stops you from being a product". Many major companies have shareholders that demand constant growth. The growth are sometimes limited
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by scarlac 7y ago
Could this be used in ads instead of native players, circumventing browser limitations such as auto-play? Obviously, the implementation would have to get better, but perhaps WebAssembly would make it just bearable enough that ad-ridden site
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by scarlac 7y ago
The problem here is that they confiscate regardless. Even when it's very clear they do not have the means to break the encryption at all. Any excuse, reasonable or not, will dissatisfy them and they'll confiscating either permanen
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by scarlac 8y ago
> having your travel plans ruined. Or in the case for a lot of workers on visas in the valley: Lose your job. They deny entry, put you on a blacklist that guarantees the same treatment every time you try to re-enter. You either comply or
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by scarlac 8y ago
> With outright banning white nationalism, they’re essentially shown us that they’re willing to play ideological kingmaker if anything enters the current news cycle that is viewed as evil. There have been doing this since they launched.
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by scarlac 8y ago
For Teslas, yes. I've found it to be very helpful, as it relates directly to numbers I care about. E.g. 4-5 mph charge rate from a 110v outlet, and I can just multiply by how many hours I'll be parked, to know what I'll get o
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by scarlac 8y ago
You can make it work if one of the following is true for you: - You can charge at work (at least 6kW aka Level 2) - You drive less than 35 miles a day and have a 110v outlet where you plan to park it overnight - You have a nearby mall or si
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by scarlac 8y ago
You'd have to be more specific than that. You can disable data sharing if you prefer.
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by scarlac 8y ago
$1 is vastly different from free for a variety of psychological reasons. People will also be less likely to want to pay to see ads on every other post. You'd have to provide more value. Also, the fees from credit cards companies are s
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by scarlac 8y ago
It's a mix of a lot of relatively good choices/trade-offs from the React team. I've been doing GUI apps for long enough to have seen a few attempts in a variety of IDEs (and languages). I like React exactly for this reason -
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by scarlac 8y ago
Unfortunately passport number is considered semi-secret to the point where you can retrieve very personal information with it or with a tiny amount of extra info such as last name + passport number. Passport numbers are also permanent, unti
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by scarlac 8y ago
Attempted to train it by typing for ~2 minutes. Basically typed everything on the GitHub page and tried getting predictions. Results were disappointing. I didn't see any accurate predictions. Even with the default p/q program I s
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by scarlac 8y ago
Jobs was ousted by his own team. He didn't leave and just walk back in. Apple was in deep trouble. I'm not convinced it was somehow better for Apple that it happened. If anything it only lamented that Jobs was required to make it
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by scarlac 8y ago
I thought that's how it worked too but it is not. 1 click shows the entire url and selects it. Still without "www.". Another click will show "www.". Regardless of how you feel about the change, it does indeed hide &
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by scarlac 8y ago
If you are on mobile internet or often clear your browser cache/cookies/go incognito, you are more likely to get CAPTCHAs. Could also be that you are on a VPN through a data center.
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by scarlac 8y ago
That's basically what GDPR does. It broadens the scope of what is considered sensitive info and slaps a fine on people PRIOR to a breach. If a breach is found, then any breach of GDPR means EU can come after that company and hurt them
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by scarlac 8y ago
A little nuance to your stats: I've spend the majority of my career in startups, mostly my own, many times struggling to survive. Never worked in a comfy big corp. I currently work in a startup and my hours are far from 9-5. I support
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by scarlac 8y ago
Do you have an idea what rules you could be violating? Even with a good history, there's no guarantee an update is still good so they have to stay vigilant. Chrome store is a good example of this where popular extensions are sometimes
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by scarlac 9y ago
> What is stopping a new startup to come and create a social network [...] Nothing. But Google Plus already had your name and a lot of information on you, yet still failed. Ello had a ton of hype around it and people signed up, yet no-on
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by scarlac 9y ago
You /can/ implement a deletion mechanism, but you just can't "guarantee" it. I think it'd be up to a court to decide if that would be grounds for winning a case against a potential company that used IPFS (I don
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by scarlac 9y ago
> Why are lids made from ceramic anyway? Could be because of production reasons. Easier to get it produced in the same place than to coordinate shipping to another place and assembly.
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by scarlac 9y ago
> They're worse in every way than matte screens I was of that opinion until I decided to test it out. It doesn't hold up. Clarity is the main factor, I found. A matte screen must by definition diffuse light, which causes image
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by scarlac 9y ago
This has nothing to do with Facebook. It affects all social media sites, even non-US ones. It won't help you a bit to delete Facebook unless you wait 5 years. You'd still be required to give up the account info before then. And if
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by scarlac 9y ago
While this is technically true, the history of how it came about seems forgotten already: It was ironically done for privacy. Users actual e-mails were shared with friends, and people had too many "friends", causing their e-mail t
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by scarlac 9y ago
As someone who uses both Sublime and VS Code, I find that Sublime is my preferred editor for anything other than working on large projects. But VSC shines when it comes to code insight or specifically: IntelliSense/Code Suggest (or wha
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by scarlac 9y ago
Transitioned from dev to management. Amount of micro-distractions is so high that it's a convenient micro-bookmarking tool. It's also an aid against scroll jank from loading pages / delayed banners / what not. In some ca
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by scarlac 9y ago
Dane here. I live 500 meters from one of the attacks. I've been happy with how the police has handled the terrorist situations. I do not fear going past the place of the attack - it's not a trend. We have no guns allowed, no larg

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