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by scoot 8y ago
> To me that looks like a reasonable deprecation policy. It might be, until they jack up the prices 15X with limited notice (looking at you, Google maps [1]). No deprecation needed, just force users off the platform unless they're w
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by scoot 8y ago
That didn’t require a commercial use waiver, as they weren’t selling a product or service. The article (if you care to read it) even calls out other non-commercial use examples.
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by scoot 8y ago
The majority of hobby UAVs that supports FPV are going to be (illegally) flown beyond LOS at some point, because the rules are almost impossible to enforce, and most operators don’t care. (It’s why I gave up the hobby when toy multi rotors
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by scoot 8y ago
The Material Desigb spec has a dark mode, and sites and apps implemented with material-ui can support it. Click the click bulb icon on the app bar: https://material-ui.com/demos/cards/
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A smoke alarm using a mother’s voice significantly outperforms a tone alarm(jpeds.com)
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by scoot 8y ago
No more clue now than then!
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by scoot 8y ago
Down-voted for admitting you read the market wrong? HN is just weird these days.
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by scoot 8y ago
I got out after the first bust in your chart. Should have doubled down. Hindsight is 20:20!
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by scoot 8y ago
> Apple autocorrect has gotten worse over the past few years At least then you can blame it for replacing "become" with "gotten"!
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by scoot 8y ago
Very nice, although (and just a suggestion, not a criticism), from a design perspective, a little bit more padding in the cards would go a long way.
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by scoot 8y ago
> Since this is going to be a great pass time I thought this was a fantastic eggcorn[1], until I realized that it is the actualy origin of the word 'pastime'. So, it sort of is, but isn't at the same time. [1] https:/
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by scoot 8y ago
"Alternatively, you may select "Set My Preferences" to accept (or reject) specific categories of data processing." And the privacy settings button appears prominently in the bottom right of the screen allowing you to cha
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by scoot 8y ago
Makes sense, since Shazam already powers the Siri "what song is this?" capability that links to iTunes.
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by scoot 8y ago
“She named it the White Shark Cafe even though she wasn’t sure whether the sharks went there for food or sex.” In that case she should have called it “Plenty Of Fish”...
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by scoot 8y ago
You might find a move into enterprise technical pre-sales easier (or perhaps that's what you meant). Moving from tech support to pre-sales within the same organization is not uncommon - support have deep technical knowledge of the prod
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by scoot 8y ago
In the case of media, that would be "production values". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/production_values
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by scoot 8y ago
It should, but since the mods appear to be in one geo, HN goes unmoderated half of the time.
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by scoot 8y ago
Your example perhaps doesn’t lend itself to a discussion of “gut feelings”, since it describes different symptoms quite specifically. In the absence of other information, the first sounds like a heart attack, the second, heart-burn (acid re
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by scoot 8y ago
Reminded me of this video [1] talking about the fact that there are signs in London tube stations claiming the stairs are equivalent to 15 floors, regardless of the number of steps. The number of floors is roughly correct for Covent Garden,
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by scoot 8y ago
It's been known since the 20's that some of the stones came from Wales, (although the the view on which quarry has recently been revised [1]), so it shouldn't really come as a huge surprise that some of the people involved in
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by scoot 8y ago
Did I misunderstand, or was that not the entire thrust of the article? That vector tiles enable the representation of a subset of the data that a particular group care about (e.g. playgrounds) in order to encourage and enable contribution f
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by scoot 8y ago
I disagree. In this case "evidence collected suggests a password scheme where disclosure on one site made it easy to guess passwords for unrelated webpages" (emphasis mine), however it is trivially easy to create formula-based p
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by scoot 8y ago
No physics, but this guy makes fun cooking videos, and visited a bunch of pizzerias in Napoli to learn how to make great pizza: https://youtu.be/BFFfyrfYllQ?t=528
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by scoot 8y ago
Anyone know of an online store that lets you set up a revenue share with the content creator (similar to ThemeForest etc.)?
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by scoot 8y ago
This approach was popularized (even if not pioneered - not sure who came up with the idea originally) by Tim Ferris in the book "The 4-Hour Workweek". He stopped short of actually accepting payment though, and took an attempt to p
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by scoot 8y ago
Investor buy-in.
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by scoot 8y ago
Here's a home made synth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCsiJ8o3BEo
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by scoot 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. Don't know if you will see this, but I was also interested in how the NBD client fails over to an alternate node if the one it's connected to fails. Regarding locking, is there a distributed lock manager? Wha
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by scoot 8y ago
"respectfully" wasn't meant as an excuse, but to mean just that - a suggestion offered with respect that the OP is free to do whatever they damn well please. I completely accept that I could have worded it more softly /
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by scoot 8y ago
> why is this not accepted? Possibly a poor choice of words on my part. My comment had nothing to do with sexualisation (that didn't even cross my mind), but purely from the point of view of sleep hygiene for both parent and child.

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