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by scotu 8y ago
for many of the examples you gave, I think that could be solved through an autocomplete style correction that sure, it's not perfect, but it seems good enough for smartphone users: xample is not a word, so it's probably a typo, so
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by scotu 8y ago
it seems pretty one sided as far as trust goes
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by scotu 9y ago
I can explain you the outrage: nobody knows "if you are not paying you are the product" outside of your information bubble. We all make the mistake of thinking what we know should be common knowledge, but often it's not...
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by scotu 9y ago
I think 1 reviewer works better in general, but multiple reviewers could be made to work if the reviews and the reviewers were separate and unaware of the other?
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by scotu 9y ago
well, this seems to go deeper then I was anticipating. What I wrote above might not be accurate since the story is still evolving....
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by scotu 9y ago
do you understand how this data ended up in CA's hands? Regular facebook app asked persmission to get data to it's users, one by one. It then retained the data and shared without facebook or their users permission (and against FB
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by scotu 9y ago
IANAL but don't trademarks apply on specific markets? If that's so, I doubt bandaid has registered in the software market
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by scotu 9y ago
have you heard of https://mycroft.ai/ ? Opinion?
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by scotu 9y ago
I'd love a combination of the two maybe, but profiles are probably good enough, thanks
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by scotu 9y ago
they allow different sets of extensions (and cookie jar and so on) and they are basically segregated by window (no tabs with different profile in the same window). In the end they are different from containers in the general purpose (they a
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by scotu 9y ago
...because the marketing department tells them they do?
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by scotu 9y ago
I'm almost ok in a web browser, at least there is a reasonable way of being 80% sure it's safe, but the webview version is my pet peeve... not even a power user could be able to tell...
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by scotu 9y ago
just as a note to whom might read the parent comment: correct me if I'm wrong but docker for windows is not available on windows home (I think you need windows pro, because home does not come with hyperv)... that's all :)
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by scotu 9y ago
sorry I'm not @lettergram, so I cannot really help you with his code; I never tried to inject code into a facebook page, but I can imagine that especially after minification it's going to be a pain to do
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by scotu 9y ago
I won't pretend to be an expert, but very vaguely, if I know anything about react: you would have to modify the local state of the form (if it's possible at all by a 3rd party in fb frontend code) and react/flux will modify t
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by scotu 9y ago
If you think about the screen real estate as 1 column, 16:9 is too wide to fill it up with said column (a narrower column is easier to read/follow) and at the same time a lot of UI usually occupies the height of the screen that is the
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by scotu 9y ago
The first time I saw the concept (and got mind blown by it) was when I discovered the original version of Passpack (online password manager) made by @sullof
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by scotu 9y ago
the processor might not be important but they (we?) are going to spend 1000 on a new phone if it's an iphone (actually also for a samsung like the new note), did you live under a rock in the last 10 years of smartphones? Sure not eve
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by scotu 9y ago
SC does not help getting discovered, although the discovery might have happened also through it. And the discovery is most definitely what is problematic with SC because once discovered, the label comes back at the catalogue with a vengeanc
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by scotu 9y ago
The HN title is "Cows have shown an 'insane' and 'mind-blowing' ability to tackle HIV" as I post this comment, which is probably why @theprotocol had that impression
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by scotu 9y ago
one less dependency to take care of, I presume
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by scotu 9y ago
along the lines I know geteventstore.com and kafka are used for event sourcing as "append only" db, but anyway, it would be cool if you opensourced your system :) even if it's a mess
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by scotu 9y ago
I don't think it's a problem, the first time that happens is a mess, the second one it's written on the menu. Problem solved
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by scotu 9y ago
serious question: how is net neutrality a slippery slope to communism? If I was so scared by the commies I would be more concerned about how every capitalist company is now trying to sell you services instead of goods
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by scotu 9y ago
where are you defaulting? do you need to add an api to let the app developers know the window direction so they can create apps consistent with the env? Options are a cost, are the user going to be irritated or just have a few laugh at thei
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by scotu 9y ago
as a workaround, if it's ok for you to have most of the web in english, you can change the preferred language in the browser settings: you put english first and then lower priority german. I'm not sure it will work in mdn, I tried
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by scotu 9y ago
there are lots of kinds of pros, not only sw dev, you know. Then again, I'm a sw dev and I'd like to develop software on it, so maybe one day
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by scotu 9y ago
please conferences, record your talks. We, online talk watchers do exist. Besides, it's also good marketing material for you for next year, and for your speaker. Thank you
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by scotu 9y ago
I was curious about how thieves will be doing after the robot uprising. The first occupation matching "thief" was "Chief Executives" http://imgur.com/a/hDIeZ
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by scotu 9y ago
my macbook that I bought in US was repaired 1 week before the end of the warranty in Italy. Not sure if it's policy or I just got lucky tho (dead monitor, and immediately after that webcam not starting -> logic board replaced, also

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