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by shiburizu 8y ago
What I don't get is this: If Apple wants to introduce "Secure Boot" while also pitching their products to "creative professionals" (who most surely run to their IT departments to pick up their MacBooks fresh off a p
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by shiburizu 8y ago
Costa Rica here. Not really much to plunder my country for, and if they wanted to, they already did (enclaves about a century ago). Armed conflict is only necessary if you don't give people what they want.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
I confess to having a certain fondness for reading into the secretive nature of Chinese perception operations. How does one efficiently solve this problem however? If we, in a case like the pro-china counterprotest described in the article,
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by shiburizu 8y ago
the author is referencing government actions that are being taken at a federal level, hence "big government" I am not pro-big government but I won't rip on anyone else for being so, just saying that if the author wants to say
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by shiburizu 8y ago
This is frontloaded with proclamations of "extremism" upon things the author disagrees with and doesn't give us any technical evidence that the foundations of open source are helping in some major way to perpetuate big govern
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by shiburizu 8y ago
You mentioned python: Pick up Flask. It's seriously the most down to earth, "it does what I want it to do" framework for web. Make sure you know how to use SQLAlchemy (Flask's builtin SQLAlchemy is amazing) so you can ha
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by shiburizu 8y ago
There's no easy way to break it in a general view that data privacy in China doesn't really exist. It just pops up in little reminders here and there in the media.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
SAP really doesn't exist in the public eye outside of the enterprise world. It's interesting how few people would actually know they exist next to other mainstream names.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
Two things you can get a lot of money from for putting on a good show: Early access games and ICOs.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
Genuinely curious: I don't work in the space of CAD, video editing or any other field that people tend to use to justify the MacBook Pro's ludicrous pricetag that has some shiny numbers on the tech specs sheet. Do these really do
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by shiburizu 8y ago
While it's easy to point out at moral level that nothing is guaranteed that if this sort of project gets big it cannot just run off with investor money to go off on Zuckerberg hijinks which has no good reason to even exist at this poin
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by shiburizu 8y ago
"bastion of quality" maybe 5 years ago but I seem to hear nonstop how cheap these things are churning out in the newer models. Not based on my personal experience (spent a bit of time servicing recent models and they felt like pla
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by shiburizu 8y ago
As a college student I work taking phone calls for a biz that attends entirely US customer base, my colleague asked why our clients were often leery about sharing things like their photo ID with us, despite being customers with us for many
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by shiburizu 8y ago
slightly related: The LoL end user client that they wrote with CEF(!) is one of the worst game clients I've used. Edit: It's CEF not Electron
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by shiburizu 8y ago
China as a single entity in continuous existence is a myth. And with Xi dead set on becoming a strongman, all historical examples are rather clear on how well it works over time.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
if I get really good at making copycat hardware in a place where patent infringement doesn't exist I'm still a copycat.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
The author of this article makes several claims about how you can get an item remixed by the local shops and how you can skip over the marketing of a major western brand and just buy things almost fresh off the line. I don't doubt the
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by shiburizu 8y ago
This looks useful for the purposes of describing areas in detail but setting an event usually doesn't require more than a couple pins to show where it takes place. I will keep this handy for any future geomapping projects I work on (wh
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by shiburizu 8y ago
I just recently spent a few hours working with OSM and Nominatim as part of a project for my university, an event planning page for ActivityPub social media: http://fedevent.herokuapp.com/ OSM maps are quite detailed, perfe
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by shiburizu 8y ago
You can genuinely find something in the world of professional work that holds your interest -- a sense of being capable and engaged in the tools of your trade should be a point to look for when engaged in something you can find a career in.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
Saw someone else comment on a different TechCrunch article here on HN about how these articles about Apple read like press releases. I really feel that now.
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by shiburizu 8y ago
I'd say the following points need to be made about "gaming" because the perception does not reflect reality when you play a videogame: - the classical "neurotic player who doesn't like distractions and spends hours