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by smtddr 11y ago
All this stuff you're saying is possible and may very well be true eventually, but not in today's Enterprise-world. On Enterprise-planet, all this "Cloud" talk is scary and you can't quickly conceptualize PCI compli
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by smtddr 11y ago
6 years of AT&T under my belt, Enterprise operates differently. They don't care about what postgres or EC2 or whatever can do, it's all about not doing anything that someone can point a finger at you for later. Nobody ever go
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by smtddr 11y ago
Digg was fantastic. It just committed suicide with Digg version 4 - http://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill... A bunch of people, including me, just kept commenting "Roll back!!!" But for s
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by smtddr 11y ago
Oh, you are probably right. But Google is messing with self-driving cars, so they (Google) at least have the transportation angle covered. :p
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by smtddr 11y ago
>> So they targeting companies like Siemens now? They do not make public transportation systems, they do not make energy systems, they do not build houses. Am I missing something? That first link you provided: http://i.im
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by smtddr 11y ago
Disclaimer: GoogleFanBoy here, feel free to ignore or downvote. So, I've interviewed with Google twice. Once was 3 years ago, the other was like 2 weeks ago. They contacted me. The way I see Google's interviews is like referee in
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by smtddr 11y ago
Seriously. I don't understand why github doesn't provide at least the ability to lock the master branch against any action other than a merge from another branch. Merging a branch that causes major damage is unlikely if there&#x27
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by smtddr 11y ago
You have to understand though, Swift is like a really nice wrapper around Objective-C. Imagine adding try/catch to C programming language? I know python & java and all of today's relevant high-level languages have it since for
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by smtddr 11y ago
I don't even know what to say about this comment. The definition of colonialism, according to Google: "noun: colonialism --- the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it
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by smtddr 11y ago
It's completely fair. It's like saying, "The war on drugs is to protect our children." Even if that's the official mission & goal statement, I would scoff at anyone who said that to my face and proceed to expl
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by smtddr 11y ago
Let me just drop this link: http://macincloud.com/ ...you could totally use the iOS simulator, or compile the .ipa (iOS app binary) and send it to yourself via testflight or even faster, on a jailbroken device, just FTP&#x
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by smtddr 11y ago
Whoa, nice. Had no idea Google could provide me the _original_ files I uploaded to youtube.
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by smtddr 11y ago
I don't even think you should be surprised. I don't see how anyone could condone the privacy violation this app commits. Of course this app should be banned, should have never made it to the appstore to begin with. And the develop
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by smtddr 11y ago
Just quit. It's not worth it. Sure, you may feel bad for the company but just know it's not like they'll go bankrupt if you leave (right?) . I had to do that once, it was painful and I never had to do that before. Though I di
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by smtddr 11y ago
I didn't downvote you.... but I bet others did because your comment doesn't speak to the debate covered in the article.
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by smtddr 11y ago
There's always someone who makes this comment, and I'll say the same thing I said before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8562814
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>But people are not being locked up just because they are black, or poor. They are committing crimes, and pleading or being found guilty. I'd say that institutionalize/systemic racism in America makes it exceedingly more
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by smtddr 11y ago
Ouch, Jazz is my favorite genre. You can often catch me with a browser-tab opened to smoothjazz.com's streaming radio.
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>I don't care what dang or pg say - downvoting someone because you disagree with them is stupid. Well... I don't care what you say, downvoting based on opinion is perfectly valid and I will continue to do so as I see fit
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>That's why parallel reconstruction is acceptable in the first place. That's news to me. Does anyone find parallel reconstruction acceptable in any situation whatsoever? HN gave me the impression that it's never good
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by smtddr 11y ago
oops, sorry everyone from deleting my comment. Turns out this worked: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29404586/uiview-animation... But when my animations get more complex, I may use this repo. Thanks,
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by smtddr 11y ago
I could totally see Apple saying "The custom keyboard is meant for languages and special characters/symbols, not to be used by an app in this fashion" Wouldn't be the worserejection-reason they've given. You might
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>The people making shoes, iPhones, TVs---they don't have to do that. They could do whatever they were doing before that factory came to town. This isn't always true. There are situations where some big factory shows up, r
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>I sometimes find myself getting tired of technology and while I love software development, I often think about not doing it anymore. After a while it gets old constantly dealing with other people's decisions. I feel like you
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by smtddr 11y ago
That should be specific to a dark brown Chinese person; not to an African American. Since we know the average Chinese person does not have dark brown skin, seeing such a person would make you wonder why that is. e.g., we know dirt/mud
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by smtddr 11y ago
McDonald's had a huge impact on how beef is produced in America. If they start demanding higher quality ingredients I can't help but think it'll raise the minimum quality of food for the whole nation in general. EDIT: I'
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by smtddr 11y ago
I've always assumed this was because America/Europe's culture has influenced everyone else's. Pretty much everyone watches and is heavy influenced by american TV. We know what ideas and images American media portray (thi
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by smtddr 11y ago
Both your comment and the one you're replying shows the huge problem with politics and "talking points". Since people can't be bothered to truly understand an issue, they can only hold on to simple absolutes. Impossible
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by smtddr 11y ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviole...
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>That's like the WORST possible way to run your finances if you want to get out of poverty! People in poverty mostly don't even see themselves as having any hope of getting out of it, so why bother trying to save? These a

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