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by spoondan 8y ago
That’s also just information you know about many of your acquaintances, and that people often publish online. Join a dating site, and you have the password to the PDFs. Of course, you still need to obtain the PDFs. And there is that wall in
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by spoondan 8y ago
And we will seem happier, fitter, more attractive, better traveled, more socially connected, and more politically engaged than we ever were.
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by spoondan 9y ago
I believe the point was that HIV alone does not motivate a bone marrow transplant. There are people with more urgent need for transplants and not enough donations to serve that need. It goes without saying that it's unethical to motiva
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by spoondan 9y ago
Respectfully, I don’t think this answers my question. My question is not about what Looking Glass itself does. I can see that in its source. My question is whether Firefox or SHIELD collected additional data because the addon was enabled, e
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by spoondan 9y ago
Thank you for the missing context. Would you (or someone else in the know) please clarify what additional user data (if any) the default-enabled bootstrap add-on caused to be collected when the extensions.pug.lookingglass preference was dis
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by spoondan 9y ago
You can also get the password last set time with: sudo dscl . -readpl "/Users/dan.koepke" accountPolicyData passwordLastSetTime
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by spoondan 10y ago
One very serious shortcoming of this article is the claim that the theoretical spirit of taxi regulation is exclusively (or even primarily) rider safety. Regardless of how we believe it has all worked out in practice, taxi regulation has lo
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by spoondan 10y ago
This is perhaps one of the more unexpected opinions on C++ I've encountered. When I picked up C++ with Turbo C++ 3.0 in the early '90s, it was already widely regarded as an over-complex behemoth. Donald Knuth said of it in 1993, &
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by spoondan 10y ago
This page https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vmware-code-si... attempts to back up Hellwig's claims using analysis from CCFinderX. However, it seems to make an error in establishing baselines when it st
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by spoondan 10y ago
Floppy disks have entirely disappeared from our daily lives except as an icon (and then largely only on Windows). A computer-savvy 18 year old that grew up on Macs could have entirely grown up without ever using a floppy disk and rarely if
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by spoondan 10y ago
To be honest, I don't know what point you're trying to make. It is as if you think I was claiming arbitrary symbols cannot work well as icons. But I actually said the opposite of that: the floppy disk is basically an arbitrary sym
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by spoondan 10y ago
There's quite a bit of magic under the hood of DropWizard (or, rather, the components that make it up). My experience has been that a developer using DropWizard will rarely, if ever, encounter this magic: they don't need to be awa
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by spoondan 10y ago
The icon is recognizable because younger people learn the weird boxy icon means save. Even with an explanation of the icon's origins, for the younger generation, the icon is recognizable but not meaningful . Can we devise a more meani
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by spoondan 10y ago
Wikipedia may well be going the route of Kleenex, Xerox, Coke, and Google. When a product is so strongly identified with a brand, people just don't care to distinguish between the two.
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by spoondan 10y ago
This is a cool project with nice, simple code. However, the submission's title (perhaps counter to the README) makes it seem like a good example of C++11, and I would caution against using it that way. From a cursory examination, and w
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by spoondan 11y ago
I think that there's a certain wishfulness bordering on naïveté to this pursuit. We tell ourselves that we are managing complexity by having small, well-tested units that are reused by an entire community. But software complexity conti
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by spoondan 11y ago
Facebook and Twitter provide strong evidence that people will use reactions. I see no reason to expect that user behavior will differ when they want to express negativity. Facebook's decision to not provide this feature has long been r
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by spoondan 11y ago
The context of this feature is that users were using comments to react without providing substance. The primary motivation is to reduce the visual clutter of non-substantive comments. While we can agree about what users should do, users n
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by spoondan 11y ago
Apple do not have the ability to unlock the phone. They have the ability to create a tool that could unlock any iPhone. That is not a starting point.
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by spoondan 11y ago
There are separate passcodes for the phone and for iCloud. An iOS device will automatically sync a backup to iCloud once a day if iCloud backups are enabled provided the phone is connected to power and a wifi network. When you first enable
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by spoondan 11y ago
Authors of libraries, frameworks, and tools that must support Python 2.
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by spoondan 11y ago
Your sadness is completely justified. As John Donne observed nearly 400 years ago, "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."
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by spoondan 11y ago
The first sentence of the article is, "Amazon is relatively new to the job of running an app store, and some of their mistakes are either hilarious or infuriating, depending on how much money you’ve lost trying to deal with them."
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by spoondan 11y ago
YouTube's compatibility hacks are against buggy versions of browsers. Regardless of whether a bug is eventually fixed, once it is released, there is some segment of the user base that has it. If that segment is large enough, and the
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by spoondan 11y ago
The purpose of the scam is not to gain access to computers. The purpose of the scam is to fleece unsuspecting Dell customers. The scammers gain the trust of their victim by using misappropriated Dell customer data. They charge exorbitant fe
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by spoondan 11y ago
Plenty of PyPI packages have external dependencies (e.g., anything that uses Cython will require a C compiler). SWIG isn't needed, since it is a source generator, and it's trivial to ship the generated source as part of the releas
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by spoondan 11y ago
Nicholas Vining was referring to the first ever appearance of the character, not its first mention . The Lithtech comic is the first appearance, and the one you've linked is its first mention.
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by spoondan 11y ago
> The same can be said for ruby, python and any number of other language environments where you have multiple services that were written at different times with differing base targets. I've seen plenty of instances where updating a
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by spoondan 11y ago
Nonsense. Users of free and open source software have every right to point out flaws in the design and implementation of that software. And this is an invaluable service to the authors and community. While finding and fixing an issue is n
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by spoondan 12y ago
I don't think Google Ventures's role is particularly relevant. Companies should be aware of what data they are providing Google when making use of Google services. Google doesn't need to have insider information to have a wea

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