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by sulam 7y ago
Fitbit also has a privacy policy, as does Google. It’s not actually the practice to sell your data. It’s much more valuable for them to hold onto it and sell products that use your data.
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by sulam 7y ago
BGR instead of RGB seems to be very common in hardware land. Anyone know why?
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by sulam 7y ago
Fitbit allows you to download or delete your data regardless of where you live. Here’s a quote from the NYT: “You will always be in control of your data, and we will remain transparent about the data we collect and why,” Fitbit’s chief exec
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by sulam 7y ago
You already have right to delete in this instance.
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by sulam 7y ago
In fact there are such periods, although the precision in the geologic record doesn’t allow us to quantify just what timeframe “fast” operated over, except “within 20K years”. Google PETM if you want to see more.
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by sulam 7y ago
Wow sorry!
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by sulam 7y ago
> At Twitter, you don't see a lot of executive use. Umm? I worked at Twitter for 4.5 years and execs used it a lot. The _board_ largely didn't use it, but everyone else did, to sometimes amusing results. https://adag
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by sulam 7y ago
... not paying close enough attention to Apples fiscal year...
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by sulam 7y ago
The Versa line has the same JavaScript apps Pebble did. And Versa 2 has an always on display. FWIW!
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by sulam 7y ago
At the risk of sounding contradictory — the latest Fitbit watch has AOD, more than 7 days of battery life (at least for me — half that if I turn AOD on), and a button. It also uses that Pebble tech to power their third party app ecosystem.
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by sulam 7y ago
FWIW Amazon does exactly the same thing. If we want the buy box for our own brand, we have to advertise.
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by sulam 7y ago
Sheets is actually pretty powerful. I can do 99% of what I used to do with Excel. Numbers is way under-featured in comparison. I would categorize Numbers as “family-friendly” and Excel and Sheets as “business-friendly”. Only Excel gets “fin
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by sulam 7y ago
Yes, but aren't you glad to know our government is looking out for the live bait and tackle vending machine industry?
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by sulam 7y ago
“...and they’d have extra wisdom and experience to boot.” And that was the moment in the article where I realized the kids are gonna be just fine.
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by sulam 7y ago
He was borderline obese, probably going on the first "diet" of his life. This is possible, although it's a little faster than is healthy. It will take a while of maintenance to avoid yo-yoing.
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by sulam 7y ago
I wouldn't say there's benefit to _avoiding_ meat, but if you're going to restrict your diet in some way, trading meat calories for veggie calories is a good move. The typical US diet is missing a LOT of fiber, not to mention
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by sulam 7y ago
A large part of what he made was paid before he went to Otto/Uber. He will be financially very well off for the rest of his life, unless he does stupid shit with the money. . . . On second thought... https://www.wired.com&#x
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by sulam 7y ago
Silver line goes there, but I’m not sure how useful that is.
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by sulam 7y ago
People also tend to forget that it was incredibly refined already in v1. I remember hooking it up to my car and being super impressed that I could pick whether I wanted sound to go to the car, my phone, or my headphones. Each makes sense in
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by sulam 7y ago
A good friend used to rent a house overlooking the ocean in Pacifica. That was 2000, and that house is gone now. Amusingly, she lives in Manhattan now, and might get to see Chapter 2 or 3 of this epic saga we are living through. My kids wil
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by sulam 7y ago
10's of thousands of years of falling into the 5% group means either the dice are weighted or this isn't a good way to look at the problem.
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by sulam 7y ago
Take a silly premise, get a silly argument and a really silly conclusion. Confounding question: 1000 years ago, would this argument look any different? Answer: mathematically speaking, it would not. In fact, far more humans have been born t
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by sulam 7y ago
This is no more or less likely in an integration test vs a unit test. One of the first things you learn in writing unit tests is that you should be selective in picking your inputs. This is even taught in those “trade schools” he subtly der
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by sulam 7y ago
I got progressively more and more frustrated with this article, largely because he keeps making statements about the impossibility of covering all states a class may take on (true!) but then followed up with espousing more use of integratio
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by sulam 7y ago
There are holes wide enough to fit a solar system through that argument. Reductio ad absurdum. Here, I'll construct an argument in a similar form. People don't like mosquitos, for various reasons including that they transfer deadl
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by sulam 7y ago
This does not say you can't lay someone off. What it says is that you can't RIF the team. You can fire people and hire others, possibly much cheaper others. IOW, this is a very weak requirement.
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by sulam 7y ago
I think you’re misremembering about Twitter, which still doesn’t use AWS except for data analytics and cold storage last I heard (2 months ago).
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by sulam 8y ago
> Scala was developed in Ada... <head explodes>
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by sulam 8y ago
This is both really wrong factually and really cynical to a degree that is also wrong. This may be _some_ people's dreams, but the reality is that this is not the foundation story of Java, at all. Java's popularity had more to do
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by sulam 8y ago
FWIW most of the large companies I've worked at in tech don't give offices to anyone. I realize it's not universal, and some companies have execs in dedicated conference rooms that might as well be an office, but that mostly

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