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by symkat 6y ago
Two people would need to be on the same server to instant message. Basically you have private messages, and then group chats. The difference over something like AOL is that IRC is more open. Anyone can run an IRC server, so there was a lo
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by symkat 6y ago
Because the customer is getting a refund because they're asking Apple to unwind the transaction. Apple makes the customer whole, Apple makes Apple more than whole, and Apple makes the developer less than whole.
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by symkat 6y ago
> As Huseby puts it, Apple uses copyright law as a “weapon” by putting multiple logos and QR-codes on each component part of its screens, knowing that the Chinese grey market will not specifically cater to repairers in other countries th
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by symkat 6y ago
> contribute greatly to the convenience of commerce Still seems relevant.
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by symkat 7y ago
I use Google Sheets to manage my budget: https://i.imgur.com/e02ibvY.png I make a spreadsheet called 'Budget YYYY', typically some time between October and December I make the next year's version, and then th
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by symkat 7y ago
> Those passengers would be in a car anyway. They don't stop going places. Are you sure? 100% of riders, for all rides they take, would choose to use a car if they could not use ride sharing? Absolutely none would walk, ride a bike,
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by symkat 7y ago
If I were to do this, I think I would start somewhere along the lines of: 1 - $5 linode/digital ocean machines at different locations (CA, TX, NJ, London, wherever you want the things) These machines would run probably Nginx serving st
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by symkat 7y ago
No, that means what they thought or intended has absolutely no bearing on if they are guilty of having committed the crime. The thought side of a crime, or the intent is mens rea, while the action of that crime is actus rea. Normally in a c
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by symkat 7y ago
"Strict Liability As Applied to Criminal Law In criminal law, strict liability is generally limited to minor offenses. Criminal law classifies strict liability as one of five possible mentes reae (mental states) that a defendant may ha
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by symkat 7y ago
When I saw the title, I imagined that this was a service that let you receive notifications when certain strings were in Hacker News article titles.
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by symkat 7y ago
The language, to me, seemed very precise and inoffensive. "Free rider" isn't a word that he just made up. "In the social sciences, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit fr
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by symkat 7y ago
Then perhaps you disagree with GP's perspective? You responded initially to this: > Someone has a job that makes them push a button every 5 minutes. They write a script so they never have to push a butten again. That person is clev
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by symkat 7y ago
> Except this anecdote is not representative of much of anything in the real world. It relates well to my experience. At a hosting company I worked for, many of the system admins and developers were promoted from within technical support
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by symkat 8y ago
From one perspective it’s web hosting from the 00’s using git repos instead of FTP, and adding a couple of neat APIs as add-on products. Your build process can also be codified into Netlify instead of doing it all locally and pushing your
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by symkat 8y ago
"The idea gained some traction, and hmexx received over 250 emails, which were filtered down to 5 picks. Out of those 5, three were discontinued (1 after market research, 2 after failure to deliver MVP). The 2 ideas that were put onlin
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by symkat 8y ago
> The only new thing I’m seeing from this solution is the ability to create containers as an unprivileged user, which for most scenarios I tend to view as a non-issue. Or am I misunderstanding that? I believe you're mislabeling it a
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by symkat 8y ago
Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages, not different versions of the same language. This was very unfortunate naming in the end because it perpetuates this view. Perl 5 is still actively developed[0] and has a large community releasing
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by symkat 8y ago
What did they want your transcripts for?
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by symkat 9y ago
In case anybody from Apple is reading: In Bluetooth Settings being able to assign an alias to my bluetooth devices would be really good. SPEAKER-ACD3, SPEAKER-ADCD SPEAKER-DAFF is much worse than "Livingroom Speaker," "Kitche
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by symkat 9y ago
I use Siri to add things to OmniFocus multiple times a day, "Hey Siri, remind me to ...", a lot of people seem to use it for a lot of things[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/549ytw/ho
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by symkat 10y ago
If you gave proper notice, leave; join the new company as planned. They will have more fires, and they'll have people to put them out. It can suck not finishing something you started, but you made that decision when you took another j
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by symkat 10y ago
Probably because people actually paid for media at the time?
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by symkat 10y ago
Putting it on Hacker News helps, I just posted a message =)
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by symkat 11y ago
I've always found the best way to learn a new technology in general is to have a problem to solve with it. Instead of trying to learn Postgres itself, try to do the following: 1) Get it installed and running 2) Write a schema for so
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by symkat 11y ago
The 'Executive Coloring Book' they show some images from seems to be 'A Coloring Book For Lawyers' here: http://pdf.textfiles.com/posters/lawyercoloringbook.pdf - pretty fun to look through.
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by symkat 11y ago
From Amazon: "84 percent of users were satisfied with the way Philips goLITE BLU helped them to fight winter blues." From Article: "84 percent decrease in suicides at stations with the blue lights."
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by symkat 11y ago
I run romanhaze.com - we sell eliquid for vaporizers. Support and questions are handed through email. We have a contact form and various internal bits will direct a customer there with preselected subjects (e.g. "Question for Order #n
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by symkat 11y ago
I don't know, I would think users would add those events when they saw them, not copy the information from one app to the other. I doubt Google itself copied them, but I have no problem seeing Wazes pulling all the information in while
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by symkat 11y ago
I always understood it as intentional on Mel's part.
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by symkat 11y ago
>> are taxi drivers now also employees? Many of them (that do not own their own car) are ICs too. I spent a few months as a dispatcher in a taxi shop, and drivers weren't ICs, they were more like part of a b2b transaction. They

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