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   by tl 11y ago

   As someone who has had to clean an infested Windows 7 machine, I disagree; there is no limit on what users can be convinced to install.
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   100,000 Installs in the First Week. Give or Take 98,000. Mostly Take(dennisforbes.ca)

   7 points by tl 11y ago|0 comments
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   by tl 11y ago

   One of the advantages is the ability to run a different database during local development / testing from your production systems (say H2 locally vs. DB2 running in production). Personally, I view this to be an anti-pattern, but some pe
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   by tl 12y ago

   I'm losing faith that this is a viable approach. For example, laptops are a domain where your options are Apple, Lenovo, Dell, or a company that whose future in the laptop market is bleak. All of the options have done goodwill losing t
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   by tl 12y ago

   Can you also change the title to "An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie"?
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   by tl 12y ago

   Afaik, the Synology apps are not open source.
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   Software Carpentry: Lessons Learned – SciPy 2014 – Greg Wilson(youtube.com)

   4 points by tl 12y ago|1 comments
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   A sportswriter weeps for old friend Radio Shack(startribune.com)

   1 points by tl 12y ago|0 comments
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   by tl 12y ago

   An even bigger problem is Dropbox being the trojan, which is why I disagree with the "ecrypt-fs + dropbox" solution. We live in a world where Internet searches like "dropbox condoleezza rice" and "dropbox prism&quot
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    by tl 12y ago

    From the app: To use this app, your mailbox must be running on * Exchange Server 2013 CU3 That requirement may hurt adoption.
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    by tl 12y ago

    http://www.canistream.it/search/movie/grave%20of%20the%20fir... I realize that copyright is eternal and the producers have the right to set any terms they want, but it is the best set of options (for producers or
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    by tl 12y ago

    I wouldn't say the entire experience is insane, but a lot of things feel unnecessarily difficult (hello crash symbolication, auto-layout debugging, etc...) compared to their web development counterparts. On the other hand, you do get
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    by tl 12y ago

    So, they're planning a phone and a tablet with the same processor / RAM / storage: Smartphone: 3100 mAh, no expected life listed Tablet: 9000 mAh, "over 9 hours" claimed I find the fact that they don't give a p
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    Apache CouchDB 2.0 Developer Preview(blogs.apache.org)

    2 points by tl 12y ago|0 comments
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    by tl 12y ago

    > (4/25) We needed to support working offline should the user go out of range of wi-fi. > (8/25) When offline, any actions that require a GET to the server results in an error message to the user. I would argue right there t
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    by tl 12y ago

    My experiences on this suggest that any company that both produces something classifiable as PHI and large enough to have dedicated IT / Legal staff have fairly draconian policies that include "every attachment that is mailed to a
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    by tl 12y ago

    Nice summary. My only observation is that, in practice gitk --all and gitk -- <filename> have completely replaced their git log equivalents for me (and are more universally available than $RANDOM_GIT_GUI).
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    by tl 12y ago

    Cool presentation, but I have a question: go to slide #1, mouse over the top row, move your mouse along the element to the bottom row. There is noticeable lag in Chrome 37 as the page tries to re-draw the rows highlighted. Other slides seem
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    Community Health Systems Says It Suffered Criminal Cyberattack(online.wsj.com)

    3 points by tl 12y ago|0 comments
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    by tl 12y ago

    > What's the alternative, Exchange? MongoDB + Rails. Lotus Notes (in addition to being a flawed mail system that I wish on no one) has a ton more engineer-years sunk into it than many of the NoSQL databases + web frameworks ever wil
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    by tl 12y ago

    I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. What's the point of Swift being "safer" if this isn't an error (or at least a warning). The standard library even includes -[mutableCopy], so it's a establishe
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    by tl 12y ago

    I can't believe you're getting downvoted for this. Apple is the one playing at having a "solution" to this problem, and they have been from the moment they showed Epic MyChart in the keynote. The reality is that HealthKi
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    by tl 12y ago

    If black vs. light grey is your concept of "highlighting" then I have to tell that I didn't even notice the behavior until today. Maybe you should try actual color before removing functionally?
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    Outsourceability as a Measure of your Software Development Process(dennisforbes.ca)

    3 points by tl 13y ago|0 comments
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    The coming war on general computation [2011](youtube.com)

    2 points by tl 13y ago|0 comments
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    by tl 13y ago

    > Why do we not express the same discontent over a PS3? Or any other closed environment? I don't think it's because smartphones were "open" before the iPhone. Two reasons: 1. The device that plays games is a lot less
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    by tl 13y ago

    Considering that Everpix didn't "think of that" [1], I wouldn't assume that it's "common sense". [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040332
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    by tl 13y ago

    > In the course of just two decades, Thai women went from having six children on average to having just two. Today, child mortality in Thailand is almost as low as it is in the U.S., and Thai women have an average of 1.6 children. This p
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    by tl 13y ago

    Ruby flourished largely due to rails which ends up being pretty opinionated about how to do things.
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    by tl 13y ago

    I'd not sure that the thread model is that much worse than other text editors. It's just that its customizability makes the deficiency more apparent. However, Emacs has 3 fundamental weaknesses versus modern alternatives: 1) Out o