tuxracer

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by tuxracer 9y ago
Both the military and the private health insurance industry are Keynesian jobs programs first, their stated purposes second.
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by tuxracer 9y ago
> A big enough tax on fast food could probably cover it Exactly this kind of statement is what worries some about universal healthcare. I highly support single payer, universal healthcare. But statements like this undermine the cause by
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by tuxracer 9y ago
If for some reason in the future you lose access to the devices you have already logged into Keybase with then you'll permanently lose access to that account with absolutely no way to recover any of the files, messages, etc... it conta
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by tuxracer 9y ago
It is a joke but a stupid one that harms adoption of the product. It's conceivable the author could decide say, eating meat isn't "nice" and sue an organization using it that packages meat products for consumption. A jud
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by tuxracer 9y ago
2 billion dollars and 8 years hasn't even gone into such an effort though. The complete rewrite which serves as the codebase for the xbox, iOS, etc.. version is where the majority of that time, money, and effort has been spent. The mob
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by tuxracer 9y ago
The students are customers. It's a business. If these customers will continue to get themselves into tens of thousands of dollars in debt to pay for something of sometimes questionable value then let them block or have whatever speeche
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by tuxracer 9y ago
Then oauth based attacks like this come along and your password (however strong it may be) and two-factor auth are bypassed completely... It's interesting Apple can scale personally vetting apps for the app store but Google apparently
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by tuxracer 9y ago
Is there a reason a lot of these cryptocurrencies have suddenly started to skyrocket all at once?
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by tuxracer 9y ago
It's an interesting question though. I didn't read anything further into it (such as "oh you're saying it will solve ALL engineering problems EVER conceived by all of humankind?!!") It's just a question, and an
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by tuxracer 9y ago
const users = await getUsers(); const tweets = await getTweets(users); console.log(tweets); Is async code really harder to read?
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by tuxracer 9y ago
Blindly shooting it down like it wouldn't solve engineering problems is just the other side of the same coin. You haven't really provided any constructive info why it wouldn't be a good fit here.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Taking it even further https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERB1TJBn32c#t=1m45s
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by tuxracer 10y ago
There might not be a 1:1 relationship between the increase in price and decrease in demand but raise prices high enough and you limit who can possibly even afford it.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Agreed that's a much better analogy. In this case the "retailer" already maintains such records. The government isn't even asking for the list of all purchases by all individuals, just the name of who purchased a particu
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by tuxracer 10y ago
The government is not getting access to (nor asking for) all queries. The government is getting access to information identifying who searched for a term. Google's query may include all search terms but Google obviously already has tha
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by tuxracer 10y ago
This title is so inaccurate it should be changed. Asking who in a city searched for a term is not the same as asking for a whole city's Google searches.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
If you migrate to HTTP2 or move to a host that already supports it then cutting down on "round trips" is an obsolete concern altogether.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
> This will not work for iOS. Why develop something which excludes a big chunk of the cake? By that logic nobody should even create native Android apps today. You're saying that if Android apps could run on even more platforms it wo
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Android has had face unlock built in for some time. A naive way it mitigates the "unlock with photo" vulnerability is an option requiring you to blink. Not as robust as 3d, heat sensitive cameras but it's at least not a trivi
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by tuxracer 10y ago
That's very true Google has never been as disciplined when it comes to design guidelines. But aside from purity to specific guidelines there is a lot of data that show hamburger menus are death for discoverability of whatever is tucked
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by tuxracer 10y ago
FYI Tab Bars are now recommended by Google for Android as well http://www.androidauthority.com/bottom-navigation-material-d... There is a lot of data that shows hamburger menus create big discoverability issues and Google h
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by tuxracer 10y ago
> The part I'm still concerned about is UI performance - it's still miles off native. Many times needlessly low expectations of both developers and managers are the blame for this. Yes, there are certain elaborate UI effects th
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Cool project! Quick suggestion: Ditch the "Update preview" button and immediately update the preview after you make new choices.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Standard practice in the world of Android phones. To add even more salt to that wound the OS was probably a couple years out of date when you bought it as well.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
If you password protect the archive you should be good
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Yeah but the checkout button on the insecure cart page could be changed so that it instead points to http://www.apple-payment.com/.. . or any random malicious "checkout" page which then steals your CC. They've
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Google Fi support is extremely friendly and often almost zero hold time. The actual substance of the support however is very much lacking. Google Fi sent me somebody else's SIM card with my Pixel. It turns out Google Fi pairs a SIM to
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by tuxracer 10y ago
There's no proper API to ask to prompt to homescreen. The only thing you can do (android chrome only) is enable the prompt to be shown at some point in the future. Google takes over from there and decides when and if users will be prom
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Those things are all possible in the latest versions of every major browser. Web standards have come a long way!
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Nope. USB-C and traditional headphone jack only.

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