tuxracer

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by tuxracer 10y ago
> Being able to use off-the-shelf braided USB-C cables is going to be awesome Sadly there are a shocking number of USB chargers/cables which will physically fit into a USB-C port but are not to spec, therefore prone to damage or des
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Promises definitely do not just "wrap around" callbacks https://blog.domenic.me/youre-missing-the-point-of-promises/
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by tuxracer 10y ago
These will also show up in the Chrome widget in the nofication center on iOS
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Based on what you've said so should the patrons of any service if the worker is providing a service they wouldn't otherwise be providing if they weren't being paid to do so.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
So if I coerce someone into cleaning my house without their consent that isn't shameful? Seems coercing someone to do anything without their consent is shameful. If someone only consents to cleaning a house if they're paid enough
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Sure, it's shameful to force someone to do something without their consent. Your interpretation of consent seems very bizarre however. Inherently anyone paying anyone else to do anything means they wouldn't have done it without ge
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by tuxracer 10y ago
> there are those who believe that sex work can never truly be consensual...idealized circumstances free of such pressures, few people would choose sex work In idealized circumstances free of economic pressures many of us would spent all
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Got stuck in the middle seat for a 14 hour flight to Asia. Put the GearVR on and was transported into a full empty row to myself https://www.instagram.com/p/BDkY2oqzLZV/ . It was truly incredible. The 2D in VR expe
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Uh, they already do
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by tuxracer 10y ago
WiFi is never completely off until you disable "Scanning always available" https://i.stack.imgur.com/wcQkc.png
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by tuxracer 10y ago
It's not very practical to use without an iPhone in many circumstances. If I use iMessage people will message me there asking to meet up, etc.. and actually I won't receive those messages until I get home and boot up my Mac. Most
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by tuxracer 10y ago
> There is no barrier to entry in ride sharing. Drivers can install multiple hailing apps. Some ride sharing companies offer bonuses to drivers based on number of rides now. For example, 50 rides in a week $250 bonus at the end of that w
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by tuxracer 10y ago
> The message isn't even about load time performance, it's about runtime optimizations. There tends to be a fetishization of load time and time to paint performance on web, and gross neglect of run time performance and user exp
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by tuxracer 10y ago
This isn't just academic. As OP pointed out TIDAL is not only using lossless but touting that as a key selling point.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Sure but the smartphone space at the time was an insignificant percentage of the market. That's by far no longer the case now. Having a crappy mobile OS in 2000 is a magnitudes smaller problem than having a crappy mobile OS in 2016.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Would love to see built-in HAR import/export
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by tuxracer 10y ago
If it's a good, affordable service, what difference to the motivations make?
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Even Docs was acquired https://techcrunch.com/2006/03/09/writely-confirms-google-ac...
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by tuxracer 10y ago
What were the results of your A/B tests??
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Unpopular music service to acquire even less popular music service. With those forces combined they will be unstoppable! /s
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by tuxracer 10y ago
"But those outside the groups are a little bit responsible too." How? If you can't even be bothered to show up why is it other people's responsibility to coddle you?
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Why? JavaScript is just a language. A browser is just one platform it happens to run. Scripts running in a browser have certain restrictions. Scripts running directly on the host OS typically have unfettered access to the whole filesystem.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Hopefully whatever technology Samsung is using to power Samsung Pay catches on. It sends a magnetic field where you normally swipe your card. That "tricks" the machine into thinking a card was physically swiped. The terminal doesn
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by tuxracer 10y ago
> feeling "like everyone is questioning why you are there by yourself" This sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_effect In reality it's likely that nobody noticed you much at all, and a
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by tuxracer 10y ago
> Even if Chrome had push notification on iOS I can't think of any logical reason to build a push notification inside Chrome if I were Facebook Facebook has already implemented this . It is in use today on mobile web. If Safari on
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by tuxracer 10y ago
It's a paragraph long post. One sentence accurately says iOS Chrome (which is really Safari outside of Google's control with Chrome UI due to iOS restrictions) doesn't currently support push. The rest talks about it wouldn&#x
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Yes, the first sentence of your post was accurate. From there on it's completely false.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
There is a way to do this actually via https://copy.sh/v86/ Although this is straying from the main point. There are certainly things native apps can do that web apps cannot. But requiring "always-on super-stable
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Most people are aware at this point that non-end-to-end encrypted electronic conversation is being tapped. It seems like a new development to extend that assumption to non-electronic verbal communication you're having with another pers
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by tuxracer 10y ago
What you're saying is just factually incorrect. It is an open standard https://w3c.github.io/push-api/ currently supported by both Firefox and Chrome. Microsoft has also started implementing it in Edge https:&#x2

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