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by vec 9y ago
Nope, still Apple. There's no good reason that the iPod couldn't use a standard protocol. For that matter, there's not much reason not to just read it as a USB drive and let the car's internal music player do all the wor
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by vec 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but intuitively it seems like the more control they exercise over their products the weaker the claim that they're just a middleman becomes. Wouldn't a record of being directly involved in quality control si
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by vec 9y ago
> I guess I didn't need X after all. I just had to write a bit of code. I guess I don't need functions and variables after all. I just have to write a bit of assembly code (for some definition of "a bit"). When the co
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by vec 9y ago
A huge chunk of that probably goes to, well, videos or hi-res photographs to be used in building the UI. Hi-res splash screens plus a bunch of hero images plus 2+ prerendered sizes of each display element for different pixel densities plus
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by vec 9y ago
There's an argument that while rendering engines are huge, monolithic undertakings, the actual browsers wrapped around them are fairly trivial. Assuming they use the same rendering engine under the hood, a relatively lightweight, tight
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by vec 9y ago
A standard package format would be nice, but this looks like enough to let developers publish once and have their build tooling do most of the work of packaging for different targets.
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by vec 9y ago
That's the origin of the phrase, yes, but in the US the phrase "Fourth Estate" has been bastardized to mean "Fourth Branch of Government".
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by vec 9y ago
No one would go out of their way to, but it's pretty common to have these cases break because no one's ever bothered to test them. On screen keyboards don't have characters no one will ever type, fonts don't have charact
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by vec 9y ago
Does it though? I'd like this to be true, but in practice it seems like most people (me included) strongly prefer hearing songs they already know most of the time, enjoy songs more with repetition, at least up to a point, and are more
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by vec 9y ago
I'm not even a Go developer, I just played with it a bit a couple of years ago and used it for a small one-off internal API thing, and I can think of a dozen real-world use cases for generics off the top of my head. * type-safe con
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by vec 9y ago
True, but that's not a gender issue per se. Women-only programming groups are based on the theory that women are not being well served by co-ed programming groups, as a combination of socially enforced gender roles plus an understandab
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by vec 9y ago
Below operating costs. Rent plus utilities plus relevant salaries plus amortized cost of equipment. This is confounded a bit because a lot of medicine involves lots of expensive equipment and staff with huge student loans to pay down but lo
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by vec 9y ago
To be fair to doctors offices, this is in part because some insurance plans (Medicare's the biggest offender, but then again Medicare's the biggest everything) pay doctors below cost for certain procedures. Doctors cope with this
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by vec 9y ago
> The ability to select from a menu of options prior to delivery would be an improvement for many of these services. Hello Fresh, at least, has 8 or so available recipes per week. They'll pick 3 for me, but if I choose I can log in
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by vec 9y ago
I started using these services (originally Blue Apron; more recently Hello Fresh) with the express goal of learning to cook. I originally planned to continue the service until I had a catalog of recipes I knew I liked and enough skill to do
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by vec 9y ago
Tipping isn't about scruples. Businesses with scruples would pay their employees a fair wage and price accordingly. And then immediately go out of business as everyone flocks to the competitor that's magically 20% cheaper (before
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by vec 9y ago
Of course the perfect is the enemy of the good, in this as in all things. That said, if you don't feel that you can start a business and run it both legally and ethically, maybe consider not starting a business. Nobody forced Travis Ka
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by vec 9y ago
A lot of jobs in the US pay biweekly, which comes out to a nice, round 2.166 paychecks per average calendar month. Paperwork here generally either asks for annual income or asks both paycheck and length of pay period.
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by vec 9y ago
100% of $0 is $0. I'm not saying that should be the only punishment. I don't even think it should technically count as part of the punishment. I'm just saying that if the prosecution can demonstrate that you (or your employer
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by vec 9y ago
I'd accept a minimum statuatory fine of 100% of the profits from your criminal activities. White collar crime, when discovered, should always be a net loss for the plaintiff's balance sheet. It's not perfect, but if you make
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by vec 9y ago
For good or ill, that's actually a pretty widely accepted legal principle in the American justice system. Jury trials are used to determine guilt or innocence, and judges are extremely hesitant to second guess a jury decision under any
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by vec 9y ago
Checklists and acronyms help some people, so more power to them. But I think the central observation of most of the anti-cargo-cult articles boils down to a simple maxim of "don't use a technology unless you understand what it&#x2
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by vec 9y ago
Two years ago I moved from Albuquerque to Denver, explicitly for work related reasons. The difference in available engineering jobs is night and day. ABQ is a starkly beautiful midsize city with an unusually high number of nuclear physicist
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by vec 9y ago
The problem is that most of the union benefits are really hard to opt out of. I benefit from an improved payment schedule, better overtime rules, a safer work environment, nicer insurance, etc. whether I'm a member of the union or not.
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by vec 9y ago
It is undeniably true that HR departments exist for the benefit of the company, not its employees, but I've never quite understood why that leads to the bad outcomes it does. If an employee complains to HR of harassment, it seems like
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by vec 9y ago
Arguing about purity is only pointless and sanctimonious if the water isn't contaminated. Being unable to break a several hundred megabyte codebase into modules isn't a "tap water vs bottled" purity argument, it's a
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by vec 9y ago
So if I set the DNT flag on my browser, your advertising network will neither set any cookies nor serve me any beacons or tracking pixels nor collect any other analytics data from me whatsoever? Can I or a neutral third party audit your int
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by vec 9y ago
"Mayor #{city_official} wants to raise YOUR TAXES to line the pockets of their friends at #{local_construction_firm}. Call your alderman and tell him to vote NO on Proposition #{proposition_id}!" "Mayor #{city_official} w
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by vec 9y ago
Not the OP, but I'm guessing they live up the road from me in Longmont, CO. Comcast does indeed hate this, and spent roughly $300k on questionably ethical political ads[1] in a city with less than 100k residents. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by vec 9y ago
Of course this isn't a surprise to any of the HN crowd, but it is still good to have publicly documented. Plus it sets journalists up to ask more pointed questions. It's the difference between "What measures are being taken t

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