vivan

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by vivan 8y ago
I don't trust a "smart" device to spend my money. The first thing I do when I get a new Echo is disable the ability to make purchases.
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by vivan 8y ago
The iPhone is a beast and a market leader - that is known, and shown in these results. The Mac however is in decline - Apple seem to have abandoned it in favour of their cash cow (as many on here have complained) and these results just furt
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by vivan 8y ago
This feeling is known as impostor syndrome and is extremely common amongst knowledge workers (especially programmers). I haven't found any good resources for overcoming it - it generally persists for a long time, even when the person i
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by vivan 8y ago
I don't believe that developers should be penalised for having empty GitHub profiles. Not everyone is an open source software contributor and that is a silly yardstick to use to judge people. That said, if you know your GitHub profile
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by vivan 8y ago
I have played around with Google's Cloud Vision API and it is the best OCR I have ever experienced - a big step up from my old poorly trained tesseract setup.
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by vivan 8y ago
Uh, how can the profit per employee be higher than the revenue per employee?
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by vivan 8y ago
In my experience, on-prem installations have to be manually upgraded by someone at the company. I haven't come across many auto-updating appliances. As a result you will likely end up having to keep supporting even very old versions of
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by vivan 8y ago
Having the text in Wingdings is an awful idea.
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by vivan 8y ago
9360 so the previous generation. Made the mistake of going with the higher res screen - apparently they have more issues.
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by vivan 8y ago
Absolutely - once it is out of warranty and starting to lose performance I'm happy to mess around. But less so just a few months after I've bought it!
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by vivan 8y ago
That is fair enough - though is there really any competition in that space? Even if Google did nothing, I imagine most manufacturers would continue using Android as there isn't much choice. I don't actually know any mobile OS othe
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by vivan 8y ago
In my country, iOS are more than 50% of the market. I haven't been able to find any EU-wide numbers though, which are the important ones in this case.
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by vivan 8y ago
Can anyone concisely explain what this fine is for, and also why the same wouldn't apply to Apple for iOS? It seems to be a rehash of the issue that Microsoft faced when it only gave you Internet Explorer on install. But iOS comes with
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by vivan 8y ago
This isn't a problem solely with the MacBook Pro - it affects most of the "ultralight" laptops these days. My XPS 13 (lovely machine, thermal issues aside) has been RMA'd 3 times because it overheated. It still gets far
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by vivan 8y ago
I do hope people start leaving Reddit. I love Reddit, don't get me wrong - you can find a community of people who are passionate about pretty much any topic. In the old world, each of these communities had their own disjointed forums
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by vivan 8y ago
I have had the same thing happen to me. My primary email address was hacked and Google wouldn't do anything about it. This was the address I used for absolutely everything - including my PayPal! Fortunately I didn't end up losing
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by vivan 8y ago
It does that well - I'm almost tempted to go nocode for the solution I'm working on. Problem is that a small bit of code is needed to handle one small part of it, so I probably will have to just roll my own anyway.
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by vivan 8y ago
The key thing to note is that this is a clone of the front-end/ sales part. The actual value part of Scott's Cheap Flights is completely separate. That said, this is a great way to show how easy it is to build a landing page and c
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by vivan 8y ago
What benefit does the anchoring give over just the signing part? Surely the signature is enough to prove that the email is from the expected sender? I feel like this is just an attempt to add Blockchain to an existing system for no benefit
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by vivan 8y ago
There are two main factors contributing to this: 1. Cheats in video games often need to use techniques commonly used by malware and as such are often flagged as malware. This can be things like injecting data into other processes or reading
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by vivan 8y ago
DigitalOcean would be $10/month for your requirements and is pretty good. It is a little above your price range though.
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by vivan 8y ago
I agree in principle that python for web can be slow, but plenty of sites have been able to scale with it (e.g. Reddit, Pinterest, Quora). So I think saying that python is only for projects that aren't going to see much traffic is a ve
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by vivan 8y ago
I absolutely love Django's documentation. As a desktop developer looking to get more into web stuff, Django has been super attractive as a backend to get my hands dirty with.
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by vivan 8y ago
This is unsurprising and not hugely newsworthy. The Pokémon franchise is enormous - any game they release will instantly go to the top of any lists. This is especially true because these top lists aren't about "most downloaded eve
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by vivan 8y ago
Lots of card payment details leaked in this one - a lot of the articles are trying to downplay it, but it is clear that these details were leaked and were used for fraud. Monzo did a good writeup on it: https://monzo.com&#x2F
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by vivan 8y ago
I was one of those annoying Apple evangelists for years. My 2010 MacBook Pro was my baby and I loved it. Eventually it got to the point where I had to replace it (after 7 years!) and when I went to look around at the new MacBook Pro range,
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by vivan 8y ago
In terms of knowledge of the streets of London, nobody can beat an official black cab driver. However, in terms of service, personality and reliability, they are absolutely awful. In theory there are policies in place to stop them from bein
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by vivan 8y ago
This is a problem you see with a model of security where they have security on the front end (meaning the user can only see the bits they should have access to in the UI) but then the back end API is pretty much open to any authenticated us
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by vivan 8y ago
That's an odd article. It claims to be about the alternatives, but then the alternatives are only briefly mentioned in a single short paragraph halfway through. On top of that it doesn't really say much about the alternatives, som
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by vivan 8y ago
I am in the same boat right now - a project is 90% complete but I have no motivation to do the last 10%. I blame laziness, but really it boils down to a few things: 1. The enjoyment of building - I quite enjoyed building this project, and o

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