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BrailleHunting
9y ago
Delegate - Hire some competent people to take over sales, product and engineering management. Depression - Examine heirarchy of needs: Sufficient exercise, sleep, nutrition, social interaction and maybe medication if CBT doesnt work. Feelin
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For first time purchases, there's the FHA program. Also, it maybe cheaper to rent than to buy. Or move to a more affordable area with a much shorter commute. Some people commute for hours just to say they own a home while they spend mu
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It's an oversimplification. According to climate models, much arable farmland will be destroyed by climate change. There will be increasing pressure for protein and calories from all sources. Perhaps whales could be domesticated. If no
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9y ago
It's an incomplete charade. Feel free to wear noise-canceling headphones, sunglasses and a hat and close the door, the needy jerks will still suckle attention for their time-sucking, futility from all directions... the Mormons, Amway d
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The most common annoyance is the social ritual demand of being in a coffee shop and some fool asks others to watch their computer. Refuse by saying "No I may have to leave soon. Invest in a laptop lock."
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Oops, hit logout on that throwaway account. Bye-bye, religious flame wars. ;) Support is what it is, and it's a two-way street. Most engineers usually don't have customer support or sales experience, and so don't have the exp
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9y ago
A bowser isn't a Sun box. In the real world, browsers and computers restart occasionally. Also, opening a new tab in FF hangs everything for several seconds whereas in Chrome and Safari it's still responsive. It's like FF is
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9y ago
If he was going to invest millions in this project, you'd think he'd at least look into safety certifications, insurance, engineering design review, etc. first to make sure it was both safe and met annoying clipboard auditor'
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9y ago
Firefox on macOS takes an order of magnitude longer to start or do anything than Chromium (Chrome, Opera) or Safari.
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Because "old" is "bad." Throw away everything that makes people happy and start with reinventing the wheel. Also, corporations are slow, unresponsive and inconsiderate because incompetent people can hide and also bureauc
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Hard work, being good does rarely equates with reward... those are worker-bee values. Gotta do those and assure minimizing getting screwed... that's capitalist values.
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Still points to a MBP.
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Untrue and misleading. The more important GWP half-life (neither concentration lifetime nor concentration half-life) is on the order of 50 years . http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zuRBO1uTI70/T8A40kdMWBI/AAAAAAAAC9...
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Another bigger problem, raised by VICE reporting, is tundra thawing, leading to ground collapsing 10-30 meters into huge sinkholes. Appearently, one of the possible solutions is replacing tundra forests with grasslands by megafauna and macr
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Crying "rape" based on no evidence greater than gossip would be pretty scummy.
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There are enough rich people in the world whom have inherited wealth but don't understand the mechanics of its acquisition, amplification and retainment.
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Good frickin' luck. If Concorde couldn't survive even without accidents... it might not be a viable business. Aerion has immense resources, talent and connections and is still slowly chugging along on allegedly building the AS2, a
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There is no reason to assume human programmers are somehow special apart from all other disciplines and tasks, except maybe to delude oneself with a false sense of (job) security. Computers using AI, deep learning and natural language proce
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Sorry, wrong. Deep learning can and will take over everything, given enough computing power and profit motive. http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_ter... Eventually (30-150 years), there will be AI
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Is Sudden a California CFO? Are there food safety and facility standards, licensure, insurance and documentation requirements to setting up a food processing operation? http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Documents/fdb
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Hard is good when something can be patented, kept secret, heavily regulated or otherwise defended. Mr. Wonderful and Mr. Coffee will knock this off in μseconds if there's any traction.
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Gotta move to a subscriber / donation / ads freemium model. Remove ads once user tips/pays more than $X in a given month (ie let X = $9). Maybe have a alternative platform for content creators' own walled gardens subscri
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Then git also needs to change, but the process as above for github and others is still correct. 0. Upgrade to SHA3/Keccak, eventually make SHA1 a read-only legacy feature. 1. Upgrade signing to sign blobs and sign signatures for non-bl
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You missed the boat. Mobile revenue edge out desktop revenue in 2016, and it's concave down... which means dying. Desktops continue to die back to a new equilibrium because they're less portable and less practical than a device th
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Why the down vote? It was a rumor that proved basically correct, as usual.
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The P100 has much better double-precision performance, but it's single-precision perf doesn't justify the cost in most instances. The DGX1 (w 8 P100's) is another example of an overpriced, turnkey money extraction "solut
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Kotlin: Practical Swift/Scala/C#-like Language for JVM and JS
(kotlinlang.org)
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Without a sample list of email addresses, it's a bluff. That "womans iCloud account" is probably someone they know.
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Apple needs a radically new, practical product, either of the better (ie Project Titan, Viv-like, Zeiss smartglasses) or new category defining type, not for profitability reasons but for strategic/goodwill ones. "Health Watch"
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Hassling visitors arbitrarily, haphazardly and somewhat discriminatorily makes a country less cool and more autocratic. And talent, capital and tax revenue finds other places to which to flock.
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