granos

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by granos 4y ago
Crazy issues like that definitely do happen. But, this speaker output power issue being due to a file transfer error doesn't feel right. Do the perform any kind of integrity checking on the fw before installing it? Even an md5sum on th
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by granos 6y ago
If the SDK in question is just a thin wrapper on REST then sure, it isn't providing very much value. But most of the SDKs I've used implement higher level logical operations -- things that require understanding the intent of the A
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by granos 6y ago
If you haven't done so already, you REALLY should look into setting up an LLC for contract work in the US. Legally separating your business assets from your personal assets is very important. It doesn't cost a ton -- varies by sta
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by granos 7y ago
It somehow feels wrong to tell Apple that they can't sell Apps in their own App Store.
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by granos 7y ago
It's always cheaper to add one more patch, or bring in the contractor one more time than it is to rebuild the entire system from scratch. In aggregate this stops being true eventually, but I imagine this isn't a part of the system
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by granos 7y ago
I'm currently living this. About a year ago I inherited a large codebase that has been allowed to accumulate tech debt for the past 5 years. This was all done in the name of adding new features and keeping the business competitive. But
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by granos 7y ago
I may be wrong, but I'm fairly sure that FF licenses Widevine.
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by granos 7y ago
Hypothetically, if you could cause earthquakes in a controlled way, it may be possible to perform periodic small stress relief quakes rather than allowing one big one to occur naturally. We can't stop it moving, but maybe we can make i
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by granos 8y ago
Imagine a giant cube around the entire earth that touches in 6 places -- one on each cube face. Pick 3 faces and place a detector where each touches the earth -- on the surface. You can rotate the detectors around on the surface so that you
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by granos 8y ago
I used to work for a company with a very large user base. On 2 separate occasions we found code with GPL2 notices. One was in a header file and the other was in a monitoring script (we were technically distributing this script because of ou
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by granos 8y ago
I wouldn't say that playing WoW costs your dearly or is detrimental or toxic to people. I will say that all of the people I've known who played games to their own detriment or in a way that was toxic to their lives were playing Wo
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by granos 8y ago
Revoking all tokens and probably unpublishing anything published since eslint-scope 3.7.2 was released (maybe limit it to things published with a token that was issued after 3.7.2 was published) is the only way to really be sure
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by granos 9y ago
Seriously. I've been on a deployment that failed because China blocked access to Github for a little while over some piece of code in some repository. Make sure your dependencies are available.
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by granos 9y ago
Linus or the contributor? I can see an argument for either.
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by granos 9y ago
I've lived in areas where the pedestrian walk buttons are non-functional and also in areas where they extend the length of the green light in your direction. It's way too much effort to determine if they work or not, so I'll
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by granos 9y ago
Yes to all of those things. I used to work for Riot and the level of fandom is no less than any other sport I've ever seen. I'm not personally a fan, but people definitely watch together and chat/text/tweet each other wi
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by granos 10y ago
You could definitely put an RF tag on a floppy and then have detectors at all exits like a retail store does with merchandise. Hell, you could use a "mantrap" like banks do so that you automatically catch the person on their way o
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by granos 10y ago
Buy him a sewing machine (assuming you don't have one) and some supplies. There are tons of videos online to teach technique, and it isn't terribly expensive.
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by granos 10y ago
They are also exploiting economies of scale. For Amazon, the marginal cost of a server is very small. For some startup, bringing up and maintaining a data center is astronomically expensive. By going with a cloud provider instead of hiring
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by granos 10y ago
No. I've had to explain to clients on numerous occasions why I enabled TLS between things in the same data center. Security requires layers and just because the data is on a network you own doesn't mean nobody can get in.
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by granos 10y ago
This is purely anecdotal, but I've used apple maps twice this year (accidentally - search for maps and hit the wrong icon) and it's taken me to the wrong place both times. I live just outside of a major metropolitan area; suburban
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by granos 10y ago
I once requested sample data to work against while triaging/fixing a production issue and was given an unredacted copy of the production database. Lots of customer names/addresses/phone numbers/emails in there. I nuked i
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by granos 10y ago
The contrapositive would then be that if you find some really janky/unreliable feature that people are using, it must be pretty important to them and you should tread lightly when modifying it.
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by granos 10y ago
I've been able to get from the airport entrance to my gate in under 30 minutes. It was around 2am going from LAX to PHL and there was a long-ish (maybe 20 min wait??) line behind us at security. We still waited another 45 minutes at th
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by granos 10y ago
They do. In fact, I just logged in to change my password and had to go get my phone from another room so I could read the code. The annoying thing is that they don't support Google Authenticator or some other TOTP/HOTP token gener
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by granos 10y ago
They don't even have to never win. It just has to cost them enough that their margin is smaller than that of some other venture.
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by granos 10y ago
Very. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming
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by granos 10y ago
Does something like this actually cost them a huge amount in sales or do people know enough about the internet today to just come back in a few hours and try again? I know that personally, if I'm buying from Amazon, I would just come b
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by granos 10y ago
This is over a decade old now, but is still very appropriate http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12
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by granos 10y ago
I dislike developing in Java. I am not a fanboy by any stretch of the imagination. That being said, someone who takes the time to understand how the JVM works and how to configure their processes with a proper operator's mindset can do

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