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by hitgeek 3y ago
I heard of this story years ago, and was very dismayed. (There is no date on this website is this something new?) however the last 2 years I've experienced kids being taught to read in US public school kindergarten and the curriculum w
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by hitgeek 4y ago
the page turn animation was probably the main reason i bought the original ipad. it was just so delightful. like some others, i miss the skeuomorphism of the original ios.
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by hitgeek 4y ago
agreed, like others I often resort to using notepad to remove all styling then copy/paste again.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
facebook basically did nothing to ensure third party apps & developers were not violating its data access and sharing policies. most developers know it has always been pretty easy to harvest data from facebook by tricking users and once
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by hitgeek 9y ago
I was previously the administrator of a "patient portal" that was connected to our health record system. we had a hard time getting people interested in using it and signing up. and those who did sign up rarely used it after the f
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by hitgeek 9y ago
Microsoft and Google both failed with forays into medical records, so I'm skeptical apple will see much success. Most people do not want to manage their own health records, or only become interested for short periods of time after illn
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by hitgeek 9y ago
from the article: “We want to make sure that our products are not just fun, but are good for people,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “We need to refocus the system.” genuine for me, is making changes that are good for people, even if they are bad fo
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by hitgeek 9y ago
I looked through my newsfeed this week for the first time in several months. I thought the amount of trash posts and videos (which caused me to leave Facebook) had greatly declined, but wasn’t sure why. If it’s related to this change, it’s
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by hitgeek 9y ago
most of this sounds like good practice for any company that stores large amounts of sensitive data. perhaps the features were used inappropriately, but I would hope Uber can remote wipe a laptop, log users out of company systems, or central
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by hitgeek 9y ago
nice work! I couldn't figure out how to exit the full screen interactive code view. The button to delete a todo and "check" a todo are pretty close together, easy to click the wrong one. maybe move the check to the left side
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by hitgeek 9y ago
yea, it says 10.13.2. I can't reproduce it on 10.13.1.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
I upgrade an old 2011/2012 MacBook Pro to high Sierra so I could download the latest Xcode. there has been a few times since then that the machine will freeze then show a folder with question mark icon. surprisingly it boots up fine af
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by hitgeek 9y ago
the cost of new phones has really changed my purchasing behavior. when it was $200-$300 to upgrade with a contract renewal, I tended to get a new phone with every iteration, regardless of the new features or condition of my current phone. N
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by hitgeek 9y ago
this seemed like a bug bounty from the beginning, and the media was disingenuous to spin it like blackmail. if there was no evidence that any data was actually compromised, I'm not sure I see a reason why they would need to disclose th
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by hitgeek 9y ago
something I've noticed in my news feed "John Smith likes Wall Street Journal" with the headline and picture from a recent article. It appears in your news feed like John Smith recently liked Wall Street Journal, or that artic
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by hitgeek 9y ago
the pricing seems high for this service. $30 for a computer generated logo. $990 for a professionally designed logo. I'm pretty sure you can get a computer generated logo for free from a variety of services, and professional logos for
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by hitgeek 9y ago
from what I've heard, .Net Standard 2 should be stable for a while and should fix the random missing stuff that was present in the various versions of .net standard 1.x
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by hitgeek 9y ago
"The .NET Standard is a formal specification of .NET APIs that are intended to be available on all .NET implementations." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standar...
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by hitgeek 9y ago
.Net Standard is the standard. There is only 1 standard. .Net Core is one implementation of the standard. .Net 4.6 is another implementation of the standard. Mono, Xamarin, Universal Windows Platforms are other implementations. The idea is
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by hitgeek 9y ago
"incentivize app devs". as an early adopter I felt abandoned. I was all in on windows mobile around v7 and windows8. bought the flagship lumia phone and surface rt tablet. invested the time to develop some basic apps. 6 months lat
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by hitgeek 9y ago
i'd be surprised if this scheme was actually successful. its very difficult to relay signs from the dugout to the batter in the few seconds between when the sign is given and when the pitch is thrown. base runners on second base have a
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by hitgeek 9y ago
I hope this is not the case. I love the elegant simplicity of the home button. this part of the original iphone launch is one of my favorites: "And on the front, there’s only one button down there. We call it the home button. Takes you
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by hitgeek 9y ago
i haven't used asana in a couple years. I just signed up for a new account, and it seemed pretty snappy. I might give it a try again.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
"MVPs are too M and almost never V" yes, viable is the hard part. just like "loveable" will be the hard part of SLC. next month's article. "SLCs make me SC(sick)"
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by hitgeek 9y ago
I do this with so many libraries now. especially in the react-native ecosystem. I just prefer node style callbacks, so I wrap libraries with promise based APIs with callback based wrappers. hopefully i'm not the only one.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
same example with async control flow library and node style callback conventions function getUserInfo(callback) { async.parallel([api.getUser, api.getFriends, api.getPhoto], callback) }
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by hitgeek 9y ago
yes this is a good thought. I wish they had a free tier for this purpose. 1 review a month or something.
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by hitgeek 9y ago
it took me a lot of trial and error, but I was able to get a pretty nice asp net core dev env working with the dotnet cli, and vs code. so its possible, but not always easy. documentation is still confusing and contradictory, but a little l
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by hitgeek 9y ago
from the docs this looks like a really practical library. The testing and dev tools look great. whats the backstory for this library?
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by hitgeek 9y ago
i was one of the customers who dropped in q2 after using the service for about 6 months. I really enjoyed the product, and never had an issue with quality. for me cost was primary reason for cancelling. Buying ingredients saves me about $10

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