jroblak

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by jroblak 1y ago
Driving is licensed and regulated by the government. Are you suggested internet licenses that required semi-regular tests and strict enforcement by governments?
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by jroblak 4y ago
I took this essay's main thrust to be around a lack of nuance in the discourse. His own behavior indicates he's pretty unwilling to have any nuance himself; pot calling the kettle black, etc.
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by jroblak 4y ago
Genuinely funny coming from the dude who insta-blocks anyone who even mildly disagrees with him about _anything_ on Twitter.
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by jroblak 6y ago
No, the NTIA. It was probably described that way because most people wouldn't recognize the agency or acronym.
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by jroblak 8y ago
Both of these are arguments for more regulation and enforcement, not less.
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by jroblak 8y ago
You're absolutely 100% wrong if you argue Uber X has a higher average car quality than yellow cabs.
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by jroblak 8y ago
Every single one of those things is illegal, and can be reported.
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by jroblak 8y ago
There is a lot of ridiculous hyperbole and disingenuousness in this post so it's a little hard to take seriously. As someone who has lived in New York for the past ten years, the entrance of Uber hasn't changed my life at all, oth
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by jroblak 8y ago
But they're clearly not using server-side rendering here, so the point stands...
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by jroblak 9y ago
https://bloomberg.github.io/comdb2/overview_home.html >> We had several goals in mind. One was being wire-format compatible with an older internal product to allow developers to migrate applications easier. Anoth
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by jroblak 9y ago
It's hard to take something like this seriously when it spends 3 (large) paragraphs scare mongering about the fact that fish "may" contain plastics, only to end with: >> Even though current research shows we do not abso
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by jroblak 10y ago
Last I'd heard, the Facebook app was still native per platform and not using React.
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by jroblak 10y ago
It's going to be extremely hard to convert anyone who uses an RSS reader without import functionality. There is 0% chance that I'm going to switch no matter how good your recommendation algorithm is if I can't also keep up wi
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by jroblak 10y ago
>> It went so quickly from a semi-plausible portrayal to a fetishization of [black hat] hackers. One can already see from the first episode of season 2 (which I suppose you haven't seen yet) that it's much more complex than
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by jroblak 10y ago
Yeah, fair, but it would be a better user experience if they didn't even have the option. This directly contradicts Google's position. You're statement is basically: Comment: User error Closed: Won't Fix
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by jroblak 10y ago
You've completely missed the point of the comment. Your parent was describing a system where an Administrator edits other users' data. If that Administrator is using Chrome while editing a user, then there is no way to disable aut
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by jroblak 11y ago
On one hand you say that FP aficionados are unable to explain FP concepts to others, and on the other you succinctly do it later on in the same paragraph (first class functions, closures, partial application). I think you're conflating
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by jroblak 11y ago
The homepage, http://phaser.io/ , is literally covered with games created with Phaser, many of them non-trivial. You can find the full blog roll here: http://phaser.io/news/category/game
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by jroblak 11y ago
No, users now have to go to a settings page to change their default applications. Ostensibly this is for user protection (so apps can't trick users into setting defaults they don't want)
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by jroblak 12y ago
If you open the map, you can teleport anywhere and get back to playing.
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by jroblak 13y ago
Streaming-only Netflix is $7.99/mo in the US
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by jroblak 13y ago
The hint in the source is a little strange...it's not really a hint at all.
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by jroblak 14y ago
True - but you can't sign up for a checking Aaccount only. They require you have a brokerage account through Schwab as well.
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by jroblak 14y ago
Check out MelonJS (built in Tiled support out of box) or Crafty as free alternatives. Both very good.