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by randomfool 9y ago
FWIW, Square's chip reader seems to be much faster than many others.
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by randomfool 10y ago
A number of countries rely on FDA approval rather than performing their own testing and approval process. These countries typically do have significantly cheaper drug costs. You seem to be implying that drug companies regularly release thei
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by randomfool 10y ago
Their website says 50,000lbs of produced since 2011, so 10,000lbs a year for 2,000 households = 5lbs of produce per household per year. For reference, an average 1kg rabbit eats 2.6oz of greens a day, or 57lbs a year. So it sounds like they
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by randomfool 10y ago
Every day I commute through Seattle greenbelts absolutely littered with needles. You say 'nowhere near me', but it's occurring throughout the city, in the shadows. I don't think some kid is going to get into heroin so th
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by randomfool 10y ago
Broken windows theory- ES6 code is more elegant to look at, which encourages people to write prettier code. Working on a team of experienced non-browser devs, ES6 syntax allowed them to take the language seriously and actually try to do the
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by randomfool 10y ago
I fully agree that they should be doing stuff like this... but I doubt it falls under billable hours. With all the government outsourcing it's difficult to have a consistent stack. I have hopes that 18F brings some sanity.
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by randomfool 10y ago
https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/10/stable-cha... Chrome 54 is now in stable.
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by randomfool 10y ago
Once the accounts are for sale on the black market (they are), then the distinction between state and non-state is moot.
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by randomfool 10y ago
Maybe it was the gutting that Skylake did to optimize profits when selling to Microsoft. http://www.businessinsider.com/skype-scandal-silver-lake-201...
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by randomfool 10y ago
It would be great if 'save' from the devtools could just post the updated version back to server where it came from. Let my server handle getting it onto disk- it knows where it came from in the first place!
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by randomfool 10y ago
Such as http://v8project.blogspot.com/2015/09/custom-startup-snapsho... ? At a glance, it looks like there were some issues: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/169#issuecomme
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by randomfool 10y ago
Hopefully they've also gotten better people triaging the bugs than in the past. Too many times I've opened one-liner JS bugs with references to the specification that get closed because they need a public website to repro. I'
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by randomfool 10y ago
In addition to smaller/faster than XML, protobufs make it extremely easy to declare the schema of data, validate data and version your schema. Then the generated wrappers and static type checking in various languages add additional gua
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by randomfool 10y ago
Many BLE devices do not advertise with random addresses. iOS and Android do, but last I checked Fitbit and Tile do not.
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by randomfool 10y ago
What user data is tracked for ads and which ones result in SQM details? Are changes in tracking behavior detailed in patches?
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by randomfool 10y ago
This is about the XAML ecosystem which got slaughtered while Windows was promoting Windows Web Apps and remained silent about the future of XAML. XAML is now alive and well (to the extent that Windows is), but it went through a very very to
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by randomfool 10y ago
Great to see someone holding Sinofsky to task for this! Some background, from what I recall: - During the planning for Windows 8 XAML was the leading candidate for the UI technology but late in the process Sinofsky personally overruled it
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by randomfool 10y ago
They do- one company found a warrant on me that I didn't know I had for an unpaid traffic ticket.
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by randomfool 11y ago
My understanding is that Android does not have the widespread use of HW-based encryption that Apple does. The requirements for Android 5.0 had to be relaxed and Android 6.0 is barely available. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets
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by randomfool 11y ago
Not all thought so- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-01/munger-isn... The fraud is not so much my concern- it's the unethical business plan. Valeant is just a watered down Turing Pharma. Al
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by randomfool 11y ago
Maybe Bill Ackman should not have invested such a high percent of his hedge fund into a un-ethical price-gouging pharmaceutical company (Valeant).
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by randomfool 11y ago
"Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel" - ¿Dónde está Zetas?
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by randomfool 11y ago
But .NET definitely struggled with cultural issues around making APIs virtual. Because of Microsoft's strong 'no breaking changes' rule they were extremely cautious about adding virtuals- in my experience it was not unusual t
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by randomfool 11y ago
Dart is still much much closer to JS than C#, specifically in terms of threading, native interop, value types, etc. Until these are all improved I just don't see a compelling mobile story for Dart when compared to Java. Furthermore, Ty
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by randomfool 11y ago
Isn't it an async callback though? IMHO, it would be much more useful if it were synchronous.
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by randomfool 11y ago
Fi traffic still traverses the telco's network. Unless Google has special privacy clauses in place, there does not appear to be anything blocking Sprint (et al) from implementing the 'what websites are users visiting while in your
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by randomfool 11y ago
Incorrect- Windows 8 had just as much dev/test/pm overhead for the features- Sinofsky was all about process (and triads). Windows 8 was the result of feature prioritization based on incorrect/skewed customer intelligence. M
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by randomfool 11y ago
See rarely used second template arg of unique_ptr- the cleanup fn can be specified.
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by randomfool 11y ago
A std::vector per defer? Copying rather than moving std::funcs? Inserting into front of vector of funcs? Gratuitous allocs galore! Just give me a wrapper with a destructor plz. (uniq_ptr can even get the job done in a pinch)
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by randomfool 11y ago
When I had to go through this at Microsoft 5 years ago or so, the process was incredibly rigorous. Not only did we have to attest that all of our code was actually ours, but any duly integrated third-party code had to be vetted by a separat

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