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by tcheard 4y ago
No Apple just don't even allow you to install a non Webkit browser from the app store on their phones. Why waste time advertising on competitor's websites when you can just stop them from using competitors altogether (or at least
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by tcheard 7y ago
By default, under the same origin policy, a browser won't allow requests cross origin. But there are valid situations where you want a request from 1 domain to be made to other domains. This is where CORS comes in. CORS is a mechanism
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by tcheard 8y ago
It will actually be tabs, which is standard for Go (as per gofmt), GitHub's default tab width is 8 spaces.
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by tcheard 8y ago
Did you just quote half of a sentence and refute it using the qualifier provided by the second half of the sentence? This was the full sentence: > Spending credit on crypto isn't a sign of risky behavior - spending more than you can
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by tcheard 8y ago
Understood, sorry I wasn't trying to dispute any of your points about said issues/mistakes. Just trying to clarify that he does actually talk about NPM and his regret about it.
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by tcheard 8y ago
> This stuff isn't relevant at all to the talk - he never talks about npm or anything to do with package managers but instead how node does imports etc. He does have it in his slides. Slide titled: "Regret: package.json",
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by tcheard 8y ago
I'm a kiwi, who lived in the US from the age of 8 to 13 (1998 - 2003). I remember getting into a massive argument with an Elementary school teacher who tried to tell me I was wrong when I told her that my country was not in fact part o
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by tcheard 8y ago
Unless it is an Iridium handset to Iridium handset call, it will always be routed to one of Iridium's ground stations: - Arizona - Hawaii (Military only) - Russia and then it is routed through the fibre backbone. With the SpaceX propos
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by tcheard 8y ago
dep is still the officially recommended way to go for now. Russ Cox has mentioned in his blog posts on vgo that they will be working hard to ease the transition from dep to the built in versioning tools.
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by tcheard 8y ago
> Apparently making the dependency-manager's code simpler is a goal That isn't the goal at all. The goal of Minimal Version Selection is to ensure that the version selected is closest to that which was tested by the app and its
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by tcheard 9y ago
Uhhh no, he switched away from real cheques because of bank fraud: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html (this page seems to have certificate issues)
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by tcheard 9y ago
So an open-access network ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_network ). This is done quite successfully in other countries around the world, like New Zealand where we mainly have one infrastructure provider (sel
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by tcheard 9y ago
I believe that is more because most cities won't want a really loud rocket launching/landing nearby.
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by tcheard 9y ago
> So React is damned for including a PATENTS license A patent grant is a good thing, you want a patent grant as a user of OSS. The problem people have with React's patent grant is the one sided terms of the patent grant (and the fea
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by tcheard 9y ago
The MIT license doesn't change anything in this case, because the MIT license doesn't have a patent grant. This GraphQL situation is different and, arguably, somewhat worse than the ReactJS BSD+Patent license issue. The problem he
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by tcheard 9y ago
Safer than level 1 autonomy. > So what this report is actually showing is that Level 2 enabled car is safer than a Level 1 enabled car. which seems to disagree with the leading statement of the first comment in this thread: > The leve
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by tcheard 9y ago
And CRS-7 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-7 )
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by tcheard 9y ago
I wasn't saying a CSRF token saves you here. All I'm saying is that security is a complicated topic. People already misunderstand things like CSRF, CORS, resource protection, etc. And they already get them wrong. CORS is designed
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by tcheard 9y ago
Yes, but then you get people that fail to understand that CSRF only applies to a browser, and CORS only affects a user agent that implements a Same Origin Policy. And they fail to protect their resources otherwise. They add CORS support to
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by tcheard 10y ago
Although, you could argue that an attacker who is targeting self-driving cars could modify the sign in a way that is unnoticeable to humans, but greatly affects how the self-driving car interprets the sign. Eg. look at the panda images at t
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by tcheard 10y ago
No that is only the case if you don't count Michigan (which Trump is probably going to win very very slightly). Counting Michigan, Trump has 306 electoral votes. If you take away the 29 from Florida, he has 277, which is still greater
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by tcheard 10y ago
Oh those are well up the North Island, they probably didn't even feel it there. Or if they did, it would have been very mild.
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by tcheard 10y ago
I know that Netflix was probably just an example, but for the record, Netflix is not one of these media companies. You can directly cast Netflix when using it from a browser, you don't need to cast the tab.
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by tcheard 11y ago
Except that the longer you run the first stage, the longer you have to carry the weight of the first stage. It eventually becomes much more efficient to jettison the first stage and use a slightly less powerful but much lighter weight secon
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by tcheard 11y ago
So what? If I work for Tech Company A (that develops products in one market area), and leave to go to Tech Company B (that develops products in a completely separate market. ie. They don't compete in any way for market share), everythi
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by tcheard 12y ago
> What Google is doing makes sense from a business stand point but totally shameful from a company that boasts itself doing "no evil". Oh come on! I'm not a fan of everything Google does, and I can see, and in part agree w
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by tcheard 12y ago
Since when does a name have to provide sufficient context to distinguish the concept from other similar, yet distinct, ideas? For example, tree data structures. There are: 2–3 tree, 2–3–4 tree, AA tree, (a,b)-tree, AVL tree, B-tree, B+ tree
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by tcheard 12y ago
Microsoft will pay up to $100,000 plus $50,000 bonus for defense submissions ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn425049 ) Facebook has paid $12,500 for one ( http://techcrunch.com/2013&#x2
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by tcheard 12y ago
Do you mean ITAR ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R... )?
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by tcheard 12y ago
> Any more details on why SNC got passed up? Because they had enough money for one or two, but not all three. And they want two so that they can spread the risk. SpaceX are almost finished and are so far ahead in development that it woul

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