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by vitd 10y ago
It depends on what you mean. The OP was talking about prime time programming on the 3-4 major networks. That's very different from what's being produced on pay channels like HBO or Showtime, or on Netflix. I agree that the high qu
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by vitd 10y ago
Nice find! Another one I heard about was that Microsoft's Windows keyboards, when used on a Mac, will sometimes insert a Control-P into the middle of your typing if you press the Windows key. Most apps just ignore it, but apparently no
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by vitd 10y ago
I personally don't want a bunch of personal data, like photos, in the cloud where hackers can steal them, the cloud provider can go down, or decide I don't deserve access anymore. And I also travel on planes that usually don'
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by vitd 10y ago
That and if you have a spouse/roommate/etc., you're boned if you want to use the "living room" and they want to use the "bedroom."
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by vitd 10y ago
Well, I have to use OpenGL for my development, and it's a giant state machine that works mainly via side-effects. It's notoriously frustrating to work with, but that's life. I realize not all code works that way, but I'd
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by vitd 10y ago
I recently watched a video on social media that was about raising awareness of people with disabilities and encouraging people to use their votes this election cycle to make a difference. It was very moving until the end where they had &quo
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by vitd 10y ago
When you say "alter code and re-compile on the fly," do you mean and continue debugging without stopping the app and re-running? Because if so, that's a terrible way to debug. You now have state that may not be possible to ac
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by vitd 10y ago
Amen! And it makes you wonder what it's doing to our young programmers? I first used gdb in college and had I not already been using Turbo Pascal and Lightspeed C's debuggers, I would probably would have decided that debugging was
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by vitd 10y ago
There are other options. For example, I used to be a poor college student who had no money. I listened to NPR sometimes, but didn't pay. Now I have a good job, and I pay to listen. I don't mind at all that I'm supporting peop
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by vitd 10y ago
It's not really equivalent since you taking one diminishes the number left for other paying customers. Let's do a realistic thought experiment that's actually fair: Imagine you have a movie that you love. It's showing to
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by vitd 10y ago
FWIW, I "block" TV ads by either watching the show over the internet and paying not to have ads (iTunes, Netflix, etc.), or by recording them on a DVR and skipping the ads. I avoid newspapers and magazines both because of ads and
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by vitd 10y ago
I'm a white guy who used to have long hair and lived in the South of the US. I would often get the stares, and they were often from people trying to intimidate me or who felt threatened or disgusted by my hair. Apparently many of them
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by vitd 10y ago
Another great essay on the same topic from someone who works in VC in Silicon Valley: https://medium.com/@Mandela/my-white-boss-talked-about-race-...
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by vitd 10y ago
Why should that matter? You could say the same thing to a transgendered person. He or she can wear the clothes for the gender people assume they are. They have a choice. That doesn't make it any more right for people to be prejudice ag
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by vitd 10y ago
Looks good! Thanks!
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by vitd 10y ago
I can give 2 examples: 1) They had a big party a couple of years ago where they had a large display that showed where several famous tech people were at the very moment in Uber cars. They did this without notifying or getting permission fro
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by vitd 10y ago
Oh man, I remember trying to understand AppleDOS and 6502 Assembly on the Apple II+ when I was a wee lad. It was so confusing what all these hex memory locations were. Being able to give them actual function names (or even just named consta
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by vitd 10y ago
Yes, I personally find Siri very useful. I almost always interact with Siri through my watch and I do things like start a cooking timer while my hands are covered in raw chicken juice, set a reminder to do something tomorrow, or reply to a
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by vitd 10y ago
I see that Charles Schwab is listed as having 2-factor authentication via hardware token, and Citibank is listed as not having it. Both of these are only partially correct. For example, Charles Schwab allows it on their brokerage accounts,
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by vitd 10y ago
Just curious - why are things like "Gitlab is hiring" not hideable? I don't plan to apply for a job there, so I don't care to see that story anymore today. But I don't see a way to hide it.
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by vitd 10y ago
Also - not being able to see how far into the content you are based on the position of the scroll thumb.
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by vitd 10y ago
There are ways to make it better. For example, when driving through Manhattan, you feel like you're in a canyon. In downtown Chicago, you don't get that same feeling because they have rules that buildings have to be so many feet f
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by vitd 10y ago
Interesting! Is this a full-time job for 3 people? Does your business run solely on donations or is there another source of income? (It wasn't obvious from what I saw on the site.)
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by vitd 10y ago
I'm curious - I see that Midomi Sound Hound now has voice recognition in iOS 9, which I assume it gets from either licensing Google Now, Cortana, or directly from the companies that provide functionality for those. Why couldn't Sp
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by vitd 10y ago
It's 50/50 for me. Here on Hacker News there are many articles where the discussion is worthwhile. On many other sites, it's almost never a good idea to read the comments. And I'm not just talking YouTube.
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by vitd 10y ago
Does that work out for these small businesses? Since I'm not on Facebook, it would make them seem unresponsive to me, and I'd probably stop doing business with them. But even for my friends and family who are frequently on Faceboo
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by vitd 10y ago
Write your own programs to solve your own problems! They can either be real problems, or just stuff you're interested in. Over the last few years I've written a program to help me cheat at Scrabble (great for creatively thinking a
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by vitd 10y ago
The article points out that this was likely not a DMCA notice.
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by vitd 10y ago
>He refuses MacOs because of the stupid touchpad. Huh? You can hook a mouse up to any Mac. Also, in what way are Mac touchpads different from Windows touchpads?
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by vitd 10y ago
Are ever concerned about them taking your money and not sending you the item? If they're in a foreign country, or have skipped town, what's your recourse?

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