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IE6 was pretty awesome when it was released... not having to support IE4.x and NN4.x when it hit sufficient market share was really nice. Eventually it became the next boat anchor. IE10-11 is the current boat anchor, and will probably cycle out within the next year. Already have internal apps with no IE support at all, and only the most recent Edge release.

The perspective on outdated (insecure) browsers is becoming more broadly accepted.
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30% improvement in anything is likely to be considered significant, not "moderate".
I am truly blessed. I bought a business on eBay during the .com crash of 2000 (esnipe.com) and turned it into a moneymaker. From there I am gone into investment in domain names and real estate.

I’ve also failed a lot, like the time when I spent $1,400,000 of my own money trying to beat craigslist.
Please tell me this is fake news.

I turned off Ring notifications because they were, in fact, making me fear my neighborhood. I try to be safe in my neighborhood. These notifications don't change that. They just make me scared.
How analyzing supply-demand gaps can optimize unit economics at Uber and Grab
The whole point is revenue not making society better/happier/safer. There is no money in the latter.
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Small birds chase each other around, fly through thick forests or jungle, dodge predators including larger birds, and fly in large flocks. Based on the squabbles I see from my front porch, they seem to at least match human drivers on reaction time.

I'm not convinced absolute speed is that important of a variable, when comparing to something much smaller dealing with closer distances, but some birds actually do reach highway speeds and beyond: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-fastest-birds-in-the...

But the fastest relative to size might be the hummingbird, which can fly 30mph backwards: https://www.ponderweasel.com/what-bird-can-fly-backwards/

The Anna's hummingbird has been clocked at up to 50mph in a dive, or 385 body lengths per second. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-hummingbird-thats-faster...
Small anecdote: I did travels through Europe a while back and did lots of walking. That's fairly normal in many European towns and cities. Really felt great and decided to do 20k steps a day after return. Which tapered off slowly and unconsciously. Need to get back to that level. Your body respond quickly in positive direction, I can recall that much.
What was the coffee cup discussion?

A colleague recently told me that re-usable coffee cups are about single-use plastics. I looked down at my coffee cup and found it to be both recyclable and biodegradable. He told me it was about the lids. The lid was the same.

Without further research, I would be a bit unsure about the cost of making a re-usable cup vs its lifetime vs biodegradable single-use cups. But despite the fact that things have already improved, I'm hearing they will be banned...
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They're already talking about using EGS specific features. With their user hostile approach to everything EGS, I doubt you'll keep the same experience on Steam.
"Another weaker argument is the incredible lengths various governments have gone to suppress Wikileaks."

This is an extremely weak argument. Various governments have gone through great lengths to suppress neo nazi propoanda but that's not because the neo nazis are actually speaking truth to power. Just because you are the underdog doesn't make you the hero.

More importantly, the argument begs the question: Who's to say that the US government is corrupt? Wikileaks is to say. How do we know that Wikileaks is telling the truth? Because the US government wants them gone. Why does the US government want Wikileaks gone? Because it is corrupt.

"Wikileaks itself likes to say nothing they have published has been disputed as being incorrect"

How would you fact-check Wikileaks? The majority of what they publish is leaked documents. The issue with those is not veracity but authenticity. Are all of the documents on Wikileaks authentic? Maybe but how would you know? You'd have to trace the source of the various leaks and Wikileaks doesn't usually share that.

"Since 2006 they have never published a retraction/correction and Wikileaks claims that no one has proven a factual inaccuracy in any of the documents they published."

This doesn't speak to their favor in my mind. Newspapers publish retractions not to cover for lies but to correct mistakes. Nearly everyone makes mistakes. If a newspaper doesn't publish any retractions ever, it's not because they have an amazing track record of journalistic excellence, but because they are unwilling to admit to their mistakes and makes them less trustworthy not more.

Wikileaks is not a newspaper and what they publish is not so much factual claims as simply leaked material as they receive it, so talking about factual claims in Wikileaks material doesn't really make much sense anyway.

"Wikileaks claims that no one has proven a factual inaccuracy in any of the documents they published."

What does this really mean? They published thousands of US diplomatic cables. Does Wikileaks really mean to claim that no US diplomat ever made a mistake or lied in any of those cables? I doubt it. Are they only talking about secret programs that they revealed? How could we verify that? This has the quality of forcing one to disprove a conspiracy theory. What's their standard of proof? Can you prove the Freemasons don't control the US government?
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Why did Psyonix want to be acquired?
Long live awstats, the perl script that you put in crontab to analyze your apache logs. I have like 15 years of data from this and it's still chugging along. Not overly beautiful but it gives me the first order metrics. Traffic, referrers. No google needed.

Edit: I guess this doesn't help with the anonymous bots issue.
IE8 was also the first IE to address a lot of the memory leaks that older versions had. DOM <-> JS access was referenced via COM interfaces and out of scope cleanup didn't cross bounds in earlier versions.

IE8 did have a really bad bug around the JSON.parse implementation though.
If a bakery's not allowed to refuse cake-baking services because the cake is going to a gay couple getting married, Mastercard shouldn't be allowed to refuse payment services to a political speaker because the speaker says that Islam is bad.

Either allow them both, or forbid them both. If you allow one, but forbid the other, your policies are nothing more than thinly disguised attempts to use the law to attack people with different political beliefs.

Arguably, a tougher standard should be applied to decide to whom Mastercard is allowed to refuse service, because there are a lot fewer alternatives to Mastercard than there are to the corner cake shop.
I think it makes good sense. A lot of the things they used to scale Fortnite to the behemoth it is today could also be used for Rocket League. Fortnite's frequent content updates, game events and their business model, could help Rocket League achieve some of the same success (not that is not already big but Fortnite is another level). They already use unreal so another opportunity to leverage existing talent. Lastly the 250 million Fortnite players might also be interested in Rocket League if it was pushed a little.
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I'm willing to work for as little as $1/hr for the right people, or even free. Again, for the right people. Who are the right people? Well, let's start with the problem or problems you want to solve, or what you want to accomplish, and have a phone or email discussion around those. That discussion should tell both of us, in 20 minutes or less if we're the right people for one another. (Hint: If you read and appreciate Joel Spolsky, Paul Graham, Steve Yegge, Raymond Chen, Mike Abrash, Ken Shirriff, Hackaday and HN, then you might be the right people...<g>)
> Everybody who walks up to the door prompts an interruption wherever you are (on your smartphone)

Only if they actually ring the bell. Or if you're some sort of masochist who turns on motion alerts for your doorbell.
LOL, evidence is in plain sight.
Also, doing so demonstrates a failure on the manager's part (How did they let a formerly good report get so bad that they need a PIP? Were they paying any attention to what they were doing for the past year?)
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> The plot involved kids who were taken and forced to mine plastic from old landfills.

So basically what 3rd World countries do with the U.S. electronics.
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Having a lawyer present while being questioned as an "inherent human right"? Why is that? Why not your parents, spouse, children and best friend as well? I don't recall seeing this anywhere in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By what reasoning have you decided that having a lawyer present is an "inherent human right"?
I had a ring for six months before I realized you could turn them off...
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I wrote some pretty impressive applications with charting in NN4/IE4 days... it was horrible, and you couldn't pay me enough to do it again.
I found the authors' points about reports from the past several months disingenuous, since he's advertising a book that was clearly written and edited well before those announcements. It's valid to talk about those points in the context of arguments from the book, but leading with those points implies those arguments are a result of those points.
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To the downvoter: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10688344/in-eclipse-m2e-...
Many computer manufacturers seem to do this at least. There might be a way to trick the UEFI into thinking that you’re installing a non-Windows OS but I’m not sure.
Calm down, they just put a banner suggesting an upgrade up.
I agree there needs to be a cost to companies who lose user data but I fear insurance would be a way to compensate users for the loss without incentivizing corporations to mitigate the risk.
But the reality of them is that they are not extensions of our senses, so much as compressors of experience. That is they map a broader reality into our limited sensate experience. When we use them we have to remember that the map is not the territory, and we have to be especially careful about artifacts they may introduce.
The sad truth about proper channels is that they often forget those things as well.
The page you linked says it’s more than a “few add-ons:”

> To call it a re-skinned Ubuntu brushes over all of the features and quality-of-life improvements that Pop! developers work diligently to create.
> If you leave Bluetooth ... enabled, then it is being tracked.

Wait, can you expand on this? Are you saying (current, existing) Bluetooth radios can be used for location tracking without additional hardware/OS support?
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They were planning on using an exploit to crash the browser... Did I misunderstand?

EDIT: yes I did. Thanks for making me go back and read carefully rather than jumping to conclusions.
Sounds like you have some things you need to work through. Good luck.
> The author chose to download the software from the OEM and the software can be uninstalled.

I take issue with that. Apx. one year ago it was using excessive CPU on my Dell. I tried to uninstall, but the uninstaller crashed.

I turned to dell.com and then google. Turned out that throusands of people had the same problem, but no solution from Dell.

This is a sorry PoS application. In my experience, OEMs like Dell, HP create horrible software and drivers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=can%27t+uninstall+dell+suppo...
Here's some historical data: http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
Tether works great in the actual goal: give shady exchanges access to USD without having to do all the KYC/AML it takes to get access to traditional financing.
Notice he said that ADP uses Flash?

ADP has always been awful, I only wish they would get taken out by a competitor.
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Google Earth now no longer works in the new Chromium Edge
Google Earth joins the growing list of Google services that either don't work or warn of not working in Chromium based Edge.
Most likely classical start up cashout.
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How are "experts" classified? People misread studies all the time so trusting users to classify if a study supports or contradicts another study gives me even less faith than the text analysis method. Also as a suggestion, have the "Example Report" link to a random report or several different studies.

The presentation of this is really clean and it seems like an amazingly useful tool - as long as classifications remain accurate (even just the "mentioning" metric is extremely useful!)

I'm looking forward to opportunities to use the site more, this is totally something I am willing to get behind and support. Not sure how I feel about the indemnity clause, however unlikely it is to ever come up. Not even sure if it would be upheld by courts but I dislike how common it is to see nowadays.
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"... our financial guidance for the third quarter of fiscal 2019 includes estimated revenues of $4.5 billion to $4.7 billion resulting from the settlement (which will be excluded from our Non-GAAP results), consisting of a payment from Apple and the release of our obligations to pay or refund Apple and the contract manufacturers certain customer-related liabilities."

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Another fact about Bolivians ... they are, on average, the shortest people in the world.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-short...
I miss the Obama space administration. Instead of shooting for platinum mountains, we're planning to spend 20$ billion to repeat a great fucking Kennedy did decades ago.

Except we're in denial about the cost, so we're not actually planning to spend that much money. So we won't succeed.

Honk honk, indeed.
If you worked on web software at that time, 50% of the work was making something that worked in every other browser, then the next 50% was making it work in IE6 without breaking everything else. The arrival of IE8, while it was less awful than IE6, made things worse because many of the hacks used to make things IE6 friendly, worked with IE8, so the collection of stupid CSS hacks one had to memorize grew even more complex.

IE6 was a browser of the same era as Netscape 4, when it was common and unsurprising for a CSS error or a malformed bit of HTML to crash the browser.
Brooklyn has been doing it since about 2005 however the difference is that they do it more of an industrial scale to sell online qaned top other retailers. Commercial rent is too expensive in Brooklyn to do it on the retail side. I think the a special thing about what's going on in Germany is that the rent must be affordable even in high foot-traffic areas for them to do this.
I guess now I know why I like shrimp so much (/s)
It’s notable that the ratio of “that’s not really agile” to “this _is_ agile” comments in discussions like this is typically about 10:1. Everyone knows what agile isn’t but no one can seem to explain exactly what it _is_.

Furthermore, the “you’re holding it wrong” criticism of everyone who gets poor results from agile, which seems to be a majority of people attempting to use agile practices according to articles like this and comments ITT, is a major cop out. If 75% of people attempting to use a tool hurt themselves with it, you should start asking whether this was a well designed tool in the first place.

My solution: stop using the term “agile.” It’s so vague and means so many things to different people that it effectively means nothing. Instead, talk about specific practices (sprints, story points, etc) and be able to explain the purpose of each practice. This can clear away the agile fog and get people discussing actual trade offs rather than agile magic dust.
Played rocket league for years, really miffed here. At some future point all the steam workshop and custom content wont work for players, so anything there is now DOA.

Splitting the install base effectively across another platform just spits in the eye of people who've bought RL and want to make it easy to see/join their friends. They've had years of problems getting a unified platform going, and its still not nearly as simple and straightforward as using steam friends.

Probably going to ask for a refund on Steam when this game is no longer for sale.
Basically none. You’ve got the ME (or AMD’s equivalent) on the CPU anyway so you really can’t avoid having some kind of root kit. Older Intel hardware that doesn’t have the ME or can be neutered is the best bet, and these machines don’t use UEFI anyway. Otherwise you could go for a non-Intel/AMD architecture, but there aren’t that many of those around anymore.
Disclaimer: I'm a telephony engineer, and while I understand and will below present the motivations and logic of enterprise-level companies, I don't always agree with it.

On the enterprise level, this is actually pretty common. I've personally implemented this several dozen times for VIP lines. For enterprises, though, it's important to understand that almost anything that happens in a call center is a cost to the company and rarely makes revenue. The company sees the call center, often, as a necessary evil. Having customers that could potentially have figured it out themselves talk to a human is really just taking time away from agents helping someone who couldn't "self-serve". You only really see this feature in cases where is almost always worth it for the company to have someone talking to an agent immediately.
As a victim of package theft, I’m going to say, no.

Even with a picture of a car, and a decent photo of a face, there’s not much that can be done. You need a license plate. There’s no way to identify these people.
I'm pretty sure Netscape Navigator had a Javascript debugger built-in back in v3.0, which was way before IE6.
Just from the abstract I can't tell if the study differentiates between sole proprietorship and solo founders. The former is a business built around a person's individual skill set. The latter is built around an idea, a product, or a service that just happened to be started by a single person. The death test can differentiate: a sole proprietorship goes out of business if the founder dies. A company created by a solo entrepreneur will continue to operate and serve customers even if the founder passes away.

Investors may favor partnerships over solo ventures due to the proprietorship effect. A skills-based solo founder is usually too idiomatic to be an investable business. The catch here is when starting out a solo founder must be a sole proprietor; it's his particular skillset and drive that creates the company. The trap is it's natural for the business to evolve and grow around that particular skillset.
If the tweets you link are to be believed, we don't have to guess. Apparently no one in the prosecutor's office reads the news.

I don't find that believable, but whatever.
According to him at a bookstore appearance he did a few months ago, he did a lot of research. I believe he had substantial discussions with Chinese friends (mostly academics). He also said he did a reading at an event with Liu Cixin.
Oh! Short stature, mountainous country near the equator - means the least gravity affecting their circulation! Natural heart-healthy situation!
The IRA is a proscribed organization in the UK. It’s illegal. Far right parties are not.
Depends on the environment you're working in, but generally: interpreted languages typically have no problem loading a package from a temporary dev-location, compiled languages have build systems that handle that.
I will stop playing this game if I have to make an Epic account. Their security is a joke. Some Russian made a fake account using my email address without Epic ever actually verifying that the email address they used belonged to the individual that made the account.
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Wealthfront bets on 'self-driving money,' following Netflix's playbook