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MarHoff

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    Comment #19726932

    What's bothering me the most is that he claim facial recognition is involved while no evidence at all is provided in the body of the article. Look like a plain old identity theft w…

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    Comment #19502719

    Also please read this fine lines it might be very interesting for some: >If you believe your MacBook or MacBook Pro was affected by this issue, and you paid to have your keyboard r…

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    Comment #19482326

    But isn't that a new behavior? Before I subscribed 1-2 year ago I read small characters pretty carefully, and in my memories in such case the behavior was to lock the previously pr…

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    Comment #19442072

    iPhone are still sold today with bundled wired headphones. Since when proposing a sold separately wirelesses alternative is "forcing you to go wireless"?

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    Comment #19309677

    The thing is I have the "hellishly flawed MBP 2016", I carry it daily into my messenger bag over bike/train/feet (often running to catch train) in a separate pocket but without oth…

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    Comment #19279502

    There could actually be a sweet spot for ApplePay (and similar service) there. Quick anonymous and secure tips for website.

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    Comment #18292451

    Guess I have a "localized" deformation as french keyboard include a ! character accessible without any key modifier, so it's actually pretty straightforward to use.

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    Comment #18291673

    With DuckDuckGo you can always use the !g syntax to switch to google if first results don't suit you need. By my experience DDG usually provide way more appropriate answers when yo…

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    Comment #18184160

    The saddest part being that the film industry is even further behind. Some contents are still totally unreachable by any legal offer outside their home country.

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    Comment #17866369

    My personal rule of thumb is that if I look for a reference manual or an official website vanilla DDG is the way to go. If I'm looking for really fresh contents like news or latest…

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    Comment #17670286

    Non english speaker here you mentioned an OSS solution called "Inbulk" or something like that during the conversation. Could you spell it I'm pretty interested in finding out more …

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    Comment #17670236

    I think the point is to provide a set of tools for people that build data pipelines. Period. The software being open source don't reflect in any way WHO will use this tool. Dependi…

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    Comment #17521260

    Thing is they are competing with PostgresSQL which you can extensively try for free before opting for a support. "Free" being already hard to beat. The fact that you can't extensiv…

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    Comment #17521236

    With arrays and composite type the potential for semi-structured schema was there for decades. The concept just got more mainstream with NoSQL, more easy to maintain and more effic…

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    Comment #16323639

    I somewhat disagree, the author is perfectly aware that putting this code out can cause security issues and is willing to accept patch when necessary. For example 9 hours ago he ad…

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    Comment #16050921

    I agree with you, but I think you did overthink his metaphorical example a little. I think the point was that for a 40 people club odd are very very poor that two people would have…

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    Comment #14644969

    Also you can't adblock paid top ranked search result so even if you don't click, and even if you know it's an ad, you've seen the brand in the top result, and the brand pay Google …

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    Comment #14643338

    You just made me realized that this sentiment of pending apocalypse is maybe exactly what drove humankind forward along the past. It just look like the notion is always morphing fr…

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    Comment #14408545

    Well I'm more a user than a developer but I already have helped others users by responding to issues in someone's else repo. Recently I've opened an issue on a project I really app…

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    Comment #14366638

    You just made my day! Didn't knew Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down how can I've been coding without!

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    Comment #14314719

    At the time of the location gate I had parsed my personal buffer and I found out that pretty much all Manhattan was included. I hadn't a roaming plan when visiting New-York so I on…

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    Comment #14308892

    That was at the core of the "locationgate" a few years ago because location of surrounding access point wasn't flushed enough regularly. Hence revealing approximate location to peo…

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    Comment #14272344

    I like your schema-lite terminology and I think it describe pretty well my approach. I've only start to explore all possibilities, but main use so far: -Store experimental properti…