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Comment #14542424
To be fair, this is exactly how I use Netflix. I have a free app that I pay to use completely outside the app store. Not sure of the actual rules, but it's definitely possible.
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Comment #13413809
My guess is that it's using substituting one or more of the letters for some look-alike character out of the extended unicode character set. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_…
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Comment #13363197
I'm really interested in this market. Does anyone know where having easy-to-build floorplans are actually useful? Especially without expensive HW setups like this?
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Comment #13329619
Unless you are doing live video, there is no reason to transcode real-time. Do it all upfront. You need to decide on your requirements and transcode everything to your desired form…
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Comment #13319138
This would normally be the case, but for small projects with a small number of contributors, they are always free to dual-license their own code, even "retro-actively". Anything th…
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Comment #13309681
Google is actually pretty good at accepting updates to things like operating hours. I've done it many times. They actually have a program ( https://www.google.com/local/guides/ ) t…
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Comment #13124285
no. name picking is a rabbit hole, proving your product/service is far more important. pick something unique so that people can google it and come up with a meaningful result. If i…
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Comment #13124224
sorry man, it's just not that useful in it's current form. Ranking reviews by usefulness might help, but it's a babystep. I think what I would find more useful is being able to com…
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Comment #13080223
Didn't get it. Found your ig profile. tried it. seems very un-intuitive. not sure people will understand it or go through all the trouble. [See Image -> goto profile -> click link …
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Comment #13077378
To me the obvious use case is querying your log files as stored on s3. Query for a specific combination of features, or do some (simple) processing on them. It's really only useful…
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Comment #13077324
Lame. Love my pebble. Original Kickstarter backer. Currently rocking the pebble time steel.
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Comment #13075797
Anybody know whether it is kosher to use Rekognition (or comparable Google/Azure/Clarify solutions) as a source of "supervised" data to bootstrap your own in-house ML models? I'm p…
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Comment #13074682
What's your usecase for Athena (Really curious how this changes anything)? You can hook your lambda up to a cloudwatch scheduled event ( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch…
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Comment #13074266
Re: users auth. Isn't that what Cognito is supposed to be? I mean, I don't fully understand it, but I think so. As for the cold boot issue, I thought the standing solution was to h…
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Comment #13074177
Yeah. Same. Similar thing happened to me when lambda came out. I'm guessing they are still rolling it out to everyone.
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Comment #13074092
Note the 10MB minimum "charge" per Query. For small datasets under 10MB, you'd only get up to 200 Queries for the minimum billable $0.01. That would be a fairly small number of que…
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Comment #13038773
https://heapanalytics.com/
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Comment #12988721
I think its relatively recent. This article has some background: https://backchannel.com/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not... "To help, recently Snopes has begun to publish impo…
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Comment #12988384
I did exactly this to in order to use cloudfront signed cookies with lambda/apigateway. API gateway only allows you to have one set-cookie header per response, but 3 are required f…
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Comment #12962049
Can't use it at all. Locks up with a redirect loop on registration. Cleared my cookies and tried logging in, currently getting 302's from home->setup-wizard->home->set-wizard->...
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Comment #12737955
Yeah. I Went from a Galaxy Nexus to a Nexus 6 -> Never understood why people though Nexus's were "affordable" (I think the 4/5 pricing was more the exception rather than the rule).…
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Comment #12710965
I'm a millennial that got married at 25. Now, I'm almost 30 and have 2 kids. I can honestly say I'm glad that I'm not any older. Kids take a lot more of your time/energy than you e…
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Comment #12710864
Pro Tip: adding a plus sign to a goo.gl shortlink will tell you where a link goes and some stats about it. https://goo.gl/rqLDfJ+ . Similar for other popular URL shorteners.
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Comment #12710828
OP banks with Wells Fargo, who are by recent accounts, actually crooks. Fair enough question from someone who was recently burned by what appeared to be a "reputable" bank.