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I saw the writing on the wall in 2008-2009. A developer created a podcast app that downloaded directly to the phone without syncing through a PC running iTunes. I was running Linux…

Location data can also be used to help prove your innocence. It sucks that this innocent person ended up suffering. Hopefully law enforcement will become better at figuring out fal…

True, but hiring freelancers isn't usually the same as being part of the same team working towards shared goals. Ideally I'd find people I enjoy working with and who have complemen…

I'm sympathetic to his goal because I have similar aspirations to have more freedom. What I might miss in his situation is working as part of a team with others: business people, S…

The claim that he is receiving 5400 Euros/month welfare is false. It was investigated by journalists. Other claims made on that webpage are also false. https://www.liberation.fr/ch…

Kinda scary to have a chrome extension that can read all of your email. Is the cure more dangerous than the disease?

For a some explanations of what happened: https://www.metabunk.org/explained-6-5-trillion-unsupported-...

ZipRecruiter was 100% bootstrapped, was profitable, and had 100s of employees before taking VC. Job Platform ZipRecruiter Takes Its First Outside Funding, $63M Led By IVP https://t…

I had the same concern re: battery life, so I looked at CPU use while running an app, scrolling through lists, and then idle. The CPU use seemed to be very similar to well behaving…

Counter example: On the April cover of Vogue, Selena Gomez is referred to as Selena.

Seems to me like the main value for Google is the data from all the apps that have Fabric SDK integration (e.g. Crashlytics). Quote from the Fabric blog post https://fabric.io/blog…

Money quote at the end: "“A huge part of an assistant is search,” he said. “Google is a search company. Amazon is not.”

Thanks for correcting my mistake.

From what I've heard React Native doesn't yet handle lists containing many views without rendering the entire list. I'm looking into Flutter/Dart from Google for building iOS/Andro…

Why would they do that? Maybe they just want to get out of the house and do something useful? Otherwise if it was for $$$s, and they aren't poor without a safety net, seems like th…

My dad has a 2. Erdős stayed at my dad's house so that they could work together. The first morning at breakfast, Erdős asked my dad to butter his toast for him. My dad refused. Tha…

Good to hear when politicians improve something , and even better when it was a bipartisan effort!

hangouts.google.com is enabled on my business account. I didn't enable it, so I can't tell you how it was done. Only that it's possible.

Please don't apologize for your posting. So far it is the best/most interesting part of the whole thread.

Another salvo in the continual barrage of "why we always need to bail-out banks"from the financial media.

The problem the OP brings up is when you're a USA citizen living outside of the USA. It seems like you live in the USA, so you don't have to put up with all of the unreasonable and…

Deciding not to AB test because of this article would be a huge mistake. Learning from mistakes made by others, and avoiding them is what I would suggest as the take away. I work f…

I'm guessing you're using an iPhone. On iOS all the apps are displayed somewhere on your homescreens. When I tried iOS that bothered me, because coming from Android I was used to b…

Google has added an "Enable location" prompt in Android 6 (aka Marshmallow).