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I would suggest defaulting to PostgreSQL for all database needs unless you have a specific reason to use something else. It is well supported on most platforms, under very active development, and has exceptional documentation.
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Proper management of security questions is pretty straightforward: Set them to a long random string and keep track of them as if they were another password.
If you do that, the fuzzy matching shouldn't be a problem at all. If you're using real answers that are easy to obtain from knowing anything about you, exact matching isn't helping.
In my experience, 'dang reads those emails personally and responds promptly.
Also, anything you upvote goes in your saved stories on your profile.
Was it this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627955
Yeah, Slack is down... but the gains made from using it outweigh the pain of having to deal with the failure. Improve the less proprietary options to where this isn't true anymore and people will stop using the more proprietary options.
There are always trade-offs, and expecting people not to make them is unrealistic.
People don't make "rational" decisions in the face of perceived injustice.
But that requires that the everyone hit by ransomware before people give up on making it be willing to sacrifice their own good for the good of those who would be hit after them, since equally obviously it's better for a company to lose $20k than $20MM worth of information.
It is very difficult to get people to sacrifice their own good for the good of others in the future, even when that future global good vastly outweighs the present local good.
See also: Climate change
This isn't a software upgrade. It's an on/off switch.
There's a difference. A software upgrade implies some new code which cost real money to develop is being made available. That's not the case here.
As others mentioned, manufacturers do this already for cost reasons (reducing variation) on other software, but in that case it's legitimately a software upgrade because the new software being turned on cost actual money to develop which they recoup by putting it behind a paywall.
In this case, it probably actually cost Tesla money to implement the software to cap the battery.
What we have here is software being used to implement a paywall on hardware to recoup hardware development costs (presumably developing the 75 battery cost more than developing a 60 would have). It's a software-controlled hardware upgrade which happens to not actually be implemented as an upgrade because of cost control reasons.
I don't know that there is precedent for this precise business model.
For what it's worth, Heifer International has released quite a few detailed reports on their projects which you can review here: (http://www.heifer.org/ending-hunger/our-impact/reports.html). If you're satisfied, maybe consider giving. If not, and you're qualified to offer a contrary explanation, please share it.
But assuming a negative impact without reviewing their approach is a perfect example of what has come to be known as "middlebrow dismissal". "Charities can have negative consequences which outweigh their good, this is a charity, therefore it has negative consequences which outweigh its good" is not a valid argument. The propensity of charities to produce negative unintended consequences is a sign to be careful, but not sufficient proof to dismiss charities outright.
Note that Charity Navigator gives Heifer International a nearly perfect score on Transparency and Accountability. (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...)
Fixate on a number fairly late in the sequence (the millionths place seems to work well). If that number is 5-9, push 'f'. Otherwise, push 'd'. Keeps it pretty consistently around 0.5.
Yes, by completely changing your plan for your life you can prevent certain problems, but that doesn't necessitate that you should make the change.
Are you saying that Zika and hurricanes are not really a big deal but are made to seem so by the press... or that they are a big deal and the press poisons people against properly responding?
I find it very unlikely this will be shown to be better than existing RNG solutions.
It's clever, but clever in the way that sleep sort is clever, at least until proven to be of actual benefit.
Some feedback:
Signup process is tedious. I have to create an account to even see how it works. I have to pick a username AND give an email address. I have to validate email address with multiple clicks (click link then click button on loaded page). Then I have to reenter everything to sign in.
First view of the system says to click and drag links to reorder them. Clicking and dragging links does nothing until you enter edit mode. I almost gave up assuming the thing didn't work at all before I discovered this.
No "Save" button in edit mode. Just close edit mode... but this doesn't allow NOT saving, which is somewhat unexpected since it's a separate mode.
Visiting a new page seems to automatically put you in edit mode, which persists when visiting other pages. Honestly, I'm not sure at this point why I would ever not want to be in edit mode. I suggest getting rid of modes and providing an undo to roll back any accidental changes.
Number of groups shown across width should be dynamic based on window size not fixed.
"Organization X is wrong about A, therefore they are wrong about B," is never a logically valid proposition. In fact, nothing about organization X is relevant when determining if their propositions are correct.
Typically it will look like this...
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This isn't a particularly convincing argument for a silly name. If kids will accept Thomas, surely they'll accept a more serious name than Boaty McBoatface.
Although, I can't see this being nearly as interesting with the traveler there in person to explain the photos and provide context. Not particularly interested in just a stream of people's photos, but a story from someone who traveled along with photos of what they saw is very interesting to me.
There's a reason travel shows exist as an entire genre of television.
http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(05)00674-1/fulltext
Websites, even massively popular ones, go down from time to time. Unless there is a post-mortem with interesting technical reasons for the outage, there is nothing to be gained from talking about it. If you need further evidence, just read the comments on this thread. It's just a bunch of "me too" posts. Or reposts of information sources that anyone who cares about the outage already knows how to access.
Right now, we're communicating, sure. But a book like Eloquent Javascript (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) isn't content?
The postal system is a communication medium, but you can still buy mail (magazines, for example). I don't see why this is a problem.
Free web content that you can buy in other forms (ebook, paper book) or buy extras for (videos, email support, courses) seems like a pretty common model these days.
In the board and card game world, you've got games where you can download a PDF board or PDF cards but if you want a professionally produced version, you can buy it.
In software, you've got the paid support model.
There's plenty of actually valuable things you can sell for minimal additional effort on top of producing the content in the first place. And remember the bar for "actually valuable" is pretty low: SQLite sells licenses for public domain software after all.