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megaremote··on A developer goes to a DevOps conference
Because they don't want to pay software engineering wages.
megaremote··on Facebook Horizon
Because legs aren't tracked, they would be out of sync if you move, and it is easier just to leave them out.
megaremote··on The Octopus: An Alien Among Us
I wonder if they can eat the leg of an animal then? Like the joke about the farmer and his favourite pig.
megaremote··on The Octopus: An Alien Among Us
> Natural selection dictates that intelligence, if possessed, will be put to use to further survival and reproduction.

Hows that working out for us, with us poisoning the world and global warming coming?

megaremote··on The Octopus: An Alien Among Us
Maybe they do, but they are smart enough to hide it from us.
megaremote··on The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete, can power 1M homes
That is awful.
megaremote··on Amazon Echo Buds
You have no idea whether this website is doing that too.
megaremote··on Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks
I am. As a developer who travels, I want a thinner lighter laptop. I loved the macbook, I want that upgraded.
megaremote··on iPadOS
> I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???

What is the solution? Make people sit through a 2 hour video? Or not include functions that are hard to find?

megaremote··on WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
> I was up and running and working within 30 minutes of doing my tour.

Have you ever done workshare places before? I put my laptop down and start working. 30 mins seems a long time for that.

megaremote··on WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
Are you kidding? Is there any industry that can not be helped by data science?
megaremote··on WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
> I studied economics because I wanted a job that pays well

How did you ever make that connection? Have economists ever been paid well?

megaremote··on Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones
The USA, with 40,000 deaths every single year. More than gun deaths.
megaremote··on Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones
That just sounds like a huge change that will take a long time and a lot of money to do.
megaremote··on Postcode loophole enables fraudsters to hijack eBay parcels
Ok, so if someone tries this scam on you, take a picture of an empty box and then you have won. Right?
megaremote··on Postcode loophole enables fraudsters to hijack eBay parcels
> If the seller were to get an empty package they would have some proof to show ebay and so the fraud would be harder to stop.

What? Think about it for a second, what proof would they have?

megaremote··on Hold That Recession: U.S. Indicators Are Trouncing Forecasts
Stocks are up because there is so much money around these days, and not a lot of places to put them. Bonds aren't paying, so don't put them there. Where else do you put your money?
megaremote··on Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)
A million dead every single year directly due to cars. Another million due to there pollution? Yeah, I would say so.
megaremote··on Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
Your idea is never change what we are doing? Crazy.
megaremote··on Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
> when we need to fix shipping first.

Yes, lets only focus on one problem at a time, right? We are only one person after all.

megaremote··on How the “Mail & Guardian” got taken down
This is an african newspaper called the Mail and Guardian, not the UK's 2 big newspapers the daily Mail and the Guardian.
megaremote··on Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
> Swift Core ML

Why does he call them Swift Core ML? They are core ml, usable in swift and objective-c.

megaremote··on Apple Watch Series 5
The Watch 3 for me lasted 2 days.
megaremote··on 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
Great. Now trying doing a billion. There are limits.
megaremote··on New games for the Atari Lynx
You can see the games here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQEBn4wORw
megaremote··on Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
Or the other 10,000 todo apps. It seems to the be the choice for first projects for new developers.
megaremote··on Game developer loses multiplayer service code
You were fine, you just needed a way to compare files to look at the changes, right? Which existed in 2010.
megaremote··on S0lly's Cellivization – Civ 1 Clone in Excel
This is great.

The excel sheet weights in at 8mb, while the original dos version only takes up 2mb.

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/sid-meier-s-civilization-...

megaremote··on An Apple Developer for 10 Years
As someone who was there at the beginning of iOS, got in trouble with Apple, kicked off the store, went from a good income to 0, got back on, got into Android for this reason, yeah, this sucks.

And as someone who still plugs away at it, I will create a MVP and submit that to Apple, to make sure they will like the idea of it.

megaremote··on An Apple Developer for 10 Years
> There is absolutely no way anyone could have been worse than Google in first 4-5 years of Android.

Are you kidding? Google was a dream. Try blackberry. Or try J2ME. (which wasn't too bad, but nowhere near as good as Goodle or Apple in the early days).

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