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parzivalm··on First field report of iPhone X
What about apps that are slow to update or relatively abandoned? Guidelines are all well and good and I assume everyone here thinks they should be followed. The problem is though that not everyone will update on time.

Take for example when the iPhone 6 and 6+ first came out. It took my banking app until the 6s came out to finally update their app to fill the screen. Now granted those apps weren't unusable, they just looked wrong. On the iPhone X with the notch there is a very real possibility that until they are updated they may have unusable functionality.

parzivalm··on First field report of iPhone X
If the setting is saved I could see it being manageable. I think the bigger issue is if you have apps or games that stretch and get parts of it blocked by the notch. That is where you really can't do anything about it.
parzivalm··on First field report of iPhone X
You easily could have just not put the notch in, and left a slight bezel on the top. Saying no one cares about the notch is a bit much. If it bothers someone, it bothers someone. If it doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother you. People are allowed to have different opinions.
parzivalm··on First field report of iPhone X
Why the troll comment? There are good and bad points to both ecosystems. For instance the Fingerprint reader on my Pixel is faster and more accurate than the TouchID on my iPhone 7. That doesn't make me go, iPhone sucks. The implementation on Facial Recognition may not be as great on the android phones that support it, but that doesn't mean you should bash a whole ecosystem and community of people.
parzivalm··on First field report of iPhone X
Apple probably owns the design because most other manufactures hopefully see that you shouldn't be looking at a notch every time you are viewing a video. I've been an iPhone user since day 1 but the screen shape on this phone just makes so little sense.

It wouldn't be the worst if Apple made it that iOS scaled everything so media wasn't blocked by the notch but instead if I get the iPhone X I have to wait for app developers to fix the issue. Seems like a poor decision.

parzivalm··on Equifax Releases Details on Cybersecurity Incident, Announces Personnel Changes
If they were doing it right the DB would be encrypted and the PCI fields would be tokenized and then if you get dumps of the DB you don't have anything you can use.
parzivalm··on Ask HN: How are you teaching your children programming?
If a kid is really interested in learning about computers and programming they will do it. One thing that can end badly is if you try to force the subject on them. It will become like a class at school then.

I would leave them alone, let them see what you do maybe, show them minecraft. But don't expect them to magically take to it.

When I was a kid I gained my interest in computers from seeing my Grandfather building a computer, my sister was there when he was building it. Yet I kept to it and she pursued other endeavors.

parzivalm··on Serverless dev practices questions
Have you thought about the added execution time from JVM startup? A project I had dropped in my lap awhile ago was figuring out a way to speed up a java lambda function. Basically we decided the only way was to try and make the lambda container always hot. A cloudwatch event would trigger the lambda function every 5 minutes to make sure it was always hot.
parzivalm··on US government halts study on health effects of coal mining
I'm still waiting for us to actually cut wasteful spending in areas like defense. Too bad that will never happen. The Gov can just keep cutting science spending.
parzivalm··on I’ll write you a Slack bot in return for a $5K donation to ScriptEd
I find it somewhat hard to believe that helping some less fortunate schools teach coding is really going to have a negative impact on your pay. But by all means keep bashing something that is actually doing some good.
parzivalm··on My wonderful world of macOS
I used to use spectacle but I find that I enjoy using amethyst more in terms of my productivity and window space management.
parzivalm··on Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC
While you most likely made that comment in jest. Stereotyping everyone into a category like "blue-haired SF nobodies" is rather offensive.

Not saying I disagree about the temper-tantrum, but there was no reason to state it in the way you did.

parzivalm··on Ask HN: How did you manage to teach your spouse/partner/half Programming?
I didn't say it to make anyone feel bad. It was just the opposite point of what the OP had asked. Beside the fact, the question is clearly not directed in the assumption that their spouse wants to learn programming. It was directed that OP thinks they would like it so they tried to get them into it.
parzivalm··on Ask HN: How did you manage to teach your spouse/partner/half Programming?
Why try to get her into it? If she wanted to get into it she would have. It sounds like you are trying to force her into something that she isn't interested in. My fiancee is an incredibly intelligent person who I believe would be an amazing programmer, but her passion is history. I wouldn't all of a sudden try to "get her into" programming. Your passions do not have to be her passions.
parzivalm··on Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
Seems to me that the some of whom will invariably be innocent will be significantly low.

Saying "just believing" isn't the best phrase the OP could have picked but neither was your rhetoric. It just contributes to the divide between men and women.

parzivalm··on Let's Encrypt is down
ACM is kind of limiting though. You can only use it with 4 of AWS's services none of which is ec2 directly which limits use cases I would think.
parzivalm··on Docker in Production: An Update
The author says that the AWS ECS AMI they provide is based on ubuntu but it is an amazon linux AMI which is based on centos/rhel.
parzivalm··on Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0
I think you see this argument used a lot when it comes to Python 3 about it not working so well. I don't see the maintainers changing their minds about EOL on python 2 so either switch to Python 3 or to another language. There is so much toxicity around the Python community because of people thinking they are entitled to have everyone still support Python 2.
parzivalm··on Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment
I think they are trying to say screen is better since it uses less code.
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