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Re:The Cost of Safetyism on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:14AM (#48280964)
"Antisocial behavior" You are describing teens being social. You dont get to define what antisocial means.
Its been a while since I worked with this lib but I always thought Pygments was pretty.

https://github.com/pygments/pygments

Re:The case against masks at school on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:45PM (#30107186)
Why haven't states setup Covid only treatment centers to relieve the pressure on hospitals? Sure there are only so many nurses and doctors but reducing regulation on who could work in these centers would fix that.
Parent just suggested a realistic and actionable solution and you replied a snarky totally unrealistic counter offer.
Re:The crypto movement is destroying itself on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:55PM (#27812340)
I agree with your assessment of the tech but the snake oil is a real turn off. What do I do? Hard to invest money when it feels so scammy.
Re:Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:37PM (#23703421)
Facebook benefits from outrage. Outrage leads to engagement and virality. Hate correlates to outrage.
Re:Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:44PM (#11973740)
Do the skimmers save card info to be retrieved later or can they call home somehow?
Re:Startup's eBay app auction ends, receives 0 bids on Friday January 17, 2014 @05:31PM (#7078914)
Why wouldn't they sell the app and userbase as well?
Re:Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France on Friday March 15, 2013 @03:43PM (#5382555)
Health care costs in the US can have the same effect on the population as a tax even though it does not get go through the government. The goal should be to lower the healthcare cost per person, not squabble about who is paying.
Re:Netflix no longer issuing new API keys on Friday March 08, 2013 @11:43PM (#5347354)
The Netflix API does not let you create a player. As far as I know Netflix built the player for every device (Ipad, Playstation, Blueray...). If they did not build the player for a device they had to give the device manufacturer a secret API that I am not aware of.

Also, for the curious, their player is all HTML5 driven. They basically compile a browser for each device and build the UI with HTML5.

How do you become a "Professional" CEO?
Re:What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like on Thursday January 17, 2013 @02:45PM (#5074741)
This is an interesting possible future. If all things are built from the same raw substance the supplier of that substance will be incredible wealthy and powerful. A new Carnegie in a global economy.

The next lower level of wealth will be the digital rights owners of commodity items. The rights owner of 'Shovel' will start a dynasty that will last for hundreds of years. They could potentially be powerful enough to extend copyright laws forever so that they continue to collect rent on the shovel.

Re:U.S. health is lousy compared with peer nations, report says on Thursday January 10, 2013 @01:25PM (#5038715)
I think an easy way to improve the health care industry would be to quadruple the number of urgent cares and keep them all open 24 hours a day. Financially the system encourages urgent care use, but they are often tough to access. Many times in the middle of the night we have to consider taking a child to the ER or just waiting until morning.

I don't know if this would improve general health, but it sure would make me feel like I am getting more for what I pay.

Re:Thinking the unthinkable on Sunday December 16, 2012 @03:07AM (#4927723)
You clearly have it figured out. You should call this woman have arrange to have the kid live with you for a few months. I'm sure he will be cured.

Your last two comments may be the stupidest things I have ever heard. I would love to know more about you and know why you think you can fix such a complex problem in < 200 words.

That is great, but is it private? If so you should explicitly state that. That will be your differentiating feature that you should stick with.
Re:We Need a Warby Parker for Mattresses on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:51PM (#4522995)
How do you find industries dominated by PE?
I thought NBN already planned to do fiber to the door for most of the country.
If you look at the numbers as percentage of income instead of dollars then we can see the percentage of income that an item costs go up if the item has advanced (ie better cars, better refrigerators, better houses). If the percentage of income for one item goes up it must go down for another. Since no technologies get worse over time which expenditure is suppose to become less of a percentage of income over time?
I hear the argument about how products have improved over time and how that justifies their increased price and I don't buy it. It makes sense if people still have the option of buying the 1980s house in which case purchasing a 2012 house would be an expensive luxury. But people can't get the 1980s house for the 1980s price so we must conclude that housing prices have inflated.
Your example is the opposite of the current situation. If we assume that home prices are determined by monthly payment then that would explain why the price increased as rates dropped.

Then you had a low price to rent compared to payment to rent ratios. Today you have the opposite: low payment to rent and high price to rent ratios. If rates rise with prices drop?

I would love to use it but my company would veto this product based on security concerns. At a minimum we would require a VPN connection to the cloud and the ability to limit (or cut off entirely) access to the web interface. You guys could have a huge product if these concerns are addressed, but based on Google's history I do not think they will be.

Also, does anyone know how this performs compared to Hive?

That spoils the fun.
The point is: if you don't like it you don't have to use it. PHP still stands in its current form. Snow may become popular with a minority of more adventurous devs and develop into something that you may want to use.
The only constructive comment in the thread has been sunk by downvotes. I don't know why people hate these pre-processors so much. Coffeescript threads always have a fair amount of people complaining although Coffeescript has been pretty successful.

I think the best part of the pre-processors is that it does not force the entire community to adopt the syntax and allows some to play with new language features.

Re:In Sweden, cash is king no more on Sunday March 18, 2012 @01:51PM (#3720265)
Do the Visas and Mastercards of Sweden still get their cut of every transaction? What a great way for these companies to solidify their corner of the market.

Here is what I want: a way to do electronic transactions anonymously and cheaper that the current options. How do you do this while combating fraud?

Re:Video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch on Sunday March 18, 2012 @01:53AM (#3719233)
When they separate they are no longer flying straight up, they are moving toward a more orbital trajectory.
Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @01:24PM (#3704189)
This is getting absurd. Many sites cache images. Maybe somebody should come up with an images/content cache agreement that content owners can opt into. Not opting in means no love from Facebook, Google images, Pintrest, and the thousands of other traffic sources.
Re:Scraping Web Pages With jQuery, Node.js and Jsdom on Thursday March 08, 2012 @04:33PM (#3681760)
Try PhantomJs. PhantomJs works better than JSDom b/c JSDom can break on non-compliant pages.
Re:Why wait? How Congress could fix copyright now on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @01:13PM (#3648942)
If an indie artists created a song a studio could immediately remake the song and sell it before the artists had any distribution in place. 2 to 3 years should give the artists the opportunity to make some profit from his music.
Re:Why wait? How Congress could fix copyright now on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @12:59PM (#3648868)
I think copyright length is the biggest issue, I don't see why it has to be more than 2 or 3 years. Imagine how much different things would be if copyright expired that quickly.

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