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Comment · 5 years ago
That's way too complicated for the person just starting out and wanting to add a counter to his small website. Nobody starting out with programming today will start with Rails. They might start with Javascript, but more than likely they'll start with PHP. It's accessible and SIMPLE.
Comment · 5 years ago
I believe that's actually a standard presentation, I've seen it in several weather graphs. It's basically a rounding yeah, signifying it's just slightly below zero, but not enough to round to -1°.
Comment · 5 years ago
You're incorrect there. It depends on what context. M as in thousand are roman numerals, whereas M in greek would be million.

It's not counterintuitive at all, obviously the context here means that it's million, as you wouldn't note thousands as 2,450M in any way, it'd just be 2450. So the only remaining option is that it means million.

It's not even remotely confusing, I'm sorry.

Comment · 5 years ago
I was under the assumption that Spotify stopped doing that because P2P was getting blocked by networks? Maybe I'm wrong.
Comment · 5 years ago
I believe he was just noting the irony of someone claiming something, then openly not doing so, rather than any rules being broken.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'd say probably Turbolinks is your best bet there. You basically drop it in, and then it prefetches all the links on your page, and when you click them, it replaces the DOM. It works quite well actually, Rails has been using it out of the box for years and years.
Comment · 7 years ago
So is this going to be a thing where only US users are affected, or is it global?
Comment · 7 years ago
I mean you get best practices for the small part React is focused on. Angular is a full type of ecosystem, like your Ruby on Railses, Djangoes etc. in which you can install it and then create a full website directly without any dependencies other than what you get.
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess mobile PowerPacks with solar panels? Just deploy a few thousand outside the tunneling area and then automate the battery switching. Could run it 24/7 without anyone ever going to Mars even.
Comment · 8 years ago
Or you work at a company with no significant secrets that could potentially be shared through chatting. Priorities; why spend time and effort on some on-site solution when there's really nothing to gain security wise unless you have secrets? You won't be sharing passwords through Slack or Discord in any case, that's for a password manager, so you're really left with trade secrets, and why would there be trade secrets in a Slack channel for a web development company?
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't understand this, why would you want people to test something that's already predefined? You could automate that. You want real users that will use the app for real things. Blind testing from a list seems kind of pointless.
Comment · 8 years ago
And the places where this happens a lot (ads for example) is completely useless for this.
Comment · 8 years ago
Probably the safest field to get into would be everyday things, especially plumbing. There's no automating that, pipes will always break and new (and old) buildings will always need to manage complex plumbing systems.
Comment · 8 years ago
What if we only get precisely the amount of energy we require? Each universe won't need infinite energy.
Comment · 8 years ago
What would the effects be of releasing nuclear waste in space? Could we sent up all of our nuclear waste, put a rocket on it and just let it disappear into the distance?

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