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If I had to guess, it was an internal job from a disgruntled employee with access to hijack users’ email address. Change their email address, reset password, open the email and then you can login. They might also need access to change the 2FA phone number if it was set.

> I gather that these are beginning to come into existence for taxi companies

There is a lot of value in having only one or two major players in this space. I often travel and use Lyft or Uber to get around. If you have to Google 3 companies every time your plane lands in a new city and create a new account and add your credit card, that is a tremendous hassle.

They still teach Romeo and Juliet in schools, right? Couldn't their deaths have been prevented with a quick text message?

They should be required to clean the ocean of 100x the amount of waste that was dumped in addition to a $200M fine.

I believe this will be the first iteration of autonomous truck driving.

> Then, truckers could go to work 9-5 and be home for dinner with their families every night.

You seem to indicate this will be good for the drivers, but it won't be. The bad news is you couldn't take all of the current drivers and consolidate them into "last mile" drivers. There will be A LOT more physical work involved since drivers will no longer be sitting and driving 99% of the time. And there will be fewer hours driven by humans, so it will truly be survival of the fittest.

Old and less able-bodied drivers will be forced to retire or switch careers. It will probably be impossible for someone new to get into the industry and to be honest, it would be a poor career move to try to get into the industry at this point. The drivers that remain will continue to fight tooth and nail to block full autonomous driving, but every hour they spend fighting is an hour less that they will be earning money in a career that will eventually be extinct.

It sucks that so many people will lose their livelihoods, but it really is inevitable. And big retail stores will die, too, unless they are automate the whole "last mile" delivery. Loading docks and warehouses will have to adapt or the retailers/shippers will die, too.

I'm American and I learned to drive in a stick shift. My first 13 years of driving was with a stick. But it got to a point where it was just too difficult to find a stick version of the cars I wanted to get, so now I drive automatics.

I get the reason why some people insist driving sticks. You feel more "in tune" and "in control" with your car. But for the vast majority, this is completely unnecessary. Most people just want to get from point A to point B in one piece. For these people, feeling more in control of your car is as unnecessary as feeling more in control of a hand-cranked window over a power window.

Eventually we'll all be in self-driving cars and this whole debate will seem silly and trivial. "Automatics" will eventually include automatic turning and automatic braking and all things automatic.

Definitely a PR move. What 14 year-old is running a lemonade stand? I would guess there will be zero claims made.

> First by forcing them to use Windows Mobile (or Windows Phone, or whatever it was called) when it was clear to all they needed to go with Android

There's no way that Microsoft bought Nokia to concentrate on making that tiny hardware subdivision profitable (MSFT's market cap is $700B+ and they bought Nokia for $7.6B). They wanted a hardware platform to promote Windows Phone. For Microsoft, the dying entity in need of a Hail Mary was Windows Phone, not Nokia.

That sounds like more of a zoning issue. You can't just build an apartment somewhere because you own the land.

Are you talking about people adjusting their clocks and their bodies to accommodate the change in time? Very few people have a big problem with that.

The problems arise when accommodating the change programmatically in code. How many times did Apple fuck this up with the first few versions of the iPhone with alarms not going off at the right time?

2010 https://www.cultofmac.com/67254/how-to-avoid-the-iphone-dayl...

2011 http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/13/iphone-daylight-savings-time-...

2012 http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/03/iphone-daylight-savings-t...

I don't think programmers hate DST per se. I think they just hate having to write code that has to support the time change in general. If it doesn't change, it's not really different than just keeping it at Standard Time.

That will work until Elon Musk opens his Mars settlement. Then we will have to rename "Universal Coordinated Time" to "Earth Coordinated Time" and have separate "Planet Times".

I suppose the cost benefit depends on whether they stay in the store charging their laptops longer because of that 10 second delay. If the customer plugs in their laptop at 1pm and plans to leave at 1:30pm, then at least they'd be making money 10 seconds longer while spending the same amount of money on electricity. If the customer leaves at 1:30:10, then they'd be paying extra for the time. But in any case, they're not paying for any extra hardware.

"Liang is one of the lowest-ranking executives charged so far."

I'm guessing that the customer service rep has no idea what the term "User-Agent" refers to. He just saw the word "Linux" in the post and then replied with a canned response.

"I know this is priority 1, but is it priority 1A, 1B, or 1C?"

So...they surrendered?

But the 10-key on the left-hand side is near useless. Most people who use the 10-key are trained to use it with their right hand. It's better to just get a keyboard without a 10-key at all, put the mouse on the right and if you're an accountant, get a separate 10-key keyboard.

"that and $3 would buy [you] a cup of coffee."

That really sounds like a dick thing to say. Even if it were true (which I don't believe it is), It sucks to have someone who is in charge of writing your performance reviews say something like that about one of your accomplishments. What if you took a Coursera online course on Python and he said the same thing? What if you got a Python Programming Certificate from O'Reilly and he said, "Well, any monkey who pays for the training software could do that"?

The truth is, you will most certainly benefit financially if you put it on your resume and your LinkedIn profile. I think recruiters and tech-savvy employers would gobble that up. It definitely shows that you are extremely knowledgeable about the language and can answer almost any question without hesitation. It also shows that you are articulate and that you are the kind of person who would take the time to teach others and share your knowledge. These are very valuable traits that are extremely valuable in software companies.

People who are saying, "It shows you have a lot of free time" are nuts. Free time for what? Thinking about software? Who wouldn't love that from a potential job candidate? I guess it also shows that you have a lot of free time if you're going to tech conferences, take online courses, or go to night school.

Not all people will value your badge, but I'm pretty sure you could leverage it to find a new, higher-paying job with an open-minded boss who isn't going to discredit your accomplishments.

Congratulations on your badge!

It's like saying "You don't need a web browser at all -- See how we can navigate the web using cURL!"

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