stonesam92

The exchange is not taking the other side of the bet; they're just matching you up with another user who wants to take the opposite position to you and then taking a fee for providing that service.

Did you contact Anker? Among the many products I've bought from them, I've had a couple of problematic ones, but have found that in these cases their support has been very helpful and sent me a replacement, even a year or so after the original purchase.

If that were the case and USPTO were in on the trick, why the need to drop HTTPS?

They'd have that data already, so could just share it directly.

This reminds me of "The Wikipedia Game" we'd play at school.

You'd all start on one random page, and race to get to some completely unrelated target page, only by clicking through links to other pages.

It was always surprising how few degrees of separation there were between wildly unrelated topics.

I'm pretty sure that when you register a Homebridge instance to your Apple device though you get a message about the accessory being in test mode.

Homebridge is presumably making use of some debug mode that you wouldn't use in a shipping product - and if you did, Apple wouldn't let you advertise it as officially compatible with HomeKit.

I think that the "if-then" part is a simplification of imperative paradigms.

I've never heard it described that way, but I assume the part about "pin pointed procedures" tied to data is a weird way of describing the way that methods relate to the data encapsulated by their owning object.

Ultimately, I think this is a case where someone familiar with the concept has explained it to someone who is not, who has then tried to paraphrase and, lacking any domain knowledge, summarised it in an unusual and vague way.

Don't most large organisations require something similar with their own open source projects? I know Google and Facebook do.

It's just a way of confirming that you own the rights to your contribution, and that you explicitly give Microsoft permission to use it. (And if you didn't want to grant them permission, you would have no reason to contribute!)

Ah, I'd never seen the "Members" tab until you pointed it out.

I agree, that could indeed be misleading and doesn't seem very useful!

You don't become listed as a contributor by merely forking a repo, your fork is just included in the original project's "forks" count.

The project is included in a user's "Repositories contributed to" area when that user creates a pull a pull request or files an issue.

You are listed as a contributor on a project's page only once you have had an accepted pull request.

EDIT: take one of my projects for example[0] - 152 forks recorded but only 8 people are listed as contributors.

[0] https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat

It's sarcasm.

Industry analysts and the media often claim that Apple is doomed, but given their earnings obviously this is far from the case.

While it certainly comes off as demanding, I think it's important to remember that English is not necessary the OP's first language.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Note: "Stupidity" is obviously not the correct word for this situation, but the quote is still relevant.

The part about increasing the revenue cut is unfounded, but I assume the seconds part of that line is in regard to Apple News[1].

[1] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/i-do-not-agree-to-your-terms....

Thanks a lot! I just merged it.

What happened to your 2011 MBP? If it was graphics card related, Apple just launched a repair program:

https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

Interesting that they mention Netflix before Amazon Instant Video in the description.

"It's an easy way to enjoy Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, YouTube.com, music, and much more"

However even if someone picked the project up again it wouldn't run on any modern devices, since the last iPhone to have an untethered bootrom exploit was the 3GS.