I've been working my way through my parents' slides from the 50s and 60s and my own from the4 60s and 70s with a Plustek 8200i. The Kodachrome still looks very good, the Ektachrome, not so much.

The trend now seems t be that full functionality is on the phone app and the desktop app is a crippleware version that nags you to switch to the phone app.

If you think this trend will continue, you should buy as many shares as you can afford before the market opens on Thursday. On the other hand, the stock has had a few up days on its thirty day ride down from $79.38 to 26.40.

Not to take away from the other valid points made here, but it's also a way eliminate paying benefits and workers' compensation insurance for people that are otherwise employees.

Amateurs can shoot detailed pictures of the ISS from the ground. The military and NSA have spectacular photo capabilities from space and airborne platforms. Yet all this uproar is about grainy, out of focus shots that look like they were taken by a three year old with an old Instamatic. Itâ(TM)s the same as with Bigfoot and Nessie. Half the people on the planet are walking around with a 12 megapixel camera in their pocket. Call me when you have a clear picture of something.

I think the difference is that the source material in Sin City was also for adults. With the exception of quasi-canonical stuff like the Injustice games, ZSJL is much more violent than most of the original source material.

"Sadly Rails documentation doesn't warn you about this pitfall, but if you know anything at all about using SQL databases in web applications, you'd have heard of SQL injection, and it's not hard to come across warnings that find_by_sql method is not safe," Dmitry Borodaenko, a former production engineer at Facebook who brought the commit to my attention wrote in an email. "It is not 100% confirmed that this is the vulnerability that was used in the Gab data breach, but it definitely could have been, and this code change is reverted in the most recent commit that was present in their GitLab repository before they took it offline." Ironically, Fosco in 2012 warned fellow programmers to use parameterized queries to prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities.

So, this was the vulnerability, unless maybe it wasn't the vulnerability, because we don't know.

Also, Rails documentation absolutely does warn you about the ">pitfalls of using find_by_sql indiscriminately:

Ruby on Rails has a built-in filter for special SQL characters, which will escape ' , " , NULL character, and line breaks. Using Model.find(id) or Model.find_by_some thing(something) automatically applies this countermeasure. But in SQL fragments, especially in conditions fragments (where("...")), the connection.execute() or Model.find_by_sql() methods, it has to be applied manually.

Is there any way I could arrange access to your customer list? I would like to see how many of these people will pay cards for money. Purely for research purposes of course.

Here in Humboldt County, ands other places where the pot economy is strong, cash is king. Very few businesses blink at a $50 or $100 bill. Most medium sized businesses have they own bill counting and banding machines in the back room. It isn't unusual to see signs stating no debit or credit cards for purchases under $X.00, but I've never seen one stating no cash.

Seems a bit of a waste for each country to get their own gps system. There are about 200 countries. How many systems do we really need? One.

How hard can it be? Just make one international system, that simply sends out the highest precision signal, all the time - no signal degradation options whatsoever.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) still works like a champ.

My concern about 11.4.1 is does it fix the horrible battery drain of 11.4? I'll update tonight, because i have nothing to lose.

At least in some states, I predict that they will run afoul of independent contractor v. employee rules. That said, there is a lot of this sort of thing in the trucking business.

Bullshit. Atari was stupid to agree to the interview and to send an unqualified representative who couldn't talk about the product. The reporter did his job and reported factually on the product and the meeting.

This.

HUGE fan of Objective-C, back from the NeXT days. Been writing iOS apps since ARC was optional and I never used it, because *I* knew how to alloc and free memory. Yeah, that meant it was a pain in the ass when Apple made ARC a requirement.

I miss introspection, sure. But optionals, tuples, native unicode support, default parameters, conditional generics, and a consistent calling syntax just makes my life easier. Add to that first-class immutable structs, better functional programming support, and stronger exception handling, and I just enjoy programming Swift more than Objective-C.

It's not like dynamic dispatch went away -- it just got shuffled to object extensions.

That said, there are some things I don't like about Swift: lack of introspection (as I admitted), and especially still using ARC for memory management. While it may be fast, resolving retention cycles can be difficult, especially if one half of the retention is in some Cocoa library.

Swift doesn't lock you into Apple products. It's an open-source language, for cryin' out loud. What locks you into Apple products are the libraries you use to target a specific platform. Just like MFC locks you into Microsoft products.

I can see why some people might prefer Objective-C. I still look on it fondly as the best of the C-based OO languages. Hell, I still love programming in straight-up C.

I'm just glad I made the jump to Swift.

Oh, I'm also moving to Kotlin for my Android projects for many of the same reasons.