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10y ago
They're not the same article - just the same subject matter
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10y ago
*Almost half of iOS traffic
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10y ago
You'll just need to somehow emulate the closed down servers that run the now defunct game worlds...
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10y ago
I know nothing about this implementation, but I'd be extremely interested into how the pricing model adjusts itself. I'd assume there has to be some delay built into the system to measure the impact that price increases have on us
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10y ago
Yes, but this isn't work. Work is more discrete, less specific; I very much doubt we could have such simple apps that could support the employment of ~1/3 of the population (those in the article with -1 or 0 "computer skills&
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10y ago
See "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think" https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
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> But why should they need to? Because that's what this whole article is discussing: computer skills. Your examples reference appliances; cars drive, cameras take pictures, TVs play stuff. Computers support multiple tasks. Unless
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10y ago
Think you're looking at this story the wrong way; Its not about the fault but the bug hunting process. I propose: TL:DR - They had a strange hard to identify bug, but used a limited data set and interesting techniques to quickly find
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10y ago
From the Article "I've not heard of an attack of this nature and scale on a UK bank where it appears that the bank's central system is the target" Sounds like it's a breach from within (or at least not though comp
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10y ago
Just a few times: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=musicforprogramming.n...
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"The world is going to have cars that are sold to individuals and cars that are shared by individuals, and which one Alphabet does, we have our thinking on it" As Tesla is going after the former ("affordable for everyone&qu
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10y ago
> Talking to an imaginary friend can't replace real human interaction, especially for 8 hours. "It was forbidden to communicate with others according to the rules of the experiment" So no imaginary friends either ;) In
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10y ago
Agreed! Better get that karma before someone else does /snark
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10y ago
Think you mean OSB, MDF is made of dust and resin
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Feel that the last sentence in the article was the main reason for writing it: > I love my shitty Apple headphones that just plug in to anything. Bluetooth is not ubiquitous _yet_
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10y ago
Think GP is referring to book titles in mentioned in comments without a buy-the-book-here link eg "Two books i always recommend reading are 'The cathedral and the bazaar' and 'The Mythical Man-Month'."
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10y ago
Looks like the homepage displays last week's results; If you select "Browse" you can drill into the weekly data and the list for week 33 is the same as the main list. With the frequency of comments being 1 for each book, it
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10y ago
"Once trained..." It needs to know what keyboard/layout and also the person. I'd guess that the position of the keyboard in the room needs to stay constant too.
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10y ago
Get a pencil, now wrap a piece of string around it. The string protrudes from the pencil "shaft body" as per a screw. Conversely in a bolt, the thread is machined into the shaft; imagine carving the line that the string made into
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10y ago
> Couldn't the exact same fastener fit either definition depending on the context in which it's intended to be used? Nope. The two definitions are mutually exclusive, that's the point! Give me an example when a screw uses
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10y ago
Dunning–Kruger showed that less competent individuals in a sample thought they performed much better than they actually did, whereas more competent individuals thought they had not performed as well as they actually did. The less competent
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10y ago
>Somehow it has seven settings With three things that can be switched on or off there are 7 state permutations (plus all off) > It's awful. The alternative being three separate toggle switches. While this would be easier to scan
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10y ago
Devils Advocate: Ah! but now you have a budget, you need to track it to make sure you're sticking to it - how do you know if you're spending 50% less on eating out this month if the data arn't there in-front of you to check?
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10y ago
Changing your mac address wont protect you from being identified - browser fingerprints are just as effective https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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Two different solutions; RescueTime is good at analysing how your time is spent after the fact. A chess clock is a great real time stopwatch "oh man i've been googling rhubarb crumble recipes for 14 minutes..."
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10y ago
This was after the General Election in May last year. Not the same story.
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Oncopy is a named javascript event type that triggers when you copy the text of an element. This method is more sophisticated; it monitors the whole page for copy commands, and has an event listener watching to see when this 'copy'
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10y ago
ha! Flashbacks to bookmarking in 2003
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11y ago
There are far too many times a day that I find myself hitting > alt-tab > sigh > shift-alt-tab > ctrl-tab I'm not a "keep all the tabs open forever" person, so having the ability to shift this to the O/S wo
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11y ago
I think you've misinterpreted this From your link: "This accounting principle assumes that, a company will continue to exist long enough to carry out its objectives and commitments and will not liquidate in the foreseeable future.
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