Andrenid

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by Andrenid 11y ago
Exact reason we went for an IP cam that stores a buffer to MicroSD for our baby camera. It runs its own WiFi server rather than being connected to our router (and therefore the Internet), so we can still monitor it from other rooms from lap
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by Andrenid 11y ago
Not to mention there's a typo: > because she is woman. If you're going to credit an editor at the bottom, they should probably learn to edit something so simple that Word would've picked it up automatically.
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by Andrenid 11y ago
VR goggles displaying a view of outside, maybe recorded from a plane that flew the same path then synced to your location to simulate your actual trip. The feeling to your body would then match the view too.
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by Andrenid 11y ago
> The 31-year-old physics graduate and former boy scout was handed five sentences: one for 20 years, one for 15 years, one for five and two for life. All are to be served concurrently with no chance of parole. Meanwhile: > Hu Wanlin w
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by Andrenid 11y ago
I'm late 30s and will still load up MC before resorting to TV or other entertainment. Have played consistently since the alpha. I have a Realm going with a fair few adult friends where we just play around in a long-term survival game t
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by Andrenid 11y ago
TL;DR - Eve Online went to the edge of apocalypse and back.
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by Andrenid 11y ago
I will never, ever, ever get sick of watching that video. I played EVE for a fair while, CEO'd a decent sized corp in a major alliance and took part in some of the biggest battles, and had to stop (aka: winning EVE) because "Life™
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by Andrenid 11y ago
A very major reason on why Wordpress is so widely used, is how easy it is to install on just about anything above a toaster. Meanwhile, this is how you install Wagtail: http://spapas.github.io/2014/02/13/wagta
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Yup way too many mentions of "free, without limits", considering: €10 per year but they say "no expiry". €.25 per photo (sent or received, I think) €.50 per video That's just for Zone 1. More than triple those price
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by Andrenid 12y ago
> Is this. any different? Every time "this." is mentioned without quotes I'm going to automatically read it in Shatner's voice. I'm really sick of names with punctuation in them, or that use everyday words. It&#x
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by Andrenid 12y ago
VRML was amazing. Playing with it is what convinced me that VR is the future and everything from then until now has just been me waiting for the technology to catch up to the ideas.
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by Andrenid 12y ago
I don't know how they can say they're the "official" one, or use the original assets, when the publisher of it has nothing to do with the original SkiFree author (nor is there any mention on the original SkiFree page abo
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Thanks!
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by Andrenid 12y ago
I'd rather not divulge too much as far as details/places/companies, but the basics of my career is something like this: - Played around with making websites from the very early days of the web (gray backgrounds, black text, b
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Thanks so much for all that. Will definitely work my way through your post and check them all out. Much appreciated.
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Book recommendation to learn basics of Comp Sci?
5 points by Andrenid 12y ago|9 comments
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by Andrenid 12y ago
> Google is using too much popularity-based machine learning to "correct" what you're searching for. It's become difficult on Google to search for a non-popular thing that happens to be close to a popular search targe
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by Andrenid 12y ago
My 13yr old brother spent all year saving his pocket money on a deal with dad where dad would put in the rest for him to get his first ever gaming console, an Xbox One. On Christmas he got it, and for 3 days straight he couldn't get it
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Yeah same here. Clicked to a puzzle curious to play with it, saw the notice saying I need to log in to facebook, closed the tab.
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by Andrenid 12y ago
FF 33.1.1 on OSX 10.10.1 works fine for me.
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by Andrenid 12y ago
A good breakdown of this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZ2cyNxPwg The company behind it is pushing the limits of false advertising as far as I'm concerned. They're preying on the not-so-technically-
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Couldn't someone like Google, Apple, or any of the other huge companies who have made billions with the help of *nix and OSS in general step in and help out with what, to them, is a trivial drop in the bucket of money? Also how is it e
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by Andrenid 12y ago
I'd love a version of Winamp 2 that works on OS X. I loved how minimal and fast it was. You didn't need to import and manage your media, just drag a folder onto it and blam, it's playing. Nice keyboard shortcuts, no extra cra
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Making Winamp skins and visualisation presets is what got me into graphics and coding, which led to web design, which led to my various web-related careers over the last 15 years. I owe Winamp so so much.
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Yeah I'm not sure how they can have this on the front page: > The world's most advanced tracker. > The most advanced activity tracker known to man When it obviously has less features than some of the competition. Eg no GPS
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Doesn't work at all for me. ILLEGAL_USE_OF_DEMO_KEY
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by Andrenid 12y ago
With lots of providers you only need the PIN if accessing voicemail from a number that isn't your own, eg "dialling in" to your voicemail from a payphone/friendsphone/etc (dial your own number, press *)... if it det
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Thanks so much for the advice and all the links.
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Learning iOS development Swift or Obj-C?
9 points by Andrenid 12y ago|7 comments
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by Andrenid 12y ago
Family has farms... <family name>.farm has worked well for us so far. The TLD becomes a talking point that makes people remember it... "Oh, no .com at the end?" etc.

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