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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Nice, that's pretty slick... I also have to admit, sweet domain name (that's one I'll remember for sure :D).
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Wow, this is brilliant. It would be awesome if in a few years, there was a standardized way to have "car applications" for various purposes (i.e. fuel economy tracker, Grooveshark in the car, a media player, so on and so fourth... the poss
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I would love to see an official release of this distribution for the Raspberry Pi. Heck, even the CorePlus distribution weighs in at a mere 64 MiB. I think if you were to need an RPi for real-time operation, you could mix Tiny Core and th
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
It only shows up on http://www.apple.co.uk , since the ruling was made in the UK.
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Man, this just keeps getting better... You think after the first time they would just have accepted the loss, put up the message, and gone on with things. It's amazing the extent they are willing to go to subvert the verdict. Of course, t
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
"Happy that is finally being acknowledged on the outside." Not to mention by a reputable security company in the business (we all know there's some sources whom are... biased... to put it nicely). Congrats to Microsoft, glad to see they'
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Now this is some interesting stuff. I wonder if they have any plans to make a dual instruction-set processor that can run both x86 and ARM-based operating systems... That's the kind of crazy design that just might work ;) Aside: I wonder if
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Now this is some interesting stuff. I wonder if they have any plans to make a dual instruction-set processor that can run both x86 and ARM-based operating systems... That's the kind of crazy design that just might work ;) (Aside: I wonde
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
"... as opposed to TouchWiz or Sense or whatever UI has been bolted on top of the Android innards." Uh, what? This is a Google/ASUS device, you won't find any of that stuff here. I'm pretty sure the Nexus 7 is as close to AOSP as you can
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I love how you say "the Nexus 7's OS" when clearly, Android is used on a wide variety of devices (who calls the software on their phone the Droid Razr's OS or the Galaxy SII's OS? just saying...). Oh, and honest answer: It's a full-suited
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
"Ubuntu, err I mean Lubuntu is great." Don't forget Xubuntu ;)
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
While I'm not one to normally say this... That little R2D2 beside the Storm Trooper looks so cute! :)
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
How do you get a patent regarding "A method includes addressing, through a command generated by an application [...] based on an appropriate communication link" to be issued? All I read was "This patent regards using a software-controlled c
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Haha I remember getting my first spam text message from them, and wondering to myself, "What is this garbage? Why am I paying over $65 a month, only to be sent more messages about how I can give them more money?" This year however, Rog
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I think a lot of the people who write articles like this forget that Windows 7 still exists for the "hard-core desktop users" (yes, I claim I fall into that category, although I'm an Xubuntu user as well). Realistically though, Windows 7 i
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
...they didn't change/redesign anything on the commit view. The commit page on Bitbucket has always always looked that for as long as I can remember (been using it for a year or two now). Also, I recall having the ability to diff. files be
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Awesome, I think this just heavily strengthened the future of Mercurial. I'm not trying to start any version control wars here, but personally, I found Mercurial to be the most "intuitive" approach (unlike Git/SVN, but again, that's my o
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
It can be corrected, but only to the extent of how much fuel/propellant is available on the satellite's on-board propulsion system... And when I mean "available", I mean "available within the new amount of distance the orbit has to be raise
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Wonderful, just wonderful. I'm glad to have woken up today to find the first item on Hacker News to be several big-name companies collaborating to bring several technologies forwards and more standardized, instead of fighting against e
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
In binary, you can't represent any of 0.1, 0.2, nor 0.3 with "proper" fractions, as they are irrational in a radix-2 number system. Thus, when actually performing the operation (0.3 - 0.2) - (0.2 - 0.1), the result may actually be non-zero
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I think you're confusing "dangerous" with "working as designed" - the whole point of the experiment was to have the subjects "learn" without explicitly having to do anything. Plus, the article also states that "researchers have said that t
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Most likely not, so good question. All that went through my mind when I read the post title was "Why Apple should acquire [Some Company With Way Better Maps]"...
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I'm definitely going to check this out... It's such a pain to start developing an Android app from scratch, especially if you aren't familiar with mobile development.
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I personally opted to just skip over the whole Unity thing and move to Xubuntu... Personal preference, but I find Xfce has been the closest to a "traditional" desktop experience while still maintaining a full feature set. Then again, to eac