DrSprout

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by DrSprout 16y ago
I have, generally speaking, three services up: - GTalk - Android Keyboard . - BatteryLife With these services up, my Droid loses maybe 40% of its battery life in a day (with minimal usage.) While I sleep, it rarely consumes more than 10%. T
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Well, the iPhone solution is basically throw away your phone every 18 months, which should work equally well on Android.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Sure I do. I use it to kill the exchange email sync, because it triples battery usage even when I have it set to not sync (I believe this has something to do with the fact that it's just scraping Outlook Web Access, not actually connecting
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>this was 50 years ago when such schools were widely funded by local sources This is really the only significant part of the equation. The system is basically designed to fail. You pass a tax levy for X mills, which brings in X amount o
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It might be better just to put the damn money in a trust to pay off the national debt. God knows everyone with the money to be trading on Wall St. is responsible for that debt.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Quickly checking that you have the latest release in the absence of a good network connection. Also, you can use mirrors without worrying about the mirrors being tampered with. Obviously if someone does a MITM on you against gmane you're in
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It is in fact very hard to find these bugs. Most of the time when a person sees something about you, that person has no idea if that's in line with your preferences, so can't even know if Facebook is working as it's supposed to.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Was it really needed? Most of the stuff I've seen on Scribd was basically pdfs in an iFrame, except replace iFrame with Flash.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Those tons of aresoles I initially read that as "those tons of arse-holes." Sort of half a Freudian slip?
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by DrSprout 16y ago
So sort of a logical view of Wikipedia with RSS?
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Comparing sliced bread to a breadmaker is like comparing a television to an iPad. Sliced bread is really nothing special. Let me rip off a chunk of bread fresh out of my oven any day of the week.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
This is the Internet. If you're looking for a job, and something impressive with your name on it gets to the top of HN, Reddit, Slashdot, or even Digg, you'll have ample opportunities. Heck, the only reason I haven't quit my job yet is I'm
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>If humans bred only with other humans, all these markers would create a neat phylogenetic tree, showing that human genetic diversity can be traced to a single population that existed in Africa in the last 100,000 years. I'm not a stati
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Only if the user's email account is hosted on a service with a similar TOS.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Why do all of the Android websites look like crap on an Android phone? If there were a website you would think would have a good mobile layout, it would be one ostensibly dedicated to a mobile platform.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I have not bought a game in years. I have pirated several, but I have never pirated a game I didn't already own a license for. (And actually, by 'pirate' I mean downloaded a keygen to get around inserting a disc into the drive.) I now exclu
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Flash hasn't crashed on me in over a year. Firefox frequently refuses to run Flash, but I've pretty much given up on that, and when I want Flash, I copy the url into Chromium. It's actually a nice separation, since I've got one locked-down
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by DrSprout 16y ago
If its kept minimalistic, along the lines of Craigslist, they will be just fine.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I guess I lump .NET together with Silverlight, and the software I have to use for work is currently unusable on Moonlight.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Except Microsoft doesn't provide fully functional implementations of the CLR for a reasonable set of platforms. Microsoft intentionally crippled the CLR on non-Windows OSes, and continues to do so.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
You're missing the bigger, and much more legitimate omission: Windows Mobile 7 is running with IE7. Which effectively means these things won't work their way into WinMo for at least a year after the release of IE9.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It's not a standard if your tests are designed to match what your browser currently does. The real tests of compatibility are those like Acid3 that are designed to fail all browsers equally. This one is clearly designed to fail all non-IE b
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by DrSprout 16y ago
American industry is failing primarily because safety standards are higher than abroad. GM failed because they designed shoddy cars. The Unions had nothing to do with that (especially given that most of the union workers were rank-and-file
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The biggest sticking point is going to be the web of trust. Facebook's walled garden is excellent at managing identity, and this would be very difficult if any random 419 scammer can set up a Diaspora server and plug into the network. Reall
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>By making an admittedly weak effort to return the iPhone to Apple, Hogan – in the eyes of the law – committed theft. That's the thing though. Gizmodo did in fact return the iPhone to Apple without complaint, in a timely manner. Posting
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Competition is a good thing. It's only a problem for Ubuntu. And it's not even that much of a problem for Ubuntu's end users, since Ubuntu's biggest problem is making meaningful contributions upstream.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Hopefully users will steer a different course.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It wasn't. It was a US soldier attacking a US military base. Treason in time of war. Entirely different problem.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I recently went in to update some minor thing on my profile, and I had to delete all my interests, activities, etc. because Facebook wanted to make them into connections, and would not let me leave them as they were.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The marginal costs are pretty small. It could easily be handled by a site with an emphasis on simplicity like Craigslist. Personally, I would prefer a non-profit. I can't stand a private company like Facebook being the primary gateway to my

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