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by FreakyT 9y ago
So do I! I'm always disappointed that my Google Home isn't capable of acknowledging a "thank you". I feel like it should be possible for it to achieve something like this (with a "no problem" response) without
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by FreakyT 9y ago
That comment is my personal favorite HN naysayer comment of all time: > you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I really want to file this as a bug report in the English language. ENG-21238: Contraction for "it is" easily confused with possessive form of "it"
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by FreakyT 9y ago
"It's identical to Android Pay in essentially every way, but it has a fancy new name!" Of all these "$company_name Pay" services, the only one that ever offered anything unique was Samsung Pay with its ridiculous
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I would think someone who has founded a company that failed would have learned quite a few worthwhile lessons to teach to up-and-coming startups, no?
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The SDK part of the Ionic is what was built by the Pebble team, and it's a really pleasant-to-use SDK -- developing stuff is super easy to do. They've also actively courted all the former Pebble developers to port their apps over,
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Every time I see this paper I'm always disappointed that there doesn't seem to exist a usable (open source or otherwise) implementation of it anywhere.
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Oh I fully understand that. However, in the past, I would argue those versions actually added useful things, so there was a bit of a tradeoff to consider. High Sierra has essentially no enhancements whatsoever.
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Honestly, it's the first Mac OS release I'd actively recommend avoiding upgrading to. It offers essentially no benefits over the prior release, and a whole lot of downsides. (Security issues notwithstanding, High Sierra also drops
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by FreakyT 9y ago
That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this post. Still astounding they managed to fit so much into 1.44mb!
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I'd say both are likely. Those who are hopeless and desperate are much easier targets for propaganda.
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And such a result it just goes to show how brainwashed they are. Nothing's more appealing than a scapegoat (liberals, "coastal elites", the EPA, Mexicans), when the biggest problem is yourself.
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Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1866/ Personally I'm still waiting for someone to actually do this and put a literal teapot into orbit.
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You wouldn't download a brain!
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Completely agree! That's what I think the future of self-driving cars will be -- not so much "automatic Uber" but instead little busses that can automatically optimize their routes to get people where they need to go. This wo
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by FreakyT 9y ago
This looks like a really cool tool based on their website -- has anyone here had any experience with it? How does the developer experience compare to, say, Unity?
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by FreakyT 9y ago
This issue reminds me of a key permission iOS gives control over while Android (even post-Nougat) doesn't: The distinction between allowing an app to use location while the app is open versus anytime . Android makes no distinction b
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by FreakyT 9y ago
From the article, it sounds like the biggest obstacles are "land buys" and "delays relating to land buys". We need to strengthen eminent domain for transit projects so that we don't end up wasting tons of money appe
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What the Erroneous Hawaiian Missile Alert Can Teach Us About Error Prevention(nngroup.com)
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Seems to me that some of the "ignored" parts of Title II would have nonetheless benefitted consumers. Personally, I would love to see last loop unbundling for broadband.
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I don't see any reason why this would avoid the issue with every cross platform GUI toolkit: missing nuances that make apps written with it seem strange and foreign to each platform, even if superficially the appearance is correct. Min
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Completely agree -- not to mention that the reason it stopped being privately owned in the first place was that the original companies went out of business.
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I completely agree! Today, as far as I know, only Facebook Messenger comes even close to supporting it. Specifically, Messenger can show you an "online now" tab, indicating who is currently at least using Messenger or Facebook, an
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The issue there is preventing fraud -- how do you know that I didn't just pay someone to take the test for me? Do you add some kind of monitoring, like a mandatory proctor? Or do you have a in-person interview component to verify that
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Completely agree about Apple's 2-factor implementation being completely ridiculous. If you don't have an iPhone it gets even weirder -- I've had it pop up auth codes on the same laptop on which I'm logging into iCloud.
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Upvotes on HN/Reddit do essentially the same thing. I don't have the user statistics, but I'd imagine the typical HN reader only reads a sampling of the top-voted comments, which essentially allows them "to see how other
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by FreakyT 9y ago
It's definitely neat, but I feel like this has been done before without success -- examples like the Motorola Atrix, Windows Continuum, and even the cancelled Ubuntu Phone come to mind. (And, going further back in time, let's not
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Generally, I've found the SnapChat-using demographic is today's college and high school kids so, I'd say in the 15 to 22-ish range.
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I feel like a car has greater potential for comfort than even a "comfortable" reclining bus seat. For example, right now the idea of a folding bed in a car isn't something you'll ever see as an option, since it would onl
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by FreakyT 9y ago
> The prayer hands emoji is carrying a whole sentence The funny thing is, the "prayer hands" emoji doesn't really exist in the spec -- its use is completely based on a misinterpretation of the Japanese "folded hands&q

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