LordDragonfang

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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   I notice that the way these volumes are split up is the same as both the way US AP classes and most colleges I've seen split up physics classes. Is it safe to assume that it has become the canonical order to teach the subject because o
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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   >Lightning ports for devices which require charging, and USB ports for devices which require data transfer Except the new macbooks use USB C for charging, and one of the things Apple emphasized when they switched from 30-pin to lightning
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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   I think he's referring to a "hullabaloo that would have been" had the American populace not been otherwise distracted and coerced into thinking it needed such things.
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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   > Says who? You? Facebook? Microsoft? Google? I think you just answered your own question. "Says" the plurality or even majority of the human population who use services from the companies you just listed, despite constantly be
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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   Is it just me or is the scroll velocity super accelerated on that page? It's going at least twice as fast on ChromeOS
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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   You can see exactly that with the speaker grill and the text (This type of transformation is notoriously bad at compressing images of text, and is why you shouldn't use jpg for pictures of text) In this context, the edges of, say, the
7. 1357.▲
   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   I'm a bit young for perl, but I've had rather extensive experience with python at my last job, and it's my understanding that perl has a similar "global" solution with for elem in collection: and the `__ite
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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   It's entirely possible that they already are/ have looked at it, and found this move to be more strategically effective. Ultimately, Amazon's goal is to maintain a strong brand and keep stockholder confidence. This presents a
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   by LordDragonfang 10y ago

   They're realizing that India is a good microcosm for what the majority of users actually need outside the SV bubble. http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/27/13071128/sundar-pichai-goo...
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    by LordDragonfang 10y ago

    I get the impression you haven't tried to refactor a large code base to change core functionality before. Any system architecture is built with, inevitably, certain assumptions on how the data is going to come through the app and where
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    by LordDragonfang 11y ago

    It's interesting to compare HN's usage frequency of particular xkcd comics compared to elsewhere on the internet ( https://xkcdref.info/statistics/ )
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    by LordDragonfang 11y ago

    I spent the majority of the article thinking it stood for the "top-down design" that my intro to programming professor was so fond of.
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    by LordDragonfang 11y ago

    Google has a somewhat annoying tendency to release "new" interface versions for its various products that are far from feature complete, and only slowly add back the features the old version had - or sometime not add them. Presuma