Robadob

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by Robadob 13y ago
That will be added in the second iteration, as a new innovative feature.
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by Robadob 13y ago
Yeah, I was wondering what it was, and it bears no obvious relation to spreadsheets. I'd love to know where the name came from? (It can't really be criticised for its name though, I can't find anything to link 'excel&#x2
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by Robadob 13y ago
From what I've seen advertised and pop up on facebook etc. Their latest game 'farm heroes saga' screenshots look like 'candy crush saga' but your matching animals instead of candy. I haven't actually played eit
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by Robadob 13y ago
I'm of the opinion that so long as they clearly mark that it's 'Google' shopping or flight results there is nothing wrong with the practise, it makes clear business sense and most companies would try the same. In terms o
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by Robadob 13y ago
The title is a bit of a link bait, the video which was posted in an earlier thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211514 ) stated that, through Facebooks paid ads you also get likes from click farms (presumably becau
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by Robadob 13y ago
It was much more reactive at ~200 players, I was playing around modifying the javascript to remove collision detection (there's a method with a long ternary statement that ends ? !1 : !0, change the both to !1) etc until it hit ~700 us
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by Robadob 13y ago
>We don’t want advertisers to get fans that aren’t good for their business -- we want to help them drive real results, and we can’t do that with bad likes. We invest a lot in improving the systems to monitor and remove fake likes from th
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by Robadob 13y ago
The images for each rating didn't load for me, possibly my ad-blocker screwing up. Closed it now so can't easily check.
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by Robadob 13y ago
It would be nice for there to be a brief sample of the text it generates in the ReadMe, or a link to a github pages where its used.
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by Robadob 13y ago
Paywalled Journal article here; http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/full/nature1...
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Physicists Finally Made a One-Poled Magnet(businessinsider.com)
5 points by Robadob 13y ago|2 comments
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30 Minutes Inside Valve's Prototype Virtual Reality Headset(roadtovr.com)
1 points by Robadob 13y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 13y ago
Whats the difference to the regular facebook app? It just looks like a new UI for the apps newsfeed to me.
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Amazon’s Android console to launch this year priced below $300(vg247.com)
29 points by Robadob 13y ago|21 comments
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by Robadob 13y ago
~12 hours later it appears to have sorted itself out, not seeing many Trending articles now.
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by Robadob 13y ago
Is there any way to remove all the "Trending picked this in Trending" articles from my feed? I've not followed Trending yet ~50% of my feed is made up of these articles that I have little interest in.
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by Robadob 13y ago
This appears to be a repost of yesterdays; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6959269
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by Robadob 13y ago
In chrome I can just right click the text, keep right mouse held down while I use left mouse to highlight the text I want and then lift right mouse while hovered over my newly highlighted text and select copy. This method while overkill is
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by Robadob 13y ago
Can anyone confirm whether this is the software used by the AlgoRave collective in the article that was posted the other day. I tried looking around their websites for the software they used, the closest I reached was that it used haskell.
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by Robadob 13y ago
On my 5-year old netbook and my pretty decent spec desktop I just get a white page that goes grey when I move the mouse over it. :(
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by Robadob 13y ago
This is a really good idea, personally it may come in use when working next to someone and they want to copy some code or help you've just located for them. Save sending them the url, and in google hangouts/traditional screenshare
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by Robadob 13y ago
The paypal screens all changed for me the otherday when I was paying through it. I had to stop for a second and check it wasn't just a bad phising site, payment sites changing makes me lose trust in them :s
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by Robadob 13y ago
Same here, myself, 4 housemates and 1 of their partners.
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by Robadob 13y ago
A large part of it may be covered by this functionality; "You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can st
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by Robadob 13y ago
There is a similar exploit people have used in survival maps. If you were are able to get your player physically stuck (usually by moving up and down an angled area which goes below your player height, e.g. stair rail with ceiling above) yo
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by Robadob 14y ago
I just solved a bug in someone's CUDA agent based modelling library which caused a runtime error when compiling for a more recent CUDA compute architecture. The actual bug was due to the more recent architecture enforcing pointer alignment
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by Robadob 14y ago
I've had ones in this form a couple of time, where the image is clearly from a photo of someone's house number. Not sure if they are checking house number positions from google street view with it to. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2461478/Image