Simucal

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by Simucal 14y ago
"...then Bud made himself scarce, because the monitors - almond-sized aerostats with eyes, ears, and radios - had probably picked up the sound of the explosion and begun converging on the attack. He saw one hiss by him as he rounded the cor
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by Simucal 14y ago
Neal Stephenson was pretty critical of our use of smartphones in his novel Anathem . Most of the common people were glued to their "jeejahs" (smartphones) all the time in the book. There was a good piece written by io9[1] where they inter
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by Simucal 14y ago
This isn't exactly the same as a one time "box" but monthly subscription services for "boxes" of different items have been taking off lately. I currently subscribe to Barkbox[0], a monthly subscription to receive dog treats, toys and access
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by Simucal 14y ago
I have the same frustrations as other people regarding the choices Quora has made regarding its platform. However, I have also found a lot of high quality answers to some very interesting questions on the site. It has some really good co
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by Simucal 14y ago
It would be so damn beautiful though.
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by Simucal 14y ago
I hold my phone (iPhone) in my left hand and it goes in my left front pocket when I'm done using it. Even though I'm right handed, this has always felt natural to me. My left hand has enough dexterity that navigating menus and scrolling is
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by Simucal 14y ago
This model doesn't allow you to control the temperature of the faucet which might be important in a home setting. It seems like a great idea for public restrooms however. Here is a video of James Dyson describing the faucet: http://youtu.
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by Simucal 14y ago
Several of us had root access to the few Linux boxes in the CS computer lab.
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by Simucal 14y ago
I went to this university and took several of Professor Cooper's classes. He was a great guy and he seemed really passionate about his Mersenne project. One thing that was annoying however was the prime finding software was put on every la
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by Simucal 14y ago
Would you need to dig into the source code for this? I thought there were just texture images that you could modify.
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by Simucal 14y ago
I'm curious, what was the subject of your remark that caused that response?
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by Simucal 14y ago
That seems like an odd thing to do when employees have unlimited vacation time. "Oh, I'm out of sick days? I'll just take a vacation day then."
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by Simucal 14y ago
Why doesn't the Bing app have to adhere to these same restrictions?
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by Simucal 14y ago
What kind of support infrastructure are you talking about? I work remotely a couple days a week and we have several full-time remote workers on my team. We setup a Webex meetings for every meeting and we all have webcams. Besides that, w
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by Simucal 14y ago
How does that interact poorly with Go? I'm just curious.
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by Simucal 14y ago
The two friends in question aren't very technical at all. They had reported, after being alerted by a friend, that their account had sent out emails posing as them and contained a malicious link. They confirmed this by checking their sent
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by Simucal 14y ago
Already, two of my Facebook friends have reported they have been hit with this vulnerability.
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by Simucal 14y ago
Can you describe a bit more about schematic.io? I quick google search didn't turn up much. What is this going to be?
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by Simucal 14y ago
What evidence do you have that this is spam and that the developers complaints about the Windows Store are not legitimate?
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by Simucal 14y ago
Maybe you should read more than the title of an article before commenting on it. Everything you just said has nothing to do with the point or conclusion of the story. Helping people at the expense of your wife, children and your employer i
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by Simucal 14y ago
> I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. It sounds like something you'd hear at a bad self-help seminar. The locus of control is a psychology term[0]: "referring to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control
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by Simucal 14y ago
prank Perf?
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by Simucal 14y ago
I think you are vastly over estimating the number of iOS users who will seek to replace a default app. I'd wager that the friction of not being one of the default apps will ensure that Apple Maps continues to be the dominant iOS mapping ap
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by Simucal 14y ago
Do you have any resources you can point to to learn more about iOS UI optimization?
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by Simucal 14y ago
It says that he goes on to continue his research once he is uploaded. So perhaps him being uploaded to the machine is distinct from him trying to create the first sentient computer. He is trying to create a sentient machine before he dies
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by Simucal 14y ago
I could see how the average consumer would get confused between the two. It is kind of hard for a tablet devices to differentiate themselves in their looks when the entire face of the device is a glass display. I now own the iPad Mini and
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by Simucal 14y ago
Which iPhone were you comparing to the S3? The iPhone 5?
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by Simucal 14y ago
Well, you could utilize more precise operations but, according to Wikipedia, games rarely took advantage of it: "The Nintendo 64's central processing unit (CPU) is the NEC VR4300, a cost-reduced derivative of the 64-bit MIPS Technologies R4
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by Simucal 14y ago
You can turn off the feature.
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by Simucal 14y ago
Yardsale meets your description and is YC backed.

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