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by alimbada 8y ago
Prior to my late teens (I'm 34 now) my screen time was extremely limited yet I have quite high prescription glasses which I've worn since the age of 8/9. My prescription has changed very little since my early 20s. It's c
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by alimbada 8y ago
Some people find it more engaging to learn this way. I recently went through some videos on how OAuth2 works which I found very useful. I would likely find learning how OAuth2 works by reading the documentation extremely dull.
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by alimbada 8y ago
Then why are they (and you after witnessing this) still there?
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by alimbada 8y ago
We are currently using Activiti (a fork of jBPM) for a client project. Tooling is pretty shoddy for changing the workflow, but it works.
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by alimbada 8y ago
An unnecessary distinction as it can quite be easily inferred from the current title. Despite this there seem to be a lot of people nitpicking on semantics of the title in this thread. It's unnecessary noise and detracts (and distracts
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by alimbada 8y ago
You can do the same in your browser by opening the developer tools and in fact it comes built in to the browser whereas on a desktop you'd have to install another app like Wireshark/Fiddler to see those requests.
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by alimbada 8y ago
> Apple focus on privacy, along with granular app notification and data restrictions are marvellous, as is the way apps request permissions, and it just works. This is one of the reasons I also ditched Android for an iPhone. And here&#x2
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by alimbada 8y ago
I would've recommended this to people I know that want to learn to code, but I wouldn't wish JavaScript to be my worst enemy's first coding language...
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by alimbada 8y ago
No. Bitcoin isn't mined with GPUs.
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by alimbada 9y ago
That sounds like complete fantasy at this point given the technology isn't even working yet.
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by alimbada 9y ago
Seems to me like it's Disconnect and HTTPS Everywhere rolled into one with a UX that's targeted towards less techy folks.
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by alimbada 9y ago
Was there really that much demand for Wine to be ported to Android?
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by alimbada 9y ago
What's the advantage of disabling dhcpd?
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by alimbada 9y ago
Valve don't seem particularly inclined towards the HL franchise and haven't been for a long time. Do you have a source for that claim?
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by alimbada 9y ago
I suspend or lock my machines when I "finish" with them so that I can resume where I left off when I come back. Many people, especially developers (which makes up a large part of the audience here on HN), do this. Your "strat
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by alimbada 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOcXXB48fI I watched this video a few days ago and my wife was sitting next to me on her own laptop distractedly listening to what I was watching and remarked it was a really good easy to un
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by alimbada 9y ago
Or: 1- Someone bought ETH for a ridiculously cheap price during the presale and forgot all about it ( https://etherscan.io/address/0x7d551397f79a2988b064afd0efebe... ) 2- Realised two years later how much it's worth
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by alimbada 9y ago
Yep, someone who bought ETH during the pre-sale cashed out ( https://etherscan.io/address/0x7d551397f79a2988b064afd0efebe... ) which then triggered the cascade.
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by alimbada 9y ago
I read a comment on reddit the other day the gist of which was (sorry, I don't remember the specifics and doubt I'll be able to find the comment again): Generally, yes, as miners tend to tweak GPU settings to maximise their hashra
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by alimbada 9y ago
Chromebook Pixel.
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by alimbada 9y ago
Microsoft have a very interesting approach with their Office suite when it comes to cross-platform development. They go through it in some detail in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMoRu5yrVc
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by alimbada 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll take a look at those.
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by alimbada 10y ago
I love WPF and really miss building apps using it with the MVVM pattern. I've even tried to find open source WPF apps to contribute to, but there's very few of them around it seems; everyone wants to build web UIs. Anyway, here&#x
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by alimbada 10y ago
I have a 16GB iPhone 6 and the Facebook app was the first I culled from my phone ~2.5 years ago. At that time I was getting annoyed that the app had slowly creeped up in size from between ~60MB and ~80MB to over 100MB. I have no intention o
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by alimbada 10y ago
Probably. But why do you care? If you like it then use it and build something. If you don't like it, use something you do like and build something.
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by alimbada 10y ago
Good to hear. Thanks!
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by alimbada 10y ago
There's a glaring UX issue with Blue Ocean which I'm surprised hasn't been addressed yet: whilst a build is running, the console output forces the page to always scroll to the bottom and it's extremely difficult to stop
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by alimbada 10y ago
> So why bother with a "smart" TV if you're going to be using an external computer anyway. Saving a few hundred dollars to spend on that external computer seems like a better investment. I'm in the market for a 4k T
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by alimbada 10y ago
I'm very tempted to buy a Samsung TV (primarily for the the low input lag times which makes them good for gaming) and I plan to keep it offline (no WiFi or Ethernet connection), using a Chromecast and a HTPC+Kodi instead for streaming.
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by alimbada 10y ago
> I get mail, I read mail, I can write mail. That's exactly what the Gmail app does too. What other features does it offer that the Mail app doesn't? If none, then why does it need to be so huge? I picked on Gmail because it&

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