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by ama729 13y ago
> Even after a redesign a few years ago, their pages still use “.asp”, which is basically an extinct platform that almost nobody uses anymore. And? For all we care, it could be built in FORTRAN and still be a valuable resource. What in t
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by ama729 13y ago
You don't understand, people HAVE to be OUTRAGED, ADS in Firefox, god's heaven no, until now it was working on happy thoughts and unicorn powder[1]. I'm probably one of the rare person to think it's a pretty well designe
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by ama729 13y ago
Same thing for the Faroese Króna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_króna
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by ama729 13y ago
> If we have any lawyers that read our site, your comments below would be appreciated. "These guys are working for free, why wouldn't you?"
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by ama729 13y ago
Can anybody make a recommendation for interesting talks this year? Thanks
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by ama729 13y ago
Audio applications works pretty well with wine.
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by ama729 13y ago
Or even a "semi-sequential downloading", X% of the bytes are sequential (say to get smooth streaming), the others are normally downloaded.
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by ama729 13y ago
> Anybody still waiting for Warcraft 4 That's because Blizzard is a very slow developer, which is not unheard in the industry. People were(are) also waiting for HL3, Prey 1 and 2 or Duke Nukem: Forever. > How about a new Elder Sc
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by ama729 13y ago
From Mozilla: https://togetherjs.com/
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by ama729 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation. That's something I wondered, taking a smartphone screen, but it seem pretty daunting, indeed. Such a shame in a way.
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by ama729 13y ago
Firefox user here, thanks a lot for all the good work! If I may ask a question while you're here, do you know if there'll be anytime soon an indicator of the degree of security of WebRTC? Right now, I don't think there is any
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by ama729 13y ago
It's not even specific to America, my very European government ask the same of its employees. It just make sense honestly.
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by ama729 13y ago
Here I think is the specific comment hilighting the issue: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/952953995/bluetooth-zx-... Apparently, they vandalized wikipedia to put an ad for their app. Unbelievable. edit: This
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by ama729 13y ago
Not really, the Nokia Lumia 520 for example is at $50/70£, and had an IPS screen with a 480x800 resolution, I never saw such a screen sold for hobbyist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_520
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by ama729 13y ago
Never heard of that, that seem interesting, would you happen to have a link with more information?
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by ama729 13y ago
A DIY smartphone seem something where having a good screen would be a plus, or everything photo where color accuracy and resolution are important. I was looking to make an EVF[1] for my DSLR a while ago for example. [1] http://en
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by ama729 13y ago
Could you point out where are the HD screen? I tried to look, but all of them seem to be 320x240 or lower, which is what I was complaining about :).
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by ama729 13y ago
> 320 x 240 Resolution Aside from the fact that's for an arduino, which probably mean very low power available, does anybody knows why all those hobbyist LCD are so low in term of resolution? It seem impossible to find something hig
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by ama729 13y ago
The python's one was my favorite :D. I didn't know that, but as another commenter point out in another thread, part of he humor about pearl is that Larry Wall is really religious: While in graduate school at University of Ca
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by ama729 13y ago
In addition to what everyone has said, CCTV are also low-resolution most of time, without sound and a such an angle and a distance that most of your actions are "invisible" to the camera (like knowing what kind book you are readin
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by ama729 13y ago
> But for the tech jobs most people want, it's a really bad idea to put a suit on for a interview. Why? Are you saying that some company will give you a hard time because you are wearing a suit ? That would certainly be humorous. H
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by ama729 13y ago
> just providing a better product at lower prices to a larger, poorer market has proven to recoup costs just as well as charging $10,000 per dose on a patent drug. Unfortunately, it's not alway possible, there are sometimes very few
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by ama729 13y ago
Not the complete transcript, but at least the beginning (I couldn't understand it): http://jimromenesko.com/2014/01/29/hale-global-lays-off-patc...
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by ama729 13y ago
> They are getting free publicity For that, they would have to be properly credited in the first place...
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by ama729 13y ago
Honest question, would you feel the same way if you replace dog by baby in your sentence? Edit: Hopefully, "at home" would then mean "at the daycare", otherwise it's a bit irresponsible...
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by ama729 13y ago
> yes, you probably love your pets but the same goes for children, that doesn't mean they should be with you when you work. Well, it's actually not that uncommon to have an office kindergarten (at least in the part of Europe I
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by ama729 13y ago
> I still use them as a payment method and I'm a big fan of the company Why? If you had such a bad relationship with a company, why use them and why being such a fan? I genuinely don't understand, if I had an interaction like t
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by ama729 13y ago
> One problem is that you can't really copyright game mechanics You can actually patent them[1]: A patent was granted to Wizards of the Coast in 1997 for "a novel method of game play and game components that in one embo
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by ama729 13y ago
> It's probably the one thing I really regret. That I didn't find people that were also into it and, as an adult, find a way to regularly group together with them. Good news (everyone :)), contrary to other regrets, it's p
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by ama729 13y ago
Phoebus was indeed established in 1924 but: 1) There is a scientific basis for the 10.000 hours, the "greatest" achievement generally attributed to Phoebus[1]: > For a supply voltage V near the rated voltage of the lamp:

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