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by andor 12y ago
If all your students have a Google account and an email address, it's rather easy: 1. Open https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_ to create a new Hangout 2. Copy the permanent link that is shown in the dialog, or ente
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by andor 12y ago
XMPP/Jingle worked, although the quality wasn't very good. You could make video calls between Google Talk (also on Android) and Empathy, the standard GNOME XMPP Client.
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You can easily disable Hangouts: go to Settings - Apps - Hangouts and tap the button. It won't even show up in your launcher anymore.
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by andor 12y ago
better languages will either do first-class functions Modern Java has first class functions. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/function...
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There's no shortage of good libraries for Python. He just chose to not learn about them.
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Edit: Swampdragon runs in a Tornado IO loop for real time functionality, and uses Redis Pub/Sub for actual Pub/Sub messaging. It's more like Django bolted to Tornado than Pub/Sub added to Django. * Objects are diffed in
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The "Google Talk Plugin" is required for Chrome as well. At least on Linux, it's a separate install.
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Actually, Porsche bought VW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_Automobil_Holding_SE
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systemd makes a lot of sense for embedded systems: * Embedded systems use watchdogs. systemd implements a watchdog supervisor chain, where systemd supervises applications, and the hardware watchdog supervises systemd. * kdbus: efficient IPC
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From Wikipedia: "FISA was modified by section 215 (Access to records and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to allow the Director of the FBI (or an official designated by the Director, so long as that officia
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Yes, it sounds too good to be true. Like the Yes Men's "New York Times Special Edition".
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Some details from the paper (from 2011): * "Eighteen shores across six continents were contaminated with microplastic" * 56% polyester, 23% acrylic, 7% polypropylene, 6% polyethylene, 3% polyamid * More microplastic in densely pop
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Android 5.0 Factory Images for Nexus 5, 7, 10(developers.google.com)
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Also see this "first impressions" review: http://www.notebookcheck.net/First-Impressions-Lenovo-Yoga-3... 3.7W to 10.7W power usage when idle, and about 20W under load, depending on display brightness. So the SoC
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I worry more about the general safety of French (Swiss, German, ...) nuclear plants than these "drones". I guess it's some environmental group flying quadrocopters with sensors over the plants to make independent measurement
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Can you please provide some details on how OpenBSD is better than X for your purposes?
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I have use cases like a) Only power the 3G module and bring up ppp when I am within certain GPS coordinates. You could create targets for all of your states, and use a small daemon to switch between them (using systemctl isolate).
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Static System Partitioning and KVM (2013)(docs.google.com)
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AFAIK "OpenJDK" is only the codebase, and much like "Chromium" there are no official binaries of "OpenJDK". Building, packaging and distribution of that code is up to other parties. For example, Linux distribut
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That's what we have regulations for ;-) Everything called "fruit juice" in the EU needs to be 100% juice (but it can be made from concentrate).
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New York Times Cooking Catalog(cooking.nytimes.com)
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For people like this "do one thing and do it well" is the only way that you can beat the impossible complexity of a modern machine back into a running computer even some of the time. When you have a single point of failure which
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You're spreading FUD. So I can imagine having very different init systems for desktops and servers if this means that the server won't be encumbered by a number subsystems which are of no use to it. systemd is about choice ;-) O
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And if that service file screws up how do you troubleshoot it? You end up diving in to the source code of systemd, versus fixing a bug in your script. That's a good thing, because if you find a bug, it will be fixed for everybody, no
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lactate production rate (indicator for fat burning The body's VO2max potential can be used by solely burning carbs Actually you mixed them both up. In aerobic (with oxygen) exercise, you mostly burn fat. In anaerobic exercise, you
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Patching and building bash is just a horrible experience. You have to download the base version and all patches separate, and then apply each patch one by one. Some patches even expect different base directories than others (e.g. "bash
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EMV® is a trademark dating back to 1999, and it refers to all of the specifications administered by EMVCo. The original EMV Specification (for chip-based payment instruments) is now in v4.3, with backwards-compatible EMV Next Generation S
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Oh, and it requires everyone to rewrite their code to use systemd's dbus library rather than libdbus too. Have you actually read the mail you're giving as "evidence"? The last paragraph begins with: "The current
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Yes, KVM acceleration works fine with AMD processors.
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I'm a bit disappointed that they haven't upgraded to a proper line-breaking algorithm. The high resolution display is probably great, but look at that inter-word spacing! How can they state this is "passionately crafted for r

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