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by andreigheorghe 8y ago
https://www.vrandfun.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-seen-t...
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by andreigheorghe 9y ago
not exactly what you're looking for but maybe it gives you some ideas / tools https://www.mapnificent.net/london/#12/51.5005/-0.1283/900/5...
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by andreigheorghe 9y ago
Nice work! To be clear I'm not against dependencies in any way, by all means reuse whatever you can get. I just think that in this particular case using two pretty massive pieces of software like apache and mysql is overkill.
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by andreigheorghe 9y ago
It's definitely nice but feels too tightly coupled with the PHP+MySQL web stack, it's too big of a hurdle to install these two just for the purpose of storing some numbers and showing a simple HTML page with a javascript line grap
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by andreigheorghe 10y ago
Have you considered that it might have happened the other way around? Your boss had you in their contacts list, allowed Facebook to import it, and the number / email he had matched your account, so Facebook then knew there's a lik
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Atom package for natural language code autocomplete(github.com)
2 points by andreigheorghe 11y ago|0 comments
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TreeQL – Node.js JSON query and mutation library(github.com)
5 points by andreigheorghe 12y ago|0 comments
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by andreigheorghe 12y ago
This is exactly what the previous implementation was as well. The "words" you had to recognize were either scanned from Google Books, or house numbers from StreetView, effectively enhancing their OCR training set.
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by andreigheorghe 13y ago
Not at the moment of the conversation, but there's nothing stopping one of the people there from blogging about it once they get home (think Silicon Valley "overheard" product leaks). The fact that a piece of information pass
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by andreigheorghe 13y ago
All bugs are not created equal. Complete privacy violations in the core functionality of the app are unacceptable. They need to be made aware of that. "It was a computer bug" is a poor and intellectually dishonest excuse coming fr
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by andreigheorghe 13y ago
Title: "Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors" First sentence: "Experts think the NSA has hardware level backdoors build into Intel and AMD processors". Second sentence: "one of Silicon
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by andreigheorghe 13y ago
Of course not, but you can't compare a desktop application like Photoshop to a mobile app because the use cases are completely different. With Instagram you can take the picture, select the filter, upload the photo and share to Facebook, al
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by andreigheorghe 13y ago
What are the reasons that make you so sure, though? To me, it's not clear at all just from the symptoms that it is a bug. It could just as well be a feature they're only testing out on 0.1% of the user base to see how their engagement or wh
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by andreigheorghe 14y ago
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1105/
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by andreigheorghe 14y ago
Wasn't the Twitter for iPad app the first to come up with this pattern, in september 2010?
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by andreigheorghe 14y ago
Developer here. I feel there's too much info there. I read 2 or 3 titles, skimmed over the wall of text, looked at the pretty pictures for a full 2 seconds and then got bored. I suggest either extracting 5 sentences that would represent you
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by andreigheorghe 14y ago
There will always be hackers, and there will always be security experts whose job is to keep the hackers out of the system. But you need to think like a hacker to do a good job.
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by andreigheorghe 14y ago
I disagree. He's not teaching "wrong history", he's teaching students to think outside the box and identify the weak points in the fabric of the internet knowledge base. What they choose to do with these skills is up to them - perhaps they