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by apendleton 14y ago
A lack of fonts? No. A lack of high-quality, relatively-complete, free fonts? Absolutely. Free fonts usually come in one width, two weights (regular and bold) and two styles (roman and italic), for a total of four variations, and usually
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by apendleton 14y ago
In terms of TDP, maybe, but not performance per watt, unless I've missed something.
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by apendleton 14y ago
Maybe you don't live in a city with a big bike theft problem? Here in DC, where I live, there are kids who wander around with bolt cutters lifting bikes from bike racks, and at least in my experience, they're just as likely to go for a che
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by apendleton 14y ago
Given that in the conventional PHP interpreter, everything is executed from scratch on each request, I wonder how the JIT behaves here, especially since most PHP programs live and die in less time than it seems to take the Pypy JIT to warm
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by apendleton 14y ago
Google TV is another Android platform that plugs into an entertainment system, and Google recently revamped it, with third-party manufacturers expected to launch new iterations of it this year at or around the $100 pricepoint. I see no rea
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by apendleton 14y ago
All money is "conjured" to some extent. Cash has no intrinsic value (you can't eat it or use it to build a house); it only has value because we as a society accept that it does, and accept that governments have the power to print it. Coun
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by apendleton 14y ago
Who said it was a news story? It's not about an especially current event, and Wired is not a news magazine (for that, see Newsweek, Time, or any number of others); they're a tech/nerd culture periodical. They've has always had a major foc
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by apendleton 14y ago
Given that the poster said "not in the US," this seems plausible to me. The detectors probably detect dollars and Euro, and maybe a few other high-profile currencies like yen, UK pounds, etc. But do you really think Epson would bother inc
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by apendleton 14y ago
Pure speculation, here, but some of the transcription looked like it relied on pretty heavy statistical inference stuff (like knowing that "Worcester" comes before "Mass" but "Wooster" comes before "College," even though they're both pronou
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by apendleton 14y ago
Array.prototype.forEach didn't arrive in IE until 9, so if the point is that you can do anything that jquery can do, this won't work.
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by apendleton 14y ago
I like that GitHub offers SVN interoperability, but this tutorial doesn't seem tailored to its ideal use-case. I would imagine that the biggest benefits of using SVN to access github would be for use with higher-level tools (IDEs, continuo
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by apendleton 14y ago
Yeah, I think this is a big part of it. The mobile ecosystem has evolved in such a way that locked-down devices are the standard, and content providers have had a lot to do with that (apparently B&N's decision to lock down the Nook Tab
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by apendleton 14y ago
As much as I'm not a Microsoft fan, this strikes my as conspiracy theorizing. Firstly, nobody--not Linux or anyone else--seriously threatens Microsoft in the commodity PC space. They probably see Apple as a threat, but this move has nothin
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by apendleton 14y ago
Admittedly, he's relying on anecdotal evidence, but the conclusions he reaches don't strike me as unreasonable, and if the lackluster sales of Android tables are any indication, his experience is more likely to be generalizable than yours.
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by apendleton 14y ago
That's a shame. I would imagine that a productively similar audio task could be devised around humans helping to transcribe hard-to-auto-transcribe audio recordings, and that it could use a similar strategy to the visual one: a known-good
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by apendleton 14y ago
Probably not substantially worse. You would need to be able to tell which was which, since they're not consistently ordered and the "good" one is deliberately obfuscated/smudged/whatever, and, since recaptcha depends on multiple users agre
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by apendleton 14y ago
One exciting thing about this: the entire model of reCaptcha (at least the text ones; I assume the audio ones are similar) is to make people do useful work when solving captchas by having them complete tasks that they consider too hard for
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by apendleton 14y ago
For those of us that have already-deployed off-store extensions in the wild, what options do we have for migrating our users to the new, Webstore-powered versions? Or will their extensions just silently stop updating (or, worse, working alt
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by apendleton 14y ago
Everyone doesn't, and shouldn't. That's why the best practice is not to implement your own hash function, and instead use a third-party library written by an expert. I'm not sure that password-as-a-service would be worth the overhead invol
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by apendleton 14y ago
I think what you're saying is that hotels (or hotel-like operations) shouldn't have strict health and safety regulations generally as long as there's adequate disclosure, but that's orthogonal to the discussion at hand. I think both you an
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by apendleton 14y ago
The article doesn't say he's establishing citizenship in Singapore; just residency. He presumably will remain a citizen of Brazil.
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by apendleton 14y ago
One of the comments on the original post complains about extra boilerplate with CBVs using django-rest-framework. I'll admit that I was concerned about this as well, but after working with it for a while, I have to say that mixins are a ve
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by apendleton 14y ago
Opera Mini is available for iOS devices in the app store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
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by apendleton 14y ago
You can also torrent the CD and create a sources.list entry to use the CD as a source, which will let you upgrade most packages (though obviously only packages that are on the CD). You can even loopback-mount the ISO, so you don't need to a
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by apendleton 15y ago
This seems to address the use case of wanting more storage for a given amount of memory, but not the reverse. You can't, say, get 16gigs of ram, without also getting a 620gig disk, nor can you control core count independently of the other
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by apendleton 15y ago
Judging from the price page, it doesn't actually look like this does that. The price tiers are still some combination of a fixed amount of storage and RAM per tier, with no mention of number of cores. Maybe this is because their EBS clone i
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by apendleton 15y ago
Russian is probably somewhere in between. How hard a language is to acquire depends a lot on what language or languages you already speak, but for native English speakers, Russian is considered difficult, but probably not "one of the most d
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by apendleton 15y ago
Being able to dial into a conference instead of just out would be super-useful, especially if, like reserving a URL for a room, you could also reserve a dial-in code. We have a regular morning meeting in my office for which we currently
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by apendleton 15y ago
Alaska has the combination of having a lot of coastline (more than the contiguous US) and lots of cities that aren't easily accessible by land. Most of southeast Alaska's cities (including the capital) have no roads in or out at all, but a