aroman

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by aroman 13y ago
>Instead of accommodating for it's users it wants its users to accommodate for Facebook. No, they are absolutely accommodating for their users -- and their users are advertisers. That is THE problem. Facebook Inc's #1 priorit
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by aroman 13y ago
I agree that this is a nice gesture, but it's not a "frank disclosure". What did they disclose? When they actually have a security breach and they promptly "[talk] about it very publicly", that will be something c
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by aroman 13y ago
That's what I thought as well. In fact, wouldn't their "cashing out" the Bitcoins be tantamount to an endorsement of Bitcoin? They're injecting money into the ecosystem and directly helping to circulate it. That t
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by aroman 13y ago
That's one of the most sadly ironic things I've ever read.
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by aroman 13y ago
What does this have to do with Ivy League schools? Is that just total fluff or is there any sort of meat behind those words? Does the author attend an Ivy league school? If so, why does he/she feel that he/she can or should speak
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by aroman 13y ago
I wonder what the accuracy for native English speakers is in doing ternary sentiment analysis. I also wonder about sentences which could be understood and defended as being positive to one human reader and negative to another. "That is
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by aroman 13y ago
I think he was objecting to your presentation of your opinion as axiomatic fact. (Notice, for what it's worth, that I said "I think" and not "Actually, he was". The core meaning is the same, but the former phrasing
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by aroman 13y ago
This is what Adobe should have created when they realized Flash was going to die.
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by aroman 13y ago
Indeed, I own a 2012 MacBook Air and I'm convinced they're the best line of laptop computers on the market right now. I severely underestimated how much I would enjoy the tremendous portability. I guess I don't need both an
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by aroman 13y ago
Looks great. I was impressed that the keyboard visualization handled up to 7 simultaneous button pressed on my physical keyboard. Honestly, I wasn't aware my keyboard's wiring (MacBook Air) was capable of handling that.
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by aroman 13y ago
I expected to click through and have my belief that Microsoft just doesn't "get it" reinforced, but I have to say, that is a really appealing device to me. My biggest gripe with my (school issued) iPad is that text entry is a
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by aroman 13y ago
Yeah, honestly even asking for clarification which shows that you really understand the concepts at play is probably as good or even better than providing the intended answer.
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by aroman 13y ago
Unfortunately it really does. I think their primary concern in creating this was to be cartographically accurate -- not pretty by Minecraft standards. To do that they'd have to hack/extend the biome generator I suppose, or take fo
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by aroman 13y ago
As others have said, the important point here is that the core of Linux support is here. They've already ported all of their major titles to Ubuntu-based desktop linux, and I would be extremely surprised if SteamOS did not inherit grea
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by aroman 13y ago
Yes but it's virtually the same core software stack as on the desktop. So the linux distros get a huge leg up in that arena.
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by aroman 13y ago
While I agree with the spirit of your post, there is in fact a method of security that is definitively unbreakable (if used correctly/precluding side-channelling): the one-time-pad. But as you imply, the reason we don't use it is
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by aroman 13y ago
That is precisely my point.
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by aroman 13y ago
"suppress labor" and "preserve the capitalist status quo" seem to be completely antithetical goals. And really, I disagree. The American Dream to me is the simple idea that if you work hard, you can climb the social ladd
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by aroman 13y ago
Haha yup, the pirate in that video's name is Patchy the Pirate :)
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by aroman 13y ago
What is the basis for your conclusion? I don't see any evidence of modern America being "largely stripped of middling jobs". There are millions of generic corporate, retail, or otherwise "non-elite" jobs being held
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by aroman 13y ago
I don't really see how Twitter could identify these as "Gibberish". They're normal English sentences, albeit meaningless because they lack any real context. How could or why would Twitter be able to identify these seemin
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by aroman 13y ago
I can't decide if I'm happy or embarrassed to have caught this reference. (I assume it was a reference to Patchy the Pirate, right?)
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by aroman 13y ago
This title is extremely misleading. It is absolutely not made in "pure CSS3". It's very much heavily javascript based: https://github.com/TjRus/Lumia.js/tree/master/js You should really re
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by aroman 13y ago
> The only current purpose of which these days is to try and keep people from fleeing to other, better, platforms. I can't refute this claim any more than you can back it up, so lets not waste our fingers on an argument about it. I
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by aroman 13y ago
You're saying this as if Apple is some naive newcomer to the world of online music. > iTunes serves almost no purpose in a modern world. Seriously? iTunes invented modern online music distribution. It singlehandedly heralded in th
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by aroman 13y ago
I can't really think of another article where posting that link would be more appropriate. Seriously now, we're talking about the flaws of W3Schools. How is W3Fools not relevant here?
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by aroman 13y ago
This is a fantastic concept, but I will never use it because I don't use Chrome and I don't like the idea of my inbox being different on each device I use. I'll just wait for Google to either ripoff the idea or (hopefully) ac
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Cicada 3301(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aroman 13y ago
No but I did check my phone when he got a text :)
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by aroman 13y ago
I had the opposite reaction to your perceived flaws. I found them extremely true to the rapid and abrupt nature of teenage computer use, as showcased in the first 30 seconds of the movie. That really is how chatroulette works -- you jump ar

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