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by bskap 13y ago
The equation editor in Office uses the LaTeX escapes for the symbols, which makes it work reasonably well for the scientific classes.
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by bskap 13y ago
4. Weather. Occasionally a concern for those who live outside the bay area. Sometimes, you need to get shopping done and don't want to be walking around outside all day.
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by bskap 13y ago
IE and Firefox on Windows 8.1 render it properly. Chrome renders it as all boxes.
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by bskap 13y ago
It's a Unicode thumbs down sign. You must not have any fonts with that glyph. It works fine for me in both Firefox 27 and IE 11 on Windows 8.1
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by bskap 13y ago
This is from last May. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704574 for discussion.
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by bskap 13y ago
The Nokia/Microsoft deal hasn't completely gone through yet. Until it does, Microsoft is not legally allowed to have any say in Nokia's product decisions
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by bskap 13y ago
Because it's using the graphics card to convert the 3D instructions into 2D equivalents in real-time. You can't calculate that stuff ahead of time if you want to allow the user to manipulate the canvas. And the whole reason we hav
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by bskap 13y ago
How is this two factor? As near as I can tell, it replaces your password (something you know) with your phone (something you have). It doesn't add a second factor to the auth.
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by bskap 13y ago
Works fine in IE 11 as well.
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by bskap 13y ago
Not necessarily. What if your app comes with a widget (or tile for Windows Phone apps) that tells you all the information you need. I'd have that visible at all times and would never need to open the app itself.
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by bskap 13y ago
Patent licensing is in D&C Licensing, not Commercial Licensing.
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by bskap 13y ago
New York's population was steady from 1950-1970 before dropping about 10% between 1970 and 1980. Considering that the US population increased by about 50% between 1950 and 1980, I'd consider that a rather significant decrease.
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by bskap 13y ago
They aren't. And there are automatic tools for converting between them (2to3 and 3to2), along with those __future__ imports that Aaron mentioned: doing "from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals, absolute_import, div
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by bskap 13y ago
The state governments do not directly fund the private institutions, but they still get a lot of government subsidies indirectly. The students can only afford to pay tuition thanks to federal loans and grants, and the professors can only af
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by bskap 13y ago
From an inside perspective, stack ranking was actually hurting backwards compatibility. "I made this cool new feature" gets you a lot more recognition come review time than "I made sure that Sim City kept working in the new v
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by bskap 13y ago
Because one of those browsers is a core component of the operating system, used in a ton of places and embeddable by other programs which means a major update can potentially break a lot of things. And the others are just standalone program
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by bskap 13y ago
Because email is an insecure protocol. The email comes in unencrypted from the sender's SMTP server.
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by bskap 13y ago
Letting Steamboat Willie's copyright expire wouldn't impact the trademark that Disney has over Mickey Mouse and the 3 circles.
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by bskap 13y ago
Not true. I just placed an order with two add-on items (totaling $7) and one non-add-on item ($20). The two add-on items were shipped separately. Also, I'm pretty sure everything that's actually sitting in an Amazon warehouse is p
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by bskap 13y ago
Looks like Internet Explorer recognizes them all as the same address (when I hover over the link, it shows the link target in dotted decimal). Chrome does the same thing for 1, 3, and 4 but doesn't like the number > INT_MAX. Firefox
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by bskap 13y ago
It's only OS-bundled if you live exclusively in Apple's ecosystem.
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by bskap 13y ago
Is this a news article or an advertisement for this guy's commercial Haskell tools? I'm having trouble figuring it out.
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by bskap 13y ago
Do you have any sources for this outside of that Pastebin post?
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by bskap 13y ago
Android has gotten more people running open source software, but it hasn't done much to improve the ecosystem. There's not much coming back upstream other than some kernel updates.
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by bskap 13y ago
"Apple kills the MAC Address" is a terrible title. It made me worried that Apple was trying to mess with the link layer.
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by bskap 13y ago
According to story, Pythagoras freaked out about it. You don't need a symbolic representation of √2 to ask the question "what is the distance between opposite corners of a square with side length 1"?
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by bskap 13y ago
Kinect was home-grown, then halfway through they realized an Israeli company did it cheaper so they used that instead. The far more accurate version of Kinect releasing with the Xbox One doesn't use any of PrimeSense's tech.
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by bskap 13y ago
Notebooks use motherboards, just like desktops do. And they run the same firmware. Apple's Macbooks have shipped with EFI since 2006.
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by bskap 13y ago
No it doesn't. There were plenty of pre-Win 8 motherboards that had UEFI on there. Apple's been using it in their computers since the Intel switch in 2006. I don't know what you think is going on with your computer, but every
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by bskap 13y ago
But Apple's founder didn't have an MBA. You know, the guy that came back in 1997 and brought the company from the brink of bankruptcy after it's collapse under the leadership of John Sculley, MBA.

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