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by codeka 14y ago
It's definitely vector-based. What you're seeing is that the vector tile gets rendered to a bitmap for display. If you zoom in quickly, rather than re-render the bitmap over and over, it just scales the pre-rendered bitmap. When the new zoo
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by codeka 14y ago
> To be honest what's surprising is it took this long... I agree. I think this goes to show just how much Australians are willing to pay for technology in general. It's a shame that we get shafted on a lot of technology/electronics but
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by codeka 14y ago
$799 is the outright price: that is, not on a contract. If you buy one one a contract you might pay $5 per month over 24 months (depending on the plan and model you get).
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by codeka 14y ago
Australians have always been big Apple users, in my experience. Despite seeing statistics showing increasing share of Android, I always only ever saw Apple devices on the bus/train. Not very scientific, I know, but I have noticed more and m
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by codeka 14y ago
Of course it's a jump. The original claim seems like pure FUD to me. If you don't have a Google account on the phone, then the Play store does not work. If you have a Google account, then you trust Google. If you don't trust Google then it
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by codeka 14y ago
"Sync is essentially Google's answer to Apple's iCloud." This may be a nitpick, but Sync was originally a Firefox extension that Google released in 2007, before the iPhone was even released.
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by codeka 14y ago
The thing I don't get is, isn't the Windows App Store only available to Windows 8? Microsoft definitely haven't sold a billion licenses to Windows 8, so where does that claim come from?
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by codeka 14y ago
As a tourist? Lots of people go, it's a fascinating country.
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by codeka 14y ago
But this isn't the fault of their GPS putting towns in the incorrect location, this is blindly following your GPS into a snowbank. But yeah, your original point still stands: you should always use common sense when following GPS. In this ca
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by codeka 14y ago
But there's a difference between old/outdated data and putting towns in completely the wrong place.
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by codeka 14y ago
It could just be a symbolic thing, maybe they don't actually expect anything to come of it.
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by codeka 14y ago
Yes, there's already some people cheating. I'm not sure if it's in this specific way but there's reports out there, for example I saw this one this morning: https://plus.google.com/106910446343644147596/posts/JYaepWnd... As far as I can s
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by codeka 14y ago
The standard explicitly allows a <label> to contain a single input element, http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/label.html : The label element may contain at most one descendant input element, button element, select element, or
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by codeka 14y ago
If you want to move to another team at Google, it's really up to that team if they want you. As long as they have budget for you, and they want you working with them, then you're free to move. The problem with new hires is that no other tea
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by codeka 14y ago
This is true of Firefox and (possibly?) IE as well, though IE doesn't have an option to show the passwords in the UI. If a user has access to your desktop, then it really doesn't matter if your saved passwords are stored in plain text, you'
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by codeka 14y ago
I assume because there's four different "xd" variables differing only in the number of underscores prefixed ("xd", "_xd", "__xd" and "___xd"). (Same for "yd" and "zd").
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by codeka 14y ago
You've moved the goalposts: u'\U00021613' This is a UTF-32 code unit, not a UTF-16 code unit. Even UTF-32 doesn't help when you have combining characters. I suggest you read dietrichepp's post again, he's talking about Normalization
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by codeka 14y ago
I'm sorry but you're wrong. I suggest you inform yourself better of the subject you're talking about before you call people "ignorant morons" next time. dietrichepp is talking about Normalized Form D, which is a valid form of Unicode and ca
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by codeka 14y ago
The same could be said of UTF-16 implementations that don't support surrogate pairs.
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by codeka 14y ago
This is what I'm getting for google.com.pk currently: ;; ANSWER SECTION: google.com.pk. 3578 IN A 127.0.0.1 The name server seems to be set to some random one as well: ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: google.com.pk. 38400 IN NS dns1.f
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by codeka 14y ago
The expression is "to put the cart before the horse", i.e. do things in the wrong order.
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Why Google should buy Uber(plus.google.com)
2 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
But Apple weren't the first to come up with it (see other examples in the comments here).
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by codeka 14y ago
How is a page-turning animation, in wide use before Apple filed for patent, in any way comparable to the Wright brothers?
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by codeka 14y ago
But the thing is, if I check in at Starbucks all the time, and I "like" their facebook page, etc, what's the point of showing me their promoted posts? I'm already buying their products. How will the fact that I like Starbucks tell Faceboo
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The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia(popsci.com)
5 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
> Search "headphones" on Google and you'll see the massive ad spot taken up by Google Shopping What's wrong with that? If I'm searching for headphones, why would I want to be taken to another search engine that indexes headphones? I wan
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by codeka 14y ago
OK, so after a bit of searching, it seems that it comes from the Latin word for "thousand", millia[1]. And it's apparently common in financial contexts. So 1M is 1,000. 1MM is 1,000,000. 1MMM is 1,000,000,000 (though the former and latter a
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by codeka 14y ago
I always thought it was short for "million monthly" so when you see something like "we have 10MM users" it would be 10 million monthly active users (i.e. 10 million users who have been active in the past month). I have no idea what it means
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by codeka 14y ago
We live in a strange world where 100,000 people buying your album is considered a flop. Of course if you define "success" as "being in the Billboard top 100" then almost nobody will be successful, and being successful twice - well that's

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