crashandburn4

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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I have nothing other than personal lock-in (nexus 5) to Qi. that being said, I don't know if there are any phones that have powermat integrated, does anyone know of any?
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I'm in the UK and the time on the chart seems to be displayed in UTC (which isn't even the timezone I'm in right now). The time shown starts at 10:15am when it should be starting at 5:15am according to the legend: >Service
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
That's a +1 from me, I'd love an open-source version for self-hosting. I'd additionally be happy to pay for the "licence to self host" or something silly like that as long as I can see the code somehow (which is a b
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
You're right, same with edit-with-emacs on chrome. Shame, the editor looks nice but I definitely wouldn't want to give up my own editor functions for it.
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
> Anyone who is concerned about security shouldn't be giving their password to a 3rd party to verify [even via a javascript webpage] for any reason. I'd agree but I don't think anyone who reads hacker news is likely to use
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I've got to say I've got a definite softspot for DuckDuckGo, but I always struggle to see bing as a contender. Now it might be for the reasons you mention (Microsoft not giving it enough TLC) but it does make it difficult to switc
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I was just looking at the rubymotion licences [0]. does anyone know if you will get future releases with the licence? do you only get them for one year? [0] http://sites.fastspring.com/hipbyte/product/rubymotion
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Sorry when you say native versus Java what do you mean? As far as I was concerned all native apps are java?
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I appreciate the clearly marked "Appeal to authority" as it is both relevant information and clearly marked as to it's (unintended I assume) auxiliary consequences. Very classy move, will be copying it in future.
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I don't really think your comment makes sense, if you and I are juggling balls and suddenly you throw up your hands and shout "I can't take any more balls" do you think I should pick up more balls and throw them at your
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I was going to say, seems very classy, but what do you expect from someone that calls their framework martini. :)
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
That was my first thought too but I figured they couldn't be referring to that. :)
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
So, I feel like I might be being stupid and not getting something, but what is turtle? I can't find a programming language that seems to be related to it.
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Wow... I don't even have words. I get that your comment is supposed to be dark humour but that's pretty heartless, this guys got actual troubles.
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I don't have this working on chrome (Arch Linux, chrome Version 34.0.1847.132). Works on firefox though. Also mouse wheel doesn't fire when I try it :(
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Sorry, am I missing something? I thought there were plenty of game boy emulators around, is there anything special about this one?
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
The thing I'd like to know is, is there anything that we can do for this? you found the prior art quickly, so it is clear that the patent should not be valid but is there anything citizens can do to point this out? is there any way of
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Does anyone have any idea what the practical significance of this for android and google is? IANL and find these documents hard to parse.
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I've always thought of the UK as quite good but I'm in london so have easy access to fibre-optic.
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Wow, thank you so much for your answer. it definitely helped me understand better!
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Am I misunderstanding this? reading all the examples, the difference between recursion and corecursion seems to be equivalent to the difference between tail recursion and stack recursion. Is that right? can anyone post an example of corecur
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
No problem, I found it on hacker news and as always here the comments[0] are almost as enlightening as the piece itself. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699862
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
The problem is that america is almost a monopoly, no other country really has these problems[0] [0] http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I actually really like the netflix idea but I still think net neutrality is too important to not be regulated, I wish netflix or someone similar would say "this is what we are going to do, here is comcasts customer support number, here
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I was finding it hard to understand why it wasn't differentiable (guess my maths is getting a bit rusty) until I read the below[0] which helped it make sense to me: >The function has detail at every level, so zooming in on a piece o
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
>My prediction: Alibaba is on a path to take over the world. I couldn't ask about some sources/information on this? I've only been tangentially aware of alibaba, reading the odd news story here and there, I'd be inter
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Good point. wasn't thinking about that.
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Ah, in the UK it is standard for the machine to keep your card after three incorrect pin attempts. (at least I think it's the standard?)
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
I actually rely on this self destruction, I have a scrap of paper in my wallet with "Pin Numbers" written on it along with 3 random four digit numbers, gives me minor peace of mind that if my wallet is lost and found by someone th
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by crashandburn4 12y ago
Great, now I need to change all my pin numbers. :)

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