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by desdiv 12y ago
I fully agree with you that the MagSafe utility patent is a paper tiger, but unfortunately in this case Apple still hold a design patent on the general MagSafe connector shape[0]. So anyone is free to make their own magnetic power conne
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by desdiv 12y ago
Don't you need a Chinese wall between the person who disassembles the binary and the reimplementor?
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by desdiv 12y ago
ampere/hour Minor correction: battery capacity is measured in ampere-hour, i.e. ampere * hour.
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by desdiv 12y ago
That's very cool. Do you happen to have a picture of it?
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by desdiv 12y ago
Yep, a higher voltage is negotiated. At 100W, it's 20V: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power
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by desdiv 12y ago
I'm slightly saddened that Github doesn't recognize Brainfuck files.
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by desdiv 12y ago
They've already announced plans to roll out the tax "as early as this year": http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/internatio...
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by desdiv 12y ago
>U6 Here's a succinct explanation for those of us who are not fluent in Americanese :D http://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate
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by desdiv 12y ago
I think he eliminated them out of performance considerations. CBC is unparallelizeable by nature.
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by desdiv 12y ago
You're seeing a rendering error. This is what the graph is supposed to look like: http://i.imgur.com/xLEu0yM.png The error on my browser (Firefox 34) made it look like 80% of the people were asleep by 9PM, hilariously
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by desdiv 12y ago
"What's your medical condition?" "Sobriety." "I see. And your symptoms?" "I'm not high all the time." http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/04/15
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by desdiv 12y ago
I think he's referring to this: https://bartsjerps.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/zfs-ora-database...
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by desdiv 12y ago
Arguably they don't even need to pass such a law, since national security letters already enables the same thing.
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by desdiv 12y ago
most Snapchat users are between the ages of 13 and 25 Isn't that an argument for the younger generation being more privacy-conscious? I.e. that they're willing to forgo the convenience of a message history in exchange for mor
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by desdiv 12y ago
I disagree. Public opinion polls clearly show that the younger generation is more intolerant of the NSA mass surveillance[0][1], for example. Sometimes the difference can be startling: Once again, there was a significant relationship betwe
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by desdiv 12y ago
When companies say they're looking for an "Android/iOS developer", are they looking for someone who's proficient in both platforms? I'm an Android developer but know nothing about iOS. I'm not sure wheth
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by desdiv 12y ago
Google owns a fighter jet. The jet you're talking about is owned by a private company, H211 LLC, that's owned by Page, Brin, Schmidt et al. It's not a subsidiary of Google, nor does it have any relationship with Google[0].
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by desdiv 12y ago
Boston Dynamics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, produced the WildCat robot for DARPA's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program[0]. [0] http://www.darpa.mil/our_work/dso/programs/maximum_mobil
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by desdiv 12y ago
Regulation change doesn't benefit only Uber though. It benefits all current riding sharing companies, as well as any future ones that might join the fray. In that sense, regulation change doesn't increase Uber's intrinsic v
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by desdiv 12y ago
Could you please elaborate a bit on what sorts of horrible experiences you had with the individual offices arrangement? How frequent were your team meetings? Did you guys use Slack-style chat softwares?
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by desdiv 12y ago
I think you're confusing the author of the book with the author of this article. The whole "hasn’t been told before" hyperbole is only found within the article. The book doesn't make that claim at all.
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by desdiv 12y ago
The draft version is Creative Commons licensed. I wouldn't mind any ads if what they're advertising is instantly available to me at the click of a mouse for absolutely no charge.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Khronos working on open source sample implementation of OpenVX 1.0 Expected release on GitHub by end of 2014 Well they better hurry up. Only one day left. /s
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by desdiv 12y ago
A fan asked Neil Gaiman about it and here's the exchange: A fan: "You're either paying homage to Gibson, which is weird because the two books are in different genres and he isn't mentioned in the acknowledgements, or per
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by desdiv 12y ago
>Finally. What happens when the password requires to have upper case, symbols, x number of digits, min or max number of characters... If you think about it, some websites have conflicting requirements. It would be great if there was a si
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by desdiv 12y ago
It's more than deception. 17 U.S.C. § 506(c) prescribes criminal penalties for fraudulent copyright notices.
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by desdiv 12y ago
The chart claims that economists have a 43% chance of being replaced by automation. If they're wrong, then they'll be replaced by algorithms that are better at predicting economic trends than they are. If they're right, then.
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by desdiv 12y ago
To save people a Google: there aren't any source code or even detailed specifications yet. The talk takes place tomorrow (Dec 28), so presumably more information will be available then.
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by desdiv 12y ago
I'm given to understand that many fast food chains serve alcohol in Europe. McDonald's, for example, sells beer in Germany and both beer and wine in France.
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by desdiv 12y ago
None of the primitive data structures will match up. JVM languages, CLR languages, Rust, Go, et al all have array bound checking, so their arrays won't be compatible with C libraries without a wrapper.

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