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by donkeyd 10y ago
I'm used to driving a manual, which means I'm used to always knowing the exact amount of power my car will give me, because I know which gear I'm in. I had a loaner car for a while with an automatic box. After a while I put i
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by donkeyd 10y ago
So there's a Dutch website where people can log their fuel consumption. This s real life, normal people, fuel consumption. I just checked some modern cars, although with a small sample size, and manual transmissions seem to be more fue
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by donkeyd 10y ago
WhatsApp is also encrypted, but it does share your data with Facebook. So while end-to-end encryption always sounds secure, it not always is.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
"Who's a dictator? We're now exclusively following jets used by "authoritarian regimes" according to the 2015 Democracy Index by @TheEIU" That's what the list is based on according to their Twitter.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
How does a system like this detect and cope with insurance fraud?
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by donkeyd 10y ago
> they're noise-canceling Where'd you get that from? That would be awesome if true.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Do note that the exact implementation differs per country. In the Netherlands, legally, after 6 months the burden of proof moves to the buyer. Which means you need to prove that your product already had a defect at the moment of purchase. G
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by donkeyd 10y ago
How about an advertisement via radio waves that enters everything in its path?
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by donkeyd 10y ago
> who sees Jesus story as an alien visit record Could you elaborate on this? I've never heard or read anybody say anything like this before.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
> such low rewards I think you have a different idea about what a reward is than athletes do. Being among the best athletes in the world, and being able to just perform their favorite sport is probably the reward to them, otherwise they
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by donkeyd 10y ago
I am a just above average Dutch man, but when I lived in the US I felt like a giant, it was interesting.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
> nothing but cheese sandwiches and sour buttermilk It's better than hamburgers an coke, or fish and chips and beer, I guess. Which are just as much b.s. stereotypical views of US and British diets as yours is of a Dutch diet.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Yes, that is indeed what this case is about, but the judge seems to set the precedent much broader, with his shotgun in bank scenario. IANAL either, but I checked the ruling, and it only seems to refer to accessing computers outright, thoug
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by donkeyd 10y ago
With Facebook buttons being on many websites now, wouldn't Power technically breach the cease-and-desist by visiting any web site that has a Facebook button? That's what troubles me about this, websites aren't fixed to a sing
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by donkeyd 10y ago
As somebody who is working himself up the food chain and has a tendency to give his two cents, this is some real food for though. Thanks for sharing!
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by donkeyd 10y ago
This reminds me about my time writing games in Basic on my calculator during math class. I suck at math because of this, but at least I'm an ok programmer.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Also works well in CS:GO. The skins add nothing to the actual game play, yet people like the value they add. Just a shame that it brings kids into a gambling state of mind. Would've been nicer if you could just buy them outright.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
True. Nintendo, of course, has a lot more IP than just Pokemon that they could license for all kinds of stuff. And the people who grew up with their games are now earning money, so they can actually buy the licensed material. Good point.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Yet I've seen a lot of comments of people who really enjoy the augmented reality part of it, which was inherited largely from Ingress. Sure, the Pokemon IP is a huge part of the reason it took off. But the reason people actually like i
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by donkeyd 10y ago
I used to live by the same principles, viewing in-app-purchases as something that's always bad. I have now, though, decided that I will decide what value a game has to me and will probably spend that amount on in-app-purchases. If the
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Yet Nintendo market cap gained 7 billion on Pokemon Go alone. I wonder if these investors really have no idea that the tech behind the game is Niantic and that Pokemon isn't even completely owned by Nintendo, or that there's somet
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by donkeyd 10y ago
To me, it seems like this is not just about software created by contractors: > develop, upgrade or implementation of information systems and e-services Implementation infers that also OOTB software should be open source. To me this could
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by donkeyd 10y ago
They were implementing an ESB. There wasn't any internal knowledge on it, so they had started a joint venture with a business that provided consultants. For some reason (not exactly sure why), the project went past its deadline by abou
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by donkeyd 10y ago
> 2 talented young programmers working all-out 12 hours a day on one project will generally be more productive than 3 talented folks with family working all-out 8 hours a day There's actually a lot of research that says it's th
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by donkeyd 10y ago
I've personally seen the Dutch government spend millions implementing open source software. This was something that could've been fixed for a fraction using a closed source solution. After a couple of years, the project was cancel
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Serious question: Why would Apple then create Swift and Swift Playgrounds for iPad in order to get more people to program? Seems like they are giving us some tools.
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by donkeyd 10y ago
The timelapse is pretty cool! http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1613a/
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by donkeyd 10y ago
Prediction: LinkedIn will integrate with office 365, and you will be forced into a LinkedIn for Business account when you use Office 365. You can choose to make your information public, private or a combination of both (hopefully). This wil
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by donkeyd 10y ago
There used to be a guy who mowed the lawn around our offices once every couple of weeks. Now there's a robot doing it. I used to want to hire a maid. Now I want a Roomba and a dishwasher. I doubt that people who were a maid or a garden
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by donkeyd 10y ago
My feed is comprised of a lot of snowboard videos. I often watch these videos without sound because it's not necessary to hear the music.

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