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by eco 13y ago
They definitely had some capacity issues near the end. On Christmas Eve I saw a UPS driver in a U-Haul truck in my neighborhood then later saw a U-Haul truck pulled up back to back with a UPS truck and they were handing off packages in a st
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by eco 13y ago
Facebook has a page they maintain that describes why they request the permissions they do. https://www.facebook.com/help/210676372433246
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by eco 13y ago
My understanding of how n-key rollover was finally implemented in USB keyboards was by putting a USB hub in the keyboard and having the keyboard pretend to be several keyboards all at once.
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by eco 13y ago
Yeah. The author of this article apparently didn't read the GMail announcement carefully enough. Email marketers can no longer track when email is opened on GMail accounts because every single image is opened whether the user reads the
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by eco 13y ago
Never thought I'd see the day when medical conspiracy theory website NaturalNews is linked to on Hacker News as proof of something. Sure, we can all expect links to it on Facebook from that one crazy aunt or uncle most people have but
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by eco 13y ago
I always remember them as the ads with John Hodgman.
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by eco 13y ago
I too couldn't leave comments. It took me awhile to figure out it was because I was blocking third party cookies. Apparently the new G+ comments on YouTube rely on them.
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by eco 13y ago
Off topic but why do so many people capitalize "id" as "iD"? I did myself years ago as well but I have no idea why I did. None of their logos use that capitalization and my memory of the early games is too poor to reca
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by eco 13y ago
I replaced the knob on my garage door with this one which opens with basically any manipulation of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odA_OaVA0PU I also installed this magnetic door stop on the same door. http:/&#x2
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by eco 13y ago
That's not a very good metric. CoffeeScript is twice the age of Dart.
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by eco 13y ago
I don't know how accurate this is but I've read that the TI OMAP processor division no longer exists so the Galaxy Nexus can't receive updates that it may need to support 4.4.
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by eco 13y ago
A bit nitpicking but that's a different statement than saying the earth is 6,000 years old. "Humans in their present form" is a very vague statement. You could take it to mean god imparted the knowledge of agriculture upon h
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by eco 13y ago
TEDx, at least. TED itself is usually (but not always) fairly well vetted. TEDx on the other hand is almost anything goes. "The event featured talks on crystal therapy and Egyptian psychoaromatherapy and, according to the schedule, clo
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by eco 13y ago
I expect there to be a system requirements explosion for PC games now that the new consoles are right around the corner and AAA game developers can finally target much higher specs.
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by eco 13y ago
> I also agree with you that it should be baked into the vanilla Android They appear to be working on that: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/25/app-ops-android-4-3s... I used it to block Facebook from
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by eco 13y ago
http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/ is helpful here.
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by eco 13y ago
The GC is optional in D (parts of the standard library use it so you'd have to avoid those). D uses RAII when it makes sense too.
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by eco 13y ago
C++11 borrowed a few good ideas from D and other languages so that certainly helped close the gap between D and C++ but D is still significantly nicer to work in than C++ (which is what I spend all day at work writing). You can use RAII all
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by eco 13y ago
I'm not sure where you got that idea but that's not true. The standard library make heavy usage of the GC. There is talk of implementing ARC to replace or supplement the GC and the standard library will most likely soon start us
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by eco 13y ago
That is not the correct link to GDC. It's an old and out of date version controlled by someone who hasn't been involved for years. https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC
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by eco 13y ago
A few updates on the current state of things today. The Tango/Phobos split has been resolved for awhile. You can now use Phobos, Tango, or both in the same D2 program. The number of libraries and bindings is growing rapidly. There is
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by eco 13y ago
They both set up caricatures of an unpopular group for the audience to laugh at. Like I said, blackface is far worse but I don't see how the analogy is "[terrible] on pretty much every level". It's much less hateful an
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by eco 13y ago
I once heard Big Bang Theory described as "blackface for nerds"* and it made me suddenly realize why I was so uncomfortable watching that show. * I hope no one thinks I'm trying to trivialize blackface which was, of course, f
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by eco 13y ago
There are a lot of interesting things you can do with a massive address space even if you don't have the RAM to back it. You can mmap massive files. False pointers are virtually nonexistent for conservative GCs in a 64-bit environmen
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by eco 13y ago
That's nice to know Mirasol isn't dead like I thought it was. It's pretty cool display technology.
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by eco 13y ago
Yeah. It's an extremely low end phone (Cortex A5 processor, 3.5-inch HVGA display). Specs are about something you'd see on a high end phone 4 years ago. Appears to be mostly targeting emerging markets where it's a good fit (a
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by eco 13y ago
Possibly but I think it seems more likely that they're clearing stock before the next Nexus device. Nexus devices typically become available around November and are announced around October. This would give them a month or two to clea
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by eco 13y ago
The nearly ubiquitous cell phone contract sucks and the operators certainly try to make things confusing but if someone really does want a cheap cell phone and plan they can be had for quite cheap and at not much inconvenience. Drive down
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by eco 13y ago
I'm surely in a minority on this but I think it's kind of immoral to take jobs away from some of the poorest people on earth and give them to relatively well off Americans. I know I'm obligated to prefer my countrymen to oth
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by eco 13y ago
It fingerprints to your voice to some extent. Not sure how good it does this but on The Verge they had one guy program his Moto X using his voice then the other two hosts tried to activate it and couldn't get it to recognize them. Thi

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