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by eco 10y ago
Background playback is a problem for YouTube because they pay for music licensing through ad revenue. I'm sure advertisers wouldn't be happy with people not seeing the ad they are paying for. With YouTube Red they have another rev
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by eco 10y ago
We are dealing with this right now with our software. Our end users on Windows 7 who haven't kept their machine up to date can't install the VC++ 2015 redistributable which is required to run our software. It's a Microsoft pr
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by eco 10y ago
Not a survival kit, a bug-out bag. It had South American currency, a mexican citizenship application, and—my favorite—a golden locket with Obama's picture (among other things). https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/trump&#x2
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by eco 10y ago
We had a couple of agents show up at our door over something like $17. They weren't even from the nearest IRS office (50 miles away instead of 10 miles). Our theory is that they needed an excuse to drive up and try the new In-N-Out tha
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by eco 10y ago
I stand corrected. I just received the 7.1 developer preview for the Nexus 6P and no Google Assistant.
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by eco 10y ago
As a working C++ programmer for over a decade this conclusion is absolute insanity to me. People (myself included) are actually using the STL algorithms now because you no longer have to go through the pain of writing a functor. Every time
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by eco 10y ago
Why do people keep saying that Nexus users won't be getting stuff like the Google Assistant? The Long Press activation requires 7.1. That's the only thing holding it up. All Nexus phones receiving 7.1 will have the same Google Ass
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by eco 10y ago
Frankly, this reads like a post from /r/ThatHappened. For those unfamiliar, it's a subreddit to share social media posts from people telling obviously made up stories with the purpose of making themselves look good (e.g., bra
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by eco 10y ago
I'm not terribly surprised that someone would think "neo-con" and "libertarian" were near synonyms. A lot of people seem to have it in their head that libertarians are just hardcore conservatives (and for some reaso
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by eco 10y ago
Does anyone have a solution for old users of Google Apps (back when it was called Google Apps For My Domain) that just want it to be like a regular Google account but keep their email address? It's very frustrating that everything Goog
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by eco 10y ago
> Too many of the Ethereum devs had way too much of their currency tied up in the DAO. Do you have any evidence of that? I know about the address that was found in both the Foundation wallet and as a DAO holder but I haven't seen an
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by eco 10y ago
I'm probably behind the times but I haven't heard it said that any amount may be harmful. Even fructose's harshest critic, Dr. Lustig, says that fructose's harm comes when an large acute volume of it overloads the ideal
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by eco 10y ago
Sugar substitutes are generally hundreds of times sweeter than the sugar they replace so they wouldn't even be a blip on the composition by mass. This is why cans of diet coke float in water but cans of regular coke sink.
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by eco 10y ago
One problem is that it requires about 33% more glucose to match the sweetness of sucrose and 126% more glucose to match the sweetness of fructose. Glucose has a much higher effect on insulin levels and glycemic load which makes it a harder
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by eco 10y ago
I use Backspace back quite a bit myself and was confused when it stopped working but I think it's the right decision to remove it. I'll just switch to Alt-Left rather than switch to an extension (and endure the week or two of anno
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by eco 10y ago
Reminds me of how leftPad and rightPad were added to D a day or two after the npm story exploded and I thought it was poking fun at the situation but the pull request was actually created many months prior and the person who merged it was u
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by eco 10y ago
For several months XCode would just crash when I tried to run my application with debugging. It was eventually fixed by an XCode update. I think the only large platform owning company that has really succeeded with development tools is Micr
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by eco 11y ago
I've been practicing this approach for awhile with great success: http://utf8everywhere.org/
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by eco 11y ago
Qt is great but it's a stretch to say it looks and feels completely native. Open Qt Creator on Windows and tell me it looks or feels anything like a native Windows application. Qt looks pretty close if you stick to just the essential c
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by eco 11y ago
Your example kind of reflects that you aren't using wx for what it's made for. You can usually call GetHandle() and switch to platform specific stuff if you need to do something weird like that. I wouldn't really recommend th
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by eco 11y ago
Vitalik has actually said he now feels having three clients (written in go, c++, and python) was a mistake as it took up a lot of development energy in the early days. Parity is actually not one of those three but was only recently created
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by eco 11y ago
Yep. An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwlV_94kPE
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by eco 11y ago
Yes. See Vitalik's post from last year about State Tree Pruning: https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/26/state-tree-pruning/
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by eco 11y ago
They don't mean fork ethereum and create a new currency. They mean create a new currency running on the ethereum platform. A bitcoin fork means you have to build up a group of miners sufficiently large and diverse enough that everyone
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by eco 11y ago
That all sounds very exciting. Are there some implementations of this stuff we can look at?
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by eco 11y ago
My issue was resolved eventually (took about a month with one week lag in their replies and it was me who figured out what was going on, not the support). It looks like the App Engine documentation was finally fixed. It used to say "If
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by eco 11y ago
The Google Cloud guys are always all over Hacker News threads whenever it comes up. I wish they had the same exuberance about their support tickets :(
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by eco 11y ago
Yeah, I'm really disappointed. It's one of my favorite things about D. I guess f(x,y) finding x.f(y) is better than nothing but the other way around makes for some beautifully composable code.
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by eco 11y ago
The author of this has been a long time contributor to D and brought these ideas (and many other things) to the language. He's probably the biggest reason D's CTFE (compile time function evaluation) is as powerful as it is, having
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by eco 11y ago
The last time I got a physical my doctor told me annual physicals are not necessary or recommended for someone my age. There is such a thing as excessive screening and testing. PSA testing (for prostate cancer) had so many false positives r

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