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by entropy_ 8y ago
The iPhone definitely did not definitely did not bring tons of people to computing for the first time. By the time the iPhone came out PCs and laptops were pretty much in every home anyway. Let me put it this way, I live in a third world
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by entropy_ 8y ago
True, though it's definitely nice to see how that discussion didn't descend into poo-flinging. The poster replied to the criticism and the critic conceded that it would indeed be useful, even for linux users :-)
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by entropy_ 8y ago
Quoting(emphasis mine): "In March, Insys launched a multinational study of 190 children to evaluate cannabidiol as a first-line therapy for infantile spasms" That does seem to be the solution being pursued it seems
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by entropy_ 8y ago
I come from a family of 4 children, but there was a single child nonetheless because we're 3 boys close to each other in age, then a large gap, then a girl. My parents say that in the case of my sister some things were a lot harder bec
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by entropy_ 8y ago
As others have said, HD is usually not diagnosed until well after you have children. Also, some people can be carriers without actually exhibiting symptoms. It goes like this: 1 - There's a particular sequence of bases that are repeate
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by entropy_ 8y ago
My wife's family has a different disease running through it, though one with very similar outcomes. Huntington's. It's genetic and dominant (so a parent having it means 50/50 for the children). Average age of onset is 38
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by entropy_ 9y ago
Perhaps we have different definitions of ugly but seems like quite an elegant kludge to me :-)
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Former Apple developer explains why the company’s software is struggling(bgr.com)
41 points by entropy_ 9y ago|11 comments
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by entropy_ 9y ago
Just a small correction. The Robber(or Thief) in Catan doesn't allow you to steal half another player's resources, you just steal one card. However, if any player has 8 or more resource cards in their hands when '7' is r
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by entropy_ 9y ago
I made the mistake of reading Digital Fortress at some point. The entire plot is predicated on the existence of a computer at the NSA that can defeat any encryption through brute force without even knowing the underlying encryption scheme.
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by entropy_ 10y ago
The apple store binary format is really horrible when it comes to keeping the size down. Especially if you need to use libraries and whatnot. What it comes down to is this: 1 - The binary format itself isn't very efficient. Compressing
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Fitbit acquires vector(engadget.com)
2 points by entropy_ 10y ago|0 comments
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by entropy_ 10y ago
At least as far as I'm concerned, the biggest wart of all is variables that are global by default. That just makes no sense at all...
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by entropy_ 10y ago
I did that, and it worked for a while, but then the issues were back something like a month later. Adding more padding causes the back panel not to close properly so that's not an option. I'm stuck with the display getting weird e
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by entropy_ 10y ago
Wasn't aware of that one. Significantly fewer people affected though(I think red-green is something like 10% of males)
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by entropy_ 10y ago
Use blue, the most common types of color blindness are red-green issues(there's a really tiny percentage that doesn't perceive colors at all but really really tiny. And other than those, nobody has trouble with blue) Source: I&#x2
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by entropy_ 10y ago
"Ignoring if you push the speeder all the way down, and accelerating the car at an efficient pace instead." That has the potential to be really dangerous though, at least where I drive(a third world country). If a car doesn't
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by entropy_ 10y ago
Did you even read the article? Because what you say is a direct contradiction of the article. The article even explains why the reforms didn't work in the US(TL;DR; they weren't properly implemented) while they did work elsewhere,
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by entropy_ 10y ago
Some notation systems do exactly that. For example, the notation used for byzantine chanting: http://www.byzantinechant.org/notation/Table%20of%20Byzantin...
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by entropy_ 10y ago
That's not true. 5 nines, ie 99.999% uptime means that the maximum downtime in a year is about 315 seconds: 60x60x24x365 x (1 - (99.999/100)) = 315.36 Wikipedia confirms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_ava
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by entropy_ 10y ago
How violent an action truly is is irrelevant when deciding whether a murder was premeditated(first degree) or not(second degree). If I swing a hammer at a wall and someone happens to be passing by, I hit them in the face and kill them, it&#
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Tesla will unveil its $35,000 Model 3 on March 31st(engadget.com)
2 points by entropy_ 11y ago|0 comments
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by entropy_ 12y ago
Probably not, most, if not all, non-compliant XML/XHTML is either written by hand or by very bad generation tools. In the case of HTML/2 it's a protocol that needs to be implemented by browsers and web servers and there are o
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by entropy_ 12y ago
You are definitely not alone in that. My native language is Arabic, but if I switch my phone or computer to Arabic I wouldn't be able to use it. I dread testing translations of apps I'm working on because it forces me to switch to
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by entropy_ 12y ago
I definitely would like to see an open tournament. My friend and I are going to be participating but neither of us are students. Just doing it for the fun and educational value.
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by entropy_ 12y ago
I learned Math in a french-system school and yes, that's definitely a much better notation in my opinion. The difference between [] and () is not immediately clear, whereas [a,b] versus ]a,b[ makes it obvious that one includes a and b
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by entropy_ 12y ago
To me, by far the biggest advantage of generics is that it makes it a whole lot easier to understand function signatures. I develop on both Android and iOS and I can't even begin to count the number of times I've read a function d
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by entropy_ 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Lebanon) Most of my professional experience has been with mobile development(iOS, Android and openGL ES) but I also have experience with nodeJS, python and C from personal projects. I'm also a polyglot and an avi
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by entropy_ 12y ago
Honestly, the only thing that has ever been a problem to me in terms of usability as a person with strong protanopia is sites that mess with link highlight colors. Just leave it up to the browser defaults what color links show up in(visited
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by entropy_ 12y ago
That's definitely understandable, though I guess a bit sad. Does anyone who's not Polish speak Polish? That hasn't been my experience. I've met a few Polish people and seemed such a foreign language to me(doesn't so

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