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by eterm 11y ago
Just because they can, doesn't mean they should. I'm fairly accepting that every android app asks for "permission to read ..." permissions, but I don't want them to be so proud of this that they present their inform
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by eterm 11y ago
Facebook does some really creepy stuff. This morning it showed me my mobile (cell) number and asked me if I wanted to tie it to my facebook account. I've never knowingly provided my cell number to facebook, as I don't use facebook
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by eterm 11y ago
Props to ESL for doing this. Some of this has come about because of how casually some csgo players have discussed how they load up on adderall just before matches. Hopefully they can clean this up not neccessarily just for the sake of compe
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by eterm 11y ago
A large part of it is their ability to keep themselves stable. That opens up a huge range of uses that weren't there previously, as well as reducing the chance you'll break it the first time out flying it.
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by eterm 11y ago
I actually strongly agree here. If dropdown menus are so bad, then it's up to the user-agent to fix that. Remember that they're not actually <dropdown> elements, they're <select> elements. If actions that require
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by eterm 11y ago
It might depend on the length of list, and phone and browser, but a quick swipe usually starts it scrolling down, and a quick tap will stop it (there's usually some momentum, it'll stop itself eventually too). For a short scroll t
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by eterm 11y ago
It's not my content, I don't know what made you think that. And mobile users aren't a "section of society", they're everyone. This isn't about exclusionism. Yes, having an article about mobile UX design th
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by eterm 11y ago
Tap to bring up the dropdown Tap to start it scrolling it downward Tap to stop it scrolling downward Tap to select the actual item you'd like edit: Just noticed you were quoting the grandparent comment to this comment, this is addressi
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by eterm 11y ago
And once again the top comment here is a meta-comment addressing the article formatting rather than the article itself. Can't we just let that stuff go and address the article itself?
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by eterm 11y ago
One way you can avoid the need for an EU cookie widget is by not setting unneccessary cookies.
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by eterm 11y ago
Pentel p205. (sometimes 207) I don't use pen. edit: http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.co.uk/ is a good resource for reviews of mechanical pencils and erasers.
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by eterm 11y ago
One of the benefits of a PRNG is reproducibility. If you are doing a monte carlo simulation, then you can get good results while still starting runs from predictable seeds. (e.g. [0,1,2,3,4,...]) This gives you both good quality random numb
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by eterm 11y ago
I'm in the UK, which look like they're roughly £300 instead, and at that price I'd not be able to justify the cost to my boss if I wanted to use it at work. Yes, I know, it's "only" a week of salary, but that&#
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by eterm 11y ago
Product pages without the price makes me think I can't afford their prices. Last time I encountered that was an Aeron chair. As much as I'd love one, I can't justify dropping £800 on a chair nor would I be able to persuade my
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by eterm 11y ago
My firefox has been blocking flash for a while (I've not updated it, so it doesn't load the old version.). The only site I switch to Chrome for has been twitch. For anything else html5 video has been generally working. I've n
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by eterm 11y ago
But facebook isn't an OS, and it's the kind of stuff that many developers aren't used to dealing with. It's the equivalent of saying that many desktop applications with server back-ends had leaky permissions. The conseq
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by eterm 11y ago
Going from a simple single-controller to multiple controllers, services, and the rest was a hurdle I never managed to cross. I understand the principles involved, but actually going from "Here's my complete data model, handled by
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by eterm 11y ago
It's not just if you try to contribute bad code, just asking the wrong kind of question can get a lot of crap back at you. Of course, if you're genuinely a beginner you don't know you're asking the wrong kind of question
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by eterm 11y ago
But god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides. (Web is OK but expensive, "standard" or enterprise? Now that hurts)
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by eterm 11y ago
I thought this too, perhaps they're not popular because IE and Safari don't support them?
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by eterm 11y ago
( Why do you ask, are you thinking of going into software development? ) People in the UK hate to talk about salary, so I can only give my perspective (Not London, but close enough to have a pint cost £4). I can't be more detailed beca
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by eterm 11y ago
Also it had horrible performance. Even without any active desktop content, just having it enabled was enough to make any desktop interaction painfully slow compared to having it disabled.
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by eterm 11y ago
> I've seen people maximise browsers on large monitors I am guilty of this, but what's odd is that it is something I only do in a Windows environment. When I'm in gnome or other linux environment I don't tend to ever
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by eterm 11y ago
That's actually covered in that article: "As to hair color, dark hair tends to be more neutral, because people of every skin tone can have black (or very dark brown) hair—however, there is no requirement for any particular hair co
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by eterm 11y ago
Neat! p.s. On the "click me" demo, the state is preserved when going back then forward, but not preserved when going forward then back. - Is that a design decision or unintended effect?
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by eterm 11y ago
Is that true? Imagine I want to sample [0,2), then I can use the following table: [0,0,0,1,1,0,1,1]. This has cycle length 8. Much longer cycles can be obtained, it just requires the state of the prng to be larger than range being sampled.
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by eterm 11y ago
The UK already has these rights and more: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/find-out-what-data-an-org... https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act
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by eterm 11y ago
When I'm busy at work I turn on "noprocrast" mode. I still open hn all the time but the "get back to work!" message helps me close it quicker.
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by eterm 11y ago
Good for you. I'm often tempted to do the same, I still play 2-3 hours a day of PC games most nights after work. It isn't healthy but then if I didn't I suspect I'd binge on netflix or even just regular TV instead. I thi
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by eterm 11y ago
The setup doesn't appear to be working from a windows/mingw32 environment. (Most npm installers do work in this environment.)

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