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eurleif
14y ago
That's talking about hard drives. The comment you quoted is talking about SSDs.
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eurleif
14y ago
Whatever you do, don't make clicking the label do something other than check/uncheck the box, like how Xfinity's boneheaded login page brings up a 'help' screen when you click on 'Keep me signed in': https://login.comcast.net/login
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eurleif
14y ago
You seem to be setting up a false dichotomy between using the ST monad and writing pointfree code ("functions as a composition of other functions, never mentioning the actual arguments they will be applied to"). But you can write non-pointf
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eurleif
14y ago
The 9% is if you use certain "premium features" of the Flash player. It doesn't apply to every game. See: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/premium-fea...
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eurleif
14y ago
Yes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19372456 (Quote from a researcher involved with the study: "It is such a special study that I'm fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for under-18 brains.")
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eurleif
14y ago
That only works if you explicitly set document.domain = "example.com" from the pages on example.com, as well as from the pages on the subdomain. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/document.domain
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eurleif
14y ago
>SSL doesn't introduce scroll latency It introduces request latency, which could certainly add latency to Facebook's infinite scrolling.
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eurleif
14y ago
(Some) nutritional yeast is fortified with vitamin B12. It's not a natural component.
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eurleif
14y ago
You have the opportunity to read Facebook's privacy policy before consenting to it. Facebook does not have a similar opportunity to read your privacy notice before allowing you to post it to your wall. It happens automatically.
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eurleif
14y ago
I don't think CALEA applies to email. Am I wrong?
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eurleif
14y ago
>(In comparison, Facebook uses a programming language called AJAX that taxes servers less.)
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eurleif
14y ago
I think this could handled more elegantly if Python supported an Option type, by making 'name' an Option[Option[String]]
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eurleif
14y ago
Deferreds in Twisted make it easy to chain asynchronous code with error handling together: def parseData(data): return doManyFancyThingsWith(data) def parsedAsyncResult(): return asyncResult().addCallback(pars
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eurleif
14y ago
I wonder what the chances are that the water will go down, and they will be able to supply fuel to the pumps, before power is actually lost.
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eurleif
14y ago
> And i want to know what code you are executing. Have you ever actually tried to read JS code that's been through a minifier, or worse, the Closure Compiler? It's not impossible, but neither is reading disassembled machine code. Either
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eurleif
14y ago
Facebook would have that data even if they didn't use it for the like button count.
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eurleif
14y ago
>Of the initial product, which connects strangers for live video chats based on their interests, Parker said, “One-to-one is never viral.” Wait, what? ChatRoulette wasn't viral? That's not how I remember it.
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eurleif
14y ago
You might end up with idiots jumping in front of trains because 'it's safe now'.
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eurleif
14y ago
"expensive to innovate and cheap to copy" sounds like eligibility criteria to me.
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eurleif
14y ago
Gmail's mobile version has links at the bottom: 'View Gmail in: Mobile | Older version | desktop'
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eurleif
14y ago
Brown sugar is no better for you than white sugar. http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/health/article/Reality-Ch... Xylitol is my preferred sugar substitute. It's lower in calories, and it has a much lower glycemic index. It also helps pre
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eurleif
14y ago
GOOG-411 worked well, in my experience; and it also let you make free calls. I think it was probably a PR win for Google.
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eurleif
14y ago
Samsung didn't violate a contract it signed with Apple. The situations really aren't very similar.
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eurleif
14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
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eurleif
14y ago
I took 2) to mean, 'When I submit prior art, must I do so to challenge a particular patent? Or can I submit prior art for general consideration, in case anyone happens to submit a patent application to which the prior art applies?'
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eurleif
14y ago
What? IDs and classes are part of the HTML, not the CSS, and as such, they should specify semantics, not presentation. If a class or ID specifies presentation, like .red-button, you have to change the HTML when the design changes, not just
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eurleif
14y ago
>If they can do that with voice, I think they can do that with their dictionaries. This feature uploads images to Google to do the OCR. That's the biggest problem here.
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eurleif
14y ago
If that's the case, people should avoid clicking the link, as it mentions other patents. (I saw the list, but I didn't read any of the items in it.)
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eurleif
14y ago
>Since both of Twin Peaks' products are released under a proprietary license, there was no source code of any changes it made to mount released, which is a violation of the GPLv2. Seems like Twin Peaks could resolve this by just releasi
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eurleif
14y ago
>CS's scoping is a bit... dangerous, because there's no indication of a variable's scope. If you're not paying attention to your environment, you'll inadvertently stomp on higher scopes or globals. You can lose assignments through typos
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