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by flavor8 11y ago
You can hold it "brim side up" while walking to contain the water. There's no way to do that with a regular umbrella. Of course you still need to dry it out somehow, e.g. let it drip into a bucket; that part of the video is p
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by flavor8 11y ago
> it doesn't solve the 'drip water on the floor problem', yet the promotional video implies it will What do you mean? From the video it seems pretty clear that it does. With a regular umbrella there's no way to carry
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by flavor8 11y ago
> Alternatively I send a wire transfer to a US bank, now I have to pay a fee (around about £25 flat fee plus a % on the exchange rate conversion from USD to GBP, or I send it in GBP and let the receiver worry about converting it to USD).
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by flavor8 11y ago
In order to move BTC from the US to Nigeria, they'd need BTC buyers in Nigeria. Given that the two economies are asymmetric (particularly in terms of how much can be bought in BTC currently) that's a bottleneck. By contrast, big b
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by flavor8 11y ago
> it jitters and freezes your browser initially while it loads its 43 analytics engines and social media libraries. Don't browse without ghostery.
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by flavor8 11y ago
Once a ubuntu phone turns up that supports docking, as the original concept video shows, I'm all over it. Until then it's just a niche mobile OS with a restricted number of apps, and likely too many bugs.
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by flavor8 11y ago
> Reading time: ~15 minutes. 842 words including code. Average adult reading speed: 300 words/minute. Does not compute.
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by flavor8 11y ago
For binary assets, why not just rent a cheap digital ocean box? You get a 20GB server for $5/mo. Throw up an nginx install to forward part of the site to github, and downloads direct from disk, and you have a nice - and fully customiza
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by flavor8 11y ago
> Netflix is a great product that falls down only in terms of content ...and app UI. Have you ever tried to drive your chromecast with the netflix app? It's buggy as hell, doesn't display comments, doesn't display related
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by flavor8 11y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/34goss/meta_groovesha...
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by flavor8 12y ago
Inbox, calendar, maps.
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by flavor8 12y ago
KDE is a great platform, but most of the prominent distros ship with near-default style settings, which are ugly (just look at the 15.04 screenshots, linked from the article). It would be nice if an opinionated design team (similar to the e
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by flavor8 12y ago
> One of the things I found frustrating about Nextdoor when I used it a year ago was that it defines the neighborhood for you. That's not true. When you set up a neighborhood (if you are the first to do so) you can define the neighb
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by flavor8 12y ago
Email notifications are totally configurable. I've set mine to "urgent alerts" & "free stuff" only, and otherwise just get daily digests.
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by flavor8 12y ago
And then history -c
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by flavor8 12y ago
So push a button to start voice recognition? Always on is not worth the potential privacy tradeoff.
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by flavor8 12y ago
Or https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/589/file-history-sho... ...which is almost 6 years old, and makes it hell to view PRs that involve moved files.
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by flavor8 12y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - REMOTE (US based) We're building a healthcare analytics product for a startup. Currently working with 3 billion records, will be 20 billion records by end of year: big enough to make life interesting. We have a va
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by flavor8 12y ago
I've heard that durability is an issue on the Z3. I'd love a phone that small which is tough enough not to need a case. (Currently I have an LG G2, which I find too large, despite my large hands; I had to get a case for it after d
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by flavor8 12y ago
I'm not associated with them, but they asked me for an eclipse screenshot if I had one, when I reported this issue to them and suggested that they create a workaround in their UI. (FWIW it's an annoying issue, but not enough for _
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by flavor8 12y ago
> This is just a visualization issue of the debugger you're using No it's not - it's (apparently) a JDK issue. See the discussion in the Jetbrains bug report. BTW if Eclipse can do this, Jetbrains want to know.
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by flavor8 12y ago
Hardcoding the validation of the reply is an unfortunate obstacle to scaling this - the server would very quickly become CPU bound. They should really have made a TwitterSortValidationService which sends the answer out to the Twitter API, a
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by flavor8 12y ago
And -40 is -40.
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by flavor8 12y ago
Alex Honnold is known for free solo climbing; e.g. http://vimeo.com/73901538
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by flavor8 12y ago
Was "El Norte" (the Spanish settlement of California) only along the coast, or did they never lay full claim to the land? Curious as to why it doesn't really show on this visualization. There's an excellent book about se
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by flavor8 12y ago
Back in 2001 I did some consulting for CyberRebate, who were building exactly this. In return for running their proxy you'd earn reward points that you could cash in on their site. They imploded ( http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by flavor8 12y ago
I typically store the env _name_ in the environment, and then use that in my apps to build a path to the file containing secrets (e.g. /etc/{mycompany}/{environment}/myapp.conf). The file is locked down by ACLs or permis
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by flavor8 12y ago
I don't think there's any circle you can draw around federal buildings that wouldn't include residential buildings also. If you declared all federal buildings to be part of the district (and everything else Maryland) it would
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by flavor8 12y ago
> A few months ago I finally moved my accounts to TD. You'll be back to Schwab before you know it. TD are beyond awful. Schwab have pretty much the best customer service going.
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by flavor8 12y ago
Geography, for a start. Federal buildings quite widespread, not just concentrated around the mall. http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/22431

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