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I found this article fascinating and satisfying. I'm curious about the desire to reduce ambiguity, which seemed to be emphasized as a motivation for the creation of Ithkuil and some of the other languages mentioned. Is it desirable to
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I'm in the end stages of developing my first Android app. Throughout development I used the Android compatibility libraries to get it working on Gingerbread. However, now that I'm almost finished, I realize that many Gingerbread d
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> by then the market share of Gingerbread should be under 15-20 percent, too According to the Android dashboard [1], among users of Google Play Gingerbread has a market share of 13.5% [1] https://developer.android.com/abo
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> Doesn't have to cost much. Just choose some supposed wildly different wines, and tear up a sheet to make blindfolds. The hard part is finding qualified experts who are willing to participate. The experiment would be most interesti
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I have wanted to perform a rigorous double-blind wine-tasting experiment for a long time, but have always lacked the resources. The true test of the validity of wine-tasting isn't whether experts can tell "good" wine from &qu
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>I always ask clients if they would go with a $5 plumber, or a $5 bus driver for their kids. Always the response is, "No!" So it's a matter of them not being able to judge quality of tech / design work... A $5 plumber
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Does DF actually generate the geology of the whole planet, rather than just the playable area?
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I'm not in your target market (I don't own an iOS device) but have you thought about switching the order of the screenshots in the App store / iTunes preview? On my display, the two screenshots that are visible by default don
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The effectiveness of breakfast recommendations on weight loss(ajcn.nutrition.org)
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>Your Facebook account is too new to qualify. Stay tuned for new ways to grab stellars. I've had my facebook account for something like 8 years. Oh well.
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No, I just misread the help page. Thanks.
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Dropbox keeps deleted files and previous versions of files for 30 days. With Packrat, a free feature for all paid accounts, Dropbox keeps deleted files for the lifetime of the account. How is Dropbox not a backup provider? It may not be a v
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> On the other hand, keeping copies of the user's data after you say you've deleted it doesn't sound too ethical to me. I don't expect immediate purging, but I also don't expect potentially sensitive files to lin
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I think this bug should be considered completely separately from how unwise it is to use a cloud service as the sole storage of important files. Regardless of the circumstances, losing user files against the wishes of the user is the absol
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You can use Alexa rank and other public metrics as a crude first-approximation of how many visitors a site gets. In my experience it's usually accurate to within an order of magnitude for sites that aren't incredibly big or incred
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> The issue with a lot of procedurally-generated content is that overall things become same-y Yes. It's easy for a developer to say "trillions of possible combinations" or "every x is unique with a high degree of cert
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More than just being faster, it establishes short, content-free messages as a socially valid communication method. Snapchat wasn't a success because people had been yearning for self-deleting photo messaging or because people found it
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I found a message board thread in which the Airbnb host this article is written about describes the issue and asks for advice. http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/136498-evictin...
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I enjoy the productivity / technology podcast Back to Work by Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin. http://5by5.tv/b2w > Back to Work is an award winning talk show with Merlin > Mann and Dan Benjamin discussing pro
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The commission-free withdrawals abroad were offered at the wholesale VISA rate. Nationwide didn't take any vig. Their "Select credit card" still offers EUR and USD purchases with no surcharge and no vig.
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Rather than the deeper zoom the OP suggested, I would suggest a link to a full-screen lightbox of the map image. On a 1080p monitor, the map box only takes up 20% of the screen real estate.
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I wonder about the relationship between caffeine and the near-universal spread of tea and coffee as hot beverages. I love tisanes, what are informally called herbal teas. I find it striking that there are literally hundreds of plants used t
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I'm developing my first Android application and am beginning to work on the interface in earnest. Can anyone recommend some good tutorials or guides for producing elegant layouts that respond well to different screen sizes? I understan
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I've always thought the biggest problem with micropayments is the mental cost of deciding whether or not to purchase something. Decisions are painful, and deciding whether or not to spend $0.20 online isn't much less painful that
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Google Has 93% Of Android Users On The Latest Google Play Service(forbes.com)
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> Does anyone know what the codenames are like? If they are easy enough to remember, then they may be easy enough to brute-force? I don't know what they're like, but if you take a list of 5000 common words and use 4 random entr
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by gabemart 12y ago
I set up an email campaign for Show HN Weekly: http://eepurl.com/YqG6z
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Show HN: RSS-powered video game news search(vidyabuzz.com)
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>Can't Android just tell an app "your sound is being paused", cut sound, and display the dialog? I don't know if it can, but it doesn't. To respond to external audio changes, an app has to use AudioManager.OnAud
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I'm working on a hobby project called vidyabuzz [1]. It's a search engine / instant newspaper for video games. You give it the name of a video game that's been in the news lately (or a studio, or a developer) and it give

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