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871.
by gmac 10y ago
Absolutely agree. I have only one or twice used method swizzling, but when I have used it it has absolutely saved my bacon in the face of nasty platform bugs. Fighting fire with fire, so to speak.
872.
by gmac 10y ago
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toot_Sweets
873.
by gmac 10y ago
Coursera use it (plus a webcam shot) to try to verify that every coursework submission is from the same person.
874.
by gmac 10y ago
This is the same deniability strategy used by Prohibition-era 'grape drinks': "After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn
875.
by gmac 10y ago
https://github.com/jawj/JS-RegExp-Extended-MultiLine , now MIT licenced.
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by gmac 10y ago
This is the 'extended' syntax. It's not supported out of the box in Javascript, but it's not hard to add: http://blog.mackerron.com/2010/08/08/extended-multi-line-js-...
877.
by gmac 11y ago
I also have a 10GB/month data plan, on Vodafone UK. It costs GBP £46 (USD $65) per month over 24 months, including a 20% discount [1]. It came with a 'free' 128GB iPhone 6, 2 years of Spotify and 6 months of Netflix. [1] htt
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UTF-8 in JavaScript(monsur.hossa.in)
1 points by gmac 11y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 11y ago
Plan? First, get news media to lift their embargo on trying to understand the motivations of people who perpetrate these awful attacks. Right now, it seems the only acceptable explanation is comic-book evil plus religious prejudice (&quot
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by gmac 11y ago
[citation needed] — that #4 placing for nuclear looks especially suspect if you consider the recent furore over Hinkley Point C in the UK[1]. [1] e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/05/sc
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Mounting evidence against antibacterial soaps(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by gmac 11y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 11y ago
Capitalism trends towards greatest total utility (in the economics sense) That's arguably a bit misleading, since greater equality gives greater utility, for a fixed-size pie. It's pretty well established that utility is approxi
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Sweet drug clears cholesterol, reverses heart disease–and was found by parents(arstechnica.co.uk)
132 points by gmac 11y ago|35 comments
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by gmac 11y ago
I got given one for Christmas. It appears to work as advertised. But it also slightly spooks me that it is an Internet-connected black box with a microphone, and the kind of thing that under the UK's proposed Investigatory Powers Bill
885.
by gmac 11y ago
It's ridiculous, but this argument tends to boil down to whether the author chooses to plot happiness against LOG income (look ma! a straight line!) or plain old linear income. IMHO plotting against exclusively log income mainly serves
886.
by gmac 11y ago
Another option is to run your own. I guess it's swings and roundabouts concerning privacy, traceability and so on. I have a script to automate setup of an IKEv2 server on Ubuntu, which seems nice for a balance of security and the avail
887.
by gmac 11y ago
Bless you!
888.
by gmac 11y ago
If you really can’t figure out how to avoid polling then be smart about it. Waking up every second may seem very conservative, but if every long running program does it then your CPU may get woken up dozens of times per second. My underst
889.
by gmac 11y ago
I suggest you remove the remaining vowels from that, giving base 27. Then you have no worries about accidentally generating obscenities.
890.
by gmac 11y ago
There's another incumbent advantage here: I imagine it's much easier to provide good results when you also have data on which results thousands or millions of people clicked on for millions of search terms.
891.
by gmac 11y ago
It's kind of hard to believe the same remains true in heavy rain, in the dark. I find that even the absence (or poor maintenance of) cat's eyes can be problematic then.
892.
by gmac 11y ago
I can do all that too, but I'm fairly sure experienced Tableau people can do it significantly faster than I can for a comparable quality of result. (Tableau is the only non-open-source software in the stack my company runs).
893.
by gmac 11y ago
Sounds like a super-easy way for malware/ransomware to do real damage.
894.
by gmac 11y ago
I already do.
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Heroku Private Spaces Now Generally Available(blog.heroku.com)
3 points by gmac 11y ago|0 comments
896.
by gmac 11y ago
The times I feel I’ve made most difference to our team’s effectiveness is when I find ways to not build things. "We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." — Larr
897.
by gmac 11y ago
Not convinced monopolies are the problem. Broadband infrastructure strikes me as a natural monopoly[1], and I think this is the point the BT guy is making in the article. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopo
898.
by gmac 11y ago
I have always opted out of the open or edited register, and have never had a problem with this. Seems like your details can still be used for credit checks and fraud prevention (which I imagine covers confirming identities and addresses) ev
899.
by gmac 11y ago
Photos and videos taken with the camera, music and audiobooks for offline listening (in the countryside, commuting), sat nav apps, 3D games, a few movies or TV shows to entertain the kids in a tight spot, ... (I am currently at 42GB).
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by gmac 11y ago
I had a quick go at this a few months back using Apple's CIDetector[1], and even at 'high' accuracy that didn't seem precise enough — it was distractingly jiggly. [1] [CIDetector detectorOfType:CIDetectorTypeFace context

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