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by gregmac 11y ago
I have RGB+W LED strips that light my home office. http://imgur.com/a/JgWV8 The LEDs are 5050's (not individually addressable), and it alternates between white and RGB LEDs, controlled via analog/PWM (there a
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by gregmac 11y ago
This one does seem quite onerous: how do you even know what legislation applies to the software you're working on, to even ask the right questions? There are already specialists in legislation (we call them lawyers), so why should the
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by gregmac 11y ago
> Phone number input boxes like to torture me - the ones conveniently divided into three boxes for the three parts of the number. If you are a web developer, and you do this: stop. This works for the North American numbers only. Get a us
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Bitcoin is 100x less secure than commonly believed(bytemaster.github.io)
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by gregmac 11y ago
Not just fired though: if they either didn't do it anonymously, or someone outed the outer, they'd be putting future job prospects in jeopardy as well. The story about them doing this will quickly shoot to the top of search result
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by gregmac 11y ago
Would they not have to do that to get multi-room audio, period?
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by gregmac 11y ago
> But I fail to see how a single profession could be so much more complex then say quantum physicist. I am neither a doctor nor a quantum physicist, however, I suspect that having minutes or seconds to make a literal life or death decisi
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by gregmac 11y ago
This all sounds great -- until, for example, you are trying to eat a snack while also watching TV. Or one of a dozen other things where the automation gets in the way. Or, equally worse -- it's not perfect. Sometimes the lights don&#x2
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by gregmac 11y ago
Well, looks interesting, but too bad it doesn't work with the new Samsung phone I got just 7 months ago (S5).
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by gregmac 11y ago
Neat. Threw together a usermacro for Atlassian Confluence that uses this as a quick and dirty proof of concept: https://gist.github.com/gregmac/fa89a3d86dcb1a008153
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by gregmac 11y ago
In a way. An extreme could be not loading content until the ad is loaded, and there is some type of check to verify that it did actually load (not blocked). If someone is determined enough, they could simulate the ad being loaded (eg, maybe
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by gregmac 11y ago
> Can I skip the ad, go straight to the article and not be paid? Maybe content providers could decide. I think the content providers would argue that you getting the content is your form of 'payment' for seeing the ad. So if yo
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by gregmac 11y ago
This, in my opinion, is one of the very compelling reasons to use a GUI for these types of operations. As an example, refactoring something that touches many files often leads to several related/required changes that aren't part o
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by gregmac 11y ago
Well, it is partially his mistake, which he acknowledges: > I am certainly not innocent here and some mistakes were made on my part. [...] To this end, having encrypted access keys or excluding configuration settings from GitHub would
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by gregmac 11y ago
Sounds like the source is this same guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420 There's already lots of commentary there on the results.
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by gregmac 11y ago
Is anything even new here? The io.js README was last updated 18 days ago. Back in May, the two projects announced they were merging, and several things have been done in that respect: * The io.js project joined the Node Foundation ( https:&
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by gregmac 11y ago
I use LastPass to also store the username I used, which is handy given that: 1. Some sites use email, others use username (and sometimes your usual username is taken), and a handful of sites assign you something (eg: with an old VoIP provid