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by grrowl 12y ago
Pedometer++[1] has donations too — "Generous Tip of $1.29", "Massive Tip of $2.49", and "Amazing Tip of $6.49" (AU pricing). According to the guidelines[2], "Apps that include the ability to make donations
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But a phishing site such as "HTTPS-SECURE.required-bank-security-check.gmkla4lwgi.com" [hypothetical] could easily check for the most popular bank institutions in a user's history using this exploit and present them with the
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> "Being healthy will make you a better programmer." This resonates with me more than "...Level Up.", because it's true. When I was working out my whole body worked better, including my brain, so I appreciate th
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The market determines the future directions of products, services, and tools. While HN-types deliver them, by-the-numbers, they usually fail.
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You're missing the mark of this scenario — the headings are all more important than paragraphs, but maybe a summary or "background info" paragraph is clearly less integral than its nearby paragraphs, or maybe the second hal
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It was. They could have signed any phone application to pretend like it was developed by Nokia, and therefore could have done anything to the phones (hence the malware angle).
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In the case of Samsung, the opposition's products; in the case of [past] Microsoft, the users; in the case of Facebook, the advertising revenue. At my day job I'm focussed on what's best for the client, not the website or the
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I think the common theme is Minecraft's ecosystem. Mojang addresses a problem (EULA-breaking monetization within the ecosystem) by changing the rules to address the problem. What they should do is circumvent the immediate problem by re
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The Samsung Remote Test Lab[1] provides this for free (with limits)— they have a range of real devices (S5—S2, Notes, Tabs, even Gears) that you remote into and can install APKs, screenshot, and otherwise have full control over. Somewhat un
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It may have been specifically coded as a "proof of concept" against a pre-release version of the OS, in which case it would have been very foolish to just chuck it on the machine he depends on for his livelihood. Try not to be so
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"Our proprietary database has over 25 million people, including their full social identity" Instantly I assume you have built your database by harvesting your users' information. You should request the least amount possible,
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They'll get by, just like hundreds of million who don't know what a floppy disk is
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Of course, it'll all be in hyper-HD 8K video and with 3D map fidelity down to the centimetre
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Unfortunately Twitter haven't seemed to realise the "Facebook" way of making acquisitions — if it's a good product in it's own silo, let it stay the course and then have two silos. Twitter seems to acquire and suck
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Craig hold a patent (not unreasonable in this day and age); Ricci was made aware Craig held that patent; They amicably settled for a reasonable, and small, amount. What's the problem here? Spend your efforts writing to your members of
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The author makes the leap from "data is live-synced between multiple running applications" to "applications that can run on multiple devices simultaneously" erroneously (or, to make a different point). They're quite
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Same as the sibling poster, I'm also pretty disappointed. Working at SoundCloud or a similar product-focussed internet company has been a dream of mine, but the article comes from the mindset of someone who's obviously well recogn
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I don't believe BitLocker can be considered secure. Cross-post (mine) from the previous thread: > Not "backdoors" but it seems Microsoft stores the BitLocker decryption key, based on this leaked slide (just found on twitte
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Not "backdoors" but it seems Microsoft stores the BitLocker decryption key, based on this leaked slide (just found on twitter): https://twitter.com/TheBlogPirate/status/471759810644283392/... edit:
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You enable this in iTerm under Preferences > Keys > Hotkey (bottom left)
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> wouldn't be matched until the iPhone Many pre-iPhone Nokias (and other devices) would disagree with you there
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Excellent work, but as others have said you're launching too early without an API, batch upload or other features everyone on Hacker News would consider "core".
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This is amazing.
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An unnecessarily pedantic review of Glass. Some valid points related to its beta status (voice recognition not yet up to scratch), and some moderate warnings for potential Explorers (the earbud is proprietary and doesn't stay in the ea
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It's as important for the updated best practice to be taught to novices, and as important for industry leaders (such as Facebook[1]) to update their current code, which reflects the first (outdated best practice) example in the article
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It's all stored, but don't worry, they won't access it. Unless either of you have had any contact with any non-U.S. citizen potentially under scrutiny, or had any contact with anyone who may have had any contact with a non-U.
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You can disable annotations (popups) on your Account Playback settings page[1]. Typically I have little problem with buffering or low quality unless I'm sharing the connection, but you can adjust the default quality settings on that pa
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I'd see this with more value as a post-commit git hook. After a certain amount of time (or date specified) it would warn you that TODOs are about to expire, and either remove them or update the date. That way it can be project-wide an
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At Google's scale, they have to think 5+ years out. The technology doesn't just "become" good, it's enterprises and entities which iteratively reach that point. Street View helped them get this far, maybe Tango&#x27
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Less economical — paying $2 for a small pepsi fully drunk is better value than paying $3 for one twice the size, if half is left undrunk (wasted). I like it almost as much as, "anyone who wants to offer a spare couch, I would much rath

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