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by icky 19y ago
No, these are real issues, but the navigation device market is highly competitive, and a lot of these things have been getting fixed very fast in newer models. I repeat the caveat to always trust your own eyes and brain over any machine.
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by icky 19y ago
I work in this industry. The article mentioned trucks being sent into residential areas (or through tunnels/bridges that weren't meant for them). Google maps doesn't know what type of vehicle you're driving, but if you bought a vehicle w
243.
by icky 19y ago
If you're really going to build it, then keep it. If it's something you want to exist , and you aren't really going to build it, then post it.
244.
by icky 19y ago
Why, thank you! :)
245.
by icky 19y ago
Maybe they felt pandered-to? ;)
246.
by icky 19y ago
XUL is actually not that much harder than HTML. You should learn it, if that's all that's keeping you from doing it.
247.
by icky 19y ago
No, but in web 3.0 everything will be in visual text-mode, so aptitude is your best bet. ;)
248.
by icky 19y ago
It's called Debian. ;-)
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Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
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250.
by icky 19y ago
Amazon has multiple paradox resolution teams competing to negate each other's efforts.
251.
by icky 19y ago
Don't send object publishing to do a URL dispatcher's job!
252.
by icky 19y ago
Global warming = less need for shirts. ;-)
253.
by icky 19y ago
> She is particularly interested in people who have already demonstrated these skills—for example by running a successful drug business or achieving a high rank in a gang. That's what you list under "Extracurricular Activiites" on your
254.
by icky 19y ago
You should write a country song! ;)
255.
by icky 19y ago
Is the idea "ideas are worthless" itself worthless? Explain how. ;)
256.
by icky 19y ago
Something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3DyxaCYlfg&fmt=18
257.
by icky 19y ago
The naive implementation would create an incentive to go to the "new" page and indiscriminately upvote everything.
258.
by icky 19y ago
My milkshake brings all the 1337 h4x0rz to the yard....
259.
by icky 19y ago
> I am unsure how much he prayed about his decisions, but I believe he didn't pray enough and listened to other people too much. Prayer as a surrogate for decision-making?
260.
by icky 19y ago
Open up synaptic and browse through all the Documentation sections. There are lots of goodies there. :)
261.
by icky 19y ago
Ubuntu Laptop, vim, caps-lock-as-additional-ctrl, windows-key bound to new-terminal-window, C, Python, Lisp, Python, Lua, Python. Mercurial.
262.
by icky 19y ago
I secretly salted the cookie. Think HMAC, though I used two completely different keys, rather than generating them from one key, added an optional step of appending the client's IP address after the first hashing (with the first key) and be
263.
by icky 19y ago
3-2-1 Contact was awesome! Of course, I was 5 or 6 at the time... ;)
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by icky 19y ago
> He was suggesting you give the pickled object back to the client in the session cookie and load whatever the client sends later right back into the interpreter. Whee! I've done that with signed cookies.
265.
by icky 19y ago
I like the approval-voting schema of this poll. :)
266.
by icky 19y ago
For something like "expected salary", you want to be optimistic. ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Flawed premise. Software and UIs designed by "regular users" (unless they're professional designers, for the UI part) tends to suck far harder than almost anything cooked up by programmers.
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by icky 19y ago
> It wasn't clear if the poster was recommending a "bluff" which is not a good idea at all. It can be, if you don't need the job. ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
> That would give a maximum arbitrary resolution of 8192 pixels in two colours. Not so good. Not if you could change the character-images between horizontal "scanlines". (Technically, 1 character-line isn't a scanline as far as the disp
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by icky 19y ago
Having used both for various projects, IMO, no.

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