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by itp 11y ago
Anecdote: I have owned a Nexus 6p for ~6 months now. When I'm not using it, it's either on my nightstand (sleeping) or it's in my pocket. It has not bent. I have carried several chocolate bars in my pockets before (mostly whe
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by itp 11y ago
Wow. I'm a long time Android user and probably pay more attention than most, and I had no idea web apps had gotten quite this nice. Currently the only web app / web shortcut I have installed is the HackerWeb app[0], which is nice
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by itp 11y ago
I'm guessing that means something more like "alternatives," but that's just a guess.
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by itp 11y ago
I do see what you're getting at. But this situation at least seems more like four engineers, all women of color, were asked to take on additional public duties to reflect what appears to be a sincere initiative on the part of their com
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by itp 11y ago
> They aren't barred in no way in pursuing these kind of careers Even if I interpret that to merely mean actively barred, I still don't think it's true. But women and minorities are certainly passively barred from these
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by itp 11y ago
> When Lance Armstrong was found guilty of doping a few years ago, the sports world was aghast. For almost a decade, he had dominated cycling so thoroughly that the thought of anyone else winning bordered on ridiculous. Few had guessed t
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by itp 11y ago
I got the same pop-up. I clicked the X button, which didn't seem like too much of a burden to continue reading this relatively interesting and free content.
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by itp 11y ago
Lactose intolerance is typically pretty easy to determine -- most people who are lactose intolerant will quickly notice when they suffer from gas, bloating, diarrhea etc. shortly after consuming dairy foods. Wheat is a bit more complicated
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by itp 11y ago
> Why does something that is considered to not have any adverse effects labeled differently other than to confuse the consumer? One good reason might be if there were an unfounded stigma attached to one of the names. Rapeseed has many co
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by itp 11y ago
> It is not racism, stereotyping or "the nocebo effect", but something that is real. The nocebo effect is real, though. Placebo and nocebo effects are well supported by any number of experiments and trials. Please do not take i
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by itp 11y ago
> today we have all become defensive writers because there is now an expectation that someone will use nitpicks about inconsequential points to discredit the entire piece. Even such inconsequential things as, for example, pointing out th
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by itp 11y ago
No problem. The affordance for that particular UI element is not the most obvious.
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by itp 11y ago
You know that the "repeat" block can have multiple steps inside of it, right? i.e. 4x(North,West) should have done it. EDIT: http://imgur.com/jOHpJqn
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by itp 11y ago
When you say > In order to decimate a signal to 44.1 or 48khz, and preserve high-frequency content, high frequencies need to be phase-shifted. What do you mean by high frequency? If you mean frequencies below but near the Nyquist frequen
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by itp 11y ago
I know this seems counterintuitive, but there is literally no difference in arrival times (over audible frequencies) that can be encoded at higher sampling rates. Digital sampling does not quantize over the time domain for any frequency bel
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by itp 11y ago
Not to my knowledge. It's not an idle question, though -- the suggestion that physical constants might have changed over time arose not arbitrarily, but as a result of work in theoretical physics (Dirac's large number hypothesis,
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by itp 11y ago
It made me wince slightly when the article listed one of the names of # as hashtag, rather than hash. A hashtag begins with a hash, but the two aren't the same. (Although this looks to be a distinction that will be lost with time.) I t
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by itp 11y ago
That's true, but I think the point is that a single screen only has one "finish" (at any given point in time?).
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by itp 11y ago
We really wanted to support a context manager there, believe me. IIRC the problem was there is/was no facility for retry with a context manager, so there would still need to be structure around it. I could be wrong, though -- I only re
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by itp 11y ago
When I worked at my last company, we had to expose an easy-to-use API for an optimistic-concurrency database that required cooperating clients to retry operations in a variety of situations. Rather than asking every client to implement corr
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by itp 11y ago
Ditto. I do blame it a bit on not being fully awake yet.
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by itp 11y ago
It's not that they gave Edge an exception, it's that only Edge, aside from Apple products, implements HLS (an Apple specification).
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Only on Android(medium.com)
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by itp 11y ago
I didn't find the beginning quite a slog but I did wonder if there was going to be a "plot" in the conventional sense. As you say, the rest of the book was a near-continuous crescendo. One scene in particular (Saunt Bucker&#x
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by itp 12y ago
I'll give you some brief thoughts from my experience working at FoundationDB, but if you really want the in-depth answer to what makes our simulation framework an enabling technology for everything we do, you should take a look at the
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by itp 12y ago
The writes we are measuring are individual keys, modified atomically in transactions of 20 keys at a time. So this test is doing 14 million writes per second as 720 thousand transactions per second.
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by itp 12y ago
Just to further clarify, the transactions (and therefore transaction conflict detection) are more flexible than simple CAS operations. If transaction A reads key K1, and then writes to key K2, it will be rejected as conflicting if transacti
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by itp 12y ago
I'm not sure if you're asking because you legitimately don't know, or just underscoring how terrible some of the marketing and advertising for these devices has been. If it's the former, though, a lot of the info you&#x2
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by itp 12y ago
Android Wear devices don't require GPS, and you're right that most (so far) don't, but the new Sony Smartwatch 3 does have it (and the platform does support it when it's available[0]). [0]: http://android-deve
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by itp 12y ago
Sincere question -- is your concern looking away from the road, or looking down at your wrist? I take glances out of the direct line of my travel all the time, to check lanes around me, look at the speedometer, tachometer, fuel level, etc.

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