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by janekm 9y ago
This creates a big problem though... the hospitals are incentivized to prescribe antibiotics when they are not needed (which they can charge for, the "doctor visit fee" is not remotely enough to cover the hospitals costs) leading
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by janekm 10y ago
Well... You do have the choice to buy a phone with an OS from a company who's business is to sell phones, rather than ads, don't you? Seems a bit absurd to claim a lack of real choice in this instance.
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by janekm 10y ago
In this instance, nothing afaict. I looked at a few of them which are generic "here's how you make a 3D scene with a shark" type tutorials for three.js (a popular browser-based 3D engine based on webgl). The cynic in me think
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by janekm 10y ago
Apple are investing resources far beyond the direct economic benefit into accessibility, out of moral concern (with a small PR benefit). This is hard to replicate in the open source world where the model is "everyone contributes what t
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by janekm 10y ago
The discipline of thinking before typing is one that requires experience. I suspect that many young developers are stuck with not knowing what to type, and try to find solutions to their apparent lack of productivity (a guilt-free way of p
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by janekm 10y ago
True enough... my mind is in the embedded space where say a good enough representation in say 16-bit is desirable.
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by janekm 10y ago
Even 'better' just store them in fixed point representation.
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by janekm 10y ago
Do you also dispute the claims in the present article? Or do you just care to dispute the specific method of killing?
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by janekm 10y ago
This estimation was already assuming a fusion engine.
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by janekm 10y ago
This is just terrible. The fact that the compiler complains if an enum is added without updating the switch statement is a feature. The enum and switch version is clear and explicit. To defeat it, in the name of... what, code obfuscation? b
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by janekm 10y ago
Internet access in SZ is also restricted, but you are right that you can buy an unrestricted SIM on the border, but that is actually a HK SIM (or dual network sim) so your data connections are terminated in HK and hence not filtered.
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by janekm 10y ago
This actually already happened, to the extent that it ever made a difference in the PC ecosystem. The manufacturers of cheap phones in China use standardised modules: motherboard PCB, display with standardised connector, battery, "open
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by janekm 10y ago
I think you make a good point in this instance, so I upvoted. The follow-on discussion establishes the policy of big-cos pretty well and I don't think Alacritty much benefits from the AGPL since actual integration into other software b
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by janekm 10y ago
Kind of a perfect example of the ambiguity in over-shortened names ;) I also read it as propertyCount (which in my style shouldn't even be a variable...)
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by janekm 10y ago
The homeless part sounds like a pretty good idea. You hear a lot about startup employees looking the other way with regard to social problems in the Bay Area, so partial solutions like this could be interesting? Of course $10 per day doesn&
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by janekm 10y ago
Reasons to use Skype: - you need to talk to someone, and by the time you've explained why you don't want to use Skype you could have already been done
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by janekm 10y ago
But... Firefox itself was an example of a different approach to a transition, it started as a re-implementation of a clean, simple browser when Mozilla was getting pretty stale. The same approach could have been taken here... Firefox does f
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by janekm 10y ago
It gets even better after playing with the code a bit: https://godbolt.org/g/kUMCpl magic constants galore... where does 3435973837 come from? ;)
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by janekm 10y ago
You are both right, in a way. The main limitation on power delivery through a conductor is current (resistive losses/heat per Ohms law). To deliver more power through a smaller conductor requires raising the voltage, much as USB-C does
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by janekm 10y ago
I wouldn't consider the Weibo payment system "strong"... it seems to be based on alipay and I've never heard of anyone using it instead of Wechat or Alipay. But other than that indeed Weibo is now very different from tw
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by janekm 10y ago
Actually, I make a point in my iOS projects to avoid third party libraries wherever possible. The first-party SDK is good enough that the dependency cost of libraries like Alamofire is usually not worth it. I had to do some Android develop
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by janekm 10y ago
This article is based on a faulty premise. The A10 processor is still far away from the performance of recent Intel CPUs (a quick browse of geek bench shows about 2 times the single and 4 times the multi core performance). Apple is very qui
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by janekm 10y ago
If I say that a piece of software has a fault, am I implying a moral failing? If twitter have raised $2.8billion but show no signs of giving a return on that investment, then there is a fault somewhere, either in the valuation, the executi
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by janekm 10y ago
What a bullshit article. The "proof" that Energous is working with Apple is that they claimed in a 2014 SEC filing to be undertaking Apple Compliance testing... which they would need to do to make a charging adapter for an iPhone
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by janekm 10y ago
Not functional code though. The aim of functional code is to be side-effect free, and affecting reality really gets in the way of that. /snark, but articles like this really do fall into that trap...
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by janekm 10y ago
The fact that every single comment in this thread amounts to "should have backed up" makes me a little sad. Is this really what we want to expect from companies like Google? Is this acceptable? Is it just a "force of nature&
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by janekm 10y ago
And from watching the WWDC session it seems the playgrounds can have access to the whole iOS SDK, including rather fun stuff like corebluetooth so there is a huge amount of potential in Playgrounds.
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by janekm 10y ago
And another example since IoT is mentioned on the website. Imagine I'm selling a temperature sensor gadget that reports once per minute. That's 2 credits * 60 * 24 * 30 per month. Even at the highest level that means 115 devices
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by janekm 10y ago
How often do the credits refresh? Once per day? Per month? If it's per month it feels very expensive to me especially at the lower tiers compared to the number of transactions I'd expect to be able to do on say EC2 or GC for simil
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by janekm 10y ago
Far from it. If you're lucky, the 18650s will be re-badged recycled cells form failed laptop battery packs (usually one cell is completely dead but the rest still have a little life in them). If you're not so lucky, it's from

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