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by jarek 12y ago
> Maybe a talk about bootstrapping as well in the TBA slots? So the YC course would talk to people about advantages of not going into YC? Hm.
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by jarek 12y ago
1) reddit renders fine for me now, zoom is consistent (Firefox 32, Android 4.4) 2) HN uses HTML straight out of 90s (tables nested three deep, spacer images to indent threads) so I don't mind them not focusing on trying to salvage it.
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I'm using Firefox on Android 4.4 as my full-time browser, it is rather good most of the time. TBH HN is the only site I can think of that gives me trouble... and knowing the authors' attitude to HTML I'm prepared to accept th
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by jarek 12y ago
I'm not sure how installing currently available apps compares to installing future core OS updates, can you explain what you mean?
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Ah. Yeah possibly, if people are approaching it like they used to approach phones: what's there is what will work. Personally I come to smartphones from a x86 PC point of view, so not being able to reflash/reinstall whatever OS I
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by jarek 12y ago
I was pretty surprised at microSD. Here I was, in the first world, being told that the reason microSD is being dropped from Nexus devices is that it's too difficult for software to support and users to understand. I'm a bit jealou
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> won't care to check for updates even if they are available. At least in 4.4 you automatically get a notification when an update is available
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by jarek 12y ago
> Too much choice, lack of metrics, lack of clear comparisons can make things as hard as no choices. Sure, but next ask "why." What is the motivation to provide metrics? Who will compile and compare them? How will they stay imp
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by jarek 12y ago
The bicycle is a 80/20 solution, but it's hard to make VC-level money in the business. Plus, a few more decades of high-tech short-distance personal transportation and we'll all look like in Wall-E and the bicycle will become
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by jarek 12y ago
> - How much space does this airline's seat provide? > - Does this plane have power outlets? And not the ones that EmPower plugs, those don't count. I'm looking at you United! Seatguru
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We were until Android phones got higher DPI than retina iPhones ;)
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I'm imagining the commentariat's reaction to such a "pretty reasonable trade-off" on a Nexus 5 or a Galaxy S4
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> Once all the meatspace human drivers are off the grid, you can remove traffic lights. I'm not sure you want to do that. In city centres, the traffic lights are there to stop up pedestrians temporarily so cars can get through.
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by jarek 12y ago
> The credit card gives away data that can be used for fraud. Not with chip and pin or contactless it doesn't
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16 GB in microSD format costs under $10, unpackaged and in iPhone quantities you've saved maybe $3 per device
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by jarek 12y ago
I went BB Pearl 8100 > Nexus One > Nexus 5. Each upgrade felt stupid big at first, but I got used to them. N5 is workable particularly if you install a launcher that lets you open notifications other than swiping from top. I also like
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by jarek 12y ago
If you want to focus only on academics, engineering is a bad place to start. Mechatronics is a co-op program. Always has been. You've always had to do at least 5 work terms in the 6 available slots. Sounds like your friend picked a wro
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by jarek 12y ago
The post is about SE in particular so I mentioned that. Obviously a CS degree can be made much more theoretical, downright to co-op being optional as mentioned elsewhere. (BASc-MTE '10 so I know the backstories.)
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> As far as I see it waterloo doesn't advertise itself as a polytechnic The marketing I see has very strong focus on co-op and particularity. I don't think anyone went into UW Software Engineering thinking they'd be doing
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by jarek 12y ago
Waterloo's technical programs would be at home at a very strong polytechnic. It's not Oxbridge and never will be. "University" is a misnomer but English-speaking Canada doesn't use "technical university" o
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> Labour are the only party that might attempt to ignore the referendum because Scottish independence will end their existence. Labour would have gotten elected quite frequently discounting Scottish votes. This link has been posted furth
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by jarek 12y ago
> That would symbolise everything the independence movement asserts about the arrogance of Westminster politicians and their alleged couldn't-give-a-damn attitude towards the Scots. What, any more than Maggie? I agree that it would
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by jarek 12y ago
Why forbid it when you can just ignore it? E.g. Spanish government said they wouldn't recognize results of a Catalonia independence vote. (Whether they actually would is another matter.)
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by jarek 12y ago
Elon gave "hyper" a good buzz recently. Could try "Hypertext" Markup Language.
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Thanks! For comparison, Indonesia's population has grown by around 2-3 million people per year over the last two decades; India's by around 17 million people per year; and the world's rate as a whole is about 70 million per y
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Easier to do in software if you can spare the CPU cycles, thankfully. http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Debounce or http://playground.arduino.cc/code/bounce https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x
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by jarek 12y ago
I think the cognitive disconnect is that an on-off or momentary contact button is technically extremely simple if you know what you're doing and have a GPIO pin. But if you don't, you'll pay for bttn-like devices like you imp
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by jarek 12y ago
> Is the rate of lack of use of bank accounts ever likely to be public knowledge? There's zero incentive on the banks' side to publicise that kind of information. Public authorities can estimate this (FDIC in the U.S. has done
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Number on your utility meter, likely functioning as an account number with the utility company.
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What is the rate of Bitcoin wallet creation, compared with rate of de-unbanking?

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