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by jmiserez 10y ago
Well yes it was online in that sense, which was great. But what I meant to point out was that the complete MSDN help library came shipped on two CDs that you could locally install. It was really really good. There was a description, detaile
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by jmiserez 10y ago
Visual Basic 6.0 was great for learning how to program! You could create GUIs and easily share self-contained exes with your friends. Also very cool was the documentation, complete, offline and and with lots of examples. I initially got int
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by jmiserez 10y ago
The Dropbox app has a camera roll auto-upload feature. It's reliable, full-resolution image file backup and works for iOS and Android. iCloud Photos is the worst: Last time I tried to download all my iCloud Photos/Videos (~1000) f
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Chrome->File->Create Application shortcut does this. Or is that not what you're looking for?
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by jmiserez 11y ago
The abs() trick works for storing one flag bit. But you can store more than one bit if you shift by N bits left and use the LSBs as flag/boolean bits (then circular shift right + mask when reading). You reduce the range of the local va
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Also some cool demos on his website: http://madebyevan.com/
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by jmiserez 11y ago
It's not a new idea, but a very effective one. There was an article on here a while ago where someone converted a 5K iMac screen into a "real" picture hanging on the wall, complete with wooden frame and white point shifting:
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by jmiserez 11y ago
I think even a collision (any collision) has yet to found.
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by jmiserez 11y ago
I like the classic one from 1986 (!) a bit better: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/recovery.html HN discussion: Unix Recovery Legend (1986): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160417 (
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by jmiserez 11y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm in Europe) For a website with a US centric audience, I think it makes perfect sense to use a US timezone: The graphs match up well with the sleep/wake patterns in the EST timezone. This makes interpreting the data
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Nothing to see here, it was a hoax/troll: https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8696/what-to-do-with-...
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by jmiserez 11y ago
> Whenever two characters appeared within 15 words of one another, a link (or “edge”) was added between them. The links are weighted based on how often the two characters appeared in close proximity. The interesting part here is that t
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by jmiserez 11y ago
The article only mentions surgery that directly improves ones looks. Surgery that improves functionality such as corrective eye surgery should also be considered, and the cost is far easier to justify. E.g. I have IOL implants to fix my eye
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Not the full story, and not a sham in this case. The bug report was in fact invalid, the OP was mistaken and later admitted so himself in the original thread on HackerOne: https://hackerone.com/reports/124975 Source:
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by jmiserez 11y ago
I remember some of the early HTC Android phones had text reflow enabled by default. That was almost always good enough and it would be "responsive", but for some reason mobile browsers don't seem to offer it anymore.
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by jmiserez 11y ago
>responsiveness to mobile. Please no. I like being able to zoom in or out, and too often "responsive" means no zoom and either huge or miniscule text.
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by jmiserez 11y ago
> In Television it's pretty standard to have about 2/3 content 1/3 ads: half hour time slots are filled by 21 minute shows. Actually I consider that much worse, and it seems crazy to me that American TV has ads 1/3
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by jmiserez 11y ago
>I tell them to send what they have in after two hours that I'm as interested in seeing the structure and thought process than the final result. While this seems like a good idea on paper, you know that people are not going to s
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Also in the pre-game commentary for game 3. It was mentioned that AlphaGo was trained on so many games that the games of Lee Sedol that were used for training were not more than a drop in the ocean. This was the answer to the question about
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Don't forget "hacker": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(term)#Hacker_definitio...
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by jmiserez 11y ago
BitTorrent?
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by jmiserez 11y ago
This is not necessarily true if the cipher used provides forward secrecy, is it? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy : > As of March 2016, 49.4% of TLS-enabled websites are configured to use cipher sui
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by jmiserez 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11177438 (14 days ago, 71 comments)
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by jmiserez 11y ago
The way I understood it is that the people receiving such an email were already on the beta-test invite mailing list. So they knew about the product already.
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by jmiserez 11y ago
I highly recommend reading Kyle Pittman's article on CRT emulation: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/CRT_S...
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by jmiserez 11y ago
FYI: There are two "Graph Databases 101" posts on the front page now. This one and the older one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257280 (4 hours ago, 15 comments)
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by jmiserez 11y ago
> and his problem with parrots from the link: > DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Yesterday's discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218427
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by jmiserez 11y ago
No. GovCloud is just a way for Amazon to sell cloud services to the US government. The US government would not be able to put services in the "public" clouds due to the massive amount of regulations involved, so Amazon offers them
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by jmiserez 11y ago
Yes, but that is just the ConnMan development repository. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think BMW would need to redistribute the exact version of ConnMan that they used, including any modifications made. At least a deep link to a bran

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