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by johnhattan 11y ago
Reminds me of buying a new battery for my Macbook a few months ago. Me : I need a new battery for my Macbook. Apple : Okay, but be sure to get a battery directly from Apple. Third-party batteries are no good! Me : Fine, I wanna order an A12
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by johnhattan 11y ago
So how are BlitzBasic, BlitzMax, DarkBasic and MonkeyX related? Just trying to figure out the differences.
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Yes, you are correct. Got my toys mixed up :)
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by johnhattan 11y ago
When I was a kid, my local kids' museum (Mid-America Museum in Hot Springs Arkansas) had a giant mechanical Lego computer that could play Tic Tac Toe. Unfortunately, the thing had so many moving parts and was so unruly that I never got
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Yeah, Echo is a good listener. In fact, when I ran the video on the OP's site and he said "Alexa, what time is it?" my Echo in the other room woke up and told me the time :)
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by johnhattan 11y ago
The download page is for Windows 2012, 7, or 8.1. If you have Windows 10, it comes with the 10586 update. This is the version that includes the Chocolatey-based package manager. Instructions for that are at http://www.powershellg
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Microsoft PowerShell 5.0 RTM available(microsoft.com)
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Google had a mortgage-finding tool quite a few years back, but I think they killed it for legal reasons. I remember it, because I found a good rate on a re-finance. The mortgage company was in Pennsylvania and I'm in Texas, so we did t
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Is there a native Windows port of RN yet? I noticed that an OS X one is on Github now.
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Looks like Barnes & Noble is gonna be selling a "Da Vinci Jr 1.0 3D printer" for $250 in their stores on Black Friday. No idea how it compares to the Monoprice printer.
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Only thing I use is the "Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides" extension from Google. It allows Chrome to open MS Office files directly so you can just double-click 'em.
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Jeez, I remember in college in the 80's we were wondering if there would ever be decently-performing Ada on an MS-DOS machine. Now it's compiling to a watch :)
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Oh great. Another addictive time-sponge. Just what I need :)
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Very nicely done. Most of the Gnu pages look like relics from 1995. Hopefully whoever did that page has plans to reskin the rest of the Gnu pages.
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by johnhattan 11y ago
A classic. Some of the ideas presented here were literally a hundred years ahead of their time.
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by johnhattan 11y ago
Update: "We apologize that the update was rejected due to an snag in the review system. The updated item will be available in the Chrome Web Store within 30 minutes."
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by johnhattan 11y ago
That'd be nice, as it gets around the limits of both products. Truth be told, I'm now hooked on OneNote. I have ample free storage without bandwidth limits, and the client apps are really nice.
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by johnhattan 11y ago
About 80% of the space in the Amazon Echo is taken up by the speaker. The Google router just has a little 3w speaker in it, so I don't think Google is gonna be converting it into an entertainment device anytime soon.