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by kyle-rb 7y ago
I think focusing on conversion rate is fair in this case. I would think Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is more for conversions and less for brand awareness. Their example query of "file upload php" is someone who's looking for
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
>a desktop PC algorithm that crunches market data faster than today’s most advanced supercomputers It sounds like by "desktop PC algorithm" they mean a classical algorithm that can run on classical computers, and by "advan
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
>This is the primary reason you can't get Fortnite from the play store, instead you have to download an install an APK. Epic also uses their own payment processing systems, so they don't need to pay anything to Google for IAPs.
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
I did a group project in my senior year of college, working with a US division of a German company, and they needed us to sign an NDA, which was far more egregious than anything Google requires. One part of it was: >The Undersigned agree
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Wayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/20150401183534/http://www.youtub...
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
It's the start of the letter to his brother, which is linked[0]. That part isn't quoted in the body, but I thought the main part of the headline above the quote made it clear what it referred to. [0] https://www.masshis
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
cURL being able to access a CORS protected endpoint isn't an issue because cURL doesn't have your cookies.
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
When people refer to HTML5 for games (including this post) they usually mean the HTML5 canvas and its associated APIs (canvas/webGL), not using actual HTML elements to render game graphics. From what I know, canvas rendering is pretty
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
No one expects him to emerge with a fully formed AGI. By through experimenting he might contribute some new incremental but still useful improvements.
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
The way I see it, the BSL is similar to the AGPL but weaker. Running AGPL code on your server without making it all AGPL or GPL (which itself is only possible because of an explicit exception) is discouraged, or at minimum a legal gray area
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
>convincing them Github is a reputable party This might be one actual positive of GitHub getting bought by Microsoft: convincing people who don't know anything about software that it's a reputable party.
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
There's an app called Rainway for doing streaming from a gaming PC you own to a laptop, phone, tablet. So you could create a service allowing people to rent out their PCs remotely. Sort of Airbnb for Stadia. There would probably be lic
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
This; I've had issues with Safari when trying to create a smooth animation of multiple elements synced up to each other to create the illusion of them being one continuous looping element. Chrome, Firefox, and Edge had no problem keepi
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
One of those blank spaces is the white square screenshot mentioned in the article. I assumed it was just an ad taking a while to render the first time I scrolled past it. http://www.stilldrinking.org/blog_images/suzy&#x
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Another recent SMBC was about the Elitzur Vaidman bomb tester, which I had never heard of before, and after staring at Wikipedia for a while, I have a somewhat better understanding of what quantum interference means, and sort of proved to m
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
So you don't have a second revelation: there's also hover text, but only for the past couple years, whereas there's a red button image on almost every comic (for 17 years).
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Kudos to Apple; they made a site that manages to reliably crash Chrome on Android (if I scroll fairly fast to the bottom, right after the page becomes interactive).
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
>And then YouTube is showing longer ads every day, with many in the 5 minute range. Uhhh, can't you can press 'skip' after 5 seconds? I've never seen an unskippable YouTube ad longer than 30 seconds. Although yes, the
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Yep, I've run into this. A helpful shortcut (in no way discoverable) is function+right arrow to instantly scroll to the bottom of a webpage.
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Python 3.7 is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/python-37/9nj46sx7x90p?act...
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Yes, this is correct.
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Doesn't F-droid (and other stores) count as a '3rd party repository'?
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
I can't find any source for the 200-400 wpm statistic (which the author assumes everyone is on the high end of). And 50,000 words per book seems low, especially for an average. >608 hours on social media >1642 hours on TV >Wow
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Squoosh.app, a webapp from Google for compressing and resizing images, has an article about using WebAssembly for exactly this purpose: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/hotpath-wi...
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Wait why are you using all three of AngularJS, React, and Vue?
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How will you prove that you'd written the prophesy before the thing happened, instead of just immediately before putting it in the shoebox? Wouldn't it be easier to just write down things that happened already and pretend you pred
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Huh, didn't know about SNI, thanks for the info. Seems like a relatively small risk though.
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
What's the actual vulnerability when simply using an unsecured wireless network? Sure, it's easy for them to MitM you if you're using http, but if you're only using https, what's the harm?
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
>The cone ... became a huge brand because it is so recognizable. This is definitely the case, VLC isn't a very memorable name, but the icon is unique. I was searching the other day and after typing "traffic cone", one of t
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by kyle-rb 7y ago
Chrome OS now has Crostini, which allows you to install basically any Linux app. Or is that also attributed to the legacy/inertia of Linux?

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