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by maaarghk 13y ago
Ah nice! I considered something like this when writing my honours project, but ultimately moved on to other things. I really hope you see this through - but I'd recommend implementing Knuth-Plass basically straight away, I reckon it&#
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by maaarghk 13y ago
I do not trust a company like Tesco with biometric data. They were storing passwords for their website using a reversible encryption up until last year and "rumour" has it their stores held bank-card details in plain text for a mo
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Haha nice. It's running kitkat too - white icons, top right.
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by maaarghk 13y ago
I've always found this a puzzling argument. He wants to spend his billions on malaria and polio, should we let him do that or should we start a committee that decides how best he should spend his money? Maybe he can do a televised comp
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by maaarghk 13y ago
This looks really pretty good. I think I would miss things like ng-each, but I guess not that's not -too- hard to re-implement using $.data('each'). Maybe. I will consider using this for a site I'm building right now, se
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FAA Finally Lifts Epically Dumb Ban on Mobile Device Use on Planes(wired.com)
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Hey does this mean that if a Bitcoin exchange gets a hold of an AID then they could write an app that would let me use my phone to pay with bitcoin at an existing contactless terminal? Like, apps can emulate contactless cards, but you can&#
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by maaarghk 13y ago
"Host card emulation" -- Does this mean I can "upload" my NFC bank cards and transport card and have my phone emulate them? If so that is -freaking awesome-.
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Yeah try harder next time. That is a really terrible photoshop job, look at the maps icon. A little bit of extra persistence and you could have extracted the maps icon from the app. And how blurry is that casing? Total lack of attention to
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Unfortunately the CEO seems to be doing rather well in his current career. I despair at this. You would think that nobody would use these apps, but I guess some people get desperate. It's a sad world. Their website contains some clues
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by maaarghk 13y ago
there is a developer mode that you can use to run custom firmware so you could really put any linux distro you care to cross compile on the box.
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by maaarghk 13y ago
For anyone who wants to start a interesting discussion with any Greenpeace supporters, here is an excellent speech by Mark Lynas, who successfully turned anti-GM into a popular political viewpoint in the 90s and now regrets it. http:/
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Samsung - see my comment :D
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Whilst in the same breath implying that "the experience the end user is used to" is a good one - which is probably not true!
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Hah, technically speaking, they are ALL virtualization with a pure SaaS solution and the chrome RDP plugin. But what I mean is he will probably not use one for work! (It actually also has an SSH client so if you use vi or emacs, it's n
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Think the parent of your comment was making that point. Also good to note that the E-ink screen is a million times better for your eyes though!
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Before I graduated I worked in the electronics dept of a supermarket chain and we had Samsung series 3 chromebooks -flying- off the shelf at £229, and for good reason. Their target market is non-tech-savvy teenagers and university students
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by maaarghk 13y ago
This is similar to work going on in Scotland: http://www.strath.ac.uk/laserfest/thealpha-xproject/ http://www.strath.ac.uk/impact/turningelectronsintoopportuni...
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Also an OVH customer and whilst I think the "shutdown" is annoying because I do want to buy another server from them (concurrently, not as a replacement), I don't agree that this is a rant at all nevermind a polemic, seems qu
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Monthly for me, but managed to keep on top of it. Happy to know that they are re-thinking payments, because it was getting really annoying.
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Really interesting insight and actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
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by maaarghk 13y ago
The Nexus 4 was out of stock within half an hour, and didn't come back in stock for 3 months or something. That probably killed it in it's infancy. By the time it was available again, the S4 was "in sight", etc.
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Leakiest phone release in modern history :P
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Holy wow, I really like it. It has the potential to be really diverse and huge, I mean, a block can essentially be anything. You could replace entire CMS with this. It's not often that something can say "the future of..." and
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Claims of any nature, then. If I release a paper saying I have any kind of theory then the scientific method requires that I (or someone else who is sympathetic to my claim) provide a valid theoretical or experimental proof that my theory i
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Nonsense. The scientific method says that the burden of proof lies on those who make extraordinary claims, not those who do not believe said claims. And that is all. To clarify a bit further, see quote: "You can't prove that God e
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by maaarghk 13y ago
Thanks, due to this post I have switched from ABP on chrome to Adblock. Had no idea the ABP people were acting in this way, will try to spread the word.