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by macrael 10y ago
Sadly it's not working for me, seems to be off by half. The emulated mouse is always at x/2 y/2 compared to the real mouse pointer.
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by macrael 10y ago
I suspect it's because VOA flies under the radar in general. I for one have never heard of it.
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by macrael 10y ago
They also gave out free voicemail for the same reason, no?
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by macrael 10y ago
Google using captchas to get humans to read street addresses captured by street view cars to improve maps results remains one of the most Googly things they've ever done. Genius, lateral, and a little weird.
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by macrael 10y ago
If a tool only works 30% of the time people will quickly stop using it.
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by macrael 10y ago
My feed is full of women saying that this kind of stuff is not unique to Uber. What's apparently remarkable is that all of this happened to her in one year.
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by macrael 10y ago
Does anyone here have any experience with other distributed VPNs?
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by macrael 10y ago
The fact that Osama Bin Laden didn't use PGP should be the final nail in its coffin.
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by macrael 10y ago
The common explanation for this is that the content owners did not let them. Terrified of what iTunes did to the music business, they cut deals with not-Apple to prevent a monopoly from becoming more important than they were. I don't k
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by macrael 10y ago
What do we do when the executive branch starts ignoring the orders of the judiciary?
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by macrael 10y ago
What's the pro argument for the wall?
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by macrael 10y ago
Safari is a great browser and I'm sometimes surprised at how huge Chrome's mindshare among developers is. Every time I try Chrome out on my Mac I end up running screaming back to Safari. Safari doesn't choke on tons of tabs,
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by macrael 10y ago
I can see the logo on the imgur link on my TouchBar MBP
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The Willow Pump(willowpump.com)
1 points by macrael 10y ago|0 comments
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by macrael 10y ago
iOS long used a two button combo.
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by macrael 10y ago
Why wrong? Is there a difference you see between a cloud service like this and PGP keyservers?
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by macrael 10y ago
So is Yubikey and implementation of this standard or a competitor?
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by macrael 10y ago
I love this. I am reminded of an article from a year ago that discussed a philanthropic arm of google deciding that since the potential harm of an evil AI was total annihilation they logic'd themselves into focusing their efforts on tr
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by macrael 10y ago
idlewords recently organized a meetup to discuss exactly those questions: https://sfbay.techsolidarity.org/2016/11/28/meeting_notes.ht...
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by macrael 10y ago
Did you read the paragraph that came before that? They only chose to campaign for employer-sponsored coverage because they thought that it was more achievable than the single-payer plan proposed by Truman.
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by macrael 10y ago
This response to idlewords is chillingly Trumpian and certainly goes against the common HN culture. Let's replay the last three comments: > When people say Trump wants to deport all illegal immigrants they are misconstruing his word
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by macrael 10y ago
How do you feel about this: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/us/politics/trumps-off-the...
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by macrael 10y ago
Answer: tap (not long press) the name in the conversation header.
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by macrael 10y ago
How do you view safety numbers on iOS?
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Airbnb Trips(airbnb.com)
1 points by macrael 10y ago|0 comments
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by macrael 10y ago
The fundamental mistake of thinking that technology alone can solve all human problems (is this what technological liberationists believe? Great name.) runs deep in this community and comes, I think, of worshipping intelligence. The entire
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by macrael 10y ago
I remember reading about 3 state memory in 7th grade. 15 years ago.
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by macrael 11y ago
Do any VCSs have a notion of a commit of commits? If you could group a series of sequential commits into one commit on trunk it seems like you could have the best of both worlds: an overarching commit for your change and a series of how the
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by macrael 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE
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by macrael 11y ago
Poe's law in full effect. I couldn't tell wether the author thought this was a utopia or the other thing.

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