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by martingordon 12y ago
Yes, that's correct. I thought I had that in the post but it may have just been a draft version. I use nycunorgvpny because it's easy to remember.
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by martingordon 12y ago
Here's a similar puzzle that can be used as a fun bar trick: Given a standard deck of 52 cards, a third party chooses any five from the deck and hands them to your accomplice. Your accomplice chooses four of the five and gives them to
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by martingordon 12y ago
And of course, Apple just seeded an Xcode beta that supports incremental builds.
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by martingordon 12y ago
I don't think I'm doing anything too fancy, but who knows? I probably have too many conversions to Objective-C objects that I used to workaround beta compiler issues that are probably fixed by now, but I haven't found a lot o
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by martingordon 12y ago
I'm curious to know how well it performs. I spent the better part of this weekend rewriting 4k lines of Swift in Objective-C because I couldn't deal with the 60-90 second compile times.
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by martingordon 12y ago
Thanks for this. I tried using Tesseract over the weekend to extract text from a game screenshot and had no luck. The documentation for Tesseract is rather opaque; maybe I'll have better luck with Ocropus.
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by martingordon 12y ago
The government puts out cost of living indexes for select urban areas, so we could just go by that: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/prices/consumer_... The data is from 2010, so a bit outdate
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by martingordon 12y ago
Is this actually from the EFF or is the EFF Action Center a change.org-style site where anyone can submit petitions? I ask only because the text of the letter isn't particularly well written and contains some glaring mistakes: "Wr
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Amazon Echo Review(martingordon.me)
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by martingordon 12y ago
Most wall calendars are also week based and they make it much easier to find a particular date (even if they didn't number every cell). They could have left blank cells at the beginning/end of each month or add an indicator betwee
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by martingordon 12y ago
The main chart in this article is horribly designed. Quick: try to find July 4th on the chart. The extra whitespace between each month invites you to scan down the left for July and then go over to the fourth cell, which is incorrect. The c
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by martingordon 12y ago
Enjoy it while you can. I don't see this being up for very long since this type of app is expressly forbidden in Spotify's Developer Terms of Use[1]: > Integration with Third Party Services. You shall not create any product or
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How NYC Became the Role Model for Other Urban Tech Hubs [pdf](nyctechmap.com)
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by martingordon 12y ago
This looks pretty cool; I just registered. However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men. While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profit
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by martingordon 12y ago
I wonder if the problem is exacerbated in the US by the lack of guaranteed time off. That is, European workers (for example) can better fill a 35-40 hour work week because they only have to work ~47 weeks of the year, whereas in the US, man
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by martingordon 12y ago
Nuclear war?
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by martingordon 12y ago
These guys ask for your Driver's License and Social Security Number during the on-boarding process: https://twitter.com/hasanahmad80/status/526551322523623424/p... They say the information isn't sto
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by martingordon 12y ago
Contactless was a thing here in the US, but at least in my experience, it's going away. I've had a few credit cards replaced over the past couple of months (one Chase, one Amex) and while they've gained an EMV chip, they&#x27
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by martingordon 12y ago
Given that this is surfacing now – two years after the radar was filed and 19 months after Apple responded – I'm going to go out on a limb and say this isn't a big deal at all.
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by martingordon 12y ago
FWIW, Digits exposes your phone number to the app: > A successful Digits account creation will return a stable userID to attach or match with your user record, and an oAuth token for the device. A verified phone number is also returned f
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by martingordon 12y ago
I've had one issue with iCloud Drive - and that was with Threes. I don't know why/how they're using iCloud, but their instructions to fix it was turning off iCloud Drive for the app. Other than that, I haven't had a
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by martingordon 12y ago
If you click on News there are links to download a 2.7 MB archive of Circle logos in various shapes and sizes and a 36 MB (that's thirty-six megabytes) headshot of Circle's CEO. I have no idea what Circle does but I do know it&#x2
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by martingordon 12y ago
I don't know what percentage of cars on New York City streets are cabs, or how many deaths are caused by taxis, but could a potential solution be to raise the slow-speed fare to incentivize drivers to slow down? A cab driver makes $0.5
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by martingordon 12y ago
Glad to see that the Burger King business unit will stay in Miami: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/25/4308025/burger-king-in...
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by martingordon 12y ago
You require me to share on Facebook before you show me flight info? That's a great way to get me to close the site and never come back, never mind all the other risks associated with hidden city travel.
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by martingordon 12y ago
Hmm, I guess it's a good thing I proxy through Google Calendar then, huh? The Google/TripIt connection may be unencrypted, but I'm assuming (and hoping) that Google Calendar feeds are sent over HTTPS.
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by martingordon 12y ago
For what it's worth, iOS 8 has separate permissions for foreground and background location usage. I got the background usage permission alert ~5 minutes after installing the app.
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by martingordon 12y ago
Foursquare, without ratings, serves a different use case than Yelp. I use Yelp to find a place to go. Once I'm there, I (sometimes, but not usually) check Foursquare for menu recommendations. If I'm going out with friends, I don&#
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by martingordon 12y ago
I think it's funny that the main reason people cite the need to switch from Intel to ARM is power consumption. A big reason to stay on Intel is that a lot of people have real needs to run Windows software (whether in Bootcamp or a VM).
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by martingordon 12y ago
IANAL and I haven't kept up with what the Fed have said about Bitcoin, but couldn't every Bitcoin service out there fall under banking regulations as a result of ABC v. Aereo? Basically, if it looks like bank/money transfer s

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