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by mdm_ 12y ago
I switched to BlackBerry from Android last year and the browser is amazing (composing this reply with it on my Passport). Just wanted to say thanks!
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by mdm_ 12y ago
>"hmm, maybe I'm not awesome enough for this position" - said nobody ever I think you're underestimating the number of people who tell themselves things like that.
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by mdm_ 12y ago
Add a feature where you can select what to wipe, e.g. you could choose to have it wipe only your SMS messages, so the phone still looks lived-in and not factory-fresh and make it impossible to tell whether the normal unlock code or wipe cod
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by mdm_ 12y ago
My wife and I see ads for "Tim Horton's Cafe and Bake Shop" during NFL games on the US stations and it seems bizarre to us that they apparently felt Americans needed to have an explanation added to the name of the business.
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by mdm_ 13y ago
I don't really understand why it is that on a PC/laptop we do our banking, news, and other tasks in the browser, but on phones and tablets we need apps for all these things. I recently upgraded from a Samsung Note 3 (which my wife
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by mdm_ 13y ago
In the article they talk about making sections of a smartphone's screen feel different (permanently, I assume), but would it be possible to have a type of glass where the texture of the glass can be changed quickly and repeatedly by ap
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by mdm_ 13y ago
Could you provide any tips/advice/reading recommendations to a programmer who is interested in learning more dba stuff? It would be appreciated!
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by mdm_ 13y ago
My wife and I are currently trying to decide between the Q10 and the HTC One (we're both renewing contracts and upgrading from Samsung Galaxy Infuse). We're really drawn to the Q10 for the physical keyboard and BB10 looks awesome
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by mdm_ 13y ago
>45% of those surveyed don’t own a device that can read ebooks – this includes both e-readers and smartphones. Completely anecdotal evidence here, but as someone who works at a university and sees a lot of people age 16-24, noses in thei
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by mdm_ 13y ago
Any recommendations for learning more about PostgreSQL's features? I use Postgres for basic web app data store kind of applications, but haven't gone much beyond that. I've skimmed the manual and it doesn't look that dis
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by mdm_ 13y ago
And every time it shows up on here or reddit, I say "THIS time I'm going to read it..."
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by mdm_ 13y ago
I always feel like I get stuck way more than I make progress. :(
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by mdm_ 13y ago
>Affordable cars are in the pipeline, this is just the route we have to go through to get there. Having recently bought a new Lancer, I find this very exciting. By the time I'm ready for a new car, it's quite possible there wil
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by mdm_ 13y ago
>Businesses are not going to put iPads on peoples’ desks any time soon, nor are they going to ditch Microsoft Office in favor of Google Docs. That's interesting, because at MPoW we've been using Google Docs for several years an
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by mdm_ 13y ago
I think the Chromebook looks interesting, but in Canada the major selling point (price) is moot. Right now on Amazon.ca the cheapest Chromebook is $399, while in the $349-379 range I can choose from several makes and models of fully-functio
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by mdm_ 13y ago
I'm currently doing a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics part-time while working a full-time job and caring for a house and 5-month old daughter with my wife. I think one of the things that initially drew me to those subjects a
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by mdm_ 13y ago
Ah, great explanation. Thanks!
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by mdm_ 13y ago
Any philosophy majors want to help me out here: is this what Sartre called "bad faith"?
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by mdm_ 13y ago
The most shocking revelation to me in this article is that Sirius XM plays 13 minutes of commercials per hour! I could have sworn one of their big selling points was that they're commerical-free.
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by mdm_ 13y ago
Your definition of a good English course sounds more or less identical to a Philosophy course.
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by mdm_ 13y ago
>Of course then most students will insist that 0.999⋯≠1 which shows how ineffective this method is to understanding what the real numbers are. Okay, you got me. Why is 0.999... != 1 incorrect?
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by mdm_ 13y ago
I never understood this acquisition in the first place. I was surprised to learn that OMGPOP actually did produce more than one game[1], but I had previously only heard of Draw Something, which my wife and her facebook chums had already gro
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by mdm_ 13y ago
I'm a part-time student in the Philosophy and Mathematics program at the university where I work, and the level 1 philosophy courses I've taken have had a significant number of 20th and 21st century selections in the course readers. We've r
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by mdm_ 13y ago
>Many people want a-la-carte cable where they get to pick what they want - why not video services? I think the difference is that with cable you're picking genres a la carte, as opposed to picking based on production/distribution compan
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by mdm_ 13y ago
> Versions of Minecraft are available for iOS and Android, indicating that its developers can see beyond Java. Wouldn't the Android version be written in Java?
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by mdm_ 14y ago
I think the main opposition is that some studies have shown that red light cameras are correlated with higher accident rates[1]. [1] http://blog.motorists.org/red-light-cameras-increase-acciden...
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by mdm_ 14y ago
AFAIK only G+ related things are deleted. I don't use Picassa, but my Gmail, Drive, YouTube, Wallet, Play Store, etc accounts are all unaffected.
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by mdm_ 14y ago
I suspect this as well, which is why I deleted my G+ account in protest the other day. It was remarkably easy to do, both practically (just click a couple buttons) and sentimentally (in ~2 years there has rarely been any activity from any o
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Edwin Mellen Press suing an academic librarian for criticising them on his blog(insidehighered.com)
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by mdm_ 14y ago
Solving the problem was never Columbo's biggest challenge. It was "How can I spend several days or weeks sadistically tormenting the perpetrator before he/she makes some massive blunder?". The thrill for Columbo was in toying with the suspe

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