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by mhaymo 14y ago
Animal Farm also comes to mind, but that's awfully literal.
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How else can he support the creators of the show?
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Two sites with two different intentions. Hacker News is for reading interesting things and learning, StackOverflow is for getting answers to problems. I don't think SO would benefit from leaving popular non-constructive questions unlocked.
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> If you accept that you should be able to do whatever you want with a device that you own as a basic premise Then you are begging the question. If there are business models which some producers and consumers choose to participate in
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Google's service is already problematic in that it compromises my privacy and the privacy of my contacts. I'd rather not share my schedule with Google, and I feel uncomfortable putting additional information in my contacts knowing that it w
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Not related to to carrier lock-in, but Kindle Fires are sold at a subsidised price, with the money made up by advertising in the OS. This advertising can be disabled for a fee. If customers were allowed to alter their device in any way they
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Sure, but I don't really need the bar's help to type my search term. I do need its help to search my history/bookmarks.
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The "Temporarily allow top-level sites by default" option gets you most of those benefits, while allowing most websites to run just fine without having to explicitly whitelist anything.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
I think it definitely used to be, but these days Firefox crashes so rarely that I don't see it as an issue. I imagine other browsers are similarly stable, and it depends on your personal usage patterns, but I think the majority of users pro
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Well the OP is about Scala vs Python, so forgive us for assuming you were speaking on-topic.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
You can't claim that Scala is more mature than Python just because it's built on the (very mature) JVM. You have to look at the tools you will actually be using, and neither Play nor Lift are as mature as Django, nor is Scala the language a
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Assumptions have nothing to do with it. As John Carmack has stated[1], games have been released to Linux, and they have mostly failed to make money. The only major exception that comes to mind are the Humble Bundles, whose unique business m
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by mhaymo 14y ago
As a UK resident, I had no idea prostitution was legal. Wikipedia says: In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not a crime,[2] but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a
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by mhaymo 14y ago
I use imdb's android app for this. It has a "coming soon" page where you can see upcoming releases, and if you tap the release date, it's added to your calendar.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Why almost?
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Take this idea to its extreme, and you've arrived at StumbleUpon.
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One tv isn't all that much to pay for a customer's loyalty on a site where he might potentially do all his shopping for the next 50 years.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
They aren't stupid people, but they may be stupid as an entity. Perhaps whoever makes these decisions is under pressure from management to look busy, so they pursue these largely useless measures because they're easy work.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
Reddit makes rage-reading* extremely convenient and efficient with its downvote button. I realised recently that I dislike half of the posts I see on reddit, but I don't mind because I feel like I'm doing something worthwhile by downvoting
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by mhaymo 14y ago
C# has improved greatly since this article was written, but replace it with Java and this piece is still sadly relevant today. The point is not that C# is bad, it's that using outdated tools can make it impossible or impractical to apply th
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by mhaymo 14y ago
It caught my eye, but I'm shallow.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
This was covered by the story. They didn't do that. In fact, they made efforts to discourage individual shops from doing it.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
I wonder how easy it would be to get Android doing this automatically. It would certainly improve performance if images could be scaled once on installation of the APK instead of every time they are displayed.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
If I'm just looking for any news in whatever topic, then I'll use the sources you mentioned. However, if I'm looking for more information on a specific subject (e.g. features of Android 4.2), then I'll absolutely Google it.
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by mhaymo 14y ago
The exploiter's gain is greater than EA's loss, especially when you consider that EA desperately wants people to use Origin. That doesn't make it ethical, but I won't shed any tears over it.
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The artist did literally draw parallels with today.
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http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
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by mhaymo 15y ago
But if you define a week as 7 days, then you will still experience a Monday peak for work computers. It doesn't solve the problem at all.
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by mhaymo 15y ago
Does that second part really apply to mobile development though? Most people only use one phone, or maybe two, for anything more involved than making a call.