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by mnem 9y ago
I suspect most privacy problems come down to the apps on the users device for both platforms, but in terms of security Android is worse overall because of the abysmal rate of updates, and lack of widespread backing store encryption. That le
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Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims(theguardian.com)
18 points by mnem 9y ago|2 comments
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Quadrilaterals and brown trousers(imdoingitwrong.wordpress.com)
3 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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Memory effect now also found in lithium-ion batteries (2013)(phys.org)
3 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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Wagashi: Traditional Japanese Sweets(yunomi.us)
2 points by mnem 10y ago|0 comments
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Google’s DeepMind makes AI program that can learn like a human(theguardian.com)
2 points by mnem 10y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 10y ago
It could be argued that because a private API has no guarantees against change, using them could lead to apps break after OS updates more frequently, which would annoy me as a user (whether or not I knew what was causing the crash).
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by mnem 10y ago
A bot.
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by mnem 10y ago
I suspect there are a few good people in the 33,000 others employed there.
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by mnem 10y ago
It's quite important if you're trying to provide libraries for developers to use...
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by mnem 10y ago
That's been a reasonably common phrase in the U.K. for a few hundred years, so it already is a thing.
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Why hardware development is hard, part 2: the physical world is unforgiving(danluu.com)
3 points by mnem 10y ago|0 comments
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Cat-dns(github.com)
1 points by mnem 10y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 10y ago
One of the benefits of growing up in the UK around that time (late 80's) is that there was a chance your school had an Acorn Archimedes or two and you could have you mind blown with Zarch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by mnem 10y ago
I'd quite like to work wherever you are now. I've never seen anything close to 90% of estimates on tasks being correct estimates.
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On Phone Numbers and Identity(medium.com)
4 points by mnem 10y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 10y ago
If you're trying to escape climate change making a place uninhabitable for humans, you probably don't want to aim for Mars.
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by mnem 10y ago
Maybe a better explanation (including source): http://amiga.filfre.net/?page_id=5
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by mnem 10y ago
Flappy Bird wasn't overly popular when it came out, it was only later on that it went viral (I think about 6 months or so after it launched).
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Gavel is a project expo judging system(github.com)
3 points by mnem 10y ago|1 comments
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Spaceship Generator(github.com)
850 points by mnem 10y ago|128 comments
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by mnem 10y ago
Apple have designed/implemented several quite successful crypto and security systems too.
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by mnem 10y ago
I imagine that's because for people like me who get both nausea and headaches in 3D movies, most will just not go to 3D showings.
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by mnem 10y ago
If you code for yourself as a business, it's generally horrifically stressful dealing with the money, marketing and contract side of things, all the while still having to churn out the code. Very few people can do this successfully for
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Google XRay: A Function Call Tracing System [pdf](static.googleusercontent.com)
124 points by mnem 10y ago|56 comments
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by mnem 10y ago
Is there any actual evidence that I'm not dead? Well, yes, there is :)
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The Art of Atari(artofatari.com)
2 points by mnem 10y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 10y ago
It's a gambling term. Which gives you an idea about the ethos behind it :)
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by mnem 10y ago
Customers merely decide where to spend money. That doesn't let them control the product anymore than buying a stamp lets them decide who can use the postal service.
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by mnem 10y ago
I suspect more people watch specific films rather than just have them on as background anything-but-the-silence-of-my-brain fillers. If that's an accurate suspicion then the Lionsgate approach isn't so odd.

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