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by nacs 10y ago
Probably appeals to the thrill seekers ("you could break an arm but its so fun you'll want to do it again!").
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by nacs 10y ago
How much did their medical bill go up in those 3 months? Someone else in the thread mentioned breaking both arms on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730920
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by nacs 10y ago
> .mjs [1]. I was worried this was short for "Microsoft JS", thanks for the link.
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by nacs 10y ago
It changes month to month.
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by nacs 10y ago
The irony in CCleaner, a tool to help you get crap off your computer, doing auto-install offers.. For those looking for an alternative, try Bleachbit [1] (works great on Linux/Windows, open-source). [1]: https://www.bleachbi
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by nacs 10y ago
Parent isn't saying Google didn't pay (I'm sure they paid per install) -- just that Adobe is guilty of allowing these sleazy auto-install offers which Google took advantage of.
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by nacs 10y ago
#kik is also in that list
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by nacs 10y ago
Most apps that have a "Share" button (like Safari) can use the official Lastpass addon to auto-fill usernames/passwords without having to leave the app. There's no need to copy-and-paste the passwords either since it fil
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by nacs 10y ago
This site is actually up (unlike the roulette one) and seems to also show IPs (I don't think the previous one showed IPs).
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by nacs 10y ago
Just got an email from Uservoice about this. Apparently I'm part of the "0.001%" that was affected in the breach.
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by nacs 10y ago
They have a Redis-based solution to sit in front of mySQL (seems to be a "Pro" feature though): https://piwik.org/faq/how-to/faq_19738/
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by nacs 10y ago
"Town of Salem" [1] is a really popular browser-based [2] version of Mafia. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Salem [2]: http://blankmediagames.com/TownOfSalem/
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by nacs 10y ago
That one instance when you do need to accelerate quickly without the car car limiting you can be a matter of life or death. If I get in a car, I expect consistent behavior based on previous performance. If the car pulls a "I'm sor
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by nacs 10y ago
I'm in the Wright is a liar/con-artist camp but the items on that list apply to most "normal" people (including myself).
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by nacs 10y ago
If someone gets scammed by a con-artist, would you blame the victim there too?
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by nacs 10y ago
> eye tracking repeatedly shows people have trouble reading very wide text Yes but to optimize for larger screens, the correct thing to do is to scale everything up (fonts, spacing, etc) in a responsive manner. The amount of text content
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by nacs 10y ago
Here you go: http://thumbsnap.com/i/V80Bg5ye.jpg?0503
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by nacs 10y ago
Link to the cartoon: http://thumbsnap.com/i/V80Bg5ye.jpg?0503
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by nacs 10y ago
Agreed. From a quick look at code, it seems it just fires off every fetch request immediately after another compeletes. Hopefully it gets patched to have a built-in rate limit (X requests per minute/hour).
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by nacs 10y ago
> What about playing light linux games like Civ 5 or Crusader Kings? It uses an integrated Intel graphics chip -- it won't be able to do any decent gaming. At the 16GB price point of this thing ($1k), you could get a more convention
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by nacs 11y ago
The framework is Luxe [1][2] and it/Haxe support the platforms I listed above really well (there are published/commercial games made with it on all platforms). If you have any questions about it, their Gitter/chat [3] is pret
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by nacs 11y ago
That summary is terrible.
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by nacs 11y ago
Definitely. I use it for some game development projects and its able to compile and run code on all Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android (all native code) and even Javascript+WebGL. Obviously the framework I use is targeted to
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by nacs 11y ago
That's pretty misleading. That article is judging what is written in the publicly stated privacy policy of each company. EFF has in no way verified the privacy policy is actually honored or that back-doors aren't installed in the
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by nacs 11y ago
> show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end of the article, and was curious I'm reasonably sure that still shot is not a real-time/in-game shot. It looks to be rendered with Chunky [1] (an o
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by nacs 11y ago
Numerous high-resolution texture packs have been around for years. Minecraft by default ships with a 16x16 or 32x32 pixel tile size texture pack but community-made packs have much higher resolutions if you want them (128x128 tiles, 256x256,
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by nacs 11y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11541612 (4 days ago)
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by nacs 11y ago
> a secondary reason to a vague theory of Orwellian mind control A look at parent's username makes it clear why the Kafkaesque reason takes precedence.
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by nacs 11y ago
CouchDB has really good, built-in versioning of documents so that may be one reason.
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by nacs 11y ago
Pretty sensationalist article. The important parts are buried about halfway through: > Amazon, he says, has a “radical sensitivity” to any suggestion that neighborhoods are being singled out by race. “Demographics play no role in it. Zer

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