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by nacs 11y ago
I thought you were missing an apostrophe in the last sentence and read it differently: Trump is your "flat earth society" by several hundred levels of magnitude
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by nacs 11y ago
Here's what I see when I go to that Buffer page: http://thumbsnap.com/i/nlgq33uo.png?0305 3 signup forms (1 in a modal) for their newsletter (and an additional link to signup for the newsletter at the end of the p
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by nacs 11y ago
Thats what GP already said: > Vivaldi. Its only downside is that it further boosts Chrome's dominance by being based on Chromium
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by nacs 11y ago
"Lego-fy"? The author is basically talking about "voxels" [1] for which a ton of research and tooling has been made already, not to mention the ever so popular Minecraft game and its numerous clones. Since this is HN, he
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by nacs 11y ago
The article mentions that the whale may be deaf.
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by nacs 11y ago
> It means that MS is serious about their push into Mobile and Linux Mobile OK but Linux? Currently on the HN frontpage theres an article about how Skype for Linux hasn't been updated for years and "is unable to join calls&quot
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by nacs 11y ago
Ubuntu has removed the Amazon ads with newer versions.
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by nacs 11y ago
> "Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said, ‘Don't make me cut this ribbon because you'll make me cut it many times.'" What a horrible analogy he tried to draw there. Shows a trem
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by nacs 11y ago
The first is for code and the latter is for prose (non-code writing such as this comment).
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by nacs 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the self-driving system wouldn't rely on GPS much, especially considering how inaccurate GPS can be (and that's when you can actually get a signal).
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by nacs 11y ago
Not true -- 4 digit passcodes work just fine (and are default) on Touch ID phones.
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by nacs 11y ago
It'd be easy for anyone to patch memory at runtime to skip over that `if` check on the phone's ID (or at least easier than hacking the phone without the backdoor code). Once the backdoor/exploit is created and released, there
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by nacs 11y ago
Looks interesting. What is openCV used for here?
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by nacs 11y ago
Super light grey text (almost white) on a white background. How are people supposed to read that. http://i.imgur.com/J3qPrjV.png
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by nacs 11y ago
Regarding the "unreadable" text mentioned above, site-author should see here for more info: http://contrastrebellion.com/
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by nacs 11y ago
Exactly. I'm used to unsubscribing from some random newsletter every company inevitably signs you up for but with Twitter it went from occasional emails to suddenly subscribed to 20 different notification-types (on all 3 of my Twitter
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by nacs 11y ago
From the Zenefits homepage: "Payroll, benefits, time, compliance , and more" And the article: "Parker Conrad has resigned as CEO of Zenefits, following a number of regulatory compliance failures" The irony..
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by nacs 11y ago
> choosing a free engine is a cost-saving measure, at which point you're no longer making an AAA game by definition Not necessarily. 2 of the most popular game engines, Unreal Engine and Unity3d, have very good free offerings now an
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by nacs 11y ago
https://zippy.gfycat.com/GlossyDifferentGoitered.gif Can't copy and paste the faces thanks to the Flash-powered "feature" ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)
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by nacs 11y ago
Not every website I visit has its code integrated right into my open-source browser. And you can build a pretty accurate profile of a user from analyzing the content people mark to "read later" (and how long they spend reading the
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by nacs 11y ago
> Pocket code in Firefox is open source, you can examine it yourself You can see the client side code but what Pocket is doing with all the data on the server side is completely opaque and source is unavailable.
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by nacs 11y ago
Yes I've seen the 100K estimate on paying users but that isn't that significant considering how many millions of free users they have (and how many full-time employees they need to pay for). And "not need new financing"
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by nacs 11y ago
There's need for innovation because Google/MS/Apple and such are integrating cloud-sync right into the operating system (and its only a matter of time before their sync tech is good enough or better than DB's sync tech).
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by nacs 11y ago
> Have an actual profitable syncing business Source? Everything I've seen says Dropbox isn't even close to being "profitable" -- the vast majority of their customers don't pay a dime according to their CEO.
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by nacs 11y ago
Honestly, you should change all the words except "Done". When people are using "simple" email software, they don't want to have to think about dictionary/uncommon words like "defer" and "delegate
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by nacs 11y ago
Looking forward to it. Keep it up!
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by nacs 11y ago
Does this only work with pre-recorded video or does it support live-streaming (like Twitch too)?
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by nacs 11y ago
Many people don't even know what a browser is and will just use whatever is bundled with the OS. Also, IE is often used to download Chrome / Firefox after a fresh install..
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by nacs 11y ago
> will people stop believing that moon landing was a Hoax No, they'll just think China made replicas of the original items and placed them on the moon to be photographed as part of a global conspiracy.
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by nacs 11y ago
I never suggested 1-2 years was sufficient or effective. In fact, the 2 years of the required Spanish I was taught was quickly forgotten by the time I graduated. At least by learning programming, students can learn concepts and ways of thin

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