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11y ago
Long-press has existed on iOS for a long time as well (deleting apps from your homescreen is an example). "3d touch" works and feels different because of the feedback you get via vibrations and the fact that it feels like you'
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11y ago
Isn't everything in the BTC blockchain public? How/why would you upload private information about insurance claims there?
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11y ago
Hate to be that guy but just wanted to point out the typo in the console message/userscript title: "arificial" should be "artificial" (missing 't').
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11y ago
Another great guide for procedural terrain generation: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
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> No content provider does this I've seen quite a few that detect Adblock and ask you to turn it off (the OK ones) and the ones that prevent content being viewed (the not-so-nice ones). In fact, the removal of these nag messages fro
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11y ago
Just uninstalled Crystal and installed your Safari Blocker. Works great so far and has a far larger filtering list (and customizable lists too it seems). Thanks!
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11y ago
Agreed. Also, unless they've managed to massively cut down on the power requirements, the 980 would burn through your battery rapidly.
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> Only live video uses UDP Not necessarily. One of the largest live video streaming services, Twitch.tv, uses TCP for streaming.
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11y ago
$900-1200 isn't what I'd call "cheap" (OP says parts for their prototype is around $150). Also, another person in this thread mentioned a 42" one from China thats $120 [1]. That is more in the "cheap" rang
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11y ago
No I certainly don't. And Windows 7/8 is still supported and patched so nothing makes Windows 10 any more secure. In fact, I'd say it's less secure since it hasn't been as well tested in the wild as Win 7/8.
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11y ago
> Another tempest in a teapot like when they integrated Pocket (right click > remove from toolbar takes 2 seconds) Except all these things that take time to learn about and remove are starting to add up and ultimately end up taking fa
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11y ago
This isn't a security patch. This is pre-downloading an entire OS upgrade without the user asking for it.
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11y ago
> Angry Birds 2 has a level of polish that makes the original look like some indie side project. The game's quality isn't the problem. It's the forced in-app purchases (or wait massive amounts of time) they made with this
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11y ago
> I don't know how well it works I've used H&R Block's online service for filing federal and state taxes for the past few years with no issues.
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11y ago
Pale Moon has builds for Windows: https://www.palemoon.org/
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11y ago
> they don't allow non-Chrome Store add-ons AT all This is wrong. You can drag and drop an extension into the Chrome extensions folder (or enable the developer mode in the extensions page) to install any extension in Chrome.
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11y ago
> We chose the latter And as a long-time user of Firefox, this is what got me to stop using Firefox. There's been tons of people asking for the removal of Pocket from Firefox including hundreds of posts in the Mozilla governance fo
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11y ago
And an example of doing it wrong: http://famous.org/
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11y ago
If you've ever tried to do even the most basic of UI's in game engines, you'll quickly see the truth in that statement. Even "easy" things on the web like text input boxes, scaling for different resolutions while ke
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11y ago
> At your price point, performance/luxury cars seem to be your only market, I'm not sure even that will be a market they can cater to as newer performance/luxury cars have a massive amount of electronics and computers insi
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11y ago
> I could see some people with normal cars shelling out $50 for the longer life Most people will take their car to a repair shop when they have problems with their battery and will take whatever battery the tech/shop suggests (as lo
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> The object/component system looks like a Unity3D ripoff Component based systems have existed since 1968, way before Unity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-based_software_engin...
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11y ago
Or maybe it would just generate a <table> for layout with a bunch of 1px spacer cells/gifs..
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11y ago
Try Pixi.js [1] or one of the many frameworks that use Pixi. It's really high performance (uses Webgl by default and falls back to canvas if its unavailable). [1]: http://www.pixijs.com/
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> Maybe two castles firing siege weapons at each other Sounds like Castle Storm [1]. [1]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/241410/
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And Amazon's is $250 Billion (1000x): http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn Pretty sure a purchase of AngiesList wouldn't make a dent.
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Probably because this is directed at Microsoft in general instead of saying Satya Nadella was directly responsible for the changes.
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You actually don't need to use their IDE as the scripts it generates are just python scripts. I've used it a few times in the past and was able to use an external screenshot program (Apple-Shift-4 on Mac) and a text editor to writ
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As others mention, this seems to have directly copied the client code. However, I found this amusing: > The Agario game’s distinctive style and graphics are known to tens of millions of players Colored circles moving around on a checkere
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11y ago
uBlock Origin (on Chrome and Firefox) can do this too: In your uBlock options, there's a setting labelled "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" (its unchecked by default since it can break some WebRTC-powered sites).
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