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by nanidin 14y ago
In theory yes. But... most browsers throttle javascript timers of tabs that are not in the foreground. For example, here's a commit for Chromium that limits the firing of timers for background tabs: https://codereview.chromium.org/6577021
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by nanidin 14y ago
When I started using Mint, I became aware of how I was spending my money. That cognizance made it easy to cut back in areas like going out to eat and going out at night in a way that didn't impact my quality of life. I started hosting group
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by nanidin 14y ago
After training on three five mile data sets, I was able to get very accurate speed/distance estimates for subsequent runs (say 99%+). The method? 1st derivative of accelerometer data to determine cadence. Then correlate cadence with actual
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by nanidin 14y ago
I made a lot of fireworks in my heyday. Mostly smokebombs, but sometimes improvisational stuff with other fireworks. I was 16 or 17 going into Home Depot looking for Potassium Nitrate aka Salt Petre aka stump killer :) And I built most of a
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by nanidin 14y ago
In my experience, most countries want you to have a working visa when you intend to do a job that someone else in that country could be doing. Immigration law/policy hasn't really caught up with the Information Age in this respect... But as
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by nanidin 14y ago
I think it's a brilliant idea - as long as the screen is sufficiently protected. I am on my second Kindle. I'm not particularly rough on gadgets but I travel a lot and even the second one is starting to show a lot of wear whereas my iPhone
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by nanidin 14y ago
Brilliant idea! I've been traveling through less developed parts of the world and it is painfully obvious when you encounter a site that wasn't tested on anything less than broadband. Also, the Facebook app on my iPhone (pre-rewrite) would
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by nanidin 14y ago
One can always hope that this leads to innovation in mosquito repellents and mosquito targeted insecticides. Either would also have the added benefit of helping prevent the spread of malaria in other parts of the world. I've been in SE Asia
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by nanidin 14y ago
Not that textbook code is that much better ;)
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by nanidin 15y ago
Kansas City here - we've got Garmin (C, C++, Java, Python), Cerner, H&R Block, and Sprint headquartered here. We've also got a Samsung R&D office (Android) and an IBM office... The choices aren't exactly limitless, but there are job
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by nanidin 15y ago
It seems like a pretty big jump to determine causality here - nowhere in the article do they mention consumer studies indicating consumers have purchased the IPad in lieu of a PC. Until they do that, this seems like speculation at best. For
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by nanidin 16y ago
I feel bad for your kids
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by nanidin 16y ago
I'd be up for a meetup - I lurk here all the time. I thought I had an account, but it turns out I didn't so I just made this. I wouldn't have seen this post if it weren't for the crosspost to the KC subreddit.