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AIM was available as an app on iOS App Store's launch day on July 11, 2008. But push notifications for the iOS Platform didn't arrive until June 2009, so it was cumbersome -- daresay awful: messages only arrived when it was in the
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Google Talk appearing inside Gmail, and Facebook opening up to more than just .edu addresses both happened in 2006. Keep in mind, Gmail was still invite-only until 2007. In 2008 Facebook introduced Facebook Chat, and ever since then Google
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The cohort of young people that used AIM/MSN/Y! (depending on your region) aged up into Facebook Chat [1]. Facebook captured the 'chat with people you know in real life' usecase, gradually leaving distance-only or intere
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Though it has little to do with the parent post's point, technical development of both V8 and HotSpot was led by Lars Bak. V8 didn't come about because of the JVM, but it was done by the same guy who wrote the JVM.
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FWIW the spot where the crash happened is in fact badly lit. I know this anecdotally from having been at the location for events -- it's right next to a concert venue -- but it can also be seen on other dashcam videos. In this video [1
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Well, the promise is a kind of drag-and-drop [1], mix-and-match [2], transform these data fields this way, make a decision off of these other data fields, and ship it there kind of integration. Extra points for having a Store for others&#x2
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x264 video codec developer Dark Shikari blogged about [1][2] this "fake sharpness" phenomenon. Early H.264 encoders produced excessively smooth, deblocked video, which made them look worse compared to MPEG-4 ASP (like Xvid), desp
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According to their evaluation [1]: "Maidenhead Locator System codes explicitly represent areas, and can be truncated in a similar way to Open Location Codes. The accuracy and length of the codes is similar, but Maidenhead Locator Syst
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As one can see in the installation video from last weekend, the bridge in question was the first span of a larger project, in which at least one other span would have to be installed above an adjacent canal to complete the crossing. A rende
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The Minnesota report [1] discussed in your links is much more nuanced than just the graph excerpt. It suggests that a judicious use of federal investment credits and future anticipated cost decreases might make storage combined with solar g
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This isn't strictly true, but isn't strictly false. Power plants are often built to supply power to aluminum smelters, like in New Zealand [1], Oman [2], and Iceland [3], but they're usually connected to the grid in the end.
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"A New Era of Batteries Spells Trouble for Gas in America" is the article's actual title, but the text does not back up this assertion. Rather, a regulatory agency in California is ordering PG&E it must hold a competitive
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This isn't too surprising to someone who has a passing familiarity with the state: thriving college towns, friendly business climate, low cost of living, plentiful land, a strong focus on education and healthcare, smart infrastructure
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State machines are not a first-class concept in most currently popular high-level programming languages, so when you implement one, you're merely adhering to a design pattern. While a design pattern is a perfectly legitimate strategy t
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As currently proposed, the TransWest Express HVDC line start in Rawlins, WY, and first run towards Delta, UT, where without connections [1] it will begin to run alongside the Intermountain Power Plant HVDC Line [2], for the majority of its
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For a long time, json-schema was stuck at draft-04, and it looks like in the last few months under new authorship it's up to draft-07. The mapping of these names to IETF RFC revisions is more complicated, and explained on the site [1].
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'Wikipedia Zero' is a zero-rating [1] scheme where many ISPs and network operators offered data access to certain Wikimedia sites (or just Wikipedia) at no metered-data cost to the line's subscriber. Zero-rating's relati
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When I'm unfamiliar with the internals of a piece of software, it can seem like black magic; but it's illuminating to see something you didn't know break down into familiar steps. When the rationale behind the steps and the s
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As more software is adding support for HTTP/2 server push, I hope they'll start supporting a higher-level, implementation-agnostic, declarative way of specifying resources to push, which operates at a layer higher than server conf
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The advantage of declaring variables and parameters as List instead of the specific implementation like ArrayList or LinkedList is that generic method calls can accept any List; this becomes most useful when you're writing generic libr
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Brand preferences are overwhelmingly set in the youth years and it's been sliding younger and younger [1]. Sure, they make soap and toothpaste and food and a billion other things, but so do their competitors. Every sale of a bottle of
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> Why would anyone buy bottled water Some reasons: immediacy, taste, convenience, quality, lack of price sensitivity. > Why would anyone buy [prepackaged white bread] Texture, goes stale slower than fresh baked bread, sizing, tast
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Top advertiser Procter & Gamble, competitor to Unilever and likewise an owner of many distinct brands, has been very vocal about the sorry state of digital advertising [1], threatening to drastically cut spending [2] on ad networks that
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The new trainsets ("Eurostar e320") are built by Siemens as the 'Velaro e320'. They are factory-equipped with ERTMS equipment (in-cab signalling, sensors, etc), and unlike the Alstom-built predecessors, support both the
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Why are the flights so cheap? Do they actually turn a profit at these rates?
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Let's work backwards: what problem does Bitcoin actually solve? It successfully incentivizes continued upkeep of its blockchain, making it a useful, global, trustless, pseudonymous, immutable, long-lived database. You don't need a
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There are several contributing factors to Google's disastrous history with messaging services, but a significant cause is Google being spooked by Facebook. In an earlier post of mine [2] (which includes an older revision of the timelin
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> "You can override the location of a package with dep." As far as I know, this is true [1], and can be done with the 'source' rule in Gopkg.toml. However, the guidance for dep says [1]: "A source rule can spe
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Since the paragraph in question establishes two sets, why explicitly enumerate one set, while relying on inline punctuation for another? This inconsistency suggests that the two kinds of enumerations aren't similar; yet they are. Their
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This situation arises solely from Go's myriad dependency management tools [1], including the latest "official experiment" 'go dep', not having the notion of a package repository. Instead, package identity is tightly

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