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by objclxt 14y ago
> And breast cancer gets more funding than pancreatic cancer even though pancreatic cancer kills about everyone who gets it because, you know, the boobies Or perhaps breast cancer gets more funding because it's far more common? Here i
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by objclxt 14y ago
It's a little more nuanced than that. 1.47% of women aged 40 will develop breast cancer within ten years, but only 0.34% of men aged 40 will develop prostate cancer over a similar time period (according to the CDC risk statistics). 0.01% of
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by objclxt 14y ago
From reading the post, it sounds to me as if people trading wine weren't necessarily crying out for an automatic process, but were in fact looking to cut out the middleman. But because the market was so insular, once you cut out the middlem
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by objclxt 14y ago
> $10M doesn't create a TV show. It certainly isn't going to create a movie with well know actors like Veronica Mars ...I somewhat disagree. If you're financing a film of an existing property with a lot of goodwill around it (i.e, Ver
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by objclxt 14y ago
> Despite all that, last year WWDC was sold out in under 2 hours. ...and I'm willing to bet that if Apple announced the time WWDC tickets went on sale in advance, as Google do, it would sell out a lot faster.
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by objclxt 14y ago
As well as the online streaming, I highly recommend going to a I/O Extended event, if one's happening near you (Google will publish a page listing them all nearer the time). Last year the London event was over at Google's co-working space,
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by objclxt 14y ago
I mentioned this in another thread: lots of engineers do live outside of California. The majority of engineers in the world are not based on Pacific Time. Last year Apple put WWDC tickets on sale at 5:30AM PDT without notice...the rumour mi
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by objclxt 14y ago
Although I don't think the free stuff helps matters, WWDC tends to be a very similar free for all - slightly less hectic, but that's only because Apple don't give notice of when the tickets are going on sale, so it's more of a mad scramble
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by objclxt 14y ago
...it's not a lottery, it's a queueing system. And no, I don't think they're biased.
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by objclxt 14y ago
> Why do they have to do this at 7AN Pacific? What engineer is getting up at this unearthly hour? Surprisingly, some engineers do live outside of California. Last year Apple put WWDC tickets on sale at 5:30AM PDT without notice...the
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by objclxt 14y ago
They do stream all the sessions online, along with the I/O extended sessions around the world. I think Google do a good job of making the actual material available...although I will accept that is no substitute for the networking/experience
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by objclxt 14y ago
If Google are being clever about it (and you'd assume they are) then they would have tied ticket search into your Google Plus account, so multiple browser sessions would be of little help, private or not.
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by objclxt 14y ago
Especially when you consider that they're not going after Hailo, who are operating in Boston. Hailo's drivers are licensed taxi drivers. I find the two companies to be really interesting: they're both competing for roughly the same space
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by objclxt 14y ago
I am wondering why the OP decided to post it here, rather than try and get a bug bounty (edit: assuming it's a genuine issue, seems like maybe it isn't). It would probably be worth a fair amount...certainly a few thousand at least. Facebook
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by objclxt 14y ago
Chrome for iOS is a little bit more than a skin on top of a UIWebView - the entire Chromium networking stack has been ported over. The upshot of this is that Chrome for iOS supports SPDY, whilst Mobile Safari doesn't. My understanding is th
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by objclxt 14y ago
Although you do need to know whether your customer is in the UK or not, you can collect that through the address. You don't need to know whether the customer is a business - if you're providing VAT receipts then the business in question c
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by objclxt 14y ago
There's very little point obfuscating strings in iOS - since you can attach a debugger to the binary itself on jailbroken handsets (or using cycript) you can step through to the method(s) that use the secret keys and pull them out from ther
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by objclxt 14y ago
> "specific to ancient versions of Android" Ancient but still shipping . I can go into a store and pick up a Samsung Galaxy Ace running 2.3 today. A significant minority of 2.3 based phones are still being sold, especially for budget
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by objclxt 14y ago
> defined as Apple, you know the company with the most popular open source operating system in the world? I'm not sure which OS you're talking about...perhaps you could point me to the source code of either OS X or iOS? Certain core c
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by objclxt 14y ago
I am not sure that Andrew Mason would be universally described by all as an "excellent CEO"...Groupon's financial performance suggests otherwise.
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by objclxt 14y ago
Because the code is sent to a device Google know you have had physical possession of in the past. It's either sent by SMS, voice call, or to a pre-registered mobile app. The general point of two factor authentication is that you need physic
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by objclxt 14y ago
I know of no jurisdiction where there's a right to legal representation during a raid. This makes complete sense, because otherwise you could attempt to hold up a raid and dispose of evidence whilst you waited for your legal counsel to ge
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Respond to England's proposed Computing school curriculum(cleveryou.net)
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by objclxt 14y ago
Networking is definitely one of the main reasons. It's why I'd encourage anyone who doesn't get tickets (so, given the odds, probably me and most people here!) to stop by one of the local satellite events the Google user groups run. They're
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by objclxt 14y ago
Putting the pros and cons of the free hardware aside, I'm not sure getting rid of it would solve the demand problems. Apple charges $700 more for WWDC tickets, give away no hardware, and it still sells out in under two hours.
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by objclxt 14y ago
Additionally, I think that going forward on-site interviews at Google will use Chromebooks to type code up, rather than white-boarding (which makes me sad, but I suspect will make all the people who hate white-boarding a lot happier).
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by objclxt 14y ago
India has both signed and ratified the Outer Space Treaty, that prohibits countries from making territorial claims on celestial bodies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
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by objclxt 14y ago
What's the worst that can happen if they do malfunction? Presumably no airbag, but you're no worse off than being hit by a car without pedestrian airbags. I suppose the other type of malfunction would be accidentally discharge, but this i
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by objclxt 14y ago
Opera actually has a substantial sideline in selling mobile advertising, just like AdMob et al. I know this because my current employer spun-off our mobile ad network, which Opera then bought.
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by objclxt 14y ago
If it's a CoreText bug, which is sounds like it is, it's going to impact any iOS or OS X app that uses Core Text for rendering. That's pretty much everyone.

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