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by obtu 14y ago
A useful reminder. Universal already did this by removing from YouTube Kim Dotcom's above-board rap video promoting MegaUpload. At first they made a false claim of plagiarism[1], but it turns out they feel the tools they built for copyright
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by obtu 14y ago
The closest semantics I found were the location hints: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/KeyboardEvent#Key_locat... The problem is, only the keyboard hardware knows where the keys are physically located. The OS knows the layout and cou
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by obtu 14y ago
The reason would be security-related, as usual. I take it you deal with the clickjacking potential, and the potential for deliberate annoyances?
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by obtu 14y ago
See the CNX list (Ctrl-F joshu), here in pdf form: http://omgfire.narod2.ru/SBC_comparison39.pdf
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by obtu 14y ago
You mean repost. Cross-post would mean it was posted to a different site.
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by obtu 14y ago
Reformatted: me: so what were the reasons that nobody ever used typestate? was it just too cumbersome? graydon: combination of incomplete and wound up not often able to benefit from much code-path-distance between site of check and sit
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by obtu 14y ago
Take this: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola702.zip
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by obtu 14y ago
NoSquint is pretty good for this as well.
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by obtu 14y ago
It's also a reddit rule, though hard to enforce.
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by obtu 14y ago
♥ and 💩 have a nice symmetry.
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by obtu 14y ago
500 karma according to this infrequently-updated FAQ: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma
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by obtu 14y ago
What else could the defaults be, though? The good communities are smaller and better moderated, but they don't have the resources to police anyone who signs up for an account. As it is they get the users who bother to change their subscript
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by obtu 14y ago
highlight.js [1] does this, though by running highlighters rather than using some learning-based mechanism. It feels wasteful to run this on display rather than storage, though. SourceClassifier [2] also works, though with less languages. A
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by obtu 14y ago
A TV is actually worse than a monitor for most purposes, especially if you want their output to match a video signal: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8705.html
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by obtu 14y ago
Technically, the only exit condition on Kickstarter is reaching the funding goal (often set much lower than the expected proceeds). After that, the cool thing may materialise with lesser coolness or not at all, and an ambitious project may
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by obtu 14y ago
Error correction is part of the spec (along with a reference algorithm for decoding a real-world image), so by keeping enough margin in the right places it's possible to embed a logo safely.
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by obtu 14y ago
Steve Yegge's Google+ rant argues that Jeff Bezos forcing Amazon to implement everything as internal services allowed a services platform to emerge, and that platforms lead to success (the “because Bezos is smart” argument is a bit weak, th
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by obtu 14y ago
Good idea to come up with a minimal implementation of intents on the caller side. Apple will probably block it if it threatens to become useful though, because that would challenge iOS Safari.
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by obtu 14y ago
The BBC article touches on this, but the study does not support this conclusion (or any conclusion that could drive public health policy, really). It is lacking any accounting for confounding factors, like physical exercise, diet, health, o
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by obtu 14y ago
Just to clarify, both courts and an as yet unspecified government agency will have the power to order content removed (by site operators, web hosts, and ISPs). Looking at http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&... , t
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by obtu 14y ago
Another difference is that the use of a built-in compass eliminates the need for a badge.
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by obtu 14y ago
What do you mean, direction? It can already orient itself, it's the primary use of the electronic compass that they are also repurposing.
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by obtu 14y ago
The SIM and baseband have absolute control on the rest of the phone, which doesn't make sense except for enabling this kind of surveillance capability. False/partial shutdowns or spontaneous wakeups of the radio portion would probably be no
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by obtu 14y ago
It would be harder maintaining a large collection of software outside of one of the major Linux distros. Debian/kFreeBSD might have a chance thanks to the GNU userland, but the archive is less well supported than with the Linux kernel.
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by obtu 14y ago
All the commands are implemented on the remote end (hence the latency), and some of them look like they are a limited node.js reimplementation (git is mostly the real deal, though the command list is whitelisted). I would be interested in a
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by obtu 14y ago
This isn't necessarily a problem. I can learn by immersion. Good teaching shouldn't introduce too many concepts at one time, but giving incremental goals that require interacting with a few related concepts is ideal. Tediously spelling out
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by obtu 14y ago
Indeed. According to the UN report on inclusive wealth ( http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/article/iwr via http://www.economist.com/node/21557732/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196895 ) Russia's wealth is all natural resources, and
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by obtu 14y ago
Well, these astroturfers are a message in themselves. They do exist in the English web as well, though.
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by obtu 14y ago
Nope, it comes down to the generally agreed definition of the universe: the universe contains everything. If you want a border, there's the observable universe (everything in our past light cone).
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by obtu 14y ago
NTP sends a special message to the kernel (using adjtimex), that boils down to: today you will insert a leap second. This isn't the same as clock drift, which gets smoothed out, it means a minute with a 60th second (in UTC) or with the 59th

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