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by podperson 16y ago
It also requires instructions in order to figure out the quickdial function... which is more than I've ever needed for my iPhone. (BTW my toddlers can work iOS devices just fine.)
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by podperson 16y ago
The problem with doing this is that if your customers find out they're likely to be pissed off. If this doesn't matter to you then feel free.
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by podperson 16y ago
Ah so it's OK to charge people you don't like (wrong skin color say) more because it's a free market? There's a difference between giving bulk discounts and selling the same product for different prices to different customers.
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by podperson 16y ago
Actually Preview lets you do a lot of the things you'd want to do with an image editor and -- unlike MS Paint -- what it does, it does very well. It's a much better PDF and image editor than, for example, TextEdit is a text editor.
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by podperson 16y ago
The New Yorker is pretty much the standout print publication of our age (certainly in the US). Expecting everyone to be this good is understandable but unrealistic.
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by podperson 16y ago
HTML5 <video> may be in its infancy, but H264 is a huge established technology, and tossing it out will be painful for a lot of people. The best possible outcome of this exercise (and to its credit perhaps this is Google's intention
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by podperson 16y ago
How is supporting arbitrary codecs via the <video> tag any different from supporting arbitrary fonts through CSS font-family?
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by podperson 16y ago
The thing which amazes me about Facebook is how perplexing the basic UI is and remains. My wife will tell me "hey someone has made a comment on your wall you HAVE to reply to it" and it will take me five minutes to figure out where this com
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by podperson 16y ago
I think a trillion dollars looks like this: http://bit.ly/dnRfBG
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by podperson 16y ago
> The only reason x86 is behind right now is because ARM had been working on low power processors for years That's kind of a big reason though.
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by podperson 16y ago
simply add -site:foo.com to your search request. And no, this doesn't solve the problem.
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by podperson 16y ago
No, the problem here isn't supporting _devices_ but OSes. If you flag your app as v4 (correctly) anyone who wants to use it can upgrade to v4 and use it. No fragmentation. Under Android it's a dog's breakfast just on that point, forget scre
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by podperson 16y ago
If I may wax polemic... Here's Adobe/Macromedia's fairly recent tech history: * Use AS2, so much better than AS * Use AS3, so much better than AS2 and soon to be the ES Standard. Whoops! * Use our new 3D API, it sucks less than our non-3D A
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by podperson 16y ago
"dead end" isn't grammar thought, it's a metaphor / idiom, and the only way to handle cases like that is a database of special cases. Frickin awesome app tho'
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by podperson 16y ago
The problem is inadequately defined. Basically it depends on whether you expect to have to record more than 32000 / 14 = 2200 or so values, in which case simply keep a sorted list of the actual integers using a sorting/insertion algorithm o
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by podperson 16y ago
There's an insight here and a fallacy. The insight is that behavior is more interesting and flexible than content. The fallacy in the title is the idea of a "level" entirely encapsulating the gameplay opportunities. The point is that the ga
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by podperson 16y ago
It's surprising to me that a programming language would have started out following engineering conventions rather than mathematical conventions, even if there's a strong overlap between EE and CS. That said (and speaking as a mathematician)
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by podperson 16y ago
My problem with this design is that it doesn't provide coverage for the pins making it less safe. A similar design which included the shield but tilted the pins could retain most of the safety characteristics of the standard design without
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by podperson 16y ago
Australian plugs carry 15A at 240V and are nowhere near as horrible.
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by podperson 16y ago
Whoops just said the exact same thing. OK how about the Axiom of Choice?
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by podperson 16y ago
Cantor's diagonal argument -- proof that the Real numbers are more infinite than the Integers (or Naturals). Slightly more mind-blowing than the algebraics are no bigger than the naturals.