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11y ago
Not even necessarily GPS, they can use WiFi geolocation. Remember the Street View WiFi snooping scandal?
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11y ago
Yeah, I remember seeing The (Clojure) "JVM Slow Startup Time" Myth [1] in HN comments last week. [1]: http://blog.ndk.io/2014/02/11/jvm-slow-startup.html
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11y ago
>so do so at your own risk. sudo su at your own risk, hehe.
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11y ago
On paper. They work with SDXC cards if you format the cards as FAT32.
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11y ago
Or, more canonically, Francisco Sans.
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11y ago
> Fun fact: while floppies are indestructible Haha, oh boy.
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11y ago
> At the moment biking is dominated by young fit and generally healthy people. That may be silicon valley but it isn't the general population. I see lots of young parents going to work by bike, but do they take their kids to school
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11y ago
>there are no persistent identities Oh, if only!
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11y ago
Meh, kitchen plays a big part in day-to-day office life, so I'm not surprised at all.
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11y ago
Nice, very appropriate design for the web app!
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11y ago
>mcafee 16 Sounds like an antivirus.
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11y ago
Oh, I thought it was a new player, some competition, but it looks like it's just the Hemmingwrite renamed.
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11y ago
There are no serifs. The g is a typical sans-serif g like any other. Here's a slab serif g.[1] [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Rockwell...
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11y ago
From the same Wikipedia article: >Anti-virus programmers set the EICAR string as a verified virus, similar to other identified signatures. A compliant virus scanner, when detecting the file, will respond in exactly the same manner as if
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11y ago
The link to previos charpter in the blog post 404's (but I could navigate to it through the sidebar). Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading them when I get home and hope to see the following charpters as well.
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11y ago
Maybe, I had just observed that others seem really to enjoy the overwhelming burning sensation and drew conclusions that something must wrong with me if I want to taste something more than chili in my food.
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11y ago
>I also enjoy how spiciness brings out other flavours in food and makes it richer and more interesting What? I do like spicy food occasionally, but my main gripe with "very" spicy food is not how painful it is, but how the spic
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11y ago
The article should have the same disclaimer on top as the linked Wikipedia page: >Not to be confused with Bloom shader effect. My mind even read the title as: >Why bloom filters look the way they do
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11y ago
Huh, another Clojure book? I was skimming through Programming Clojure, Practical Clojure and Programming Concurrency on the JVM earlier this year (apparently before Living Clojure came out), seems like this would be a great addition to the
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11y ago
I can't believe someone patented a combover.
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11y ago
>I understand having the laptops open to stop them going to sleep without an external display, but I'd've thought you could turn the backlight all the way to "off". You can even disable sleep with closed lid[1], but a
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11y ago
True, but in miniscule amounts. Significantly lower than the doses taken by the people who use L-theanine as a supplement. Also L-theanine to caffeine ratio is all wrong. >Why pick pure l-theanine and caffeine over green or black tea? &g
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11y ago
What's the purpose of coconut oil?
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11y ago
>* the lower case of upper case "I" is the dotless "ı" (not "i" as everywhere else) >* the upper case of lower case "i" is the dotted "İ" (not "I" as everywhere else) It does
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11y ago
Ah, I didn't notice the demo. That is actually pretty nice. If only they would do the same with the credit card number field and spaces. Edit: okay seems like it is more thought out than I assumed.
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11y ago
Yeah, seriously. The expiry date field fails as well. >Note that the placeholder text includes a “/”, but this is not required to be typed by the user. We limit the input value to numbers only, so if a user does type a forward slash
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11y ago
It's interesting, especially since Firefox currently heavily uses "privacy" as their selling point: >Committed to you, your privacy and an open Web [1] >We’ve always designed Firefox to protect and respect your private
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11y ago
Sounds like a cool place to live. Over here a plumber will give you a consultation, but regarding delivery, if you live at an appartment the delivery guy will deliver to the building, if you want it delivered to the doors of your appartment
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11y ago
How can selling water at a commercial establishment be illegal? Bottled water industry would be out of business, as some of them are known to resell tap water too. I'm from Europe too, by the way, and don't see the big deal. I
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11y ago
Just like all the other spaces and zero width characters[1], it's originally for typography and typesetting. It is used to create word boundaries so that text would break at the right places in paragraphs, but without creating the visi
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