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1. 451.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   The parent compared Valve to Google's work environment / culture in the early days - not as of today.
2. 452.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   OT: Can anyone give me a reason why this question has been downvoted? This seems like a valid, honest question.
3. 453.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/ufl/comments/s5jsk/uf_engineering_de...
4. 454.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   Nice. Additional stemming would probably provide better data, however.
5. 455.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   I haven't used this app but I think the parent had expected that the data he entered would be confined to the application, not sent to the app developer. Simple analogy: Would you expect Microsoft to harvest every e-mail address you enter i
6. 456.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   While I have not previously seen an app that uses key input and accelerometer data like this one, there have been some academic publications that discuss pairing using similar accelerometer readings: Hinckley, 2003: http://depts.washington
7. 457.▲
   by raphman 15y ago

   I've also seen a hotel in Canada proxying all e-mail one sends unencrypted via port 25. One more reason to use a VPN in hotels.
8. 458.▲
   by raphman 15y ago

   also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann#Anonequity_project_....
9. 459.▲
   by raphman 15y ago

   You want the display to overlay the environment. Contact lenses move with your eyeball - glasses don't. This means that you would need to precisely track the lenses somehow - probably with an apparatus affixed to your head. => Glasses a
10. 460.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    There is a difference between not telling that a story is not true (raganwald) and explicitly telling that a story is true (Daisey).
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    by raphman 15y ago

    "What kind of OS do you use" is most often the opener for the Eternal Argument. [...] It might be better phrased "what OS are HN users most passionate about?" Actually, I think this poll gave a much more balanced view of OS distribution o
12. 462.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    A rat's life span of about three years seem adequate to me. I guess the electronics won't even last that long in such an environment.
13. 463.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    original source: http://sonic840.deviantart.com/art/Computer-hardware-poster-...
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    by raphman 15y ago

    In both Germany and the UK, I saw ordinary police carrying submachine guns outside the airport. (The UK surprised me.) Again, the 80s. Has that changed? No. At least at Munich airport, there are one or two policemen with submachine guns r
15. 465.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Nice overview of the 2010 Thesis theme debate: http://www.metafilter.com/93802/WordPress-Thesis-and-the-GPL
16. 466.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    I under-appreciated licenses for a very long time and only recently realized the very real risk of writing some code, posting it to github without any licensing, it being picked up by some commercial organization, and then them licensing i
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    by raphman 15y ago

    I don't think there is a commonly agreed practice. My opinion (and what I tell my students): Independent of the specific license, I would suggest listing sources (and uses) of all external code in your LICENSE file, and at the header of eac
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    by raphman 15y ago

    Imagine the site now wants to add a little bit of social interaction, like allowing users to post video As far as I know, Youporn is all about users posting videos (whereby amateur porn is probably only a small part of all uploads, I gues
19. 469.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Discussion about fastmail.fm/OperaMail on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2427102
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    by raphman 15y ago

    From the Rogers report [1]: Engineers at Thiokol also were increasingly concerned about the problem. On July 22, 1985, Roger Boisjoly of the structures section wrote a memorandum predicting NASA might give the motor contract to a competitor
21. 471.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Opera 11.61 masking as Firefox correctly shows the favicon notifications, however.
22. 472.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Yes, Opera 11.61 masking as Firefox correctly shows the favicon notifications.
23. 473.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Talk about a misleading headline: Second, the scientists kind of cheated: They were listening to the auditory center, which interprets signals from the ear — they weren’t actually listening to thoughts.
24. 474.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Additionally, it looks like the ARM Mali-400 GPU in the Spark tablet will get an open source 3D driver soon: https://gitorious.org/lima
25. 475.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    The engadget article does not give any relevant detail. Link to actual release announcement: http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/
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    by raphman 15y ago

    Actually, I find it most annoying if the link to a original source gets less upvotes/discussion than a rehash of the same story from a popular news site. Therefore, a link to the original source of a story should never be seen as a dupe, ev
27. 477.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Thanks for the link. I have added my view over there.
28. 478.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    Thanks for pointing out the limited time resolution.
29. 479.▲
    by raphman 15y ago

    I am the author of the comment you mention. While I also wondered about this coincidence, I do not see the re-post as a problem. The re-submitter made this link more accessible to a lot of people. Overall, that's a good thing. I actually
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    by raphman 15y ago

    Oh, what a coincidence ;) http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3496475