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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Looks like this is a repackaging of http://caniuse.com/ , which does test in each environment: http://caniuse.com/#info_faq using this custom-built site: http://tests.caniuse.com/ . No word at caniuse about devices tested, but if that m
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The KE850 original Prada (not the KF900 in your image) has long been compared with the iPhone. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=... http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/72B08E9A-D46... http://www.m
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Previous discussion about these stacks and Microchip's licensed GCC compiler on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2972794 A quote from the referenced article, also by the author of this post: > "It’s their time-honored ri
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2977335 The post references the original source ( http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/vim/ ), but provides nothing new.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The $2.7 billion number which I used was extrapolated from the $200 million in lost taxes. You're right, I should have used GDP, rather than population. I would have guessed that use tax fraud was common, but not "less than 1 percent of Ca
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Whoops: The post was way too long initially, and "The assumption" referenced a statement that I subsequently deleted when I tried to trim it down. It went something like "assuming that online purchases are evenly distributed across the pop
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
I paid tax on my online purchases (though I don't live in California). There's a line on your form where you're supposed to declare this stuff, I paid some $60 and have a clean conscience and clear legal record. It's startling to me that y
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
This isn't a neutral report, it's quite obvious that Prof. Astrachan is taking Google's side. If the judges, juries, and media understand the document in such a way to agree with the various claims: > Google’s implementation of the API
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
> While Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown fretted that they would lose $200 million a year in sales taxes California residents are supposed to pay use tax on internet purchases regardless of the physical presence of the retailer, right? Ru
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
This blog, and the blog it is sourced on, are both based on this NY Magazine article, where the graph is sized to fit on a screen and not fuzzy: http://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/patriot-act/
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
15,000 people paid for these apps? Must be desperate, gullible, rich, or a combination of the above.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The "CAT5 was more than up to the job" comment with the source http://www.cat-5-cable-company.com/faq-cat6-gigabit.html seems foolish. Didn't the author just go through the hassle of future devices requiring more bandwidth than his existi
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
> We have more users who’ve turned on DNT within Firefox than are using Adblock Plus ... we’re seeing almost 5% of our user base with DNT enabled That's a staggering pair of statistics. More people care about not being tracked than no
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
There is a lot to be learned from the design, even if you can't buy the SoC. Other chips may be compatible with existing footprints, and you could build extra features onto the current design. Additionally, having a schematic would make OS
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
> E is for Engineer > "I wish children could understand how much fun I have." > I am an engineer. Most people are scientifically and mathematically illiterate. Consequently, most people cannot fathom how much pleasure and deligh
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
So you're saying that you expect an application in your browser to reach down and monitor, upload, and download gigabytes of data to your filesystem? Your appropriately paranoid IT staff would collapse in convulsions of terror if this were
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
No, you're missing the point. Google pays smart people to write proprietary software that they don't sell users access to. Are you confusing the sale of ads with the sale of the software that allows the ads to be effective? Google's sa
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
To be clear, the patent owner also holds a patent on the wheel: http://www.ipmenu.com/archive/AUI_2001100012.pdf
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
You're right, http://ifttt.com/channels/ is full of services I don't use either. However, it does have RSS, Gmail, and Date and Time triggers, and actions like send an email or make a phone call that are quite generic. Gmail isn't exactly
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Android is open in the same sense that the Lua programming language implementation is open. Lua is certified open-source software, and distributed with a very liberal license, but PUC-Rio is in complete control of all the development. It's
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
What kind of tracker do you want? You could start a Redmine/Bugzilla server, or you could write one-word "to-do's" on a whiteboard. There's a lot of work to be done, and one mechanism will not solve all your needs. For something in the mi
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
It's understandable that you'd rather focus on the positive, but you have to respond to the negative. Text to speech would be a good feature for this service, but it's not at the point where it's easy to compose tweets with license plate nu
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Looks like a no on that front: The professor has said in comments to his blog that he will not. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=755#comment-27693 . > Regarding recording, the main concern was that I didn’t want to inhibit open-en
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
According to the FAQ, downvote arrows only occur after you reach a certain karma threshold. A long time ago, this was bumped to 200, and about a year ago (October 31, 2010), that was again increased to 500: http://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
You're right, it should be changed. However, if what you're really interested in is small data structures, Chapter 5 deals exclusively with this topic. Clickable link: http://www.cix.co.uk/~smallmemory/5_DataStructuresChapter.pd... ...or
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The PDF reader works fine for me - No crashes, Chrome 15 on Ubuntu 11. I'd rather look at a nicely typeset and easily printable PDF (see an example from this book here: http://i.imgur.com/ZTq4s.png ), and let the authors spend their time i
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Me either, which is why I didn't include a referral link in my comment above.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
It's not even bad encryption, it's just a cipher. Release the executable, analyze the assembly, and it's completely broken. This is their test for unbreakability: > We will create a contest where hackers will subscribe to with an entra
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
By "I can forward it anything", do you mean that you want to be able to train the app on new vendors? That would be awesome, but (1) hard to do right if that ordinary (read: Not HN reading) users could create their own filters or (2) impos
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Pricey? It's $5 for gmail.com, $15 for Google Apps. If it generates one extra sale, it's paid for itself. I do understand that if you're using this for personal communications, that might feel pricey.

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