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by sagarm 16y ago
> I had a sad vision of the future while reading the article, one in which business no longer involves human interaction of any kind. Instead, we're all just browsing virtual stores, ordering items that will be packaged and shipped to u
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by sagarm 16y ago
> don't tout that your state is an engine of economic growth when the companies you mention decide to "offshore" major chunks of their operations You're clearly implying here that Californian companies are placing datacenters outside Ca
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by sagarm 16y ago
Your obligations are spelled out in the contract, and defaulting is (normally) a legitimate course of action. The bank and you made a mutually beneficial contract: the bank loans you money, and in return you promise to give them back their
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by sagarm 16y ago
The commit log shows plenty of activity: http://code.google.com/p/anic/source/list
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by sagarm 16y ago
Did you turn safe search off on DDG? When I gave these queries a go, I noticed that DDG stripped "breast" out of the query. The results seemed much more relevant once safe search was disabled. Not that I'd want to go around with safe searc
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by sagarm 16y ago
Capitalism and F/OSS advocacy are not contradictory. I'm of the opinion that for certain kinds of software, F/OSS is the most efficient approach in the context of a free market. In particular, for software that (1) has a wide audience and
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by sagarm 16y ago
It's not. When the navigation app is navigating, it has a persistent notification (representing the foreground service). "Exit navigation" exits the foreground service and removes the persistent notification. This article is talking about
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by sagarm 16y ago
Having a standardized back button means that when I hit "back," I have* a hard time predicting what it's going to do. Same for "menu." Sometimes "back" goes back in history (e.g., browser), sometimes it goes back to the last activity (if
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by sagarm 17y ago
If you do that, the bank will notice a bunch of connections from the same IP for different usernames. You could use a botnet to do the lookups, but that still makes the attack substantially more difficult.
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by sagarm 17y ago
Does anyone know why multiple kernel threads are used at all? If only one thread can run at a time, why not just use a single kernel thread?
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by sagarm 17y ago
The N1 does have multitouch support at the hardware and API level, and the on-screen keyboard uses this support. The fact that the maps application and browser don't support multitouch is probably mostly due to legal issues. [1] Multitouch