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by shardling 13y ago
It was available via the Humble Bundle sale before it was released in the play store, so people who are "into" android gaming probably grabbed it then.
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by shardling 13y ago
Well no, that's exactly what you want to find out from data like this. :) (Well, what I was curious about, anyway.)
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by shardling 13y ago
The big distorting effect here was that it was available for a long time on iOS before other platforms -- if you wanted the game, initially you had no choice other than iOS. And despite it being significantly more enjoyable on a touch scre
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by shardling 13y ago
Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs. (And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-
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by shardling 13y ago
It's still not at all clear to me what you're saying. Feel free to express yourself in more technically/mathematically: while GR is certainly not my field, I took classes in grad school that covered the material.
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by shardling 13y ago
>That said, I'd be much more optimistic about the plausibility of a proposed warp technology that only lets you go FTL relative to the implicit reference frame of the distant stars. Because that avoids any possibility of causality v
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by shardling 13y ago
If the options are an update that fixes driver issues but is never pushed, and an update that only fixes less serious issues but is pushed -- which would you rather have? My (fairly naive) understanding is that there is nothing comparable
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by shardling 13y ago
A typical Android update will change the drivers and other low level stuff. My understanding is that a Firefox OS update will typically change only the upper layers: Gecko and Gaia. That should hopefully reduce the amount of testing neces
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by shardling 13y ago
I don't think it's anything quite so conscious as that. The majority of human actions are impulses, not calculated decisions. That's certainly true of drive-by discussion posts. :) I think in cases like this, the urge is j
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by shardling 13y ago
Err, did you read the article? It was about all types of crime, not just murders.
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by shardling 13y ago
Comments like this are basically predicated upon the idea that anyone reading it will agree. That is, there's nothing persuasive put forth if I disagree, and no real information offered. They're not very good as conversation sta
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by shardling 13y ago
Well: >The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for. http://staff.tumblr.com/po
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by shardling 13y ago
Huh, that was the exact rule I adopted the first time I had to work on a "real" project. I wonder if I'd previously read it into my subconscious, or if it's simply kind of obvious. :)
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by shardling 13y ago
Apparently they consider tags like gay and lesbian to be Adult.
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by shardling 13y ago
Even if that was somehow relevant (it doesn't really matter what you called it internally if you didn't use the name publicly), the existing Q.js is older! Here is the first public version, from 3 years ago: https://git
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by shardling 13y ago
It'll actually use whatever you have the search bar set to.
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by shardling 13y ago
> A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser. The thing is there are people like me who prefer a separate search bar. I don't want google search results showing up when I'm just trying to look through my history
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by shardling 13y ago
What left pane? (I see nothing of the sort in the link or screenshots.)
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by shardling 13y ago
I believe that in a previous thread, FirefoxOS devs were hopeful that the way the OS is "layered" will make this less painful -- that upgrading Gecko should be much easier than upgrading Android versions, because it wouldn'
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by shardling 13y ago
No shit, now read my post again with the knowledge that I already knew that ! :)
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by shardling 13y ago
Err, or maybe it's just a sensible precaution, because relying on a single defense against failure is a bad idea?
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by shardling 13y ago
wallunit's response was in direct response to someone who claimed this feature was "snuck in".
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by shardling 13y ago
AFAICT Last Chance to See is still in print? (In the US I can get a new paperback from amazon for $10) I still have a very tattered version of it from when it was first published, though. :)
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by shardling 13y ago
To be fair, a great percentage of the comments on these topics sound exactly that ignorant. Maybe there's an echo chamber effect where reasonable people just stop reading/participating in these threads, because to my eye it's
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by shardling 13y ago
Huh, that guy has a pretty fucked up attitude towards libraries.
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by shardling 13y ago
>I think about how manufacturers drag their feet on normal updates They do release security updates. (Or at least used to -- I haven't paid attention lately.) The major upgrades change and break lots of shit for them. A backport
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by shardling 13y ago
Note for anyone confused: this is not true on a Mac; in general it depends on what the OS's convention is.
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by shardling 13y ago
>In Firefox's case in particular, users are often asked to create a new profile, which AFAIK still requires command-line hackery and, from direct personal experience, carries a significant risk of corrupting or destroying your regul
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by shardling 13y ago
>Leave yourself logged in to Facebook for a few days, and watch it take up 2GB of memory. It's entirely possible for a website to have a memory leak. (Or, at any rate, consume an ever increasing amount of memory.) If closing the
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by shardling 13y ago
It's always so cute how everyone thinks the way they use a browser is the only way anyone uses a browser. Like folk who think that having hundreds of tabs open at once is the norm! :)

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