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by signal11 10y ago
> Gradle badly needs performance improvement gradle --daemon is a hack, I guess, but I always use it for my builds (even aliased gradle to gradle --daemon). It's far too slow otherwise. On newer gradle releases I believe the daemon
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by signal11 10y ago
Press Shift-F2 and at the prompt type "screenshot --clipboard --fullpage" to copy the current page to the clipboard.
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by signal11 10y ago
I've 25 tabs open and Firefox is reporting 250MB of Private Use memory use in Task Manager. I do have an adblocker though. > so FF could serialize that content to disk when the tab isn't in focus Isn't there an extension (
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by signal11 10y ago
I guess it's the type of PDFs one views. I find pdf.js quite adequate for my needs. It's even rendered brochure-type PDFs quite well -- e.g. this 32 page brochure that was a top hit for [filetype:pdf brochure]: https://
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by signal11 10y ago
Firefox's DevTools can render a whole web page as an image to disk (not just the visible viewport, like screenshot tools do). Quite a few non-developers have found that useful when I've showed this feature to them. No extensions o
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by signal11 10y ago
I had the same problem with my 2011 Samsung Smart TV. It had an app for Amazon's Prime Video. Amazon eventually abandoned it and sent me part-credit for a Fire TV stick. I also have a Chromecast and am generally positive about it, howe
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by signal11 10y ago
HSBC doesn't do that any more for me -- they've moved to a Google Authenticator-like 2FA approach[1], but Lloyds[2] does - they have one username and password, and a "memorable phrase" which they clearly store as plainte
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by signal11 10y ago
> As a rule answers have to be as general as possible. The more specific information you give them voluntarily, the more they can find something to latch on and make your life miserable. This is very good advice, anyone prepping for depo
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by signal11 11y ago
I have difficulty viewing very thin text, and unfortunately the way Chrome renders common fonts like 10-12pt Arial and Verdana makes me strain my eyes. Firefox and Edge work okay for me.
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by signal11 11y ago
I mainly use press down on the screen's left side to invoke the app switcher, so that I can switch apps without using the home button. It's nicer for one-handed use. Apart from that I haven't seen a compelling reason to use i
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by signal11 11y ago
A lot of Indians frequently mention "message for every transaction" as a positive. I see it as a negative. Cash use is declining in most European countries, and if I had to use 2-factor every time I paid for a pack of gum with my
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by signal11 11y ago
It's not just about short URLs. Several services, such as Flickr (and IIRC Dropbox), allow you to generate links which allow the recipient of the link to do something (view an album, download a file) without authenticating. This is o
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by signal11 11y ago
screen and tmux don't appear to be supported yet due to issues with terminal emulation. But they're working on it.
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by signal11 11y ago
Technically speaking, Office already runs on a Linux platform -- Android. In fact, if you subscribe to Office 365, they almost* don't care where you run it, they're still being paid. * = I suspect the reason behind not creating Of
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by signal11 11y ago
I agree with you; however I believe the value of Alexa's value will be that it learns about you over time, making Amazon's services more "sticky" to the end-user, and making Amazon a more valuable marketplace to supplier
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by signal11 11y ago
Sadly, superfast broadband has a different definition depending on who you ask. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/08/lets-stop-diffe... And now I see Ofcom are throwing terms like "ultrafast&quot
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by signal11 11y ago
Having read the article, this is about the "Windows Spotlight" feature -- which shows you a different wallpaper just before you log in. For me it's usually the default "cave and beach" wallpaper[1] although it'
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by signal11 11y ago
The other company that should be able to do this well is Samsung (they make TVs, phones and other consumer electronic items). In reality (and I own a Samsung Smart TV and have owned Galaxys) I felt their software was extremely crappy and
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by signal11 11y ago
> the first mobile device manufacturer to commit to making ad-hoc and mesh networking fully available to developers in a functionally secure fashion will profit immensely Ironically, Apple did this in iOS 7, and this resulted in chat app
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by signal11 11y ago
The Picasa desktop app for Windows had one of the nicest image viewers -- it was my default until I wiped my Windows 7 box. Thanks to the Picasa team for a great service over so many these years!
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by signal11 11y ago
I haven't used Windows 8 much, but I do run Skype on my family Windows 10 PC. Microsoft has stopped updating the Skype Metro app. Users are encouraged to upgrade to 'classic' desktop app - which is what I have. The desktop ap
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by signal11 11y ago
Users in Hong Kong (which has great internet access and where presumably the phone is not the only internet devide) appear to like large phones too. It seems counterintuitive but these phones were mostly being used two-handed, and their u
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by signal11 11y ago
It may have something to do with the iPhone's aspect ratio and UI. I have small hands and my 6S (not 6S Plus) is indeed too big; however I find the LG G3 (which has a bigger screen IIRC) quite usable one-handed. Maybe that's becau
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by signal11 11y ago
IIRC Twitter already enforces a max-height on tweets (ever since they allowed line breaks). People may indeed copy/paste but it won't add to the visual noise in timelines, and relatively few people will click through anyway.
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by signal11 11y ago
That depends on national laws. In the UK, for example, > 25% market share makes you a monopoly.
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by signal11 11y ago
Ah - thanks, that's the only version of Windows (apart from ME) I've not used.
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by signal11 11y ago
> Windows peaked somewhere between 2000 and XP Uh, Windows 2000 was good on supported hardware but had really poor support for typical consumer PCs. XP was a security nightmare, although XP SP2 did improve things. Hardly a "peak&quo
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by signal11 11y ago
Generalizing a bit, the legal system isn't quite as efficient in India as in the US or Western Europe. Disputes can take years or even decades[1] to settle. This Bloomberg article[2] calls it "horribly dysfunctional" and havi
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by signal11 11y ago
Given that they can't sell these LTE-U devices in Europe/Japan anyway (where rules mandate "listen before talk" like the article says and where vendors have a different standard called LAA), what's the upside in hav
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by signal11 11y ago
I realise you may not want to do Active Directory, however it is quite common even in small companies -- and you can even get AD via Azure nowadays. Even lots of Mac-only shops have AD. Maybe v1.x doesn't need AD, however it's som

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