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by sparky_ 9y ago
The most surprising thing to me is that WhatsApp was not already blocked in China. I'd just assumed it would have been, given so many other Western messaging apps are.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
Hope for the best but expect the worst.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
This is great! I've been reading NPR for years and never knew about this. Thank you.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
That's too bad. The subvolume [0] features were an interesting paradigm. Kind of let you have a virtual filesystem-within-a-filesystem. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Subvolumes_and_snapshots
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by sparky_ 9y ago
Didn't they fork the project a while ago due to theft?
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by sparky_ 9y ago
No, I'm in your boat. I was expecting a rather enlightening introspection on the weaker points of FB's corporate culture.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
Austria's generous social welfare system and wide availability of other blue-collar-yet-comfortable-pay work should mean that the average joe won't be screwed over too much by this. Unlike in the US, where laid off folks really ha
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by sparky_ 9y ago
Anecdotal: though I'm far from a top contributor, the CTO at my first job out of school eventually confessed that it was my Stack Overflow profile that convinced him to make the call.
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by sparky_ 9y ago
I recently returned from vacation in Chile, where I noticed the majority of freeways had separate speed limits based on vehicle class. Two axle private vehicles had a speed limit of 130 km/h while trucks were only 100, and double-trail
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by sparky_ 10y ago
The device has evidently been rooted to allow flashing other NES roms. I wonder if that had something to do with it.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
I don't think that's a fair comparison, given the article discusses things like hippie communes. Baby boomer collectives are a far cry from groups like the Amish.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Yes Verizon supports simultaneous voice and data. In actuality, they route all their audio connections as VOIP over the data connection (VoLTE). Which has the same effect. Sprint still drops data connections during voice calls.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
The reddit.. er, HN hug of death
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by sparky_ 10y ago
I suppose this sort of ambiguity is what drives the passion of Rust and Go programmers.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
I feel this article is confusing "passionate" with "willing to work crazy overtime", or "lacking any hobbies beside software". I would argue that most good programmers _are_ passionate about what they do, in th
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by sparky_ 10y ago
What would be the advantage of frankensteining something together using this board as opposed to something like Arduino or Rasp Pi?
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Edit: Seems 2FA is in fact available on all team plans. Please disregard.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Is this in fact the same H-1B bill that is likely to pass congress and the President's signature? I ask as the sponsor of the bill, Rep. Lofgren, is the (Democratic) congresswoman for downtown San Jose.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
What incredibly poor planning on their part. Put me down for 10 on "reversal of decision following shaming by security community".
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by sparky_ 10y ago
This is genuinely interesting. I had no idea this was a part of film history. Perhaps a side effect of coming age during the digital era. Thanks OP!
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by sparky_ 10y ago
I'm an unapologetic night owl. I don't wake up before 10AM if I can help it, and I get a lot of productivity out of late night hours, both for work as well as personal endeavors. I enjoy my groove and would not change it. Were an
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Does this mean that Google has lost interest in developing the product?
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Very amusing. Well built web game, surprisingly responsive for running in a browser. Amazing what WebGL does these days!
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Interesting to see the author make the case that Forstall's departure was a fundamental mistake. Haven't seen that in too many other "Apple gloom and doom" takes.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Here's my concept design for what I want in a new Mac Pro: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/reviews/hardware/mac-pro-2g-revi...
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by sparky_ 10y ago
You da real MVP.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Gotta spend all that DOD money somehow.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
Mozilla was actually working on exactly this, but seems to have stopped without explanation. https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
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by sparky_ 10y ago
I had the same thought. This puts an asterisk on the integrity of the report IMHO. Doxycycline has also been shown to greatly increase life expectancy! Of patients currently suffering from bacterial infection.
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by sparky_ 10y ago
This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of what these services provide. The real statistic would be to example private car ownership in the city. Namely, as Uber/Lyft become more prevalent, does private car ownership (or rate of

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