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811.
by sspiff 13y ago
While it may not be news, and it may not be immediately useful or directly applicable, I found this a fascinating process, and a good illustration how something very simple can be a very effective solution.
812.
by sspiff 13y ago
That's not a bad salary for an intern position, especially if there are bonuses involved. In a lot of industries, internships are unpaid or very poorly paid. Software development pays rather well, but I certainly didn't make that
813.
by sspiff 13y ago
Point taken, removed the whiny bit.
814.
by sspiff 13y ago
If lower end smartphones adopt this kind of camera (which I think is unlikely) then point-and-shoot cameras could have a problem. However, comparing a $600 iPhone to a $70 point-and-shoot is not really relevant.
815.
by sspiff 13y ago
Interesting, I hadn't seen Persona before (I associated it with their previous "Firefox Persona" skinning system.
816.
by sspiff 13y ago
Finally, some positive news out of Africa! Let's hope we (both local governments and groups, and Western "aid") don't screw this up. I'm not familiar with the Kenyan political climate, so if anyone else has some exp
817.
by sspiff 13y ago
Procedural quests and ancient machines sound promising. Good luck and keep up the good work!
818.
by sspiff 13y ago
2013 and we still haven't really gotten to a good, universal single-sign on system. OpenID seemed like it was going to get us there (at least to me), but nowadays many sites moved away in favour of Google or Facebook or Twitter specifi
819.
by sspiff 13y ago
As someone who tried repeatedly to make a game but never finished (or came as far as you have), I can only congratulate you on doing better. I could only see the video on youtube as the site is down, but it looks a lot like a "2D Minec
820.
by sspiff 13y ago
I wasn't aware that the gender balance was tipped towards the female side for so long. Thanks for the information. I agree with your final point, but to be honest in my personal experience, I've only encountered one case of sexism
821.
by sspiff 13y ago
I'm aware of this, but I didn't realize it lasted so long. I would have expected by the 1960's that the field was firmly male-dominated.
822.
by sspiff 13y ago
I bet she never complained about the computer industry or navy being sexist and dominated by males. Even if she did, it seems like she coped rather well.
823.
by sspiff 13y ago
I was thinking something along the same lines, I think it's illegal to comment on ongoing investigations. The case might have been dormantly open until recently, when it was closed because of a lack of new information.
824.
by sspiff 13y ago
> and at that time, was patented Is it no longer patented today? Who held the patent and was it released or did it just expire?
825.
by sspiff 13y ago
I have a 7 year old 1680x1050 laptop at work (which is, unfortunately, still a better display than most people have). It doesn't fit completely on my screen either. This site doesn't seem to have been tested on sub-FHD resolutions
826.
by sspiff 13y ago
That still means it's a very asymmetric competition: by default, Apple has a significant head start because of the JIT. If others have to do some crazy engineering on networking libraries, nothing stops Apple from reusing the concepts
827.
by sspiff 13y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I learned something new today.
828.
by sspiff 13y ago
Depends on who you're targeting (developers know how to make sense of types etc) and how well you translate the error info to human-readable error messages. More information should allow you to produce better reporting. It's also
829.
by sspiff 13y ago
I had heard about the JS runtime restriction (which is why I was interested if Opera had avoided it somehow), but never heard about the JIT restriction. Is the JIT disabled for all third party apps? I was going to make a joke about Soviet a
830.
by sspiff 13y ago
This promo site is a bit blurry on what it actually does. A browser with a focus on gestures sounds like it could be very useful, if done right. I haven't seen that many apps or platforms get gestures "right" though. I wonder
831.
by sspiff 13y ago
I wonder how much of this project was sparked or inspired by Ouya. I got an Ouya with the intention of making games for it, but I've barely turned it on after the two-week experimental honeymoon, mostly because of a limited discovery s
832.
by sspiff 13y ago
I wonder, with a product as simple as theirs: how do they differentiate from clones? I mean, they're targeting developers and teams with a useful service, but also a service so simple that most developers could create a minimal clone t
833.
by sspiff 13y ago
Another annoying removal is the distance ruler from Labs. I used that thing all the time.
834.
by sspiff 13y ago
Thank you!
835.
by sspiff 13y ago
I agree. LinkedIn costs me no time (20 minutes a year worth of updating, maybe), contains no information that is not already available if people look hard enough, but does make my profile visible and easy to find for potential recruiters. I
836.
by sspiff 13y ago
I hadn't heard that before, can you provide any reference or source for this? I think I'll need it in future discussions :)
837.
by sspiff 13y ago
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of voters (or people in general), counter arguments don't really matter if they liked what they heard in the first place. Then they just think "what you're saying makes things more difficu
838.
by sspiff 13y ago
It's so easy to convince someone who understands nothing about how computers and the Internet works that "filtering out (child) pornography" is a good thing, easy to do and won't cause any collateral damage. I wonder if
839.
by sspiff 13y ago
I completely understand the desire to start with one uniform and ubiquitous platform, and eagerly await a cross-distro release :)
840.
by sspiff 13y ago
Is this available for other platforms as well? I see no reason why this couldn't be available as a package for Ubuntu as well, but I can't find any mention of things other than RPi images. I run a low-power x86 Ubuntu server at ho

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