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by swang 13y ago
Project Shield was the code name, NVidia Shield is the real name.
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by swang 13y ago
Password Hashing is a pointless term whenever password leaks occur. Non-technical users will have no idea what it means, and technical people will ask, "It's not MD5, SHA-bleh, CRC32, right? Also it's salted (assuming the has
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by swang 13y ago
While Firefox isn't an ad company, don't they get most of their revenues from Google's placement as the default search engine in Firefox?
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by swang 13y ago
Author is saying a cup of coffee is worth $2 to the customer, but an app is not worth even the $0.50 to that same customer. In this example, you seem to switch out this comparison where instead you compare the cup of coffee the customer buy
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by swang 13y ago
People complain this will increase the number of cars... maybe if all 100,000 theoretical parking spots opened up today. But assuming this plan goes into effect, it would require a very long time before they could even get to a significant
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by swang 13y ago
It's briefly touched from the article that doing this is probably not feasible, but something to keep in mind when new building get started.
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by swang 13y ago
What did EE do that was worth of scorn? Wasted our fucking time: I want to know how to do X, if you want me to pay for that knowledge fine but don't do some shitty thing like cloaking the site so people would get tricked into paying wh
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by swang 13y ago
Yes. With maybe support for viewing full files instead of just the diffs. None of the Chrome/Browser Extensions really do this.
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by swang 13y ago
What the hell was that line about not wanting an Asian roommate?
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The Art of Approximating Distributions: Histograms and Quantiles at Scale(metamarkets.com)
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by swang 13y ago
I just noticed that decide.com just recently got bought by eBay and is shutting down the entire service. How very sad, yet typical.
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by swang 13y ago
Tendencies are just probabilities of an opponent reacting to event Y by doing X 'Playing the man' is essentially building a mathematical model of one's opponent internally inside one's head.
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by swang 13y ago
1. Is there anything Phil Hellmuth won't shill for? 2. When this machine showed up ~2? years ago, there was a thread on 2+2 about it, and it would sometimes do some weird things like not value bet in obvious situations. They explain it
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by swang 13y ago
Yeah except you used the quote out of context. "In addition, we are consulting with local businesses and the City to address the issue in the short-term, while also evaluating longer-term solutions to ensure the issue cannot recur in f
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by swang 13y ago
Yes, until interdistrict fighting occurs and one district decides to end the brain drain by refusing any further transfers, forcing families to move districts so they can go into better ones. So, open enrollment: great in theory. Not as rea
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by swang 13y ago
Everyone saying Apple is finally taking Maps seriously: shit does that mean they brought their C game against Google? Their serious "A" game against Google was what you saw with the first version. And it stunk. Just terrible. It w
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by swang 13y ago
Is this why Embark SF shutdown about a week ago?
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by swang 13y ago
How does Amazon perfecting daily grocery delivery relate to shipping furniture costs plummeting?
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by swang 13y ago
Short summary, JSON is not removed from PHP. Some distros of Linux (specifically mentioned were Mandriva/Fedora/Debian) have replaced the version written by Crockford with another alternative: jsonc
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by swang 13y ago
Whatever language he was going to send it in was not going to get parsed anyways since he barely communicated any relevant information in his emails. The Facebook employee who replied to the email handled it very poorly, but the guy who fou
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by swang 13y ago
I wonder why Amazon doesn't offer a bounty, even one that is a token amount.
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by swang 13y ago
Curious why it needs access to all your websites? I thought you can do wildcards in Chrome? Edit: OK looked over the Chrome .crx file. Apparently it does the filtering internally inside the script instead of declaring it in the manifest (or
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by swang 13y ago
I don't think pg and co. have ever responded to complaints about changed titles. Probably the policy of HN I like the least.
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by swang 13y ago
You say, "I don't feel comfortable sharing that information" instead of the more hostile, "I don't have to answer that" One needs to consider it as offensive as, "Are you planning to have a child soon&quot
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by swang 13y ago
> poorly-documented what?
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by swang 13y ago
Yes, best part since the node module we are currently using does not work in v0.10 and the author is very adamant about not supporting it anymore.
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by swang 13y ago
Yes you're right about that, although this is only mentioned in the blog post, not the website. I'm also guessing this is open source the same way say Google open sources Android or Apple open sources Darwin.
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by swang 13y ago
1. Microsoft 2. Not open source
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by swang 13y ago
This should be read as: "Government agency has been wasting taxpayer money by employing 900 people that they didn't need but didn't bother care to fix because the extra people justified their ballooning budget that they could
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by swang 13y ago
No, you need an Nvidia card above a GTX 650 because those cards have the built in H.264 encoder necessary to stream the games.

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