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by systoll 8y ago
> "A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form." By wikipedia's definition, the application Excel is the spreadsheet. I wouldn't call Excel.exe a
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by systoll 8y ago
A graph that starts at 1840 doesn't show the past 10 000 years at all -- in the long view, that's all just a bunch of noise. What happened to the 'completely different picture' that the 10 000 year view held? Here's
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by systoll 8y ago
http://hot-topic.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GISP210kla... Here’s the GISP2 data, plus samples from the past two centuries. Still seems pretty extreme to me.
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by systoll 8y ago
A common definition of 'recession' is a period of two or more quarters of negative GDP growth. Early 2016 saw 0.5-0.6% growth. The dip isn't a coincidence, but we didn't quite cross the 'reccession' threshold.
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by systoll 8y ago
I agree that the sentiment probably shifted with Apple's design, but https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/smiling-face-with... stems from an emoji precisely matching ^_^.
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by systoll 8y ago
The grinning face example is out of date now. https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/ Apple switched to a happy face in iOS 10, and Twitter switched at some point too. Given the timing, it might'v
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by systoll 8y ago
To me this was the big benefit of the pressure-sensitive MacBook trackpad —- since clicking is just pressing harder, you can use it with a thumb while your fingers are on the home row.
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by systoll 8y ago
That's an 'old windows text rendering' thing. You can turn variable fonts on in Firefox, and it behaves like Chrome; but neither one works like that on MacOS.
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by systoll 8y ago
The site itself is desktop-only, but the feature it demonstrates works.
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by systoll 8y ago
To make that be specific -- in 44 of 64 games, and in every single penalty shoot-out, turning one goal into not a goal or vice-versa would've changed the outcome.
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by systoll 8y ago
The federal law says you can't upload data if the patient tells you not to. Max penalty for that seems to be 2 years imprisonment, though I doubt we'll see that. Some states have further restrictions which expand the scope of thi
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by systoll 8y ago
Apple's removal of the Escape key is courageously guiding its users into the superior Caps-lock-as-escape configuration.
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by systoll 8y ago
iPads support keyboards. Wacom's entire business is predicated on mouse/trackpad being inferior to styluses for many uses of this and similar software. And... while there are some pretty easy UI wins Apple could make there [eg: th
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by systoll 8y ago
180 degree rotational symmetry happens because almost all roads are bidirectional -- if there's a road pointing north, it's also a road pointing south. 90 degree symmetry seems like a consequence of the road system consisting more
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by systoll 8y ago
Windows Vista brought another half-hearted control panel rework, where the settings pages were built into the control panel window instead of dialog boxes popping out of it. Windows 10's 'Settings > System > About > Syste
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by systoll 8y ago
The worst voice is built into chrome for desktop. Other Mac browsers use the system voice, which is [by default] reasonable.
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by systoll 8y ago
> Deliberately breaking an existing feature that caused zero trouble to any past, present, or hypothetical future user is never, in any circumstances, "perfectly reasonable". It's also not a realistic scenario. Anyone who
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by systoll 8y ago
Also, a purely local 'Voice Control' was standard in iOS 3-4, and it's still there in iOS12... just, buried.
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by systoll 8y ago
Here's an animated version with some transparency https://codepen.io/anon/pen/PaMVYX?editors=0100 The root issue is that the browsers are being asked to draw a line that's 100px in from the edge of a 1
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by systoll 8y ago
There's a broader change that is an improvement to the abstraction devs work with, which simplifies coding and results in more GPU acceleration. Essentially, this article: http://darknoon.com/2011/02/07/m
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by systoll 8y ago
If it's greyscale, it's not subpixel antialiasing.
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by systoll 8y ago
They've made backward incompatible changes within python 3's history, but none of the things you've listed are among them. Anything with ':='s, f'strings' etc. is invalid in python 3.0, so existing [workin
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by systoll 8y ago
The proposal: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/ Short version. (x =: y) is an expression that: 1. assigns the value y to the variable x 2. has the value y. So `print((x := 1) + 1)` prints '2&#x27
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by systoll 8y ago
The main thing added here is a brand and some advertising, but that's not insignificant. Haveibeenpwned is a good service but it looks a whole lot like http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/ on first glance. If the Mozilla b
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by systoll 8y ago
I agree with you about the control aspect, but. > On windows nothing much is on the store mostly because people don't want to give Microsoft 30% on Linux charging 30% is downright impossible because people would trivially publish an
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by systoll 8y ago
The problem you describe is reasonable. But this tariff is worse than doing absolutely nothing about it. Companies have three options: 1. Do nothing in the US except [perhaps] selling the finished product, and use whatever components you wa
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by systoll 8y ago
> allowing the Chinese to steal our technology and then underprice our businesses with cheap labor [is not beneficial to most Americans] This tariff isn't preventing that, or punishing the Chinese companies involved. > The reason
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by systoll 8y ago
The stated goal only matters insofar as it affects the policies that are created. In 2018, it's a whole lot easier to avoid doing any manufacturing in the US than it is to avoid using any components made in China; and both approaches a
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by systoll 8y ago
Minimising the memory usage doesn't just create wasted 'free memory'. Among other things... > Windows actually keeps the most used applications in [inactive] memory for faster access time. When an app uses extra memory, it
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by systoll 8y ago
If it's mini usb , no-one's going to have anything to plug it into.

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