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by tekacs 13y ago
£25k/yr is ~£480/wk - student accommodation at Imperial College (this is South Kensington) goes up to ~£250/wk for a living room and bedroom. Taking a cursory look at the (current) prices in the area, Chelsea and similar ar
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by tekacs 13y ago
How about "the world isn't perfect and whilst it would be great to live up to our every ideal, our primary responsibility is running a business and providing a great experience for our users who, ultimately, in the vast majority
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by tekacs 13y ago
I'm just posting to say thank you (@hdivider) for expressing your opinion here - if not for your exuberant praise I think it unlikely I would have clicked this link in the middle of a comment thread. I'm very glad that I found you
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by tekacs 13y ago
To be fair, they specifically mention that they use OAuth for Gmail/GApps. It seems like they're aware of this but it's hardly their responsibility to avoid building a hack such as this just because Google are the only provid
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by tekacs 13y ago
I think newbies are far from the people most likely to be looking at version-to-version changelogs in any language. This is great for those maintaining substantial codebases in the language, though. The thorough specification process gives
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by tekacs 13y ago
Absolutely so, yes. Thanks. :) 8 - 23 MIPS ain't so bad, right?
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by tekacs 13y ago
Just for reference's sake this does vary a fair bit by computer and browser - mine never drops below ~8kIPS and runs mostly at ~15kIPS (and up to ~23kIPS). Whilst this is nothing like the several orders of magnitude required for more c
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by tekacs 13y ago
Couldn't help but read your second line as talking about the smurf-porn(1) man page. :/ man 1 smurf-porn ?!?!
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by tekacs 13y ago
> limiting factor is battery tech and aerodynamic drone design ... and regulation. :P
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by tekacs 13y ago
> Who cares what you are in terms of dumb categories like that? Certain kinds of nerds do (though usually not geeks). Seems like pretty handy categorising - it's come in handy already! :P
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by tekacs 13y ago
> 'better' Might I suggest that whilst it's great to get to completion pretty quickly and have many completed mini-projects under one's belt, that there might be some value in younger programmers choosing the untenabl
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by tekacs 13y ago
I'd be intrigued to know why despite the fact that microsoft.com and bing.com are with markmonitor (along with much/most of MSFT, IIRC), live.com is with corporatedomains.
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by tekacs 13y ago
\\?\ is an unparsed path - the path is passed directly to the filesystem, bypassing checks and other Win32 API restrictions - a side effect of this is that maximum length checks are bypassed, but this is NOT the only effect. See GP's l
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by tekacs 13y ago
MiniHack See also user minihack's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6489349
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by tekacs 13y ago
It appears, from the extracted code, to be the case that a 'special' (read: hardcoded) set of optimisations is being enabled solely for benchmarking apps. Whilst 'smart' behaviour might enable the phone to switch on some
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by tekacs 13y ago
For reference's sake, Point-of-Sale systems (as per fast food retail) have been using completely custom keyboards for years (only affects the last case).
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by tekacs 13y ago
The number of people who: 1) Want a Mac 2) Want a desktop, not a laptop (surprisingly many) 3) Can't afford a Mac Pro and a Mac Mini is both scary (no screen? :O) and too small is fairly large, methinks. Also, an all-in-one desktop (a
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by tekacs 13y ago
Mm I see what you mean. The Assassin's Creed series might be a step in that direction (they carefully mimicked very old cities rather than modern ones). :) Forgive me if I repeat your blog post - I've only yet skimmed it (due to t
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by tekacs 13y ago
This sort of landscape memory has happened extensively with entirely unrealistic, fabricated worlds too, though (cf. MMORPGs (World of Warcraft) and even games such as DOOM). Surely the fact that there are people out in the real world conve
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by tekacs 13y ago
Having said that, the depth of this map appears to be relatively insignificant, with its only substantial co-ordinates being in the X and Z directions, increasing the number of chunks, but keeping them pretty small. shrug
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by tekacs 13y ago
That's a pretty impressively dense save file. For comparison's sake, the MindCrack (full-time professional online Minecraft server with ~30 players and no guest access) server, after a dozen or so months of use came to ~5GB itself
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by tekacs 13y ago
If you actually cared about your data being taken care of in this instance you should probably be running an IDS-esque or similar to notice and stop that form f attack in a blanket fashion (these certainly exist for SQLi attacks, names esca
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by tekacs 13y ago
Also, it looks like they're trying their best: [Update - 9/23/2013] – Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any. You
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by tekacs 13y ago
Fine on BT UK, too (see sibling comment).
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by tekacs 13y ago
The current problem being that subscribed to an institution which has a library with the funds to pay for these things is currently either expensive or hard to get oneself affiliated with without lots of requirements and quirks. :/ I h
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by tekacs 13y ago
isTheTimesAChanging ? (some may not get the reference :P) ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=9TzhTqzXFgQ )
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by tekacs 13y ago
Well the end-machines that most people sat at were still technically 'terminal's. That is, after all, where the name came from, is it not? :P
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Mercedes-Benz TV: Autonomous long-distance drive [video](youtube.com)
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by tekacs 13y ago
Uhhh... I can see almost the whole thing on my 11" screen. I'm not sure I follow. :/
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by tekacs 13y ago
It's on the homepage because it reached the top of /r/programming on Reddit about 24h ago? :P

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