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by thoradam 14y ago
The key part here is that it is tailored for any kind of content as opposed to just text, everything you'd like to "view later". Spool ( http://getspool.com/ ) did this as well, with the twist that they actually scrape content (videos and a
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by thoradam 15y ago
> and not shipping OS X with Java That won't help the people who actually use Java on OS X. It would be better to allow Oracle to manage the updates for Java on OS X, the vulnerability that Flashback abused was patched by Oracle back in
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by thoradam 15y ago
Have you worked with him or do you know him? I'd have to guess that he is in fact a very skilled software developer. Minecraft is a fairly complex project, as is emulating a 16-bit CPU within the constraints of a game environment. And I'm c
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by thoradam 15y ago
It wasn't directed at the female attendees at all. Here's how it was meant: "Hey lonely geeks: you will have the chance to meet women there because our catering staff is female." Did you interpret it as though they were planning to force th
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by thoradam 15y ago
> Having/Wanting someone to serve you is not "idolizing". Is that the point of contention, that people feel that serving someone is demeaning? > And as said elsewhere, just because you say shitty things about everyone doesn't mean t
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by thoradam 15y ago
Actually that's the funny part, this "joke" was in no way belittling women, it's idolizing them. It was made at the expense of the stereotypical male geek to whom women are otherwise inaccessible. Somehow it was appropriated as being about
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by thoradam 15y ago
According to their press release[1], this is their pricing: > $0.02 per cloudlet per hour from ServInt, and 0.016 euro from dogado. However, when you build your environment it still says 0$ regardless of the resources that you want, and
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by thoradam 15y ago
What is your preferred language for simple, cross-platform game development?
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by thoradam 15y ago
> but the idea that he actually didn't know what MU was being used for Is that a reason to be held liable? Isn't the whole point of the DMCA that we realize that every open service that transfers bits will be used illegally by some, so
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by thoradam 15y ago
> The last people you want to fill the role of early adopter are the people of Facebook. Could you elaborate on this?
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by thoradam 15y ago
"If your finances are in order and you have money in the bank quitting that job isn’t quite so scary." The pivotal point of this philosophy, and yet you make sound so wonderfully trivial.
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by thoradam 15y ago
I love Trello, simply because it's such a generalized way to organize thoughts. I use it for everything from project outlines to detailed to-do, to-read and to-watch lists. One thing I've found convenient for my high priority to-do card is
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by thoradam 15y ago
Yes, one block is considered to be 1 cubic meter. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/443693773/the-world-is-bigger-n...
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by thoradam 15y ago
I'd understand this post if it were just a cry for more professionalism, which is welcomed, but how can sexual innuendo be construed to slight women in particular? Because the speaker mentioned breasts? Is this the '50s?
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by thoradam 15y ago
Off-topic: How would you compare Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA and why did you choose Eclipse?
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by thoradam 15y ago
Every time someone analyzes an AI system, they invariably conclude that it isn't really AI, but rather just a complicated system of different, strung-together technologies. At what point do systems of sophisticated text-to-speech and gramma
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by thoradam 15y ago
Precisely my concern. I feel that 4" is the goldilock size for high-end smartphones. I held the Samsung Galaxy S II the other day and I got the slightest hint of feeling that it was too big.
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by thoradam 15y ago
No that's for setting cookies, so that website A can't set cookies on your machine while you're visiting website B. What I'm talking about is the ability to limit when cookies as sent out with requests. Privacy wary users could perhaps have
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by thoradam 15y ago
How about if browsers implemented this cookie system: Each time a cookie is set, you could have the ability to mandate when that cookie is sent out. For example with a Facebook cookie you could tell the browser to only send that cookie when
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by thoradam 15y ago
0.002% faster.
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by thoradam 15y ago
Works great in the stock Android browser, but it's stuck on "Loading" in Opera on Android. Then again . . Opera on Android seems to mess up every other site.
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by thoradam 15y ago
"charge too little, and people won’t use your service" What?
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by thoradam 15y ago
I loved Learning Python the Hard Way so I think I'll do the Ruby version as well, would you recommend anything specific after it to learn idiomatic Ruby?