towelguy

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by towelguy 12y ago
In small quantities.
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by towelguy 12y ago
Not one that you need to trust.
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by towelguy 12y ago
How do you even find what book to read without reading articles about them? If people told you about them, how did they find them?
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by towelguy 12y ago
Didn't Nintendo have a javascript game engine for web based games? Found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Web_Framework
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by towelguy 12y ago
And I remember (from a decade ago as well) having to recompile my kernel to use those binary graphics drivers :)
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by towelguy 12y ago
Well they have a monopoly on tube sites, I don't think they'd care enough to keep their content outside the few others. BTW, CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA porn videos is a great move.
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by towelguy 12y ago
> Long term crew members have found themselves replaced by inexperienced people willing to do their jobs for lower pay. The quality of videos made under these conditions tends to suffer. Do people care that much about video quality in po
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by towelguy 12y ago
I wonder if rescue teams could use some sort of portable cell towers (thinking something like the Google [streetview backpack]( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/trekking-grand-canyon... ) to find cellphones an
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by towelguy 12y ago
Very interesting, thanks!
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by towelguy 12y ago
Why is someone looking at your cellphone not in the same privacy level as someone reading your mail? Would customs officials ask to read your letters?
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by towelguy 12y ago
In Firefox you can right click it and change the play speed. It only allows you to change to 0.5x, 1.5x and 2x but if you want some other speed you can simply open the console and do `document.querySelector('audio').playbackRate =
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by towelguy 12y ago
Only in the latest publications.
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by towelguy 12y ago
Nim?
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by towelguy 12y ago
This is interesting, I thought in order to use a fully independent client you needed to store the whole blockchain. Which clients support this?
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by towelguy 12y ago
> And of course, flash blocker will now kill less ads than before. Damn. That was my concern too, but I guess the only difference will be you'll have to block a bunch of scripts and images instead of blocking just one flash file. Wh
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by towelguy 12y ago
I already said this in another thread, it's not about switching databases in one project, but using the same skillset across projects regardless of the database.
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by towelguy 12y ago
It's not so much switching databases during a project, but using the same skillset across projects regardless of the database engine used. SQL syntax is different enough across databases to require re-learning it.
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by towelguy 12y ago
SQL is nice but most of those features work best when the user is a finance person doing reports (which was the original purpose for SQL, I think?). Developers don't want the sql server to format their numbers as money, that's a w
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by towelguy 12y ago
It does?
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by towelguy 12y ago
There's also bttn, posted here a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263007
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by towelguy 12y ago
s/fast enough/at all/
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by towelguy 12y ago
Multitouch events perhaps?
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by towelguy 12y ago
> It's a Microsoft-backed spec So it's a case of Not Invented Here? or more accurate: Invented By the Enemy?
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by towelguy 12y ago
Music with no lyrics for me. Mostly jazz, not really repetitive.
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by towelguy 12y ago
pastebin's horrible {design|font choice|wrapping|what}?
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by towelguy 12y ago
Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's {egg|bacon|sausage}, {egg and bacon|egg and spam}, egg {bacon|sausage} and spam, {spam|bacon} {spam| spam spam} sausage and spam, {spam|egg} spam spam {bacon and spam|sausage and
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by towelguy 12y ago
If only there was a way to review the reviewers...
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by towelguy 12y ago
Pragmatism tells me it's easier to trust my cpu than it is to trust someone's server in the other side of the planet.
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by towelguy 12y ago
Reminded me of this https://xkcd.com/915/
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by towelguy 12y ago
And the query stays in your version control instead of the server.

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