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Why dedicate all your life to making money? All these "productivity" things, working 20 hours each day. To show others that you are not "loser"?
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In 2010, when AAA games totally became interactive hollywood with "press x to win" and vulgar pathetic, when indie games scene started to being eaten by cancer of making "philosophical", "artsy" highly-hyped Ma
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Seems that it's first of a kind device: it's definitely not just a dumb book reader but something aimed for content creation. So there are no off-the-shelf software for such devices, and I doubt Sony is able to make decent softwar
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In recent times, Livejournal was used mostly for 3 things: - Furry, slash fandom - Political blogs - SEO spam (it sells usernames of deleted accounts, some of which was popular and there are lots of external links to them) So since the firs
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Yes, but in single folder (maintaining tree structure is pain) and rarely access it. Del.icio.us was very convenient, seems that it still exists but seems that they deleted all old data and may close again soon.
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10y ago
Also probabilistic programming stuff: PyMC, Stan, Dimple, Church. Not sure if these are 'lesser known', PyMC is mentioned often, still much less hype nowadays than neural networks.
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You have made a small step for a better, naked women-free world.
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More features for SMM and similar "almost spam" activities. I miss days when I was able to post tweets by simple curl command and third-party clients for reading Twitter were not banned.
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It's mostly controlled by criminal gangs, I think each city has single company (or shadow organisation with multiple formal companies) controlling all shared taxi transport in that city.
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In many cities of Russia buses long ago had been replaced with "shared taxi" — commercial analog of buses, usually with micro buses. You have to shout before arriving at bus stop otherwise driver may pass it. Driver usually smokes
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10y ago
Samsung is primarily home appliances corporation . Maybe their management treats TVs as "devices that display TV broadcasts" and phones as "devices for talking over distance". In this worldview there are no things like
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I found it too tall, like many other similar fonts. Usually source code is not too wide horizontally and limited to 80 characters so making characters more wide and less tall allows to fit more to screen. However it looks good and may be us
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Why Linux kernel can support lots of CPU architectures in mainline tree but somehow requires to make a fork for each handset made by all these home appliance manufacturers? If you let all these vacuum cleaner companies to fork Fuschia, th
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I didn't know that it's possible to do 100Mbps on telephone line. Last time I used DSL, there was 8 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up, but practically much less.
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DSL is still used in Berlin? Over telephone lines?
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10y ago
Google Wave was supposed to replace email. But actually they replaced email with gmail. Now you can't send email from your own server because it will be blacklisted on gmail by default and noone on gmail will receive these emails. So
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This blog post mentions following messenger technologies (Google has even more not mentioned here): - Google Talk - Hangouts Meet - Hangouts Chat - Android Messages (something new, never heard of it) (And non-google messenger technologies:
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When I last used F#, I had no problems with purity — it's not enforced but it's a default in standard library and it's convenient.
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OO in F# looks like fusion of multiple concepts into one: - Ad-hoc polymorphism - Infix function application syntax (foo.append bar instead of append foo bar) - Product types with named members, records (class members, note that language al
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Immediately googled "9.7 inch in cm" because it's hard to imagine size in proprietary units used in only one country. But then encountered "1 lb., 7.5 mm" on the website. That's unit trolling. They should'
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That's very rare cases. Cinema is the most unhuman conveyor of entertainment content consumption. Modern movies are nice looking moving pictures generated based on big data and emotion exploitation.
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If it uses Docker, how it's different from Google Container Engine? Is it possible to make it start container lazily on HTTP request and stop after inactivity, like regular App Engine?
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Blackmark-oriented culture is problem too.
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> one being purely functional languages (Haskell, Scheme, etc.) You can easily do imperative programming in Haskell using IO. There are even lots of straightforward bindings to C libraries, directly exposing C functions. There are IORefs
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But hypothesis that memes helped Trump win (and also helped brexit) is itself a metaironic dank meme. I'm not even sure that all these "fake news", "alt right" exist. And isn't 4chan something from the past lik
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TLDR: because of USB-C, Caby Lake and Microsoft's Cygwin clone.
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Was about to joke about Deep Support Vector Machines, but found out they exist too: https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013/files/presentati... http://deeplearning.net/wp-content/uplo
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May be good idea for mobile devices, where editing text is hard but it's possible to make usable tree editing UI.
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This "almost opensource" browser became so shady so noone knows for sure what plugin it includes. I see Google Hangouts plugin in Chrome Task Manager: http://imgur.com/a/HLpLf . Also in source in Chromium: ht
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For IE it's not even npapi, it's ActiveX (!) plugin[1]. Yes, Edge does not support neither npapi nor ActiveX. [1] https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/1361676?hl=en
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