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by uxp 14y ago
He addressed that issue here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706767 He is tall, 6'3", but moving the surface away form him enough results in it being too far away to type.
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by uxp 14y ago
It's a cheap hack to get around the de-duping system for submitted links. This article was submitted 53 days ago, with a good discussion about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467612
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And the fact that you have to give up more privacy to increase security. I'd rather Facebook not know my phone number (though it's stupid to think they don't already have it due to any one of my friends syncing their contact information). I
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by uxp 14y ago
Coral is a great CO3 absorber. CO2 can acidify the ocean water, which lowers calcification rates affecting the ability to grow carbonate skeletons. Combined with an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere contributing to a global increase in temp
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by uxp 14y ago
They have only Windows and OS X clients, officially[1], for desktops (Android and iOS are also both supported). They do have a public API, so you are free to make whatever you need to if you wish[2]. [1] https://support.google.com/drive/bi
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by uxp 14y ago
I'm definitely not more experienced than most, but I've always found myself weaving in and out of frameworks and libraries when I develop to the extent that any Bootstrap tools I've ever used as a starting point have probably cost me as muc
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by uxp 14y ago
/usr/local on a normal, stock OS X install is completely unused. Homebrew's installer commandeers it by `chown`ing it to the current user and makes it group writable, as to cut down on the sudo noise. I think issues like this, and the fact
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by uxp 14y ago
This really hits on a key long term solution. A hobbyist could pick up a macbook pro, or already have one because they're trendy, and play around with Xcode and the simulator for a long time for free . Once the lightbulb flicks on and th
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by uxp 14y ago
If you're in the position of rebasing a branch down to a single commit, but many of those commits contain messages that are useful, then keep those messages in the final commit message. When running an interactive rebase (git rebase -i my_b
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One could also write a pre-receive hook on their git server that denies force pushing, so it becomes impossible to overwrite published history. Combined with a gatekeeper approach of denying pushes to the master branch to all developers exc
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by uxp 14y ago
> Both of those points have been obvious to Apple for at least 6 months I'm getting tired of this argument. Where was everyone when this was so completely obvious 6 months ago? The beta was released, people were using it, and I can't fi
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by uxp 14y ago
There very well can be a communications cascading effect as well. How many people complaining right now about iOS 6 Maps are doing so because their friends are. Just as it's cool to be the one with the new iPhone 5, it's also cool to be one
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by uxp 14y ago
> it's even possible that's a consequence of how Solaris stored email/user passwords back in '96 before Microsoft bought Hotmail... From what I remember, Hotmail was a FreeBSD shop before Microsoft bought them, and ended up spending a b
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by uxp 14y ago
The only semi-useful QR code I've ever seen in real life was on one of those little reminder cards in a parking garage to help you locate which floor you parked on. I say semi-useful because the QR code took you to a webpage that told you t
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by uxp 14y ago
FWIW, Apple also ships a tool inside the Lion and Mountain Lion installations that does the same thing, writes a bootable disk from the recovery partition onto a USB flash drive. It's found at "/Applications/Utilities/Recovery Disk Assistan
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Two arguments. The first is Microsoft doesn't need to know that the hash belongs to a password > 16 chars, it just needs to detect that the user is entering in 17+ characters and has not updated their password since the Hotmail update,
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by uxp 14y ago
Google's Maps TOS states[1]: 4. Content in the Products. (a) Map data, traffic, directions, and related Content are provided for planning purposes only. You may find that weather conditions, construction projects, closures, or other events
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by uxp 14y ago
> Why shouldn't I be able to place it in a folder For all intents and purposes, Newsstand is a folder. You can't put folders in folders. Whether or not you agree with that is an argument of opinion, but that's the fact.
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And by author, BGR meant Android Columnist: Dan joins the BGR team as the Android Editor, covering all things relating to Google’s premiere operating system
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Conversely, a lot of free software I use on both the desktop and on servers is hosted on GitHub. (I'm not sure how this argument is a rebuttal against GitHub acquiring SourceForge) Though, GitHub is in the collaboration business. They take
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by uxp 14y ago
Most (properly configured) MTAs will queue and retry, so any unsent mail shouldn't be blindly discarded. Postfix, for example, defaults to a queue lifetime of 5 days.
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I agree that the idea someone was to walk around a tree in a park and witness a rape in exactly that context is laughable, but the idea remains. If someone was recording their entire life from a first person perspective, and they did come i
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The act could have happened months before hand, just after the guy turned 19 and the girl was still 16, or in a jurisdiction that ignores the Romeo and Juliet clause. Or the entire thing could have happened years before when he was 17 and s
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by uxp 14y ago
Straight from Apple's documentation: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit...
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If a webservice tries to send a push notification to a device that has not registered for push notifications for the entitlement requesting the notification to be sent, the notification gets discarded. Remember, all notifications are to be
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Some of the more higher resolution pictures suggest that the lacing is actually made from metal wire or synthetic fiber in a braid, which might have better environmental suitability than an injection molded solid plastic zip tie. Knots also
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Check out Autopatchwork. It de-paginates sites for you. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aeolcjbaammbkgaiag...
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Over Usenet? Very unlikely that a casual leecher will get caught unless your ISP is doing deep packet inspection. Consuming Terabytes of data a month might arouse suspicion at your ISP, but that's regardless of Usenet or Bittorrent. 90% of
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Interestingly enough the NY Times article is nearly identical, word for word, to the linked article.
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Do you have a link to the article about color? Google isn't turning up anything in regards to "copyrighting color" that seems remotely relevant. And me being pedantic: It's copyright , not copy write , because this is a form of law, like

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