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by uxp 15y ago
Automatic Reference Counting is not Garbage Collection, but it's a start, and can weakly be used as a sort of garbage collection. It is up on iOS5's site page, however, so that part is confirmed for now. http://developer.apple.com/technolo
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by uxp 15y ago
If you want to downvote, that's fine, but please provide an explanation. My comment was not derogatory, rude or against any of the HN guidelines. Recent iMacs have been known to have their harddrive fans spin at full after a stock harddisk
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by uxp 15y ago
Multiple partitions won't help if the drive goes bad. With Apple's insistance that new HDDs in all their newer devices (*except the Mac Pro) are not user serviceable, no one should care about that because the new harddrive will be pre-loade
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by uxp 15y ago
After typing "fuck", which gets replaced to "duck" when you continue on, backspace to the end of the word, and iOS4 will hover a new bubble that "asks" if you would like to undo the correction, as well as list any other suggestions that may
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by uxp 15y ago
I would like to see some evidence behind this, as the argument is a straw man in my opinion. In my state, taxes collected on Alcohol and Tobacco are both sent into the pool marked for education, yet we have the lowest smoking rate in the co
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by uxp 15y ago
Right, but you still need to present it in a way that is easy for people to understand. XML is a fantastic way to deliver a large amount of data, but it is hardly parse-able to anyone who doesn't know what a markup language is. JSON as well
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by uxp 15y ago
Or new accounts could be disabled from viewing scores, much like new accounts are disabled from downvoting. The only benefit a person would obtain with this would be to see a score with a main account and upvote it with a throwaway, where u
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by uxp 15y ago
This is what I got from the article. data.gov has LOADS of datasets for the USA, as well as hundreds of other APIs from different departments that can be used to retrieve that data in real time. The problem comes just after you click "downl
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by uxp 15y ago
Curious if you have a source of information that confirms that Google also has a license or agreement with either Lodsys or at least with Intellectual Ventures? Edit: nevermind. They claim that both Microsoft and Google are both licensed fo
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by uxp 15y ago
After it was manufactured, it could be calibrated and the counter could then tell itself that 100cm is actually only 98cm due to manufacturing tolerance errors, for example. Then, after it was installed on the wall one centimeter too high,
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by uxp 15y ago
I'm blinded by what you are trying to imply sarcastically. A rough distributed model could be implemented similar to the way we (hackers/coders) use github as a central repository for a distributed system. People contributing to the index o
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by uxp 15y ago
In regard to digital measuring devices, they are much easier to recalibrate than say a strip of metal with graduated marks. This can lengthen it's lifetime of use, as well as speed installation and manufacturing time as neither has to be as
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by uxp 15y ago
On the other hand, the FreeBSD bootloader is written in Forth. Per installation, the Denver Airport luggage handling system was massively much more complex, but that doesn't make one terrible implementation representative of the entire lang
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by uxp 15y ago
Not all numbers are portable in all cases. When my fiance and I decided to both move cell carriers onto a third carrier to get a family plan, only one of us was allowed to transfer. No way around it. Also, it's still basically impossible to
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by uxp 15y ago
> 4. Be a little less naive, as breaking into two FB accounts that I own[sic] or control is not illegal, breaking into someone else's is somewhat illegal even for demo purposes. FaceBook's TOS specifically states that anything uploaded
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by uxp 15y ago
Play by mail is just a term for multiplayer turn notification. Words with friends also uses push notifications if enabled, and if I recall from the early days, they (Words and Chess with friends) would send either a Text or Email message to
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by uxp 15y ago
I'm curious how much longer it takes to attach this device to the pipe instead of simply welding it by hand. Also, what will happen when the automated welder starts having issues because some slag got into the gas head (where the inert argo
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by uxp 15y ago
> If US-born carpenters are being forced to compete with under-the-table seriously-low-wages carpenters in the construction industry is there any wonder that it's an unattractive career path? If immigrant (legal and illegal) are undercu
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by uxp 15y ago
960gs is a fancy template for math. Lots of sites use the 960gs style, without actually including the template.
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by uxp 15y ago
If VUPEN found the vulnerability, the work around is to pay VUPEN in order to patch your codebase. Pretty simple, theoretically. If you don't have access to the codebase (like a Safari or MSIE bug), then you pay VUPEN to disclose a firewall
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by uxp 15y ago
And expiring after 10/30/60 days if not used. No reason to keep these useless records in the DB rotting away.
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by uxp 15y ago
I have never understood what is so difficult about Cocoa/ObjC's memory management. In very very complex projects, it can be like counting blackjack cards, but I've honestly never remembered my retain count for any object hitting over 5, and
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by uxp 15y ago
It's not even consent. Toshiba should be listing this "feature" as a security feature, letting potential buyers know that there is non-removable software that allows this laptop to be tracked in event of theft. Marketing this has the potent
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by uxp 15y ago
Anyone that is not a doctor or pharmacist who says anything along the gist of "If you aren't doing X while taking drug Y, then you need more of drug Y" is an idiot. Everyone is different, dosages will be different, and interactions, chemica
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by uxp 16y ago
Any translation into english is going to be "wrong" in some aspect. If I were to define correctness, Gaddafi's name is spelt: قَذَّافِيّ‎ Anything else is just a translation and it all means the same, despite being different.
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by uxp 16y ago
They only talk about the unencrypted credit card data available to the console, not to PSN. This chat happened weeks before whoever gained access into PSN's network. Basically the same thing as pointing out the flaws in someone storing thei
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by uxp 16y ago
This is old. Here is the same pastie, but posted on February 16, 2011 http://pastie.org/private/97oth9v5tspkiztwwdmnga They aren't talking about the PSN Hack that brought down the network this time, they are going back and forth about how
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by uxp 16y ago
That wouldn't work over SSL, as there is no plain text in the HTTP Verb. And I recall a "paper" coming up some months ago that was mentioning the protocols the PS3 goes through, which does confirm that the data is transmitted over SSL.[0] [
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by uxp 16y ago
Presumption of Innocence is only valid when being held or otherwise detained due to suspicion of guilt by the government, at least in the USA. Dropbox is a private service, and any notices stating that users cannot sync certain files when t
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by uxp 16y ago
This is really cool, but anonymous users can curl the resulting archives from the server without signing up. If you really want registered users, you might want to hide the user's asset files behind some sort of authentication. Also, althou

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