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by vitd 10y ago
Serious question - I don't in any way intend this to sound inflammatory. If you've been here almost 10 years and have set down roots, why haven't you just applied to be a citizen? It sounds like you want to stay, and frankly,
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by vitd 10y ago
Can you give an example? Thinking back to episodes I've liked, he's mostly been pretty awful to various brands.
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by vitd 10y ago
Oddly, I don't get that image when I click on the parent article's link.
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by vitd 10y ago
You can make your own: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU>
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by vitd 10y ago
Quite a few people bike here in my anecdotal experience. However, LA suffers from the same problems as SF. Certain areas are becoming impossible to afford, so if you work in or near those areas you have to live very far out and commute a di
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by vitd 10y ago
I work just down the street from the Santa Monica station. It literally opened a week ago or so, and the author's complaining that people getting on downtown don't yet know which line to take. Well duh! It's brand new! As for
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by vitd 10y ago
> The market is the problem. That sounds like another way of saying they don't have a product that people value. And for the record they haven't tried nearly all the models possible. This is discussed every time the subject com
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by vitd 10y ago
Definitely! Nor do I want Google tracking what I'm looking at. Nor do I like the extortion model of, "Well pay us and we won't annoy you."
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by vitd 10y ago
There were some interesting games that used it. I think the 3rd Journeyman Project used either QTVR or some other similar technology. And didn't the Myst series eventually switch to something like that in later games?
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by vitd 10y ago
Some of them were fine, but the one that was just a static image where the lines wiggled a little was really gratuitous. Horribly distracting.
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by vitd 10y ago
In film, this is the "Heaven's Gate" problem. [0] As for your last paragraph, I wouldn't say that being small and focused means being "safe". In fact, it could be quite the opposite. Focus on the one thing that
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by vitd 10y ago
Is that Messages or is that the phone company that does that? Mine always come from an AT&T email account with some generic sender, like "aehcu2341@att.com".
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by vitd 10y ago
You've hit several good points here! This looks really cool. I've never used something like this, but I'm seriously considering buying it. I love the single price up front and the privacy of not sending my tracking data to so
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by vitd 10y ago
They did this to me at LAX once about 12-13 years ago. Oddly enough, the man they handed my computer to was Johnny Cochrane (the lawyer that got OJ out of a murder conviction). They were so starstruck (telling him "Here's your com
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by vitd 10y ago
This is stupid. The last time I was at the CA DMV, I made an appointment ahead of time, only to have to take a number when I got there. What was the point of making the appointment if I still have to take a number? WTF? I sat there waiting
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by vitd 10y ago
Do you realize that selfies and emails are creative endeavors? It takes a lot of work to take a good picture or compose an email that conveys anything useful.
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by vitd 10y ago
I'm not familiar with WebRTC. What's the use case there? I can't remember ever wanting to create an in-browser p2p connection on my local network. What would it be used for?
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by vitd 10y ago
Not really. Many of these people are being found because they're in the background of one person's photo untagged, and they're in the foreground of a friend's photo and tagged. The person in the picture may not even know
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by vitd 10y ago
Having seen how the Texas board of education works at adding creationist and revisionist junk to science and history text books, I absolutely trust the federal government to do a better job selecting a textbook than most states.
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by vitd 10y ago
Keep in mind, too, that parents may not want to spend very much on a cell phone for a kid who's likely to drop it, lose it, etc. It may just be that the higher price makes it less likely a younger person will have one.
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by vitd 10y ago
I know for me I stopped answering the phone altogether about a year or two before the do not call list went into effect. About literally 1/10th of the calls I receive to this day are legit calls I want to take.
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by vitd 10y ago
I'm not sure why you think commute times are only a problem in the suburbs. My wife and I are looking to buy a house and we can't afford anything near the office, which is in the middle of a large metropolitan area (the 2nd larges
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by vitd 10y ago
I completely agree about Apple's app being messed up and would love to use Overcast, but the last time I looked into it: a) It required giving them my email or creating an account or some crap. That's an absolute deal breaker. I k
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by vitd 10y ago
Exactly! A friend recently got their genetic data from 23 & me and used Promethease to analyze it and it was full of scary sounding stuff like this. I had to talk them down and explain exactly what you did above.
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by vitd 10y ago
Here are things that made learning OpenGL extremely painful for me: - I came from doing graphics on the CPU where you were often handed a buffer of ARGB pixels and did whatever the heck you wanted to them. You could call OS or library routi
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by vitd 10y ago
As a former Apple employee, surely he can find someone to help him make the connection.
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by vitd 10y ago
Yeah, I concur. There are a million other ways to test someone's knowledge. Rather than having them write a merge sort (for example), giving them one that either doesn't work or is suboptimal is a much better way to assess their a
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by vitd 10y ago
FWIW, journaling has been useful to me. I've run into bugs and thought, "I know I hit something just like this before. Oh wait, let me look through my debug journal and see if there's something in there!" And often there
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by vitd 10y ago
I have to disagree to some extent. The call quality on the StarTAC was horrid - it sounded like it was sampled at around 2kHz most of the time. (And to be fair all other cell phones sounded the same at the time.) When calling on my iPhone t
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by vitd 10y ago
Normally I'd agree with you, but Facebook and other social media sites have controls to make your posts private. If you choose to make them public, you are giving your consent to have them trawled and searched by anyone and everything

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