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by wnissen 13y ago
That's not core, though. It should be turned on when the user clicks "Nearby Games" or whatever triggers the feature.
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by wnissen 13y ago
Yep. I would like to see it written into the rules (Android as well) that any permission that is not the core purpose of the app should be given on a "first touch" basis. Because Words With Friends does not need my GPS location ev
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by wnissen 13y ago
He understands C++ well enough to have written "Modern C++ Design" ( http://amazon.com/dp/0201704315 ) back in 2001. If he's interested in D, so am I.
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by wnissen 13y ago
Note that the "double wide" is not twice as wide. 29" vs. 38" is less than one third wider. It is a great idea, though, as long as it's sturdy.
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by wnissen 13y ago
It's actually a guy named Nakamoto? I have to say that was not at all what I was expecting.
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by wnissen 13y ago
I had to look at the screenshots to see if the point of this was to test you on the questions or explain the questions. Exactly what it is could be a lot clearer. Actually, the other side could be really interesting. The app shows you a pro
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by wnissen 13y ago
Whoa. Sort of like how you have to pay $5 to join Metafilter. That seems neat.
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by wnissen 13y ago
As someone who uses a Chromecast, always having the cast icon is a big plus. Yeah, it takes up real estate. But having to go digging in options to start the cast would defeat the one-click simplicity.
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by wnissen 13y ago
109ppi is good enough, but there is a significant difference. It's true that beyond a certain point it doesn't make a difference (1080p phones, I'm looking at you!) but 109ppi is not that point, for most people. Retina web co
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by wnissen 13y ago
Stack ranking in small groups is stupid and counterproductive because it forces a distribution where none necessarily exists. So for any particular class of 12 I agree with you. However, Harvard enrolls over 1500 frosh next year. Is there r
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by wnissen 13y ago
I think that goes for blood donation, too. If it's a secret, no one has a model to live up to. I hate calling attention to myself, but the good of the cause has to trump humility.
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by wnissen 13y ago
No, no no, it's all in the confidence. The algorithm only works if you firmly declare, "Zoom! Enhance!"
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by wnissen 13y ago
Imagine harder. Snow White and Cinderella were both compiled in Grimm's Fairy Tales, which was so popular that the brothers produced 7 editions over more than 40 years. It was the Harry Potter of its day. And yet, when Walt Disney was
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by wnissen 13y ago
$649. Add $100 per storage bump. Basically, the 5C is an incredible rip-off. It's only $100 cheaper than the 5S, and you have a plastic case, much slower CPU, and no fingerprint sensor. Very disappointing pricing.
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by wnissen 13y ago
I was more interested in it as a potential failure of our "meritocractic" educational system to promote those with true potential instead of the right family connections. Sort of the other end of the spectrum from being born a bla
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by wnissen 13y ago
Yes and no. Even if you're accelerating at 1 g (~10 m/s), which for a car is pretty darn fast, even if it's not test-pilot fast, you're still looking at 35 seconds to get up to Mach 1 (~350 m/s). That's going t
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by wnissen 13y ago
If that was the goal he would have had Amazon buy the company. Instead it's a "personal" acquisition. It's possible this is an elaborate ruse to fool the Graham family into selling their crown jewel (reputationally, at l
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by wnissen 13y ago
It's not a single hardware instruction on a 32-bit CPU, I believe is the point.
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by wnissen 13y ago
70% of tax filers don't itemize and cannot take deductions. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=10014...
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by wnissen 13y ago
In section 5 they talk about generating the passwords, but I think taking them from existing known password databases (excluding those that are within a typo of the real password) would make them more likely to get hits. It would also make