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by wtracy 11y ago
The network itself knows your location because your signal is usually visible to multiple cell towers. They can triangulate your location from that.
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by wtracy 11y ago
The Emacs key combinations overlap with the standard Windows shortcuts in ways that make it hard (for me) to switch back and forth between Emacs and Office. Vi key combinations seem to occupy a completely different part of my brain.
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by wtracy 11y ago
A reminder about how most Americans actually live: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-have-less-th...
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by wtracy 11y ago
And don't forget fiber-to-the-premises being available in some residential neighborhoods!
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by wtracy 11y ago
We don't need to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Manufacturin...
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by wtracy 11y ago
Not so ridiculous when you consider retail or call center jobs that require someone to be present during business hours.
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by wtracy 11y ago
This successor is still going strong: http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/
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by wtracy 11y ago
I've seem people believe that memory leaks can't happen in programs written in garbage-collected programs. So, yeah, the belief that garbage collection and/or bounds checking is a magic bullet really needs to be addressed.
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by wtracy 11y ago
There's a very similar tale behind the name Toy Story.
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News jacking: how to inject your message into a breaking story(newsjacking.com)
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by wtracy 11y ago
> There are also problems when packets are lost for reasons other than congestion, as can happen with wireless links, for example. The congestion-control code will interpret that loss as a congestion signal, slowing transmission unnecess
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by wtracy 11y ago
I'm actually considering going back to Eclipse (or dumping IDEs altogether) because my computer is struggling under Android Studio's memory requirements. (I'm unemployed and don't really want to pay for a 64-bit system.
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by wtracy 11y ago
Actually testing every app sounds like a challenge Google isn't interested in taking on. There's also the question of whether apps will still behave gracefully when receiving dummy data. Some apps may misbehave in ways such that i
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by wtracy 11y ago
I always thought of Bitcoin as an implementation of this idea.
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by wtracy 11y ago
They released an App Ops-like feature in an Android beta (I think it was KitKat, but don't quote me) and pulled it because it broke compatibility with so many apps. (It caused an exception to be thrown whenever an app tried to access s
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by wtracy 11y ago
Do you enjoy filling out forms? Depending on what level clearance you are talking about, you will be asked to document a lot of your past professional and personal history. You will need to provide references for your character and your pas
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by wtracy 12y ago
The Arm specification primarily focuses on the protected mode opcodes used by applications. This is why Arm application binaries are portable across machines. The real mode opcodes needed to bring up a kernel are a mess on Arm, with each ma
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by wtracy 12y ago
So his position seems to be that either these services should provide native clients for these platforms, or else they should expose APIs to let third-party developers create native clients. That's still not a position I'm com
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by wtracy 12y ago
Has anyone here successfully made money off of mobile games? Lacking feedback directly from anyone who has done it: I get the impression that the secret is to throw lots of things against the wall and see what sticks. It paid off handsomely
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by wtracy 12y ago
I can beat that. At one job, I had a person a couple cubicles to the left of me regularly call the person a couple cubicles to the right of me, and both would turn their speakers on. I could hear each half of the conversation coming at me
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by wtracy 12y ago
If anyone is hiring for a position that requires <40 hours/week, this would probably be a good place to advertise. :-)
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by wtracy 12y ago
The author mentions that he chose reflective materials for exactly that reason. Realtime renderers still struggle with things like Monte Carlo.
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by wtracy 12y ago
Here's an article on a voxel raytracer focused on realtime operation: https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/real-time-ray... And here's a video of the raytracer discussed in the above link:
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by wtracy 12y ago
This one blew my mind. Either it’s a mistake or a bizarre quirk of the way DPRK’s network works but the wifi URL for GEO still points to https://www.google.com/loc/json* Maybe they just don't have Wi-Fi.
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by wtracy 12y ago
metered service Might actually be a good thing. The next republican run FCC ruling that not blocking porn is unreasonable The next FCC ruling that not blocking piracy is unreasonable I thought Title II explicitly shielded
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by wtracy 12y ago
Are they all on Windows?
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by wtracy 12y ago
Surprisingly enough, it's already doable: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-the-galaxy-nexus-as-...
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by wtracy 12y ago
It supports Bluetooth, so you could pair a remote or a smartphone with it, and it's easier to carry than a laptop. Remember there's a full version of MS Office on it, too. What makes more sense to me, though, would be a phone with
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by wtracy 12y ago
Since nobody else seems to have advertised it here, there's a demoscene event in San Jose this March! http://nv.scene.org/2015/
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by wtracy 12y ago
Well, there is a vim mode for emacs.

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