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by yapcguy 13y ago
Really? There was a security issue revealed just a week or two ago about DigitalOcean, where they don't scrub accounts so you leak all your data. Read the thread over at Github and see how dismissive DigitalOcean representatives are
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Once your phone is rooted, use Titanium Backup (there may be similar apps on F-Droid for free) to uninstall the Google apps and services you don't need.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It's quite ironic to see Apple and fans trumpet big numbers, in sales, in downloads, etc. It used to be the other way around, Microsoft bragging while Apple and fans claiming that quality was more important than quantity.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
What exactly are "Quora-like answers"? What's wrong with researching things yourself and getting the satisfaction of learning and figuring something out?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> In a world where 140 characters is considered a maximum length, a picture really is worth a thousand words. What a silly world these people live in.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The problem with the new T440p, and the entire Lenovo line in general, is the awful keyboard and trackpad. They moved to a chiclet style keyboard in the previous generation, removed the top row of keys, and have now inverted the function ke
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> The videos follow other alarming news last month that starfish were mysteriously disintegrating along the West Coast, a trend that has not been linked yet to any cause. Past computer simulations had indicated that radioactive cesium-1
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Half Moon Bay, California: Health officials respond to beach radiation scare(hmbreview.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|1 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I've had good customer support with vendors listed on LowEndBox and I was paying just a few dollars per month. Maybe DigitalOcean are just crap?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The open source community loses too. No doubt Apple put a very lucrative offer on the table, but another route could have been for the author to dual-license the code - GPL it so the community benefits, while any improvements he can then pu
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Since iOS apps do not have direct access to native hardware, what exactly would Apple be buying? Record video, extract frames, simulate burst mode. Not that difficult really.
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Intel Galileo Development Board - First Arduino Compatible Board(mouser.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
GIMP... and enjoy the coffee.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
No, I think you are wrong. Are you forgetting the derivatives which major banks hold? JP Morgan has outstanding derivatives in the trillions. Ask the US comptroller general who reported around $78 Trillion just two years ago. Even if nett
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Well said, you nailed it. >The biggest issue for SnapChat is, to be frank, they are a bunch of dumb-asses who got lucky and managed to cobble together a silly app that a lot of people wanted to use. However, the foundation their app is
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Uber statement: http://blog.uber.com/2014/01/01/statement-on-new-years-eve-a... Local coverage: http://sfist.com/2014/01/01/7-year-old_girl_struck_and_kille... > In additio
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Uber Admits That Driver Arrested For Killing 6-Year-Old Worked For Them(sfappeal.com)
3 points by yapcguy 13y ago|3 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
This caught my eye. > Supervisor Jane Kim wrote on Facebook after the incident that Muzzafar had self-identified as an Uber driver. Uber later released a statement saying the driver had not being "doing a trip on the Uber system&q
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Uber Driver Identified In Death Of 6-Year-Old Pedestrian In San Francisco(sfist.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|1 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Can you name the company? Is it publicly listed?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It's transparent alright... they use Gmail! Ok, joking aside, the article is about how they use email filters in Google Apps instead of mailing lists.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Yes, but where is the fairness? Take a single country, like the UK, why should hard-working folk who save their money be punished? Why should their savings be eroded with inflation and a real interest rate which is negative? Why should tho
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by yapcguy 13y ago
QE is free money which has seeped into the stock market and housing market for a feel-good factor, but it hasn't fixed any of the structural problems in the economy. The Bank of England has kept interest rates at record lows for the lo
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by yapcguy 13y ago
And Apple has been convicted of e-book price fixing as well as misleading customers into buying extended warranties which were not necessary...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Look, it's not just me sitting here complaining. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2270612 Pretty much every review of Apple gear has people moaning about bias in the comments. I'm not saying there is a
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Rob Pike wrote a blog post "Thank you Apple" (sarcasm) because of the problems he was having with his iMac and Apple's software. http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/09/thank-you-apple.ht... Linus
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by yapcguy 13y ago
iOS is insecure, Mavericks buggy as hell, iCloud can't keep the lights on. One has to wonder what all their engineers are actually working on.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I like Anandtech but they have come into criticism recently, from some of their long-time readers, for fawning over Apple products.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Doesn't matter if any of this is true or not, it's the perception that counts. I'm quite interested to see what, if anything, Tim Cook will do or say to reassure the faithful. "Apple is erasing discussions on this topic
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Relax dude, you can protect your phone by using the fingerprint sensor! http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5949 :-P

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