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yasth
12y ago
Users don't want to give their email address because they (rightly) believe they will be spammed. Also a single tap is still often much easier than typing a full email address, especially on mobile.
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12y ago
Eh, as far as default goes, it is another step; the second page of google results is easy to get too, but people don't. Part of what generates alternate card usage today is the messy wallet, sometimes the card isn't in the right p
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12y ago
It looks like it displays the logo, so it isn't out of the question for banks (now starting to be scared at being disintermediated) to maybe throw in some "support" (aka tepidly allow access). After all, apple pay also reduce
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12y ago
Can't be done in that space or that mass. The hard part isn't the 3D printing (and that isn't easy, as anyone can tell you 3D printing in a controlled temperature environment with precision manufactured feed stock is still a
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12y ago
No you can't create self replicating anything in that space. The big issue is the chip fabrication. You might be able to test making rocket fuel, but the practical point of that is probably not great (we already know it will work) as y
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12y ago
Wiki is incorrectly characterizing their cited source. 40% is from third party sellers. (Actually I believe it is much higher now, but the way amazon breaks it out makes it hard to tell how much of their total revenue stream it is, as they
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12y ago
MTA internally only claims the revenue as earnings once they expire. They could do it your way, but the accountants would throw a fit. Also while they now cost $1 for most of the program life they were indeed free. Anyways regular users use
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12y ago
Expiration is 1 year from issue, and will auto replace with a new card if they are filled in the last month.
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12y ago
Rotary knobs are much more rugged than almost any other common switch type if they are well made. They are commonly specified on military and industrial gear for this reason (and a few others). Also honestly given the location and the likel
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12y ago
Logitech specifies them, just scroll down Height 20 mm (0.79 inches) Width 299 mm (11.77 inches) Depth 195 mm (7.68 inches) Weight 820 g (1.81 pounds) The K810 requires a touch more to track down, but: Width 287 mm (11.30 inch) Depth/L
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12y ago
The issue with shifting to "soft" enforcement is that the softer enforcement allows the punishments to be extended for much longer than a jail sentence. Instead of 3 days for public intox it might be a year of ankle monitoring at
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12y ago
It's that XKCD strip about jelly beans. ( http://www.xkcd.com/882/ )
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12y ago
ActiveX wasn't used for HTML input boxes. It was generally used for companies to leverage their existing desktop developers in a "web" context. The reason it basically couldn't be ported to other platforms is because it
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12y ago
Generally in the "maker" community open hardware is based on layout and software level openeness. So board layouts are shared even if the internals are not. This is what allows adruino to be open as they share layout files and sof
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12y ago
As best as I can tell they just folded in Paypal a bit tighter. Which makes sense, at this point Yahoo would have a hard time even coming up with a better/cheaper option.
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That was a bit different as they were trying to replicate the JVM in hardware (i.e. as an instruction set). This is just a rewrite of python that can run on a small ARM chip. Still very impressive mind, but a different beast. It is more sim
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12y ago
It isn't that type of store. It is just online webfront, and is in fact just a re-release of one of the older products in yahoo's portfolio (Since they effectively no longer have search or category based guides).
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MS on the right license plan really doesn't care and will happily give you any version you want. Off the right license plan I've heard multiple reports of MS actually giving out downloads where needed. Adobe might not overly care,
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13y ago
Rents may well go down, and many malls may live a second life as anything from indoor paintball arena ( http://www.specialopspaintball.com/forum/index.php?showtopic... ), megachurch ( http://www.palmbeachpos
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Paypal actually has a couple options for having paypal's servers handle the actual card collection so your server never need touch it. That said their API (or rather APIs as they have one for every day of the week with all sorts of sub
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13y ago
Woocommerce because of architectural issues has issues as you approach sizable numbers of products (in the high thousands) especially at a somewhat quick order pace. With enough love and care it can do it, but it really is much better at ha
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13y ago
Almost any volume makes it worthwhile. 40hr*$60/hr = 2400 /.02 = 120,000 . So more or less since they saved 2% they could justify it if they had $120,000 flowing through, which is a pretty minimal transactional volume (your local
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13y ago
I've used it like this entirely to try trip keyword alerts. The competition for talent is brutal, and their is surprisingly not much in the way of anti-black hat SEO on most job sites. (No, I'm not proud about this) I mean it isn&
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13y ago
Only at max use, I'd imagine average actual applied rates are still a good 5-6 times higher.
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I don't think geuis is saying the actual communication is unreliable, but the actions are. I.e. the NFC part works, but the whole touch to share (say a video or whatever) part has more troubles. Which is a problem even though it is jus
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Eh who writes that wiki? Generally there are still groups of explorers they are just now called theorycrafters. They are the ones who figure out that if you get an eye of Dalmatia and a sword of truth you have no attack delay or whatever. B
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13y ago
Well for one Go beats Ruby in every benchmark that I am aware of, and generally by quite some distance. Also realistically 60-70% of all libraries created for other languages are bitrotted to junk or pointlessness by this point. If you ca
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It doesn't avoid freemium it just means that the points/memberships have to be externally purchased. You just can't charge for the app. Anyways I'd be shocked if there weren't quite a few freemium apps. The limitations of the API and the de
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13y ago
It is easy in the tech world (and HN is mostly tech) to confidently say 6 months is a long time for unemployment. At the moment, I'm fairly certain I could have interviews in a single digit number of hours, but that isn't true for people wh
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They issue isn't can they be spoofed? It is can you crash a plane remotely? Or even can you force a plane to go somewhere? The answer to both is basically no. You can confuse the heck out of the pilot, and possibly make them do some maneuve
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