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by yock 14y ago
"Passwords are here to stay. They provide reasonable security." Words. Since the premise of the article (and the person to which you've replied) is that your statement is false, you're going to need to provide more than the above to refut
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by yock 14y ago
I completely agree, but is it possible that Google and/or LG have contracts with their partners that they may not create obligations to more than a certain amount of product at one time? Might these products sell out because, contractually,
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Very appreciative of the tip here, it's installing now on my GNex.
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Something we see discussed on occasion is a call for app developers to explain in detail why they request certain permissions. If this developer were required to explain (and the user required to acknowledge) the requested permission, it ma
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My gut reaction is to temper my response to this because I tend to overreact to injustice, but this is just unforgivable.
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It's called "Kickstarter" but anymore it seems you need to have a really slick pitch with mock-ups/prototypes and professional graphics to get any attention (and thus, backing). All that is really expensive. It seems antithetical to the app
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I suppose it depends on how complex a model you're willing to support. There might be some pricing opportunities available to you here, where a sliding scale can accomodate projects of various size. Of course, I could be overthinking the wh
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From your developer friendly license: Including a large portion of the icons in your product could potentially harm IcoMoon's sales. An additional permission must be granted for such use cases. When I buy a license to use fonts or graphic
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Which seems to be throwing errors when you try to adjust your location.
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by yock 14y ago
I don't like to get political in this forum, but you need to get a grip. It isn't an either/or choice. Most ballots have several choices for president, including Green, Libertarian, and Constitutional parties (with apologies to other partie
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by yock 14y ago
Sorry for being off-topic, but why in the world would the net filter here at work have blocked this as "adult content?"
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I'm not quite sure how to feel about this. On one hand an OS-level SDK (that isn't directly tied to the kernel or glibc) feels grossly overdue, and I'm not sure how you'd go about doing this in a way that is distribution-agnostic. On the ot
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by yock 14y ago
My college calculus professor typically allowed use of notes on exams, which he justified as follows. -- I kinda expect the guy designing a bridge to lookup the correct formulas and not expect that he memorized it correctly. (paraphrased, o
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by yock 14y ago
Which is the standard human excuse for intervening in everything deemed essential for life. It doesn't even begin to address the real possibility that humans can't actually improve upon the market solution.
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Government is sustained (or abolished) by the people who employ it. Government that can self-sustain seems dangerously close to a government that doesn't need the people it serves.
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by yock 14y ago
Intel i7 (4 cores w/ hyperthreading) running Ubuntu and Chrome 22 and that at one point was >60% on 3+ threads. On the bright side, it's great that Chrome is able to so seamlessly multithread complex CSS operations. That said, this is a
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by yock 14y ago
I think it's naive to asume we know how displays will be used in the future. Consider parallax barrier displays[0], an option for the navigation system in Range Rovers since 2010 so that the driver can see the moving map whilst the passenge
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by yock 14y ago
You might think it fair to call them "strawmen" but don't assume that all operationally-minded organizations are run my management with operational training. Some of us live these "strawmen" everyday.
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And, I would add, intense vulnerability to future market fluctuations. If this was their contingency plan, they've exhausted it. What happens next time?
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If I were their customer, I would be looking for alternatives right about now...
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by yock 14y ago
Not to get political, meta, or both, but it always intrigues me when people talk about "trust" in the context of third parties, most especially government. Government is made up of people, not unlike yourself, and those people are suceptibl
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by yock 14y ago
I didn't realize this had been updated recently. I gave up on my wife's 4S some time ago when it appeared that support for recent iOS devices on Linux had been mostly abandone by the community.
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As an aside, that is one of the coolest functional tests I've ever seen. It's thorough, well-documented, and includes nice visualizations (the table at the bottom, not the pie chart up top).
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Which means that this would be a rather good choice for someone who just bought an iPhone 5.
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by yock 14y ago
What is most amusing to me about this whole thing is that two weeks ago The Atlantic published[0] an article offering incredible insight into just how much effort goes into making Google's maps so good. Was it already too late at that point
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I think I just found a new way to name my release candidates.
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It's simple, really. Most of the time, when I click through to a user, I'm looking to see who they are . This is likely due to a retweet in my timeline and I'm looking to see how I might be associated with this person. Far less frequently
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by yock 14y ago
What constitutes a "personal email?" I can't find it explicitly stated anywhere whether this was a personal email address or his official university address, but if it's the latter I can't see how that is at all construed as personal.
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The Salton Sea: Death and Politics in the Great American Water Wars(wired.com)
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Hype aside, if Google & friends are making a marketing offering, it's just good sense to ensure that the details of what has been offered are very clear. Google vs. Apple aside, here we have a very official-looking press release about t

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