Daniel_Marcos

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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
Emojis in passwords would both make passwords more secure and easier to remember for some people. The drawback is that they're very hard to enter in normal, physical keyboards.
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
Just out of curiosity, what do you use USB OTG and Android for? Nowadays I seldom hear about it. I can't think of the last time I saw someone use one!
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
I absolutely love this book. It's very accessible, though perhaps not for younger kids. [But How Do It Know?] ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F25LEVC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... )
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
As did the New York Times. Most statistical models were biased because the data was biased. That doesn't change my perception of the entire organization (though I understand if others do change theirs.)
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Trump's Proposals Won't Help the White Working Class or the Urban Poor(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago|4 comments
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Introducing SketchUp Viewer on Microsoft HoloLens(youtube.com)
2 points by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago|0 comments
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
Some feedback: It's really strange how new messages appear at the top of the conversation instead of at the bottom. It's kind of unintuitive. It would also be nice that with the browser at 100%, the chat window was big enough to r
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
But Waterloo isn't a great city to live in. Especially for young professionals, Waterloo is not nearly as exciting as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
Yeah, and that's why we shouldn't be impressed that it can make a phone call. That's expected. But on the intro video for a new phone OS they're 'unveiling' I want to see what's new / different abou
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
Thank you! I see the rationale behind this now. I still think the approach is wrong, though.
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
This looks like a glorified browser for games that are already playable on browser. It doesn't seem to be optimized for gaming at all (it even feels laggier). Is the purpose of it just to increase discoverability of Facebook games? Thi
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
I like the following quote by Neil Gaiman about 50 Shades and other best-sellers: "If ever you’re curious, go and look at the annual bestseller lists for years gone by. You’ll find a lot of books that sold an unbelievable number of co
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
Thank you :)
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
I think you meant "premium?" Just some nitpicking
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by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
The book Complications, by Atul Gawande is a fantastic account of medicine as an imperfect science that I would recommend to anyone interested in the field. Things like this make me hopeful about perfecting medicine and surgery to avoid com