TheAnimus

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by TheAnimus 9y ago
Yes it did an infra-red dot map of the face. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-iris-scanner-lumia-950-an... Amazing, -4 for mentioning this isn't a new feature. This is exactly how the kinect works, how windows hello
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by TheAnimus 9y ago
I had this feature on my 950 (Windows Phone). It was poor. Slower and more error prone. Environmental changes such as extreme lighting (being outside) or wearing sunglasses stopped it from working. Windows Hello and compatible webcams wor
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by TheAnimus 9y ago
Turns out the solution to every stack overflow post will be "JavaScript is required"
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by TheAnimus 9y ago
London, in the City, so yes, it's our fault. But it also adds that kind of prestige that people expect.
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by TheAnimus 9y ago
Office Space, after salaries and employer taxes is our biggest per employee cost.
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by TheAnimus 9y ago
The thing is sometimes you find something helpful, but don't think they are exactly an artist. I'm slightly ashamed that I couldn't figure out how to put the batteries in the Amazon wand they'd sent me, a quick search a
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by TheAnimus 9y ago
Are there many people who will want the 18-core option, but not have multiple GPUs without a bottleneck of thunderbolt?
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by TheAnimus 9y ago
Which is kind of funny, because every pilot knows the limitation of each kind of autopilot. I think a lot of it is public expectation of that kind of name.
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Three-person baby licence granted(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by TheAnimus 10y ago|0 comments
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by TheAnimus 10y ago
I did that too. I'd only been in London about 2 days, I jumped up like a good boy scout, conscious of the fact I was in the "priority seat" (for those outside of London our tubes have the nearest seats to the door reserved fo
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by TheAnimus 10y ago
But this can be better. I'll have taken about 8 weeks holiday this year. But for about half of it I'll do 30 min or even 2 hours work. Actually it's been less than half. That's a pretty sweet deal. I've still got
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by TheAnimus 10y ago
This is quite nice to see, when I first heard about osquery, I thought "cool WMI (well WQL) for Linux"
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by TheAnimus 10y ago
> The price for EpiPens went up because no one else was able to make a competing product that didn't malfunction or deliver the wrong dose of epinephrine. Price hasn't gone up as much in the UK where a state monopoly negotiates
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by TheAnimus 10y ago
It's also about having very correct details in this case. If she had bothered to apply for the correct VISA there wouldn't have been an issue, but they clearly feel they are a special little snowflake because animation API is more
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by TheAnimus 10y ago
Which is true enough. Maybe they should look at iTunes on Windows for a good example of why it's horrible to ignore the host UI designs. Or maybe QuickTime.
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
I find the windows phone keyboard suggestions much better than any other I've used. Despite now having an iPhone 6s from work I still use a WP as my daily go to because it's much better at writing a whatsapp or email message, eve
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
But what about the street repairs card? IIRC it is only 2-3 times the price of a house for a hotel.
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The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here(blog.jetbrains.com)
178 points by TheAnimus 11y ago|91 comments
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
> Pretty much any CS6 application will being the tablet to its knees and nearly burnt my lap. That's not what I find with my i7 sp3. Instead I find that it struggles to cool itself when the CPU is running at max for a period of tim
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
It's not as if it's found it's way in to .ts files, only to .tsx files. As someone who's organisation has spent a lot of time making our front end in ReactJS this is going to be very useful for us, and the 'corrupti
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
For what it's worth I'm happily using the modern incantation of WebTV, my FireTV Stick. I have my 'TV' on demand, whenever I want it, I can run some web related apps, even hacked something together for controlling my lig
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
I too have had some mixed experiences. A B&B in Rome, where the host had elegantly decorated our room, provided fresh flowers each day all whilst respecting our privacy. Contrasted with a flat in residential block where one of the neig
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
I would have been a blue band in your system. My parents moved to Cornwall when I was child, surrounded on 3 sides by water, I gained my surf lifesaving certificate, I was a good swimmer. Almost two decades passes. I'm in Bali, on a
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
Fairly sure I remember using VisualStudio to debug some JavaScript back in the early 00s.
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
> I want to work with talented, motivated programmers, not people who made it through a non-technical HR screen. The problem is, this sounds good, but in reality the world doesn't work like this. Hiring is complex, there are many l
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
> You're only doing yourself a disservice by catering to organizations with crappy hiring practices. Good luck! I'm a CTO of a multi million pound firm now. But it did work for me very well when I was just a developer. I woul
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
> I wouldn't want to work at a place where the other members of my team are determined by someone unqualified. But it's a big firm, they've got to comply with both UK employment law and the German rules too. They get 1000s
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by TheAnimus 11y ago
I appreciate it's not a good way to start a conversation, but do you mind my asking how old you are? When the iPhone launched, people like me [0] couldn't really understand it. I was a top five percentile earner in the UK, but st
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Live tracking of first solar-powered manned aircraft crossing the globe(solarimpulse.com)
1 points by TheAnimus 12y ago|0 comments
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by TheAnimus 12y ago
>but how was the situation that led to your decision any different than the 99 other startups that were just as lame but didn't make it? Sometimes I think people look at where a company is, rather than it's direction, it's

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