magic_haze

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by magic_haze 12y ago
1. You won't have to wait for an hour for your tank to fill up. 2. The supercharges aren't free: you're paying for them when you buy the car. And it's proprietary: you can't use it with other electric cars.
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by magic_haze 12y ago
That sounds interesting, could you elaborate? (what is pinning in this context?)
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Cookies that give you away: Evaluating surveillance implication of Web Tracking(randomwalker.info)
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by magic_haze 12y ago
Does Google Play have a public API for downloading APKs? Does it work for paid apps as well? (I'm not able to construct good keywords for search here: Google thinks I'm looking for an APK for the store app instead)
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by magic_haze 12y ago
Surprising how many companies Yahoo has been gobbling up... and shutting down. What exactly _are_ they doing with all the new hires?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
They searched the account of a French blogger, so that adds another layer of insane complications (I'd guess both France and EU would come down pretty hard on Microsoft, but for the wrong reasons)
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by magic_haze 13y ago
What happened to the Hydrogen option? A few years ago, everybody was talking about how it would be the best possible fuel and how much better than batteries it is, but I haven't heard much about it after. From a distribution point of v
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Aren't a lot of people who used to work at Microsoft during the 90s/early 2000s working at Google now? I'd be surprised if the people who implemented Embrace/Extend/Extinguish in the first place aren't one step
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Showing modal dialogs on every new permission request is how XPrivacy works right now, and while I understand and deal with the process, I can easily see how most people would (rightly) see it as an annoyance. I'm just saying they coul
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I see where the Swype folks are coming from, but it's a bit like the people who complained against the existence of mailinator.com a decade back. Are they seriously claiming that a company whose entire business is based on making sense
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I agree, but look at the grief Microsoft got when they tried it with Vista's UAC prompts... more permission popups is clearly not what the majority of users want. I think one solution is having the prompts integrate with the sort of c
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by magic_haze 13y ago
The entire store experience is the opposite of what Eric Lippert calls the Pit of Success: literally no one involved in the process is incentivized to protect your data. Developers ask for all the permissions they can get away with because
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by magic_haze 13y ago
XPrivacy should really come installed by default with Android: the new versions are really quite good (especially with the cloudsourcing and on-demand bits) and really highlight how atrocious most apps are with your personal data. And it is
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by magic_haze 13y ago
GPS just means the plane knows where it is. The equipment necessary for the plane to inform the airline ops about its location is still vulnerable to all sorts of problems, even with the kind of anal development practices required by FAA an
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by magic_haze 13y ago
IE11 was bundled with windows 8.1, which fixed a bunch of idiotic features/annoyances in win8, so people had more incentive to upgrade.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
It's not as bad now, since most platforms these days insist on a push mechanism that is common to all the apps. You're stuck with different UIs, but the cost is still like running a single client. Even better, because now they can
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I don't understand why a badge is necessary in the first place. Won't NFC on a phone suffice?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I'd guess so. It's pretty easy with roslyn these days.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
You need to click on the "Export" button, at the top right corner of the page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/export/help/?returnU...
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I agree, but what happens when you want to share just a part of the page, not the whole (for example, something on your tumblr dashboard)? I think IE, of all things, had a feature a few releases back for exactly this scenario: a page could
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Does anyone know what TempleOSV2 is talking about? I can't reply to his comment in this thread because it's marked as dead, but it sounds very interesting.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I don't think it's still as simple as entering your username/password if you don't have your paired device nearby: you also need a recovery key. I got bitten by this once: I didn't remember entering, or even being a
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by magic_haze 13y ago
They couldn't do it. The compiler does static verifications that, say, a value of type Meter when divided by a value of type second results in a value of type Meter/Second, where '/' is a custom concept built into t
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by magic_haze 13y ago
The wiki for her sister mentions it's actually /woʊˈdʒɪtski/ woh-jit-skee
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by magic_haze 13y ago
OT, but damn, that is a very well designed website. And it's just a single dev, from their info page. Very impressive.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Keepass proper has a global Ctrl+Alt+A shortcut that automatically types in your username and password into the form: I've found it works fine on the majority of sites (almost everyone uses username-tab-password-enter, but for the few
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by magic_haze 13y ago
The entire reason why WP is lacking traction is because of IOS and Android's ecosystems, not because of any special merits in their OS code. Indeed, that is also why Windows proper is still dominant on desktop. Throwing away compatibil
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I think it's the equivalent of the middlebrow dismissal we so often see here in HN, rather than any faith in humanity. As you mentioned, it is just too easy to come up with a generic "how dare you" response, which is guarante
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I'm confused, what is the context here? The comment is humorous, but the microsoft rep did reply back with (what seems like) working code. In 2009. Also, why does one need the MSHTML Timer API these days?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I agree about the tax issue as well, but I thought this post was particularly articulate about analyzing an issue from a perspective that was unusual to me. I didn't have a good enough counterpoint to his argument, so I submitted the l

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