nemeth

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by nemeth 14y ago
> Seems that Sidekick and Kin are counter-examples to that statement. Microsoft threw away the working Sidekick OS and re-built it from the ground up on Win CE so that they could brand KIN as a "Windows Phone". So isn't that really a pe
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by nemeth 14y ago
Windows 8 Metro apps can be written in real C++. How could they sandbox a custom C++ app? There's no virtual machine to do it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46504...
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by nemeth 15y ago
> The whole point of not loading images is the privacy concern, so if your email client (which is any email client with any kind of traction in the past decade) offers (and defaults to) not loading images, it will indeed not hit the URL
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by nemeth 15y ago
That's not just an IE6 problem. IE8 has full CSS 2.1 support but can't do css3 rounded corners, opacity, or shadows. You can sometimes fake it with -ms-filter and CSS expressions (htc files) but those work just as well on 6 and 7. That said
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by nemeth 15y ago
After scrolling down to the footer, I found http://robohash.org/ linked: "Robohash is a easy web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text. Put in any text, such as IP address, email, f
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by nemeth 15y ago
This is similar to SHA512 crypt: http://packages.python.org/passlib/lib/passlib.hash.sha512_c...
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by nemeth 15y ago
His final words on the subject (from the next blog post): "Having read through hundreds of comments from professionals, both civil and uncivil, I’m now convinced: Final Cut Pro X may indeed be ready for the future. But for professional vide
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by nemeth 15y ago
I think the "vote" recorded in the link is from a long time ago. Looking at the php.internals mailing list from today, this is what Rasmus is saying: "Other than a couple of grumpy old-timers, I think we are in agreement that we should add
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by nemeth 15y ago
WordPress themes can and do embed arbitrary PHP, so wouldn't you have to basically build in a PHP interpreter in order to read them?
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by nemeth 15y ago
If the GDrive were similar to Dropbox, a copy of all files would be stored locally and be accessible without an Internet connection. Google Docs offline access isn't even going to relaunch till later this year, so right now, storing files e
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by nemeth 15y ago
The last scene of the movie demonstrates that knowing that a pre-crime report was generated does allow the future to be changed (Burgess chooses to shoot himself, rather than Tom Cruise). The earlier plotline had suggested there was no way
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by nemeth 16y ago
Either Linus's or Linus' is acceptable in current English usage. Source: "James's hat (James' hat is also acceptable" http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/