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by odbol_ 9y ago
Oddly enough, both Wii and Kinect were very successful outside their official gaming applications, because people were able to hack their protocols and use them in ways the manufacturers never intended. I remember buying a Wii just for the
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Well the first step is to design some architectures for large systems. Poof, you're an architect.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
I've been rejected from jobs because I was over-qualified. Then I got accepted to one, which turned out later that I was over-qualified for that one too. I did get bored, I felt like the job wasn't a good match for my skills, and
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by odbol_ 9y ago
> camera with Bluetooth Enjoy your Blueborne security vulnerabilities. Because I'm sure you'll easily get a firmware update from Nikon from your 5 year old camera. Also, since Apple breaks Bluetooth in pretty much every iOS rel
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Found the UX designer in this sea of clueless engineers
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by odbol_ 9y ago
It's weird that their justification is that other languages can fit more words in than you can in English. But then they increase the character count. Wouldn't it make more sense to switch to a word limit, instead of a char
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Ditto. It's imperative to be able to charge while you're playing, since music apps along with the screen being on all the time really eats the battery quickly.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Have you ever even used a music app on an iPhone? They do not suffer from performance issues, even with several running at the same time. And Objective-C is not even garbage collected; it's reference counted, so I have no idea what poi
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by odbol_ 9y ago
So those stupid share icons on the side of news sites are going to be completely inaccessible?
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Except for musicians, who need a latency-free audio path that won't degrade depending on distance or saturation of the wireless spectrum. Given the amount of music apps in Apple's ecosystem, I'm pretty surprised they removed
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Does the eclipse make the sun stronger or something? I've pointed my camera at the sun for all day long taking timelapses and nothing bad happened to it. I guess maybe you need a really hardcore zoom lens to get damage like that... P.S
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Drawing is learned like any other skill. Just practice it for a while and you will become better at it
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Those studies have tiny sample sizes, and aren't even in the tech industry.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
I would count rows upon rows of homeless people in tents on the sidewalk next to where self-driving cars zoom by as pretty dystopian.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
40% of how many employees total? And which ones? Only the ones on certain discussion boards? That's a pretty biased sample.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Flash has very little to offer as a tool, but as a platform with thousands of hours of beautiful, creative content made for it (Homestar Runner, games, interactive art, etc), it will be tragic to lose all that art and history. If we open-so
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by odbol_ 9y ago
To be fair, traditional "dumb" contracts written by lawyers also have exploits and loopholes. That's why we have courts with judges and juries that can make subjective decisions based on context outside of the contract. Smart
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Re playing Chrono Trigger this weekend. The "fast-forward" button and instant saves real make it a fun experience for the story without the chores of the grinding.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
We'll start to come around once our economy tanks because all the smart people are getting banned from entering...
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by odbol_ 9y ago
No, poor people would just see ads because they can't pay to remove them. Although I guess that's not a great target market...
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Apps still need to add the INTERNET permission to work. It's just now it's one of those that are automatically granted without action from the user. I suppose there could be some hack to disable it for certain apps though.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
You're calculating what it would cost to store a string representation of a date. Which is silly. You should always convert to a timestamp for storage. You can cram way more info into a single integer than you can with a base 10 stri
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Ah, much better way of phrasing it. Thanks
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by odbol_ 9y ago
> It borrows core ideas from the ubiquitous UUID standard, adding time-based ordering. Isn't time-based ordering bad, since it might allow hackers to predict UUID generation and use it to compromise security systems based on UUID?
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by odbol_ 9y ago
"No actual incidents" Have you been living under a rock? There are more than enough examples. Here's just a few examples documenting the sexism in science: http://www.nature.com/news/gender-imbalance-in-s
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by odbol_ 9y ago
One of the subjects of OP's article was a software engineer who could barely afford their apartment.
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Which ones? Github employees are pretty much all remote workers, and they are doing pretty well...
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by odbol_ 9y ago
Design for Time Well Spent http://www.timewellspent.io/
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by odbol_ 9y ago
I tried to write an extension that would hide all video/photo/link posts and only show pure text posts from my friends. It was really nice, although there wasn't much to the feed once all the garbage was hidden...
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by odbol_ 9y ago
So, they're moving all patent trials from Texas to Delaware (since 99% of tech companies are incorporated in Delaware). Doesn't seem like that big of an improvement.

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