programmer_man

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by programmer_man 10y ago
The distinction is that when you visit a place of business, the data is under the control of the business owner. When you visit you friend's house, the data is not under their control, it is under Google's control. Therefore, Goog
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by programmer_man 10y ago
No, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop Kind of related, it was a COM control you could stretch over your whole desktop, that received push notifications. Also, I believe it was TOTALLY secure. Edit: Dan
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by programmer_man 10y ago
Probably the HDMI port.
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by programmer_man 10y ago
They meant "hey that made me think of a related story"
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by programmer_man 10y ago
Yes, Thinkpads have traditionally had the best linux hardware support of all laptops, ever since there were x86 laptops (the easiest installs were thinkpads, and toshiba, early on). Now, this piece of hardware removes support for the standa
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by programmer_man 10y ago
Are you implying that Apple's motivation in making their maps product was to fight the privacy abuses of a large, wealthy corporation?
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by programmer_man 10y ago
Typo: "alternatives and way(s) to improve it"
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by programmer_man 10y ago
Perhaps it is we who are the potatoes.
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by programmer_man 10y ago
The point of trademark is to protect the reputation of the company using the mark just as much as protecting the customer from being mislead.
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by programmer_man 10y ago
I use mine solely to make sure I don't miss calls texts, and appointments. But you know yourself. Would you be tempted to load flappy bird onto it right away? Would you forward your facebook notifications to it? Fortunately, there isn&
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by programmer_man 10y ago
Another option: caption of your own pirate ship, inside a giant battleship.
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by programmer_man 11y ago
The word transpiler was used before we had web browsers, much less javascript. Point taken that it is still a compiler.
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by programmer_man 11y ago
It probably means that it was written before we had a complete and correct implementation of the STL on all major compilers. Google around for Visual Studio 6 STL, and take into account the fact that most organizations don't upgrade ri