zeffr

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by zeffr 10y ago
Maybe no one on HN or in your circle of friends, but I think you massively overestimate the average user's sense of data protection.
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by zeffr 10y ago
It's a free game everyone. When something is free to play, and involves you walking around with geo services and a camera on, you and your data are the product. This is just massive data collection disguised as a video game.
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by zeffr 13y ago
Don't fix what ain't broke? Beer causing problems in the office is a personnel problem, not a "beer in the office problem".
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by zeffr 14y ago
Hacker Keyboard. It will let you send keystrokes via the keyboard instead of needing connectbot. unless you meant an actual bluetooth keyboard, then its just a matter of foldable vs fixed and what you like more. My dad uses this: http://ww
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by zeffr 14y ago
I think it's a bit more important to look at which degree was obtained, not just that a degree was obtained. I don't seem to be having any issues here with a CS degree.
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by zeffr 14y ago
its an absolutely EPIC tool. I use my phone right now for sshing into my home machines and getting analytics, benchmarks, error logs, making spot changes to files, editing users and groups, etc. If you have a smartphone with a foldout keybo
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by zeffr 14y ago
Good article about finding out how to get motivated to learn something, but this has very little to do with coding aside from the context of the goal. Aside from that, stuff like: "Here's why I finally learned to code: I've been a web entre
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by zeffr 14y ago
"I wonder why this has not been developed by the military / government." They actually outlined this in the article. The reason pretty much boils down to the fact that gear specifically for the military has to adhere to whatever crazy shit
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by zeffr 14y ago
I would say that the list boils down to free-form vs. structured more than anything else. All python code looks about the same due to it's structured nature. Because of this, the language appears more "elegant". I'm a devout PHP coder, and
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by zeffr 14y ago
try Hackers keyboard in conjunction with connectbot. Makes life much better if you don't have a physical keypad. edit: I should elaborate. You dont really even need connectbot with hackerkeyboard as the multi keypress features aren't needed
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by zeffr 14y ago
I have, and it certainly is an improvement in my eyes, however the biggest difficulty when doing UX is, to put it bluntly, getting yourself in the mindset of an absolutely clueless user. My dad is over 60 and loves his nexus 7, but trying t
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by zeffr 14y ago
I've been living on 2.3 for the past 2 years. Haptic feedback has always had an option to disable. I'm pretty sure I've seen settings to even change the intensity of said feedback. In fact, most of this guys issues are either a) apps I want
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by zeffr 14y ago
Nope. It's been what, only 2 years in to NASCAR actually having EFI engines? Even then, the teams were restricted from being able to use all of the data from the ECU, so everyone had to run at gimped tuning. V8 Supercars, for example, debut