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I'm pretty sure Cable boxes all have HDMI these days, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Monitors won't have an over-the-air tuner, so, you'd need to use an external device to watch broadcast TV.

Thanks for pointing that out -- I skipped over that first footnote. On my screen, it's on the previous page from the quote I posted (for what it's worth).

From the dissent: "In the 1990s, Oracle created a programming language called Java..."

Sun Microsystems was acquired in 2010... I guess I should give Thomas the benefit of the doubt that he intended the statement to apply to Oracle's owned IP & not be a historical account of the language's creation and creators, but this rubbed me the wrong way.

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It's a great way to get started building a "modern web app" for folks who aren't comfortable rolling their own e.g. webpack / babel configs.

If you ever want to have more control, you can "eject" & customize however you like.

Fortran on Funicular :)

> autonomous blockchains

It just _has_ to be satire, though!

> "android is awful!" ... "I bought a cheap one"

Nothing like condemning the entirety of a thing based on a single limited intentionally-bottom-of-the-barrel experience!

Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20160530234212/https://www.speak...

Original link worked for me, fwiw.

This list linked at the bottom is pretty insightful for Google products & relevant mitigations:

> You can learn more about mitigations that have been applied to Google’s infrastructure, products, and services here[1].

Confirms the `chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process` flag is useful here & sure enough, the 2018-01-05 SPL was waiting for me on my Pixel when I looked.

1. https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7622138

The STTNG Episode "The Game"[1] comes to mind :)

In the show, the device physically stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain to the point that players are highly addicted & easily manipulated.

I interpret it as allegory to the way "real" video games leverage variable rewards & other reinforcement to do something similar.

1. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Game_(episode)

I don't think your criticism is very obvious. Can you elaborate?

The Bartle Test is a pretty common tool / consideration in gaming psych & gamified interfaces.

How is this licensed? Perhaps I'm missing it, but I can't seem to find mention of it on the site or in the repo: https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil

Do everything you can to advance the "open web" (or publishing & distribution of content in general) and eschew "walled gardens" (corporate or otherwise).

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+1 To add to this, part of the draw of Uber for me is its ubiquity (& Lyft, but it's less widespread). My consumer experience is maintained in different international & US markets.

I don't have to worry about securing local currency before I can get around -- it just uses my card (which doesn't charge a fee to convert).

I don't have to worry about not being able to explain where I'm trying to go across language barriers or various levels of familiarity with a locale -- the built-in map app works the same way in Paris, London, Prague as it does in San Francisco or Durham. The GPS features keep drivers honest as to routes and adds a (small) sense of security as you know your journey is being tracked in case something goes sideways.

All that said, LibreTaxi looks really promising & I really like the premise behind it. Maybe, some day, I'll not want the tracking features, for example. I hope it takes off!

This is really well done. I'm fairly familiar with React & was able to pick this up around Section 3 "Core Components" [0] & feel like I could be decently productive with React Native.

Thanks for sharing your work!

[0] http://www.reactnativeexpress.com/core_components

This works for me as well. If there's no option to preorder, usually there's a pasta option that's passable.

Nice! I figured it existed, but a cursory search didn't find it. Thanks.

Someone needs to convert `capital_P_dangit` to a userscript :)

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/capital_P_dan...

Excellent news. I wonder what the radio components will do to overall power consumption of the board. It should be considerably lower than a USB combo wifi / bt device, anyhow, no?

multiplier: You're trading adequate compensation for some potential upside.

It's not a matter of me being offended (I'm not), I would just hope the company I worked for wouldn't stand for something as vulgar, primitive, and blatantly aggressive toward a competitor as this in a public, flagship product.

One can only hope that if this was intentionally done by an employee, they would be punished and possibly let go. This sort of thing is childish, unnecessary, and has no place in a professional organization.

Quasi-related: http://jenmylo.com/2015/03/23/defending-drupal/

Pretty fast considering the amount of hardware being targeted and the amount of enhancements above and beyond stock Android that they are supporting. I mean, they're bringing Lollipop to HTC's flagship device (m8) before HTC is (if you don't count the "Developer Edition").

I'm not sure how this pertains to Open Source communities across the board..? Seems to be a pretty targeted indictment of the Linux dev community. There are plenty that don't stand for the type of bad acting described here.

Really cool project. Thanks for sharing the source.

As an aside, I noticed it was renamed from "Picsou" (https://github.com/wit-ai/duckling/commit/0d9f666ae4da114803...)

Were you worried about getting scrooged by Disney? :)

I got turned away at a Walgreens pharmacy Friday afternoon because their "system was down." The pharmacist said it was affecting "all stores.". Interesting coincidence if it's not related to this roll out.

I can't speak for typical or usual, but, I attended 2 ACM ICPC regionals (southeast) & am gainfully employed in software. Last I knew, my two teammates were as well.

Of course raw coding talent & algorithmic skill are paramount, but what's neat about this contest is there is only one keyboard per team, so things like these quickly set teams apart:

* ordering the problems according to difficulty

* architecting a solution before implementing it

* concise, effective, communication

* using brute force when elegance adds time

* knowing your environment like the back of your hand

* ability to thrive under pressure

In my opinion, skills like these translate really well to success in the fast-paced, agile shops that are flourishing in many markets.

The DOS prompt is dark and full of terrors