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I feel like he went through all this effort just to make the joke "A more perfect union."

But seriously, a great write up. std::any looks like it could be dangerous in the hands of the inexperienced, especially in a sea of other changes that makes working with types easier and safer.

Why not? Is having zero interfaces not distinct from having one interface?

Great CG playing against good cg (not all characters/env are created equal) makes the great CG stand out as realistic. Great CG playing against real life makes the great CG look off and less realistic. I think your example is a matter of contrast more than technology.

Google can easily tell how much time you spend on a page, or when you click links, and if they wanted, even how your mouse moves. If the idea is to hide this information from Google itself, it seems pointless, just don't use Google.

Based on a cookie, but Telegram integrated login coming soon per their twitter.

Yea, this is a very misleading use of the word exploit. Especially given the wariness of Telegram usually expressed on HN.

> Nothing to see here

I feel like this is an overly dismissive attitude to have, even, or especially if, everything you said is true and this is some common behavior.

> Oculus' thing is that they want to "do VR right".

If that were true, then they would not have shipped without VR controls. Having an XBox One controller be the standard baseline for VR is detrimental to the entire industry.

No upload element. Obscurity keeps it out of the targets a lot of times. Though DMCA requests definitely have a strong reach into Usenet now.

> When someone passes away, for example, it would be a terrible compounding tragedy if all their photos from their whole life passed away along with them, because they didn't tell anyone their password or where they kept the backup key.

Would you really expect Apple to recover the data in this scenario for the next of kin? I certainly wouldn't, and I wouldn't want them to.

I had a much less pleasant experience, when an ATM ate my check. Basically they would send a tech out in 3-6 hours, and retrieve the check, and give it to me. Luckily I lived down the street so that wasn't that big of an inconvenience, and they gave me a call, but I was pretty annoyed.

This looks great, I'd not have known about it were it not for this post on HN! Grabbed the $50 level as I'm an SD native so a launch party sounds like a lot of fun.

Getters and setters are not just there to work around the visibility system. Just making everything public doesn't change the fact that C++ lacks properties, and you cannot change a concrete value into a calculated value without changing the API.

Except the title is barely visible in most browsers these days, where it has to fit in a tab.

For the curious, this is about 8,470,329.47 yottabytes.

For the even more curious, a scale to think about from wikipedia[1]: In 2010, it was estimated that storing a yottabyte on terabyte-size hard drives would require one million city block size data-centers, as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte#Examples

When was the last time you thought about IRQ settings?

And I would say the market on that need is pretty small, as originally stated, not nonexistent.

Use a throw-away GVoice account?

Both are being sold by the third party PUR