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EwanG

1,378karma·583submissions·November 21, 2010
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Writer, Photographer, Programmer - Not necessarily in that order
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Ground penetrating radar?
11y ago·view thread
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Only problem I see with this is if they are trying to stream multiple users from a single server/copy. For example, my app saves state (though you can choose to clear it to start over from scratc…
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Wonder if it occurred to someone that Apple could simply buy Samsung...
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To Be Clear, they offer it, but T-Mobile will throttle your speeds after a certain number of megs. Sprint also used to do so, but apparently has stopped doing so due to a need to try to get folks to a…
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Such is the reason that the VM per app was born :-) Though since this was written in Unity, it would be pretty easy to detect if it were using any of the networking libraries.
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The way I have usually seen this expressed is that you take funding that would otherwise go to support/welfare programs, and use it to fund this. The problem becomes one of who is responsible if …
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I congratulate anyone that can get funding toward making their dream real. However after spending a year riding an electrically powered bike, I would be curious how this will address/handle the f…
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Could be worse. About five years ago I was interviewing at Amazon, and had gotten picked by the hiring manager and all that was left was a "trivial" HR screen. Lady there felt that since I h…
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For those not willing to read a full page, in the end run it is more an energy decision than a reliability decision. And they mention at the end that they are already looking into the 8TB Helium and 8…
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Amusing, given their past history with Skype, that this is not available for Windows Phone. Which is too bad as my SO carries a Lumia 1020 and if she can't use it I can't really use it eithe…
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Need any project managers? :-)
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Ahem... so my SO had a below the knee amputation a couple years ago. And the reality is that most insurance plans will NOT pay for an electrically powered leg of any sort. We fought hard this year to …
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And in the first paragraph it discusses that there IS some life there, just not much. Interesting, but a bit of a sensationalist title given it's the BBC.
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He's talking about the WiFi at various hotels and other venues and trying to explain how having the backhaul oversubscribed is causing the throughput to be next to nonexistant.
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50% of the proceeds from all my paintings here go to the Internet Archive. You get art, they get funding, and I get encouragement to keep doing these. Win-win-win, right?
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I might be more interested in reading this if I didn't have to answer a survey question before I can read the rest of the article. Non "paywall" version available anywhere?
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Speaking as someone who has stuff in Google Play - perhaps. But it may also make it easier for someone with a great idea but not a lot of programming experience able to get something out that outweigh…
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