When you do run out of verification codes, but you do have a working phone the 6 digit codes can also be sent to you through text messages or even a phone call from Gmail.
Wow, this would be an excellent feature. Although I've got 2 factor authentication set up for my whole account and it doesn't really bother me, I would like to see something like this. An extra measure to protect certain emails would be really helpful.
Indeed, anytime I login a a mental note pops up saying how insecure this is considering the files stored on Dropbox. Yesterday I received a phonecall from a friend whose Gmail and Facebook were hacked, after I had advised her to use 2-factor authentication and she ignored it. So glad that I do use it but now Dropbox remains the weakest link.
There was a good deal of discussion around storing European banking data in the US by the SWIFT network. The anti-terrorism legislation passed in the US which in effect meant that European banking customer data was accessible to the US. This was in violation of EU privacy laws.
Did that too after I became annoyed by the Googling of the headlines in Facebook just to avoid the app. Yesterday I discovered that pressing cancel will get you to the article, so I deleted the app.
Nonetheless, it's still a nuisance to click on an article headline and not get there right away.
Indeed, very annoying. I want to share stuff with my friends and love the granular approach I can now take but if it means I publicly have to +1 it. I have no idea how public that is, can people see a list of all things I +1'd? Can friends?
I still wish there are going to be some syntax improvements to Python then. Matlab's way of working with matrices is simply excellent. Formulas on paper map almost one to one to the code. Apart from that I'd take Python over Matlab any day but am forced to work with it for some of my classes.
From their blogpost/terms of service
We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example, hosting your files, or sharing them at your direction.
I assume they mean discretion instead of direction. A bit sloppy, especially regarding all the fuzz the new terms gave.
The piece of paper tells the app the position of the animation and is removed by the app from the video in the iPad. If you look closely you'll see the app projects some kind of wooden surface where the piece of paper was, this could be a pattern recognition thing (looking at the surrounding pattern and filling in the paper with that pattern) or just a custom job.
Facebook has an SDK written in PHP so you should be able to work with that. It's pretty simple if you follow the examples. As of yet there is no official SDK for Ruby though the unofficial implementations are pretty decent and easy to work with.
Agreed, my group of friends organise stuff using email threads. Events (theatre, concerts etc.) are put in a Google Calendar for us all to see. It's really useful to e.g. keep track of people's travelling plans, birthdays and other such stuff. Unfortunately, Calendar does not have some desirable features such as seeing that an event is added, changed or deleted and by whom. I hope some of these features will be available in Google Plus.
This is what I also do, any step in a derivation I would glance over when read must be fully understood and proved whenever I write it down. Every non-trivial result in my math books is written down so I can fully comprehend what's going on.
Wouldn't work for individual songs, this is where algorithms like the ones Shazam and LaLa use come into play since they'll actually look at the audio file. Getting this correct is pretty important or you'll end up with the wrong songs.
Pirates can actually try to game the algorithm and rip albums in bad quality to minimize file size but good enough for Apple to recognize the songs as such.
I use MatLab mostly for statistical purposes, together with EViews (statistical software geared towards econometrics). This could certainly ease the transition towards R and replace both aforementioned tools.
I was halfway a weekend project to find out GAE can't do LIKE-statements or an equivalent thereof, only with some hacking this is sort of possible. Moved the project to RoR and got it working in no time.
Another project I had couldn't be done because the datastore was to slow. I love GAE, and use it for quite some little projects but you have to know its limitations. SQL (and hopefully the speed that comes with it) are certainly a step in the right direction.
With a Codebasehq account also comes a free deployhq account. You commit changes to your git-branch and deployhq will ssh into your production server and update the code. Extra commands (e.g. rake db:migrate) can also be executed. It's basically like Capistrano but as-a-service, but easier to set up (and less versatile probably, but I haven't come across anything I couldn't do).
They're also working on Deliverhq, basically transactional email delivery like Sendgrid.
I've seen this happen on occasion and it's the one thing that really pisses me off about Spotify. I expect music that's in my playlists to actually be there when I want to play it. I pay for it, it's legal and it earns the labels more than the thousands of people who use Pirate Bay. When they yank the music I listen to, away from Spotify it makes me want to fire up my BitTorrent-client again.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide comes to mind. 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. I guess many hackers will get the reference.
Works on my 2.1 HTC Hero. It surprised me, didn't think it would be so simple. I'm a bit concerned over the privacy and security implications of this feature though. How is it guaranteed that only Google can trigger app installations? What else can Google trigger on my phone?
I've often wondered why MailChimp doesn't offer more support for transactional mails. I know there is some stuff in the API but it seems bolted on (am I wrong?). I would really like to use the standard templating for email campaigns that MailChimp has, and use it for transactional mails. An API call to MailChimp with some some arguments would then send a template, the variables (dynamically) filled in, to the user.
Email campaigns are so easy in MailChimp and I'd like to maintain the look of those mails in my transactional mails. Nonetheless, you guys provide a great service!
How are they dealing with Google AppEngine's support for 2.5 when Django reaches 1.4? Or is AppEngine also expected to upgrade to 2.6 (or higher) anytime soon?
IIRC the property overloading in PHP is slow, especially compared to hardcoding the getters and setters, so you're better off hardcoding them. Property overloading in itself is a neat feature for syntactic sugar, for example an object with (semi-)dynamic properties like in an ORM. Other properties of classes, those nog generated on the fly, are better off with the getters and setters written out.
I did the exact same thing a year back, except for the books. Spotlight for the searching, Dropbox for the backups and an scansnap for the pdfs. It's working great, whenever I want to look something up I just search for the key words and there it is. It's a pity there is no search functionality in the Dropbox site. I don't think I'll part with my books though, but being able to search through them would be awesome.
Yep, my brother had one and lost it soon after he got it.
My father got another one though and I must say it really works, you automatically lean into the wind with the umbrella. Can't say I use it a lot though, I mostly travel by bike and if it's really raining a poncho is much easier than holding up an umbrella.
I would love to see Python become the standard language for scientific computing including statistics but right now R is popular and gets it done. Don't get me wrong, R is excellent for its purpose and I like working with it and its many specialized libraries. However, Python is fun to hack away in and is more of a multipurpose language.
R works for me right now so that's what I'll stick to.
I found a way to access last year's exams by doing some url magic in the course catalog so I could access the Blackboard page of previous years the course was offered. Same type of questions came up every year so I knew where to focus on. It's no longer working though since they upgraded Blackboard. Also, googling for the solutions manual has worked for me a few times.
I would certainly look into it. I regularly stumble upon words I don't know (or don't know the exact meaning of) either in my native tongue (Dutch) or in English even though my vocabulary in both languages is extensive. Sometimes I write them down or store them somewhere but mostly I do not because it's not worth the effort. If it's easy to store words into this service, through an extension or a bookmarklet, it might work for me.
A problem I come across with Dutch words is that there is no proper Dutch dictionary on the internet and I have to VPN into the university library to look up the definition, which is a bit of a hassle.
Aggregated data of the users might also provide valuable information as to which words are generally considered difficult.
This week I played a track only to find it had actually changed since last time I played it. The original was retracted and instead I got an alternative version.
Nonetheless I'm happy with Spotify, although the number of unavailable records is increasing