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largote··on How much would unlimited access to movies, books, magazines, and music cost?
I personally only care about the shipping. I'd gladly ditch all of the other tack-on services for $10 less a year.
largote··on I took ads off my site and replaced with Bitcoin donations, it didn't work.
Of course it didn't work...
largote··on 2048 As A Service
For reference: perl -e 'my $host = "http://2048.semantics3.com/hi/";my $cmd = "curl --silent -L $host"."start";my $output = `$cmd`;my $session_id = $output;$session_id=~s/.?ID:\s(\w+)./$1/si;my %keyMap = ( 'w' => 0, 'd' => 1, 's' => 2, 'a' => 3);print STDERR $output,"\n";while(1) { print STDERR "Input (w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down):\n"; my $userInput = <STDIN>; chomp ($userInput); if(defined($keyMap{$userInput})) { $userInput = $keyMap{$userInput}; } else { print STDERR "Invalid move.. w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down\n"; next; } my $cmd = "curl --silent $host"."state/$session_id/move/$userInput"; my $output = `$cmd`; print STDERR "\n$output\n"; if($output=~/Message:/si) { exit(0); }}'
largote··on 2048 As A Service
That "Sexy Perl one-liner" is hilarious.
largote··on The tourist map of flash drives
Unfortunately this has the effect of giving you the impression that you're reliably visualizing the data when it just provides a visualization loosely based on reality.
largote··on The tourist map of flash drives
have hte y-axis be log2 of the capacity?
largote··on The tourist map of flash drives
Not being able to rely on the graph being properly sorted makes it a bit useless...
largote··on The tourist map of flash drives
YES, that would help as currently you can see 256GB drives beneath 64GB ones in the capacity axis (which is terrible).
largote··on The tourist map of flash drives
This is way more useful.
largote··on 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Infrastructure
Those news were completely unsurprising.
largote··on God's Number is 20
It would seem to me that this kind of program would be heavily reliant on branching for which Vector processing (which is what GPUs excel at) is not the best choice.
largote··on The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion
Paying for received texts is a US-only thing.
largote··on Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
SMSs are expensive and people just don't prioritize email like they do IMs.
largote··on 4K is for programmers
Because projectors in a given price range have much lower image quality (contrast in particular) than TVs in the same price range.
largote··on 4K is for programmers
There's absolutely no difference from 60Hz to anything above it.
largote··on Go 1.3+ Compiler Overhaul
That is not an article, it's a design document.
largote··on Luna delivers your packages when you're home for the night
He probably meant a private mailing box (PMB) rather than an actual PO Box.
largote··on Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit card
Doesn't the merchant bear the cost of the fraud ONLY if they'r e using obsolete equipment?
largote··on Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings
Only a very small proportion of the population cares about this.
largote··on Extending Chrome support for XP users until April 2015
Except Vista (and consequently 7) did massive reworkings of things that were fundamentally broken or obsolete in XP.

Things as they were in XP are not worth keeping or branching as it is an old outdated OS and fixing it would basically produce Win 7 (or even Vista).

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