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littledot5566

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littledot5566··on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
Does a speedometer record how fast you were going 1 minute before the crash.
littledot5566··on Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
Your data is worth way more than $3
littledot5566··on Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
Umm... all it did was give "S" pieces... I hate it, so mission accomplished...

replay of last game: హࢯජݹ௨ชഫݪݻටի໒௩ѻІӻѻඡІܡமʟІלԥටМܭޠقฅɚࢴටໃɟ௨౾ȣυԥඤІݳ౻బໃݹഭࡄໃלஐ3

littledot5566··on Uber shuts down app that told drivers if Uber underpaid them
To be fair to Google & Uber, this rule is well-known amongst Android developers. You can only use names like "X for Brand", while "BrandX" "Brand X" "X Brand" can result in take-downs.

The author can simply rename the app to "Cheats for Uber" and the app should pass.

littledot5566··on GameStop appoints chief technology officer and two additional executive hires
The devil is always in the details.

Also, wouldn't it make more sense to poach from Valve or Epic?

littledot5566··on Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
What about finishing the thread? https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1167463077748436993 seems to imply entire files are uploaded.
littledot5566··on Phabricator – GitHub Alternative written in PHP used by the Wikimedia Foundation
I really wish Phabricator Tasks could have custom statuses and not just "Open/Close". This would make the Workboard feature so much more useful.
littledot5566··on Reverse engineering of competitor’s software cost company big
Even if they did shut down, couldn't they just rebootstrap as another LLC add do it the "right" way this time?
littledot5566··on YC’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide
This is where the Asian culture 'gets it right'. Instead of putting money in a regular envelope, they color it red. Now it's a fancy hong bao, or red envelope.
littledot5566··on Programming Is a Dead End Job
Yeah, Jeff Dean would probably disagree with this post too.
littledot5566··on 2048
Managers around the world grieve as they know millions of man hours will be lost.
littledot5566··on Google won’t bring Fiber to San Francisco
For ESL:

NIMBY Not In My Back Yard; someone who opposes anything built right by where they live. NIMBYs cause a lot of things to not get done.

littledot5566··on Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again
Perhaps this could be automated by finding the same content in two versions of the dom and then doing a diff on the structure, updating the rules?
littledot5566··on LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack
>I think a better strategy is (1) your own domain and/or (2) a site on github with actual code to validate* your talents.

That's because their target audience is not restricted to the tech savvy. Not everyone knows how to host and maintain their own domain. Not everyone uses github or know what git is.

This was basically why LinkedIn came into fruition in the first place.

littledot5566··on Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU
Rather, they are louder.
littledot5566··on Alberta man may be first to sell house for Bitcoin
My first reaction was: How is Bitcoin taxed in Canada?

After looking around, they indeed are: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/535/tax-implicati...

"Bitcoin would fall in the same category as foreign currency or barter, and would be taxable. In Canada, barter is sometimes exempt from taxation"

It would be interesting to see under what conditions are Bitcoin considered as goods rather than currency.

littledot5566··on First-person Tetris
It wouldn't be too hard to implement your 1st person tetris because once you rotate to the left, right and upward, simply paint the user a blank screen because the block can no longer see anything. :D
littledot5566··on Show HN: Bindroid - a data binding framework for Android
1. I don't think ListAdapters can be bound because ListViews recycle views. I don't think you can bind 1 view to many objects.
littledot5566··on Seattle drinking den bans Google Glass geeks
> There are thousands of problems that Google Glasses could solve.

And they leave it to 3rd party developers to solve them, it's similar to stock Android. Their calculator app is baseline, but the devs branch out more products with different features.

littledot5566··on Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise
Relax Daily. Good for coding, reading and sleeping. http://relaxdaily.net/relaxation-music-instrumentals/

Here's a mix of most of his previous works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycqF1CWcXg

littledot5566··on Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
The color swatches paired up very nicely!
littledot5566··on Show HN: Breakpoint.io - Share and get feedback on your side projects
Site is down.
littledot5566··on Heroku Fucking Console
Thanks for that fucking link. It's fucking useful!
littledot5566··on Bad sleep 'dramatically' alters body
From my personal experiences, having a quality roommate (not in same bed) forces me to adopt a normal sleep schedule. I don't want my activities to wake my roommate up and turn his day bad, so I sleep shortly after my roommate goes to bed. But when I live alone, I procrastinate my sleep, I would rather watch videos than go to bed, it wouldn't disturb anyone anyways, and the chances of having an abnormal sleep schedule becomes the norm.

Perhaps there is some psychological/social aspects to sleeping and what you and I have described falls into this aspect.

littledot5566··on DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels
Smoking inside a mortar factory...?

I cringe looking at that picture...

littledot5566··on DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political
It's as if choosing between a douche and a turd sandwich.
littledot5566··on Students to e-textbooks: no thanks
I find the ability to highlight sentences and paragraphs a big boost to my studying efficiency. But highlighting on books, make one mistake and you're screwed.
littledot5566··on Learn Git Branching
Thanks for all the hard work! As a git noob, this is extremely useful to me. Thanks again!

By the way, what are some recommended git GUIs for linux?

littledot5566··on Computer science students successfully boycott class final
That's why is the highest grade were to be 0, everyone would get infinite marks that caps at 100.
littledot5566··on HTML5 color palette tool
Really cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.
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