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Re:Scroll Slow. Have Fun on Friday January 09, 2015 @06:49AM (#8861810)
Also on an older iPad
Re:When printf debugging is a luxury (2010) on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:00PM (#8841501)
A game that is popular at my school has these modal ads with a close button that is smaller than you can accurately tap. Every third time it opens I end up in the App Store. It drives me nuts. A confirmation would be nice.
Re:When printf debugging is a luxury (2010) on Saturday January 03, 2015 @05:30PM (#8832304)
The greatest "feature" of Blogspot. It is the most obnoxious thing on mobile devices.
Re:GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang on Friday January 02, 2015 @04:11PM (#8828574)
No, smaller, because you don't need the Go compiler to run it, just to build it. Therefore, you won't need the compiler at all, just the binary.
Re:GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang on Friday January 02, 2015 @04:10PM (#8828569)
Somebody rewrote hub in Go a while ago and called it gh. The team behind hub only decided recently to merge in gh and make it the new, GitHub-approved version of hub.
Re:The Horror of Cross-platform Audio Output on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @05:08PM (#8732031)
MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/) will render LaTeX math in the browser. The result is quite pretty.
Re:Firefox for iOS on GitHub on Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:22PM (#8702775)
They have no other choice; Apple won't accept apps with custom web rendering engines.
Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst on Saturday November 29, 2014 @09:10AM (#8673751)
Two non-digits followed by three non-whitespace characters
Re:Try Git on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @09:42PM (#8665738)
nano is less confusing than vim, though that is another bad habit to form. I used it for a very long time, but switching to vim has been amazing. I think that -m is probably best for teaching a beginner, though.
Re:Try Git on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @04:14PM (#8664620)
I've wondered for a while how they deal with situations like that. For instance, when they implemented stars, there was likely a user named stars, but then they reserved /stars for their new feature, presumably removing that user. I just wonder if they emailed the user and said, Hi, we need your username for a new feature. Thanks, GitHub.
Re:WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:47AM (#8657892)
Unrelated: Don't factory reset your router. The software to set it up requires you to downgrade to 10.7 or something. It'd be nice if linksys would update their software, or at least remove the version cap.
Re:Chrome for Mac 64-bit Support on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @09:11PM (#8627825)
> Thanks for your patience, everyone.

5 years and 3 months after the issue was opened...

I wonder how many of the cheap web hosts will impelent this. I think the increased hosting cost on top of the certificate itself also discourages people from using TLS. Wishful thinking, perhaps...
Re:The Middle School Plunge on Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:08PM (#8615434)
Where I live, elementary starts at 8, middle starts at 9, and high school starts at the wonderful time of 7:30. The transition from middle school to high school was especially painful. I wish we used the times your district used; they make so much more sense than ours.
I'm sure my math teacher would love me playing this in class. It's amazing what you can do with just a calculator.
I don't understand how copyright would help in this case.
Re:The Man Who Solved the Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:24PM (#8555005)
Fermat's last theorem has been proven; there is no solution, people. In this case, you can't verify this using "any old calculator," as most show only ten digits and these diverge at digit 12.
Re:What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? on Monday November 03, 2014 @07:37PM (#8554535)
Any podcast recommendations for the HN crowd? I personally listen to Hello Internet (CGP Grey and Brady Haran) and Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project (Adam Savage and friends).
Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be? on Friday October 31, 2014 @08:02PM (#8541704)
Couldn't you generate a UUID and then check the database that it is unique before using it? You could then repeat until you got a unique identifier.
The Florida standardized math tests and the SAT have fill-in math questions as well as multiple choice. Teachers themselves can choose whether the students must show their work for their tests. In my experience, most only check the answer, but some do check the work.
This is not the first library I've seen like that. I'm curious, though. Do any apps actually use logging this extensively? The telnet certainly seems a bit over the top.
Re:Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety on Friday October 10, 2014 @09:48PM (#8440957)
Agreed. Tampa, Orlando, and the other big cities are like any others. In the middle of the state or the Everglades, though, you can go miles without even a turnoff.
Re:Show HN: Deploy your websites from Dropbox on Sunday September 21, 2014 @01:14PM (#8347646)
How do you deal with naming conflicts?
Re:Transmit for iOS on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @05:51PM (#8332582)
No
Re:Bukkit no longer available for download. Hit with DMCA takedown. on Thursday September 04, 2014 @05:37PM (#8270791)
Fun fact: Mojang bought Bukkit. (@jeb_ tweeted the other day. This notice states that bukkit uses Minecraft's code without permission, and it did at one point. Now, though, as Mojang owns both, I think it should be allowed. Oh, and a Mojang employee (Dinnerbone) has stated he will be updating it to support 1.8.
Re:Apple two-step protection won’t protect your data on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @06:13PM (#8260479)
Nothing has changed, this is how Apple's 2FA still works. It's relevant because this is how the celebrity hacking happened this weekend: their passwords were brute forced, and they didn't need to break the 2FA as well because it is only needed to make purchases.
Re:Mosh: A replacement for SSH on Monday September 01, 2014 @12:32PM (#8253642)
Kill the pane (prefix x) and then run `reset`, maybe?

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