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Re:Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:06AM (#34336864)
If only there was a way to filter out ifunny results, I absolutely detest that watermark.
Re:Running BGP in large-scale data centers on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @09:01AM (#28758792)
Automated testing and validation? Something like what the linked article says they have in place?

"To minimize impact on production traffic while achieving high release velocity for the BGP agent, we built our own testing and incremental deployment framework, consisting of unit testing, emulation, and canary testing. We use a multi-phase deployment pipeline to push changes to agents."

Link is broken.
Good to hear my distrust of credit card companies hasn't been in vain.

I've made all even remotely recurring sounding payments via paypal just for the ease of cancelling.

I really don't want to have to contact someone to cancel a payment when I can just do it myself.

Re:To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:25AM (#9413116)
Colour me skeptical.

You decreased sickess by 13.5% by covering up about that much of the screen.

Re:Feminist video-games talk pulled after massacre threat on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @12:09PM (#8459203)
You'd think an intelligence service would know that NSA isn't a friend and not repeat history. They did almost exactly the same thing in 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns

But ~ doesn't mean person. It means 'home'. Hence, 'ls ~' lists the contents of your home directory and 'cd ~root' takes you to home directory of root.

In web context ~user translated to 'home of user' which was fitting in most cases.

Microsoft too detects them now. Too late, but at least they are updating their signatures fairly rapidly.

Interestingly, both files were first uploaded to VT in 2010, meaning that AV vendors have had chances to analyze them.

Pretty depressing. Only 2 out of 54 scanners currently detect something in the zips of the spyware.

https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/6ee40b8e7d49f4ea70b7ce...

https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/688f1e15390faf8d977351...

Re:Why don’t designers take Android seriously? on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:37AM (#7458424)
No. And I said, these designers are a minority. Android is definitely hard to get "right" design-wise, but it can be done.

But if all you are trying to do is make it look like iOS, you are on the wrong track.

Monetization issues are a separate problem as far as I can see. While money can shift priorities, but shouldn't affect design.

Re:Why don’t designers take Android seriously? on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:53AM (#7457177)
You are right, I have but a little anecdotal evidence. In my experience there does exists a group of designers who view Apple to be the gospel of UI design, which can sometimes lead to them ignoring other schools of thought.
Re:Why don’t designers take Android seriously? on Monday March 24, 2014 @02:36AM (#7457037)
There also seems to an element of elitism among Apple fanboys, thinking their design is the only one that matters.

"Android users obviously picked their device for other reasons than design, so it doesn't have to look as good."

Re:Why Does Backspace Go Back A Page? on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:53AM (#7448699)
My laptops have different keyboard layouts which leads me to often press backspace in error when attempting to press page up/down keys.

I don't really care if it's the default or not, I would just want the option to turn it off in Chrome.

Well, they already seem to have a hangar and a big airship, which means they won't have to make massive initial investments like Cargolifter which instantly puts them in better position. Cargolifter built a massive hangar from scratch and didn't even get around to big ships before running out of money.
Their policy on this has been pointed out to be bad and absurd so many times by now that I'm leaning towards Hanlon's razor now: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Re:Planes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:40PM (#7343372)
It could be using a wavelengths that go through smog.
Re:Idaho law criminalizes secretly filming on farms on Sunday March 02, 2014 @09:32AM (#7329228)
At least this doesn't brand people doing this as terrorists, like in some states.
Re:Even Knowingly Taking A Placebo Seems To Help (2010) on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @06:32AM (#7304230)
Short humorous video of Ben Goldacre talking about placebo studies and the weird effects found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs
Re:Google Video Quality Report on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:37AM (#7101329)
So, what does it show?

I only get "Results from your location are not yet available."

Re:All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours on Friday December 23, 2011 @05:50PM (#3387534)
It's down. Anyone have a mirror?
Re:Facebook has your complete phonebook on Saturday August 06, 2011 @11:55AM (#2854136)
Wrong. I have used the facebook app on Nokia symbian phone, but I only see a short list of friends who have shared their number. Not even close to being a full address book.
Re:How do hackers balance their social life? on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @05:30AM (#1833581)
You also need to tell your workmates not to bother you when you have headphones on to maximize benefits from this. Works quite well for me.