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NobleSir

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    Comment #12145133

    ah yeah, I actually use a macbook and surface pro 2 at the same time as pictured: ( http://imgur.com/a/fqf3P ) combined specs are actually similar to a new mb pro (combined 512 gb …

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    Comment #12144953

    for whiteboarding: onenote on surfaces? (which syncs almost real-time) This is what I use, for those kind of things, as someone working remotely

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    Comment #12117550

    Well, I wasn't there so idk about that, but it looks like 3/7 of the "most important announcements of build 2016" are directly related to windows 10 mobile ^[1] 1. "Microsoft is la…

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    Comment #12115758

    For windows, conemu ( http://conemu.github.io ) is a bit more annoying to configure than terminal.app, but works just as well, and even has the more powerful built in features like…

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    Comment #12115392

    4ish years ago I had an old, unupdated netbook get infected with conduit extension, which spread through the sync mechanism to my newer laptops.

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    Comment #12115064

    Well, I haven't used the 620, but my anecdotal experience has been the opposite. List of recent devices I own that are unbroken: lumia 521, 950, and Kyocera Rise. broken: nexus 7 (…

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    Comment #12114843

    >given up on mobile I don't know about that, they sure have been pushing a lot of new builds lately : https://www.reddit.com/domain/blogs.windows.com/search?q=bui... though I guess…

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    Comment #12112486

    So glad I pay taxes

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    Comment #12109202

    So, basically if you plan to compete with facebook territory as a small startup, then it seems to follow that you either (1) Have patents / use a react alternative, such as vue (no…

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    Comment #12108738

    >So, in that case, I don't feel like Facebook is really being contrary here. They are basically saying, "As long as you don't sue us for patent infringement, we promise not to sue …

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    Comment #12104879

    just looked myself up through that link, and apparently, me too!

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    Comment #12104309

    Afaik there is lightning, thunder, raiden, and now bolt. That said, bolt looks pretty useful on first skim, and I wouldn't be surprised if it gets implemented for monero (I know th…

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    Comment #12079640

    One downside compared to micro-usb in my experience was having my macbook stop charging after (apparently) using the wrong usb-C adapter. I don't think I ever worried about which a…

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    Comment #12060130

    >Why is okay for mathemeticians to abbreviate things but programmers? Is it because they deal in more abstract entities where the name is irrelevant? for example, xyz^2 in a piece …

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    Comment #12052371

    cool, thanks

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    Comment #12051633

    Maybe this is a naive question, not knowing chrome well, but is the source available? Would love to play around with this..

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    Comment #11996943

    Eh, I don't think we should discourage whistleblowers because it's not "cool" anymore because someone else did it first..

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    Comment #11978706

    Ah ok I'm not necessarily so much interested in using it, but have been looking into the details of the signal ratchet recently, and was wondering what the specific changes / ratio…

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    Comment #11978224

    Would also love to hear a point-by-point comparison of the two..

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    Comment #11978157

    I see - I searched for a while and it seems (if I'm reading correctly) that right in the RFC from 1999 it says to use / check prime-ness of the modulus: http://tools.ietf.org/html/…

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    Comment #11977785

    For someone whose almost exclusively studied cryptography in cyclic curve groups rather than cyclic integer groups (coming from an algebraic geometry background). Maybe someone can…

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    Comment #11956419

    My favorite proofs of these basic number theory facts are in Apostols, Intro to Analytic Number Theory. At best the FTA using the proof there is only slightly less than obvious (of…

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    Comment #11946366

    I used a script which organized latex/ screenshots of papers the first two years of my ph.d, which sounds sort if like what your talking about.. After that I switched to (premium) …

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    Comment #11901513

    Thanks I didn't know those terms.