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Simucal

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    Comment #28094547

    These aren’t cryptographic hashes. They are perceptual hashes and a picture of a picture could absolutely end up with the same phash value.

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    Comment #10452956

    Do you have a centralized nsqd instance, or do you have a 1:1 relationship between nsqd instances and producers?

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    Comment #8642554

    What kind of impact is Let's Encrypt going to have on the CA industry? I'm not that familiar with the current state of the CA companies, nor do I understand this industry well enou…

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    Comment #8547874

    This is probably to late for your use, but there is a neat Mac utility called iExplorer that lets you browse your iDevice's filesystem and copy files off of it. I'm pretty sure you…

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    Comment #8544673

    PocketCasts is far and away my favorite podcast app. You should check it out. They have both an Android, iOS and web client.

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    Comment #8544639

    I'm curious to hear what you specifically like about Stitcher. I have tried, and own, almost all of the major podcast apps and it was my least favorite experience so far. Their who…

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    Comment #8388645

    I'm one of the people that bought Launcher when I first heard about it. I often switch between one of several bluetooth devices and adding a link that takes me straight to the blue…

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    Comment #8185419

    With tools like these out there, what can we do to protect ourselves? Besides not downloading binaries over HTTP (which still wouldn't protect you if a CA has been compromised) wha…

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    Comment #8074396

    Is the iOS8 to OS X phone call handoff working yet? I tried an earlier beta and it wasn't ready.

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    Comment #8029550

    The MUD that I played on in middle school and high school, Viking MUD, is still around. http://www.vikingmud.org I think the directions to the main areas will be burned into my mem…

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    Comment #7768194

    Can you give some examples of ways to counter the Machiavellian management techniques?

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    Comment #7674739

    Thiago claims that one of Vim's biggest problems is its lack of testing infrastructure. It is difficult to refactor or make changes without the chance of introducing some possibly …

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    Comment #7621571

    I think the fee could be applied only to unsolicited emails. If I have a particular email address whitelisted then it will get through my gateway with no fee attached. However, if …

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    Comment #7615834

    I'm writing an iPad app for Mediabrowser 3 (mediabrowser3.com) with another developer. Mediabrowser is in the same space as Plex and XBMC. If everything goes well we plan on launch…

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    Comment #7331427

    I'm an iOS developer and I generally do what you suggest here. I create a bunch of subclasses of UIView and do my positioning via layoutSubviews, implement sizeThatFits when approp…

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    Comment #7215235

    It is "change inner tag".

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    Comment #7007822

    This reminds me of feelSpace[1]. It is a belt which has vibrating motors all around it and a compass. I believe the point is to give you an extra "sense" which after you have worn …

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    Comment #6978886

    Early on in the project we ran Uncrustify across our entire-codebase before introducing the pre-commit hook. The major downside to this was that git-blame now pointed to this large…

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    Comment #6978639

    I set this up for my team using Uncrustify and a Git pre-commit hook. It will reject any commit which has files that don't adhere to our Uncrustify config file. If it rejects the c…

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    Comment #6903546

    Does anyone have a torrent link? The installer link is down for me. Edit: Here is an unnoficial torrent magnet link: http://mgnet.me/foUDd

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    Comment #6878493

    Here is a link to the PDF: http://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~peter/PS07/HR.pdf

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    Comment #6872438

    Has anyone read "The Haskell Road to Logic, Math and Programming"? Seeing it on this list reminded me that I had wanted to check it out.

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    Comment #6870085

    At my work I setup a pre-commit hook that my team uses to run Uncrustify, a source-code beautifier. If the style of the commit doesn't match our rules for that language it will spi…

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    Comment #6842588

    All emails are stored individually as EML files which is just text. It can also export all your emails into the standard maildir or mbox format so you can easily import them elsewh…