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TheQwerty

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    Comment #19788792

    It pokes a hole in your security but you could consider creating App Passwords for devices like the PS4 which do not support 2FA. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833

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    Comment #18336269

    Apologies for beating this drum but I find it important. Verify with the charitable organization that they registered to receive funds from Amazon! Amazon's list of charities comes…

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    Comment #17410821

    I don't have any advice but... > While I'm obviously not a native English speaker... This is absolutely not obvious from your posts - don't be so hard on yourself!

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    Comment #16792589

    There is this: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/clasp I've not used it and I have a feeling it doesn't really help one take full advantage of their IDE of choice bu…

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    Comment #14795815

    Good question! The best way appears to be to pretend you want to register that organization on Amazon's Org Central site[0] which shows which already registered. (An example search…

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    Comment #14791782

    RE AmazonSmile: Be sure that the organization you wish to support is aware of the program and actually registered with Amazon to receive the funds. The list of charities that Amazo…

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    Comment #14357695

    By default it looks for the tokens: HACK, TODO, UNDONE, and NOTE. However, you can add your own tokens and assign different priorities to them. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vis…

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    Comment #11490163

    What I've found works well for me is to put my Paperwhite into landscape mode and hold it such that the cover folds around on the top. This then allows me to squeeze part of my han…

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    Comment #10583952

    They do give you a breakdown of where your money went at the bottom of their website (when logged in): https://contributor.google.com It would be nice if they offered to e-mail thi…

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    Comment #10273064

    I've been trialing Contributor for the past month and there's two reasons I'm going to continue... 1. It works anywhere I can log into Google, which means I see less ads on my mobi…

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    Comment #10124639

    It's unfortunately only for Visual Studio but Microsoft created an extension called "Developer Assistant" which does precisely that using code from MSDN, StackOverflow, GitHub, and…

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    Comment #8768363

    Curiously, it looks like Google's AOSP music app requests READ_PHONE_STATE but unless I'm missing something they don't use it - relying entirely on focus loss instead. Granted, I'm…

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    Comment #8768280

    You're correct that they are indeed separate permissions but I think when Google started putting them in buckets for displaying to the user they lumped the two together. For instan…

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    Comment #8459799

    Google's spec don't list it but Motorola's claim it does support Qi: https://www.motorola.com/us/Nexus-6/nexus-6-motorola-us.html...

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    Comment #8459787

    I'm feeling exactly the same, but since they appear to be keeping around the N5 I have my hopes up that next year there will be a new similarly sized Nexus. Also, while Google's sp…

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    Comment #5900657

    Google actually had, what I thought was, a very interesting session about getting discovered in the Google Play store. They're using 80+ signals to steer recommendations including …

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    Comment #5369893

    This morning (7AM EDT) that post was not present. My impression is Stephen refused to make O'Reilly's comment visible until he had a chance to insert his claims into its content. S…