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I'm pretty sure Cable boxes all have HDMI these days, so that shouldn't be an issue. Monitors won't have an over-the-air tuner, so, you'd need to use an external device to watch br…

Thanks for pointing that out -- I skipped over that first footnote. On my screen, it's on the previous page from the quote I posted (for what it's worth).

From the dissent: "In the 1990s, Oracle created a programming language called Java..." Sun Microsystems was acquired in 2010... I guess I should give Thomas the benefit of the doub…

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It's a great way to get started building a "modern web app" for folks who aren't comfortable rolling their own e.g. webpack / babel configs. If you ever want to have more control, …

Fortran on Funicular :)

> autonomous blockchains It just _has_ to be satire, though!

> "android is awful!" ... "I bought a cheap one" Nothing like condemning the entirety of a thing based on a single limited intentionally-bottom-of-the-barrel experience!

Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20160530234212/https://www.speak... Original link worked for me, fwiw.

This list linked at the bottom is pretty insightful for Google products & relevant mitigations: > You can learn more about mitigations that have been applied to Google’s infrastruc…

The STTNG Episode "The Game"[1] comes to mind :) In the show, the device physically stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain to the point that players are highly addicted & eas…

I don't think your criticism is very obvious. Can you elaborate? The Bartle Test is a pretty common tool / consideration in gaming psych & gamified interfaces.

How is this licensed? Perhaps I'm missing it, but I can't seem to find mention of it on the site or in the repo: https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil

Do everything you can to advance the "open web" (or publishing & distribution of content in general) and eschew "walled gardens" (corporate or otherwise).

In case anyone is curious who Ricky is: http://trailerpark.wikia.com/wiki/Ricky

+1 To add to this, part of the draw of Uber for me is its ubiquity (& Lyft, but it's less widespread). My consumer experience is maintained in different international & US markets.…

This is really well done. I'm fairly familiar with React & was able to pick this up around Section 3 "Core Components" [0] & feel like I could be decently productive with React Nat…

This works for me as well. If there's no option to preorder, usually there's a pasta option that's passable.

Nice! I figured it existed, but a cursory search didn't find it. Thanks.

Someone needs to convert `capital_P_dangit` to a userscript :) https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/capital_P_dan...