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timmattison
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Comment #42393068
Agree with this on many levels. Some people idolize movie directors but in the most simplistic view everyone else is doing the “real work”. Not everyone needs to do everything. And…
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Comment #42163822
I love this. Can you share the source?
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Comment #41233843
Apple Pay and Google Pay work with an existing card for normal (non-IAP) purchases. I don’t like rent seeking either but in this case it’s the standard CC payment flow. Nothing add…
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Comment #40297734
Where is the best place a layman can dig into this statement “You do this by taking advantage of the fact that the superposition is a periodic function and the amplitude repeats.”?…
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Comment #40175042
I was hoping to hear he went from rapper to physicist. Guess not.
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Comment #39585068
You can. But then the only time it realizes that the code has been updated is when you update the script or touch it. It’s a minor annoyance but it adds up when making lots of chan…
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Comment #39493686
I haven’t used strtok in a long time but my recollection is that it mutates the original string by placing a NULL value at the next delimiter so “hello world” would become “hello w…
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Comment #39350678
Wow, they have to do what other companies have to do. Brutal. /s
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Comment #38920326
I use WebRTC in non-browser applications primarily. For those systems you can use mDNS. I have been working on WebRTC a lot lately. If you have ideas on how you’d solve this issue …
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Comment #38901674
You knowing your subnet is not the issue. The other party needs to know it. WebRTC needs info about where to try to connect. It doesn’t specify the signaling method which is how yo…
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Comment #36660504
Because in the beginning SMS support was important and the 140 character limit worked well with the SMS 160 character limit.
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Comment #35201614
Not anymore - https://www.moneyland.ch/en/numbered-bank-account-switzerlan...
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Comment #32945791
This comment is legendary
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Comment #32398737
Ah, other comments say that domain names are restricted. Missed that!
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Comment #32398722
The registration page just asks for an email address and a password. How are these people blocked from participating?
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Comment #31999994
They’ve been doing this with a lot of products for a long time. “Today we announce iPhone … with iPhone you can do anything!” I think it is very strange.
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Comment #31120502
“Trivago earned approximately $92 million in revenue from those non-cheapest top position click-outs” $92M - $45M = $47M Average pay out to customers who were ripped off = $0 Incen…
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Comment #31063179
I used to report broken tracks to Google when I had Google Music. I gave up. I’d get a form letter that said to reset my cookies, uninstall and reinstall the app, etc. every time. …
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Comment #30812262
I love the idea of this. I’ve struggled to get a setup like this to work on MacOS though. Which X server is the “right” one to use? Which is the easiest? Is there some way to make …
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Comment #30315569
Sure. But when you first join there is no history which means that anyone new to the channel would ask the same questions because there was nothing they could search.
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Comment #29947981
Take a look at TermKit - https://github.com/unconed/TermKit Long abandoned but I’d love something like this. Someone I know tried to revive it but Node has changed so much that the…
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Comment #29801342
I think you should add the steps (or some links) on how to start this image on a Mac. With that missing “glue” I would definitely try it. Right now I’m anticipating that after sett…
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Comment #28999245
I just get a page that says I’m not authorized to access this page. Privacy to the max!
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Comment #28639717
Wow, I tried this (or another similar project) a few years back and loved it. Nice work! Sorry it is still pending though. I don’t work on the SDKs unfortunately. On the auth side,…