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It makes sense as a way to gauge interest, similar to pre-orders.

The problem is not that cold calling doesn't work, it's that I do not want you to cold call me.

Fair, but there have to be some diminishing returns there. If there had been two 9/11 style events in short succession, would we have gone to twice as many wars?

Well, the ones we can see are! They're very very very distant objects that are very very bright, but they mostly emit along their axes. So, we can only detect the ones that are pointing at us.

Sure! If I trust your site but not my ISP, then https allows me to trust the connection between us. That means that nobody can tamper with the content and inject some malicious JS. Also, the ISP could only tell that I am talking to your server, and not anything beyond that.

I don't think the term is misleading at all. Autopilot on aircraft does not remove the need for a pilot, it just maintains course and speed.

If Verizon feels that Netflix should pass the costs on to the consumers, how would they go about that? Much like Verizon can't know if a user will be using Netflix, Netflix can't know what networks a specific user will come in from, so they'd have to spread the costs over all subscribers, just like Verizon.

The original link suits me better, as I've hit the article limit. The video link works fine.

If I remember correctly, there's a probability that a line will end with "...hic!" or that s will be replaced with sh. It won't happen every time, so your first message could go through fine. A checksum is probably best.

Character names will never contain punctuation, so expecting a possible terminating "...hic!" and ignoring it is fine.

Sarcasm? Can't tell.

If it is, then it's ill-placed. A commissioner is someone who is granted a commission and is appointed.

If we're talking about returns, then C/C++ would behave the same way. The second return is unreachable.

A duplicated line that isn't idempotent and that doesn't jump out of the current scope would be problematic.

Everything else aside, what caught my eye was "Change network connectivity, connect and disconnect from WiFi."

That seems bizarre.

Parent knows this, and was asking what could be done with modern hardware, given that keyhole-class satellites have been up for 30 years.

The idea that was hammered into my head in school is that you should have a single point of truth.

I can't agree with this. The two-tap is my most common gesture on my phone's browser. A two-finger tap would be extremely awkward one-handed.

The original was called XCOM: UFO Defense in North America vs UFO: Enemy Unknown everywhere else.

It's not echo location, though. It's far easier to pinpoint where a sound is coming from than to echo locate; sighted people can do it, too.

It is easy to focus on the "glory" positions, but easy to forget all of the support required. For a doctor to save someone who comes in on an ambulance, there's the other staff in the hospital, the training for everyone, the tools, the work to get the right tools in the right place, the roads the ambulance drove in on, etc etc.

Do you mean that GET requests shouldn't modify data? A URL that deletes everything would be idempotent; if it's hit once, it's the same effect as if it's hit many times.

On the dashboard, there are four measures: Temperature, Light, Pressure, and Magnetic Flux. I know that my phone (Galaxy Nexus) has the last three, but I wonder where the temperature data is coming from. The only temperature data I can find with AndroSensor is the battery temperature. Are all these values live readings of my sensors?

[edit] I should note that the temperature on the dashboard is ~85 degrees Farenheit, when the current temperature is about 20F lower.

Are the MA representatives allowed to vote while not present? It seems very strange that an entire state's representatives will not have a vote on this issue because of a scheduling conflict. Can the votes not be phoned in?

An algorithm that takes polynomial time would not be feasible given the size of a dictionary, assuming you're running it on poor old Bob (who is not a computer).

I think you would suddenly have a great many political problems.

Being from the area, I don't recall Mayflower as being very rural. It's a town near Conway which, while small, is not rural. Right off I-40.

It also seems to assume that there is an intellectual capital of the world.

You pull the trigger, maybe you miss (Apple not winning the lawsuit), then they pull their gun...

Similarly naive answer: I'd imagine that the benefits of having a massive IPO and then having your stock tank are substantially less than having an increase in your stock value over time, as a company.

Could you elaborate on what an 'external memory' would be then?

Is this really HN material?

When did he say he was running ICS?

The complaint was that a simple app was needlessly unusable on his phone.