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how many hours did i stare at the ZMODEM BATCH download screen waiting for my warez to finish at 4800 baud? innumerable! RIP.

I kickstarted this long ago and when I got it a few months ago gave it to my wife as a gift, who is an author. She immediately rejected it because she found the eink transitions where it flashes a dark color briefly very distracting.

I have 3 kids, two twins. They're annoying. Do you want a couple of mine?

i want to see the tiny nasal sprayer they used on these mice, must be adorably cute!

youtube is fucking down!

We still do some development in .NET 3.5 VB (huge health care company). It rules and I love it. We do angular, node, c#, yadda yadda, also, but I will always return to my #1 (and first) love, BASIC.

"I understand how to read a schematic!" - John Hammond

I mean all this really is is two people sending email really quickly to each other....

"Doze" is a nightmare for apps that need reliable GPS readings.. the only real solution is a service that polls continually to get the GPS when the screen is on so that when the screen is off it can use it to do various background tasks (and of course, it ends up not being super accurate as when the screen is off the user is typically moving, which is when you'd want the GPS to be accurate). This ends up using more energy than would have been saved if the GPS wasn't available periodically when the screen is off! It's totally ridiculous..

yes!!!!!!! hate hate hate quicken with a burning passion.

Check out Azure Maps: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-maps/ I believe they have an autocomplete component....

I was investigating the Google Traffic API for an app I was working on just as they were making this change. They went from something like 10,000 free requests a day (which would have been plenty for my purposes) to 0 free requests a day. "Don't be evil" my ass. Anyway, the Azure Maps (which uses TomTom data) is much more generous.

i thought it was pretty funny during their demonstration of how bad google was, they googled "san francisco restaurants" (or something like that), and there on the auto-complete was "san francisco restaurants YELP", like, dude, this website that is so evil is advertising for you, right there, in the box where you're typing!

i don't want something beaming light into my eye at close range. just doesn't seem appealing to me.

also, how is this different than castAR?

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One reason Aldi checkers can scan so fast: multiple, huge bar codes! http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/aldi-has-very-...

hurray!