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It looks like what they are doing are obfuscating with CSS.

See for example: http://www.quora.com/Bayesian-Inference/How-do-Bayesian-algo...

The answers are in a span with class "blurred_answer", which has css styles: "color: transparent; text-shadow: 0 0 7px #777". Which in effect makes the text completely unreadable to humans.

This is just one step above "color: #fff; background-color: #fff".

Scummy.
This is incredibly helpful.

However, I wish there's something in reverse: Redis as a MySQL storage engine. The most obvious useful things is that you can save a `tags` table without m2m tables, juse use Redis sets.
When I first encountered git, I had a hell of a time learning how to actually control my source. Legit would've been a great gateway drug.
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I thought their argument was that some non-trivial amount of code in their driver is licensed somehow and they're thus not free to open source it. It sharing code with the Windows driver is the explanation for how that code got into the Linux driver to begin with.
"Includes all desktops, netbooks, notebooks and pads"

Out of the 21 million "PCs" for Apple in this list, 17 million are iPads.
So Apple really sold 4 million PCs compared to HP's 13 million.

Definitely an interesting trend but nowhere near the "No. 1 in PC sales", at least according to what most people would think of as a PC.
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My friend was denied permission to use Quora for not revealing his ancestor name.

Could you explain how it happened in this specific case, since it sounds like the name that your friend gave appeared to be real. That it, it wasn't something like "Fake Name" or "Bite Me", so how did Quora know?

And, in general, could someone explain how the likes of Quora and Facebook decide that a name isn't "real"? Does someone at Quora or Facebook manually scan new account names? Do they wait for complaints from other users? Is it something algorithmic like noting that you receive messages such as "Hi Mike" but where you registered as "Fred Flintstone"?
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EXT_direct_state_access is not very well maintained. And bind-to-modify is just one problem, there are others. Everything is mutable in OpenGL (a stark contrast to D3D), and that makes things complicated.
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In the general case, I agree. But working with Git you will very probably have to learn what's going on beneath the abstraction sooner-or-later (ie. when I'm working on a team larger than 1 person and the repo becomes a mess). So writing abstraction layers just increases the number of things that need to be learned.
"The kind of perfect price discrimination they practice would be flatly illegal in any other industry."

Sounds awfully like "value based pricing" - which is a pretty common strategy in enterprise software sales.
Misleading headline. iPad sales are included as "PCs", while at the same time iPads are counted as tablets when Apple is cited as the mobile-leader everywhere.

Enough with the Apple-kissing please. Both Dell and HP sells more PCs. Samsung sells more phones. Yes Apple sells most iDevices, but that is pretty much a given.
> Also, the company cannot sell the private info, because it is publicly available.

Uh. Maybe you don't understand why people don't like it when companies sell their data.

It's because it ends up in the hands of every shady marketing agency and intelligence organization on earth. Making it public just means that these parties can get it with no barrier to entry.

See: Usenet, where any email address that's ever touched it is supposedly under constant siege by spam.
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As far as I understand it, this /etc/hosts entry is not so much about you accessing Quora, but more about other sites that want your browser to connect to Quora (e.g. via embedded content or JavaScript).
I dont get the joke. But what I really dont get is the "[..] JavaScript community would like to know[..]" part. Are we different communities now?

Why would one even care? It is like coding style. Use one or the other, just use the same on your team!
I'd just like to add that Apple makes more profit from an iPad in dollar terms than HP makes from a typical desktop/notebook.
That's not really necessary, after you delete your account they'll block you from reading by themselves.
But now you know about those limitations :-)
There's several more worth checking out if you search for "mobile patterns" "android patterns" etc.
I don't have the resources to properly estimate and track BF%.

However, i've been tracking my waistline measurement every other day after doing my morning business and fasted.
I seem to have lost 2cm since starting 3 weeks ago.

I'm inclined to not take this 'loss' that seriously because the consensus is that IF takes about 3-4 weeks to really start showing results.

On the other hand, i know i'm metabolizing fat; family members have been complaining of my new acetone breath. (ketosis!)
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How come this is coming up only now? Didn't WP7 release in 2010?
Wow. I'm certainly asking for a deletion now, too. I haven't used it in a while, but I hate these tactics of not allowing the user to delete the account when he wants to.
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My Documents was never meant to be a storage space for application settings. Application Data / AppData is the place for this. Of course, whether an application complies with this depends on the developer, and many applications break that rule
Thanks for the correct email id. I just sent out a mail asking them to delete my account.
Yeah, I think the site is being disingenuous by including iPads as PCs.

That said, it's going to be hard to define what tablets qualify as PCs very soon. --With Windows 8 I would place ARM tablets in the same category as the iPad, but I would place the Surface Pro in a different category - maybe not PC, but definitely more powerful than a tablet.
I spoke to a lead developer from one of the biggest Android camera apps that sold to a big company. They said that they realised the Android market isn't nearly as big as it's made out to be because most Android users don't even install apps. They have an Android phone as it was running on the cheapest phone they could get and just use it for calls. Many don't even have a data plan.

They were featured on the Android market multiple times but couldn't get the traction of an Instagram, etc. They believe in real terms iOS and Android are closer in terms of actual users that would want to install apps.
If you don't email privacy@quora.com it won't get deleted though. Make sure you do that as well.
First I'm manually deleting all of my answers, then I'll ask Quora to delete the rest. I've had bad experience with deleting accounts in the past, where my content would remain on the website even though my account was gone. And not having an account, there's nothing I can do about that data afterwards. I want to be pretty sure that all my Quora content is gone.

Fun fact: There's no way to get a list of your anonymous answers on Quora. They don't show up on your profile at all. All you can really do is browse through your list of followed questions and manually check each one to see if you responded anonymously.
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> This is a horrifying prospect. One that you would trust a LAN, two that you would want any external device to QUERY the credentials and access the creds of another device.

I'm horrified that people jump to such stupid conclusions. There is no need for one machine to query credentials of the phone or vice versa. The browser just sends out a signal and the phone can supply the 2nd factor to the server.
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None of that was too clever, obviously.
OpenGL's role in the software ecosystem has changed since GL 1.x was relevant. Back then it was used as a 3D rendering API (with lights and cameras and such). Today it is used as the standard interface to programmable graphics hardware. GL2+ knows almost nothing about "3d" or lighting and is essentially used for drawing triangles, very fast.

If you need a 3D engine, use a 3d engine. If you're writing a 3D engine, you use OpenGL.

OpenGL should start from scratch and change their name and code naming conventions so no-one would be under false illusions that you can take OpenGL code from 1996 and make it work on OpenGL in 2012.

That would have kept JWZ happy and others who complain about the lack of fixed function and immediate mode in OpenGL too.

Btw. once you get past the basics in GL 1.x fixed function, everything becomes /ridiculously/ difficult. Look at how Quake 3 did their "shaders" for example.
The greatest thing about Quora is that it doesn't really "exist" outside of the valley. I stayed in Georgia for 3 months. Everyone in the startup scene out there (except for my friend who runs a successful website) doesn't know what Quora is. When I explained it to them, they thought they could get the same answers from Google.

To an extent, they are correct. I'm getting tired of these self-entitled startups who think they are running the show.
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While I love the idea of free and open software, I have to admit an ignorance to it in application (well, at least Linux).

Valve creates a Steam client, and gets the Source game engine running awesomely on "Linux". How do all the different desktops factor into this?
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Early last year, when I was starting to get into using Quora, I stopped using it abruptly when I realised how limited their privacy features are.

Basically, I wanted to contribute quite heavily to the Depression topic. I'm a sufferer and I wanted to be able to help other people. But on Quora you have a choice of answering a question either Anonymously or as yourself, the problem with answering as yourself is that all your activity gets published to the feed of people who follow you, and with Quora being heavily integrated with Facebook I wasn't comfortable with this.

Which meant I was forced to answer questions anonymously, which I was equally uncomfortable with. I felt like I couldn't make an valuable contribution if I was hiding behind anonymity each time.

I don't mind people knowing things about me, which is why I don't mind saying this here, using my real name, but that's very different to being willing to shout from the rooftops.

I emailed Quora to suggest being able to decide what information gets published to the feed on a per-topic basis. I didn't get a response, which is hardly surprising, but if basic privacy-controls are outside of their plan for the site, I can't be part of it.
Thanks for pointing that out. Is that a robot on the other end (which deletes the account if it contains "delete" or so etching like that in the subject field), or you have to talk to a human and ask them to delete it?
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Resampling without filtering like that is really fast.
This is misleading, as you CAN read anonymously if you disable the feature.

Personally, I read stuff for amusement or interest all the time that I would not want a large portion of my acquaintances knowing that I read, and certainly not without explanation. For instance, if I read an article about child abuse and get curious about the age of consent in Massachusetts, I don't want that showing up to random acquaintances in my feed anywhere.

Enabling this feature surreptitiously and without an opt-in is insanely stupid and insensitive to users. Given that Quora has very good support for anonymous questions and answers, you'd expect them to be more savvy than this.
I think the craziest part is actually that declaring bankruptcy doesn't cancel student loan debt, so there's no failsafe if you don't get a decent job afterwards.
It can be turned off easily. No sweat !!
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Deluxe Paint was the first painting software I used as a kid. In retrospect I've always regarded it as especially "hackerish", and though I TBH can't really tell the fidelity to the original in much detail, trying out grafx2 now only confirms this. I think the fact that the default background color is black and not white epitomizes it. So bad-ass! Thanks.
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That's funny, when I do that (too often in my taste), I feel like I am just hacking without really understanding anything. Also, I sometimes wonder how people did without google and SO.
Is it about audience? I imagine SF has more regular users and github more programmers.
Perhaps the op prefers to use the registry to store settings.. After all HKEY_XXX1230_APP_123 is so friendly.
Has there been a discussion around this law in the UK? I don't really believe a democratic vote would have signed it off, so I wonder how it is possible to wave through such a thing with no public controversy. What do the people gain from a 'ban on chips'?
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> This shit doesn't fly with Google.

Not only does this shit fly but Google are doing it on their own websites.

EDIT: I'm guessing you don't believe me. Try clicking on a Google Groups link.

This article has another example: http://www.seobook.com/googles-youtube-caught-cloaking-spam-...

Google repeatedly violates the "guidelines" they try to force on other webmasters.
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Genuinely never understood the hype or money behind this.

It's just ExpertSexChange all over again
Why Google doesn't penalize them for serving different content to google bot and to humans?! How can thy get away with it... I'm sure many people who work for Google and are part of team that has authority to make those changes have seen it..?-
I used to use Paint Shop Pro for (among other things) pixel art. Somewhere around version 6 JASC decided it was no longer a generic graphics package but should be a Photoshop-rivalling photograph editor. From then on, selections no longer had crisp edges along a pixel boundary but took the edge pixel at half alpha and the next pixel over even more transparent. I couldn't find an option to turn this off anywhere. Goodbye, ability to do pixel art in PSP.

I don't think Photoshop does this (I haven't used it for several versions and my art days are more or less over) but the above has made me forever slightly wary of attempting pixel art in a package primarily sold for photo editing.

Plus, Photoshop is expensive. If you have it anyway and it works for you, that's cool. If you're looking to install something just to make pixel art, you're spending a lot of money on a lot of features which are irrelevant to you and may make it harder to find the functions you actually need.
I am not afraid of revealing my values. And what do I have to be careful about?

Cockroaches hide in dark places.
Just use a fake name :)
Can't read without signing into Google…

oh well nothing of value was lost.
Blah blah blah. Git is already for humans. If you're unable to remember its commands, at least don't spam us with this kind of rubbish. If I could downvote, I would.
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> they want

That want is driven by ego.
I'd like it if I didn't need a Google account to read anything on it.
If laptops are PCs then iPads should qualify too in my opinion. Traditionally when you say 'PC' you probably mean a desktop machine, not a laptop or notebook, but if you start including laptops then you might as well count netbooks and tablets and while we're at it let's throw in phones too. Are these not all 'Personal Computers'?
There is space for competition in that area. StackExchange is pretty good, but since they don't allow questions with subjective answers, they basically exclude themselves from the vast majority of the market share. Then there is quora, yahoo answers, ... There is certainly enough space for a few good startups.
All the news you need can be heard for free on the BBC world service. It has a refreshingly internationalist perspective which is interesting to compare and contrast with countrys' national news bulletins.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/
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A couple of observations:

1 Where will that electricity come from? - I think solar will be the largest source [he owns a solar company, SolarCity].

With someone like Elon Musk it's believable that "he owns a solar company" is not a disclosure of bias, it's putting his money where his mouth is.

2 He doesn't come off as ideological at all (eg government vs corporate technology) except where relevant to his goal. He's trying to make electric cars & go to mars. Those are the areas where he's thrying to have an impact, here he has strong opinions. Otherwise, he lives in the world as it is. He doesn't get baited into comments on the political, financial or regulatory structure beyond where it applies to the stuff he's doing
I don't see missing or blurred text in your example,

http://www.quora.com/Bayesian-Inference/How-do-Bayesian-algo...

I checked with two different browsers (Opera and Firefox under Windows).

Could this mean that the Quora PR machine is up in full swing trying to undo damage (at least in the case of specific links that people cite)?
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If you would like try and get your account deleted, send something like this to privacy@quora.com

---------------------

Please can you delete my account.

I'm unhappy with your recent changes that would allow anyone to see the topics I follow and read.

My registered account is set up at <email address>

Please can you send me confirmation when you have done this.
Many Thanks.

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I've fired an email off.
Re: http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-delete-my-Quora-account
That's really not interesting for anyone except Apple and its shareholders though.

I fail to see why people keep bringing it up as if it was relevant to anything.
> the risk of death only frightens him from a view point of responsibilities

Which view point does death frighten you for?
Metro AG is not a brand recognized by the public. People only know the names of its retailers. I live in an area with those stores, and if you asked any random passerbys what "Metro" is, they would come up with references to public transport, not Metro AG.

This is also not the first time Metro AG pressed other brands that are interacting with the public into a name change. It did the same thing with the free european commuter's newspaper "Metro", resulting in a name change in at least one country (Switzerland).
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I don't think that should be the case here. They have blurred answers enclosed in googleoff/googleon tags - which should make sure that they don't get indexed.
It's private property. Owner get to decide, who's allowed and who's not.
Mixed sizes of scaled-up pixels bug me, especially pixels not at power-of-2 scalings to each other, but I think the contrast between obviously scaled-up pixel graphics and native resolution antialiased graphics can sometimes be useful, e.g. smooth for text and UI elements, pixel for the actual game graphics.

I guess as with many things the rule is: try it and see what works. That or I'm just a pixel philistine.
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We power real world logistics using software. We have real customers, great angel and VC investors (in addition to YC), and our software works quite well actually!

Except, the real world is incredibly complex. We don't think we understand the underlying dynamics as well as we should. We need your help to help us observe, analyze, monitor, understand, and operate our entire system and make it awesome! Don't worry, we'll back you up, but you'll be our guy/gal to answer two very important questions -

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- Comfortable in a role where you regularly interact with customers, because that is what it takes to get real world data. This is not a customer service job, but it definitely requires aspects of it.

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I expected them to use a hand-model for watching "someone with a sleeve write on a whiteboard".

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