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Comment · 4 years ago
When you are selecting an area you can hold option when dragging to move the top and left sides of the rectangle. This is useful to select exactly the right area.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
sounds useful. i cd often. can you expand on your bookmarking system?
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
It doesn't say that all land is discovered. It only shows data about oceans; it's called "Unknown Oceans" and shows data from the Census of Marine Life.
Comment · 9 years ago
why does allocating "pi^2 for a gold, pi for a silver and 1 for a bronze" mean "there could never be any tie in the total scores except when two countries had exactly the same medal counts in all three categories"?
Comment · 10 years ago
the linked filename says v2.9?
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
This got me thinking about something.

What's to stop an unscrupulous developer selling an app for, say, $1.99 with the (implied) promise that the app will work forever and then, once people have bought it, turning off the backend so it no longer works?

Is this illegal? Would Apple shut down the developer's account?

Comment · 11 years ago
In the bar I used to work in we used to give the change to customers on a tray to prompt the customer to give us a tip. So I always assume that's why they are being used.
Comment · 11 years ago
Which part of the architecture causes the latency? The author says it's between 2 and 13 seconds and is faster the more users there are - why would that be the case?

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