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First introduced in 4.3 and a bit harder to find in KitKat. However, a free launcher is available at the Play Store.
Clickety[^] [Business Insider]
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I thought steal your address book to spam everyone you know-ware apps refused to install unless you said yes. Won't changing the setting afterward be a case of locking the barn door after Griff's sheep have escaped.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Every app installation from the Play Store displays the app's permissions and proceeds with the installation only if you approve. The nice thing about this feature is that you can downgrade the app's permissions post-install pre-run.
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In large organizations one often finds a mixture of development models. Some projects are done in Agile, some in a more traditional way such as waterfall or RUP. Everyone has heard of agile development, but shifting to more Agile methods can often be a long and hard journey. This paper aims to explain a number of practical Agile techniques that can easily be applied to any development, and practical tips, which you can start using in your day to day work right away, even as of today. That compass pose is a tricky one
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Don't look now, but Microsoft is continuing to open source many of its own technologies, even though it is still competing with Linux and Android vendors. And strangely enough, those are frequently their best stuff
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Dang kids with your terabyte drives! When I was growing up, we had to notch our floppies to get "real storage".
But I want five of those drives now...
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TTFN - Kent
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I may be able to try one of these some day.
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I probably notched a thousand floppies myself..
John
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It really sounds like a naughty euphemism, doesn't it?
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 Wasn't intentional.
John
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I read this again, I don't remember having to notch them.
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I remember the time I left a box of floppies, with data, in the back of my car on a hot day. It melted the disk jackets, but the magnetic media was ok. I spent hours cutting the disk jackets open and moving the discs into good jackets and copying them. Those were the days when I worked for a living.
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If they build in functionality like the Apple Fusion drive [^] it would be awesome!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Internet connection is required to install (NSA spyware). 
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Started reading it, but they lost me at "The" 
speramus in juniperus
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Like every hybrid drive on the market it's still a day late and a dollar short. A year or two ago something similar (64GB flash 500/750 gb hdd) would've been a good option; but now ultra portables generally don't have a 2.5" bay at all and most larger laptops have both one (or more) mSATA/m2 slots and a 2.5" bay.
Meanwhile this combo is more expensive than the part tabs sold separately. A separate SSD and 9mm HDD are around $200 vs $300 for the WD drive; and even factoring in that the WD drive needed to use a more expensive 7mm HDD to fit the flash in on top, it's still less than $250 for the parts. If they offered good caching or Apple style hierarchical storage I'd say they still would have a winner for offering KISS improvements; but as two separate partitions it doesn't bring anything to the table.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How the wunderkind framework grew up, from the perspective of one of its earliest contributors. "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?"
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As most know, I love a good internal memo from inside Yahoo and here’s a doozy related to a rather controversial topic of late: How badly the new version of Yahoo Mail has been received by consumers. "But whether it’s familiarity, laziness or simple stubbornness dressed in a cloak of Ayn Randian Objectivism, the time has come to move on, commrade"
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Pretty pathetic memo (and product direction), IMHO.
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I agree on the product direction, but I do think the memo had definite unintentional humourous qualities. Or maybe that was the direction that was unintentionally humourous? I can see the benefit of sampling dogfood (I've certainly done it more times than I care to remember), but expecting people to - when their work depends on a tool - seems sad.
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I too am a firm believer of dogfooding.
However, the digs at the competition struck me as unprofessional, and the general hard sell gave the impression that the company is feverishly trying to convince users (both internal and external) that the recent changes to Yahoo Mail are improvements, when in fact the public has raised several valid concerns about usability and feature loss.
There's nothing wrong with not getting it right. But turning a blind eye to one's users is an almost sure-fire way to ensure you soon won't have any.
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Developer Media’s latest mobile developer study illuminates key insights to help marketers with messaging, perspective and strategy for this growing market. Or at least are mobile. Sometimes.
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The Xbox One's Upload Studio is designed to help you share your most exciting gameplay clips with friends. But as some early console owners are already finding out, using profanity during those recordings can have consequences. Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that it is handing out temporary Xbox Live bans for select gamers found to be using "excessive" foul language in content created with Upload Studio. "Excessive profanity", directed at a Microsoft product? Is that possible?
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That's the problem with integrated authentication. You swear at your XBOne, and suddenly lose access to MSDN, Outlook online, Skype, ...
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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