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by Adaptive 14y ago
Notably, The Foundation Trilogy inspired Paul Krugman to become an economist: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/04/paul-krugman-asi...
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Same here. I'm typing this on a macbook pro that I'm currently sucking data off onto my x220 running Arch. Similar setup. That msata bay rocks with an SSD in it, eh? FWIW, specs say 8gb max but I've got 16gb ticking away in it nicely. You'r
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I find it interesting to contrast this ubiquitous-connectivity model with the development style of Joey Hess (git-annex, et al) modeled on extremely sporadic connectedness. Not a comment on which is better. We're in a world of ubiquity. I'v
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Upvote for mr. This is a great tool that I just started using more seriously (initially I used it to automate my linux box setups, but it's useful on a day to day basis as well).
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by Adaptive 14y ago
It used to be ridiculous. It's now downgraded to merely comical. I'd check out the link above, but my understanding is that you don't have to pay to publish an app . You might be referring to just publishing strictly to the newstand, thoug
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I agree with this in almost every regard. I really don't like the drift towards sandboxed apps where HTML will do just as (or more) nicely. But: money. Solve subscriptions. This is what the apps do. Adobe DPS, which I mention below, is so t
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Actually, to publish a magazine style app you don't need to be very technically capable. Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is a surprisingly capable tool and can spit out newsstand/iOS compliant apps. A lot of large/legacy publishers with team
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Your point is correct but I'd cut the poster some slack here. I'm pretty sure the comment was referring to "YA fiction" as a category (which is almost exclusively referred to as just that, not as "YA" on its own).
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by Adaptive 14y ago
We are doomed to reinvent Usenet until we finally break the cycle and improve upon it. This has all happened before and will happen again.
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by Adaptive 14y ago
This is like Google Labs turned inside out. Innovative stuff. I love it. More power to DDG!
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by Adaptive 14y ago
There is but I've never used it. I feel generally safer with a paid account not being disabled but I certainly don't depend on it not disappearing. Initially I set this up not for the terms of service and support, but back when it was the o
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Correct. They are declaring a license to do what they want with it. Sort of like you owning a car and me declaring a license to drive it if, say, you park in my driveway, which might be a fair trade. In that case, you are better off renting
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I doubt it's an oversight. Google's legal team doesn't miss a beat on stuff like this. If they backtrack it will be an intentional change of an intentional set of terms.
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Imagine if Google released a service where, for $5 a month you received different terms of service, owned your data contractually and, just for fun, got to turn off ads in gmail? They already did. It's Google Apps. http://www.google.com/ap
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Nice tips. I'm using Alfred on OS X and Xmonad.Prompt on Arch but the cron to web view is a new clever idea.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I've mentioned Taskwarrior previously (command line task management, GTDable), but it's worth noting that it recently hit 2.0 and has an upcoming server component (in alpha): http://taskwarrior.org/
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Wynn, thanks again for a great interview, I'll check in on this thread again later. Some thoughts that I'm not sure I mention in the podcast (maybe I snuck them in, but I think not): * Fedora is doing some neat stuff in terms of trying to i
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Bookmarked for easy access so I can send this out on a regular basis. Nicely summarized and stated.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I've been using googlecl for quite a while to edit google docs in vim, but there are bugs/issues, specifically ongoing issues with newlines: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/issues/detail?id=301 When this post's site is back up, it will
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Thanks for commenting on this. Glad to hear you are tackling what is definitely a hard problem without turning it into a completely walled garden. Do you discuss this problem space with the Android Market/Play team? It seems to have not onl
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Chrome extension users are suffering Warning Fatigue. The user can review some information about access permissions but so many extensions make the same plea: "i know that my extension is using lots of permissions, but it's totally safe". M
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I've used custom embedded icon fonts on websites as well, but I was actually thinking of the more complex ui components through layering. I.e. button background/foreground combinations for buttons. I suspect that there would be a whole host
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by Adaptive 15y ago
YES. Given how long we've been building up to resolution independence, given the already long standing real-world examples of vector object hinting provided by fonts... it's amazing that there seems to be little work in this area and less w
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I'd like: 1. native support for optional manual hinting vector icons 2. native support for optional auto-hinting vector icons Auto hinting is not the ultimate solution, but it can get you part way there, just like with fonts.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Props for dealing with the feedback in this thread so quickly and sorry for turning HN into a low fidelity bug tracker. I promise to submit future bug reports in a more useful manner. Fwiw, folks, this is staying on my phone. One of the gre
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Yeah, the GPS thing is surprising. My understanding of Android development is limited but doesn't Location Manager allow for cell/wifi location detection? I'd really like to see this with GPS as an optional or last resort fallback. For inst
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I believe it's cloud.typgraphy.com resource loading that's causing that slowdown.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
Very excited to see this move forward. Look at this project and compare it to something like diaspora, and you see some significant differences which give hope that this can achieve traction, notably the extensive, deep market research done
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I'm totally ok with it but I'd probably like a [+] expansion widget or ellipsis mark to indicate hidden content in those contexts.
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by Adaptive 15y ago
I agree and instead of tariffs I'd rather see the US put some money behind domestic solar. I don't want subsidized goods to kill the domestic mfgrs, but I'd love to see us combine our technical innovations in solar with a full court press t

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