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by FreakyT 11y ago
Only one of the three things you mentioned is comparable to F.lux: iOS Night Shift. > Kindle added "Blue Shade" Blue Shade is, unfortunately, an exceedingly half-assed implementation; I wouldn't be surprised if an intern w
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Ah, that was the year that happened? I still remember the dark ages of having to pick between one of several chipset manufacturers, each with their own sets of strange problems. Really, I think moving to chipsets made by the CPU manufacture
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> This experiment will give a rough estimate of the sign and magnitude of any disemployment effect: will it cause some people to drop out of the work force? Or everyone? Or will it cause people to join the workforce? I think the parent
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Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1605/
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Twilight and Lux both contain naive implementations using a semitransparent overlay. The result of this that blacks and dark colors end up being brightened instead of left alone, as a proper color-temperature change would do. This looks b
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I'm glad to see that this article mentioned my all-time favorite HN naysayer thread -- the one for Dropbox. Namely because it contains this gem: > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by g
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Wait, what? Western intelligence came to the conclusion pretty early on that Russian separatists were to blame -- only Russia's intelligence still contradicts the content of this article, insisting that Ukraine was at fault.
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> I lost formatting on my notes (e.g. bullet points/numbers) so frequently that I just resorted to using plaintext/whitespace formatting. So glad to see that I wasn't the only one. OneNote got the list formatting right in
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To be fair, no one should be using Java applets in this day and age, and hopefully this will finally kill them off for good.
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This concept seems quite reminiscent of Google Wave, if anyone remembers that: http://www.renepedersen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/googl...
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Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed in this. The music industry has long been using bullying to get what they want, and this is no exception to that rule. The sooner every traditional media company goes out of business, the better the si
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Lolcat – Make your terminal slightly more colorful(github.com)
2 points by FreakyT 11y ago|0 comments
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The thing that always bothered me about "Considered harmful" titles is that, when you title your own article that, you're just pompously referring to yourself in the third person. The reason they are in the passive voice is
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Ask HN: Why don't more of the big tech companies have on-campus dormitories?
1 points by FreakyT 11y ago|1 comments
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At the time, parent's comment simply read: > Not to mention the complete lack of journalistic ethics on Kotaku. They frequently post articles about games they have financial or personal ties to, without disclosure. You assert that t
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I'm guessing that most people understood the parent comment's reference to that faux crusade for "ethics in game journalism", hence the (deserved) downvotes. Edit: When I posted this, the parent comment was only 2 senten
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Pebble iOS App Stuck “in review” for 43 days, Pebble Time app for 12 days(kickstarter.com)
12 points by FreakyT 11y ago|4 comments
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Github does have download hosting, though. Their "releases" feature has worked fine for my projects, at least: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
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Their use of a preloader seems like an unpleasant throwback to the days of full-screen pages written in Flash...
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Let's not forget his $500 cookbook! [1] [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-The-Science-Cooking/...
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Ah, I see your point. At the same time, though, there do exist some USB 3.0 peripherals that require of a lot of bandwidth (like docking stations), that, while theoretically backwards compatible, wouldn't actually work with a USB 1.0
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I disagree, provided that the standard provides for some degree of backwards compatibility. I think it's great how a USB 3.0 drive will still work on a USB 1.0 computer from 1999. Sure, it'll run slower, but it'll work , and
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Yes, but that is based on Chromium, so it really isn't Opera. I assumed you meant "classic" Opera, since I would assume that the Chromium-based product would render sites equivalently to Chromium.
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> That's exactly what people said with their "Designed for IE" websites back during 2000 to 2004. Hardly. Mozilla/Gecko may have been obscure at the time, but it was under active development. Opera is very definitely
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Opera basically is dead though, so I don't think one can reasonably expect new websites to test for it. Now, if it didn't work in Firefox or IE11, then that would be significantly more questionable. Edit: I'm assuming we&#x27
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Looks like the monospace font on that page is "Roboto Mono", which seems to be new.
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It's ridiculous how many completely irrelevant permissions they demand! Facebook's laundry list of permissions is perhaps the best example of how Android's permission system is completely broken.
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I've found that just running Facebook's mobile site in Chrome works pretty well for most purposes.
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I'm honestly impressed that SEGA allowed them to work on anything at all. As someone who used to really enjoy Sonic games, I can't help but resent SEGA for their seeming fixation on releasing absolutely terrible Sonic games. For a
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What's really impressive is that an active member of this site, "The Taxman", completed a near-perfect implementation of these physics, and successfully collaborated with SEGA to create official updated rereleases of Sonic C

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