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by FreakyT 12y ago
They're still calling the color display "e-paper", which in the case of the original Pebble meant a Sharp Memory LCD display (which, while a high-contrast LCD, looked nothing like the e-ink displays in e-readers.) Based on th
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Glad to see that support work for a GTK3 version is coming along -- I'm looking forward to that. I've always been a fan of XFCE -- it's lightweight, but not so lightweight that you have to make a ton of sacrifices. Plus, XF
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by FreakyT 12y ago
What I like about Xiaomi is that, despite their crazy-low prices, they actually put some value in design , both on the industrial side and on the software side. For example, take the fitness band that another commenter mentioned. Sure, the
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I love the Venus photos that the Soviet landers managed to take. Sure, they're terrible quality, but they're currently the only images we have from Venus. I wonder if, with more modern technology, it would be possible to design a
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I'm glad to see that Microsoft is finally ripping out all the weird legacy modes -- IE11 essentially ships with 6 different rendering engines! [1] * IE5 (quirks mode) * IE7 (compatibility view) * IE8, IE9, and IE10 (available from the
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by FreakyT 12y ago
As that comment pointed out, once Apple decides that your device is "obsolete", it stops getting updates, so there are plenty of still-used iOS devices that will never have their Webkit versions updated. Personally, I suspect this
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Glad to see Safari and Firefox are now supported! The whole "Chrome only" thing was a bit of an initial disappointment.
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Except that...they did give a shout out to FSV? > "I learned a bit later that this GUI was not made for the movie, but actually existed on SGI workstations and was ported to Linux as well, so it’s more legit than it looks!" (
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Firefox on Mac still has too many visual issues, and the devs often drag their feet on fixing them. Lion (released 2011) added "bounce" scrolling and auto-hiding scrollbars. It took them nearly half a year to fix the lack of auto-
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I think main purpose of a Smart TV is to act as a single-device solution for people who don't already have a Roku/Chromecast/whatever.
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by FreakyT 12y ago
This seems kind of ridiculous, honestly. Unless your house is surrounded by high walls in real life, what it looks like is quite clearly public information.
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I get the impression that the primary purpose of of Mailbox was always to provide a task-based interface to Gmail -- if you just want a traditional mail client, why wouldn't you just use the official GMail client?
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Definitely. Mailbox's only distinguishing feature is task-based email. By making it GMail only, there's not really much to set it apart from the official task-based Gmail client (Inbox). Inbox works really well, so I'm not su
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I find it somewhat disingenuous when the CEO of Cyanogen makes claims about people wanting use CyanogenMod without the Google Apps. Look at any custom-built CyanogenMod roms out there -- every one of them includes instructions on flashing t
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by FreakyT 12y ago
It's a shame they haven't updated it, but I guess the WebGL-based "earth" now in Maps is the replacement. (As an aside, I find the code-signing in OSX to be pretty crooked -- charging $100/year just to allow people
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Wow, thanks for posting this! I've been trying to find native OSX builds of Inkscape without much luck for a while.
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Show HN: JGA – An open-source 2D side-scrolling RPG built with Unity(freakified.github.io)
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by FreakyT 12y ago
IIRC, the primary issue with Ensure was only that it cost too much per serving to make it viable for eating every day.
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Did you even look at the browser stats link I posted? No browser has a majority usage share anymore.
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Good riddance -- that screen was nothing more than a historic artifact at this point. With Microsoft's monopoly on web-enabled devices finally broken by Android/iOS, not to mention the emergence of Chrome on Windows desktops, IE-d
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by FreakyT 12y ago
It continues to strike me as odd that there isn't more focus on building high-density highrise housing in SF. Is this related to earthquake danger, historical preservation, idiocy on the part of local politicians, or some combination o
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I was wondering this also -- what could a ship that sunk in 1917 have in its hold that would be worthwhile to salvage 100 years later? For anyone knowledgeable about this field: Are these sorts of late salvage operations typical?
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by FreakyT 12y ago
It's pretty clear that this and other their other specifically anti-Google rulings are about protectionism and nothing more.
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WatchKit Tutorial with Swift: Getting Started(raywenderlich.com)
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by FreakyT 12y ago
It definitely has potential, but without tabbed windows, editing multiple files at once seems like it'll be cumbersome.
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by FreakyT 12y ago
If only they had gone with the "classic" San Francisco font you linked -- the Watch's whimsical level would be off the charts!
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by FreakyT 12y ago
Good point, though I've often found that even that doesn't help because of "no dictonary word" requirements. So a password like $A1aHackerNews would still fail because it contains dictionary words.
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I like using phrase passwords like this, but unfortunately a lot of sites have massive lists of ridiculous rules which disallow these sorts of passwords, despite their apparent security. Google currently gets it right, but a lot of IT depar
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by FreakyT 12y ago
In the article, they note that a study found that the small plastic bag charges tended to strongly influence behavior without an outright ban. Personally, I see it as a win/win. The grocery stores get more money from people obsessed wi
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by FreakyT 12y ago
I hope this positively affects projects using outdated versions of Mono, like Unity. I'd love to see them move to a more up-to-date version of .NET, and I wonder if this could enable them to do that.

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