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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> But after more than a decade of abuse, we should look deeper at our analysis and perhaps conclude that these issues aren’t abuse at all, but rather a bargain, a negotiation, and one that people are quite willing to live with. No. We sh
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> your eye doctor must give you your prescription after your exam In regard to the above quote, I wonder how effective or if anyone is familiar with: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eyeque-visioncheck-world-... I
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/22/chrome-extension-manifest-... ghacks does a great job of explaining this (saw it first here). Paraphrasing the article: Basically, they are limiting filters (used by ad-block
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
Sent (very unkind) feedback to Google via the infobox that appears for Ehud Reiter[0]. It's about time Google developes a mechanism for handling cases like these and so many others (like all the cases where people lose access to their
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When You Know That Google Just Doesn’t Care Anymore(lauren.vortex.com)
4 points by O1111OOO 8y ago|0 comments
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
Really like the format of the "movie" file. Very easy to work with: Line 1: time.Duration Lines 2-14: frameHeight (currently set to 13 lines in the code on this and the original[0]) Options for (1) pause/play (2) back: frame
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ArcaOS (OS/2-based) Roadmaps(arcanoae.com)
5 points by O1111OOO 8y ago|0 comments
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
One of the first pieces of software I paid for was 4DOS[0] - such a joy to use and so empowering. No other command-line experience has ever come close (preps lightsaber..;-) Of course, this was a long time ago. There was also Photodex'
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
One feature that I like about DDG is their multiple site search (search string site:123.com,345.com). Startpage or Google, last time I checked a long while back, don't have this feature. Since I use an index.html (as my local home page
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
I really like the tagging system on this. Very KISS and allows for other parameters in the future with zero learning curve: speech balloons, backgrounds, props (park bench, sofa for "sitting" option..). Even additional actions (as
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> the stories became much more opinionated Opinionated with lots of personal political commentary and activism. I really just wanted "OS News" and not be pulled into emotional political drama at a tech site. I can get that in a
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> The word "app" is frequently used, but these sound more like computer viruses with a friendly UI, no? Malware for sure. Like phishing: "fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information ..... by disguising as a trustwor
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> This site, with the name "Hacker News", was already popular You mean, with the name "ycombinator", right? I remember accessing this site a few times in the (distant) past and was a little confused as to what it was
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There is something magical about Firefox OS (2012)(rawkes.com)
1 points by O1111OOO 8y ago|0 comments
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Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)(mywiki.wooledge.org)
2 points by O1111OOO 8y ago|2 comments
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
Surprised this didn't make the front page. Very well implemented, quick access to the actual content (books), sourced from various sites, terrific filtering. fyi: I know lots of folks love their dark theme. Sadly, I'm not one of t
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> I like the plain vanilla aspect of Notepad. Not a Windows user (anymore) but didn't they also add support for "Search with Bing.." (a while back?) that was hard-coded to work only with Edge[0]? I agree that the changes s
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> Getting more than a handful of people to read it is hard. 1. advertise book (HN) 2. develope following (Social media) 3. write book 4. Profit? :-)
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
Appreciate the suggestion:) I actually use The Old Reader[0] for most tech sites (including hnFrontPage and showHN). There are other sites that I'm only partially interested in or they have so much content, I don't want them in my
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
RSS is dead... I have a local html page devoted to news. An entry for a specific site will see at least two urls: The main site's URL and a link to it's RSS feed. Linking to the feed directly was a great way to bypass all the mode
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> Google is great at scaling up aquisitions and optimizing them for the audience. I'm not sure if I buy this line of thinking related to Google only. It just sounds like another dig. Most big tech companies are fairly good at either
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> As I understand it, Google is not well optimized for putting out new mass market customer-facing services and keeping them going. I've been reading the threads about Google killing off products - to the point where it's becom
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
In the thriving mid-2000s, there was Trident (Microsoft), Gecko (Mozilla) and Webkit (Apple forks KHTML). Presto (Opera) and KHTML proper brought up the rear. Basically three major companies/organizations. Today we have: Blink, Gecko,
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> The single biggest advantage of Chrome is that it's bundled as the default, non-removable browser on the largest mobile OS in the world: Android. I'm still upset that Mozilla balked on Firefox OS[0]. It would have made a good
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox... There actually might have been an outcry over this. I'm not aware of any Firefox forks, for example, that aren't focused on privacy. MS would have been the first to fo
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
What a great solution! I've been on the lookout for a basic (non-bloated) local, html-based word-processor to replace RTF (for myself and as a recommendation for others). HTML-notepad is loading very quickly on an older dual-core 1.2gh
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
I looked over privacy.com - specifically their security page[0] which reads impressively. As I looked at my "dashboard" I couldn't help but notice (according to uBlock Origin) that privacy.com , ironically, connects to faceb
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Apple Class Action Suit: Lack of Internal Filters a Design Defect(hbsslaw.com)
2 points by O1111OOO 8y ago|0 comments
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
That's two CEOs from two powerful, long-established, tech firms. Whatever her reasons, I hope this starts a trend...
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by O1111OOO 8y ago
> The Pixel line isn't dead. It's logical that harware gets updated Agree and was similarly put off by a few entries: some of the items listed are evolutions of a product line. Reader was the biggest deal for me but... interest

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