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by ableal 9y ago
It's very nice on Windows tablets and phones (a vanishing species, unfortunately). The author has posted about it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/5yjdpp/city_a...
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A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo (2010)(homes.cs.washington.edu)
2 points by ableal 10y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 10y ago
>Cutipl (silverware) Probably Cutipol - http://www.cutipol.pt/store-cutlery Good stuff, household name for donkey's years.
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by ableal 10y ago
> drive the car onto a lift There will be an app for that? Hey, James Bond was driving from the backseat with a Nokia 9000 (?) a few movies ago.
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by ableal 10y ago
I get the impression that naming things is also going well ;-)
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by ableal 10y ago
> What is he talking about? Microsoft was in the handset and tablet business since the 90s. But not manufacturing hardware under their own brand. MS had software for Dell and HP hardware - I have a couple of Windows CE Pocket PCs in a bi
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by ableal 10y ago
My absolutely boring, "cannot complain of seven year ride", anecdata: - Late 2009 white plastic MacBook, 320 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, cost 1000 euros, came with OS 10.5 or so. Earlier this year tossed in 200 euros worth of RAM (8GB) and S
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by ableal 10y ago
> fighting Intel At the close of the 19th century, the Jules Verne novels occasionally featured an 'arms race' for the biggest possible cannon. Then in the 20th they just slapped smaller ordnance on tanks and planes. Mobile pla
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by ableal 10y ago
The other way around ;-)
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by ableal 10y ago
Eh, this was posted about the same minute I was ordering one Micro:bit from Amazon UK (this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01G8X7VM2/ - perhaps the AAA battery holder is not really needed, if one h
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A night at the AI jazz club(theverge.com)
1 points by ableal 10y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 10y ago
Have a bonus quotation:) "Nobody ever goes there anymore - it's too crowded." http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
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Malware figures out it's running on VMs and refuses to execute(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by ableal 10y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 10y ago
> the opportunity to be always listening Some ten years ago Google quietly dropped a publicly proposed functionality (I forgot what they called it) whereby the search page would listen to your room and provide supplemental info to the TV
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by ableal 10y ago
And OpenOffice used to omit those, if memory serves. (Checking ... Libre Office 4.4 has Ctrl-D ... ah well.)
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by ableal 10y ago
The first comment on Medium is from Steven Sinofsky, who closes a few thoughtful paragraphs with a link to his own take: https://medium.com/@stevesi/it-is-worth-recognizing-that-mic... (Found via http://mspo
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The war Microsoft should have won(medium.com)
3 points by ableal 10y ago|2 comments
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by ableal 10y ago
There must be an order of magnitude error there, possibly an extra zero in the printed number. The smoking of four tons looks feasible, for sixty years at about 180g/day (enough tobacco for 9 packs of cigarettes, but used in pipes ).
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by ableal 10y ago
The original Parkinson's Law book is well worth looking up, and a couple of sequels are not bad either. My favorite piece is probably 'Plans and Plants', already summarized here at https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by ableal 10y ago
> “The physical model will stimulate the processes on its own,” says Gibson. Probably a typo, s/stimulate/simulate
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by ableal 10y ago
"Prank call" apps in the store do not help either.
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by ableal 10y ago
Indeed it does, thank you very much. Excuse me ... ^^^^^ BETTER PDF LINK ABOVE, GET THIS ONE ^^^^^ ;-)
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by ableal 10y ago
Although this scan is quite readable, I did a cursory search for a cleaner PDF. Failed, but the first hit was a nice transcript of the original talk: http://www.rbcpa.com/mungerspeech_june_95.pdf It's interesting that
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Susan and her SQL Problem(tbray.org)
3 points by ableal 10y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 10y ago
Happened to go look up the Nethack.org page, and hey, the author just "ascended" to the DevTeam earlier this month: http://www.nethack.org/#News """ The DevTeam would like to welcome its latest mem
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by ableal 10y ago
Tim Bray, many moons ago: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl...
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by ableal 10y ago
Dug around a bit for the paper, found this 2 page PDF: http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/pubs/2016.06.vlsi.symp.kiloCore/2...
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by ableal 10y ago
Powertools Technologies | Lisbon, Portugal | Full-time, onsite Looking for a junior engineer for work on Electronic Design Automation software tools, scripts and physical design kits. Candidate should at least have (or graduate shortly) a 3
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by ableal 10y ago
The "Google, where did I leave my keys?" joke is getting closer to feature status, and that's probably what's going on with Google Maps. Anecdatum: last month I was driving out for a weekend in some rural bungalows a few
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by ableal 11y ago
My laptop noticed, and started its fan singing in praise. Had to go into reader mode to pull Firefox down from 50% CPU.

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