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901.
by abrowne 12y ago
I noticed this too, and thought it was especially funny considering both names are linked to their respective Wikipedia entries.
902.
by abrowne 12y ago
The OED has a good explanation: “In later Old French serurgien , contracted surgien , whence English sirurgien , surgien , now corruptly surgeon . The Renaissance brought back to French and English (partly also to Italian) the spelling
903.
Native apps, the open web, and web literacy(literaci.es)
2 points by abrowne 12y ago|0 comments
904.
by abrowne 12y ago
Note that since it doesn't have Google Play, they can't use Chrome.
905.
by abrowne 12y ago
More like it showed quite clearly that Google has zero regard for Java browser plugin users and their concerns.
906.
by abrowne 12y ago
I had been know to call it "Whole Paycheck" in the past, but I've found prices not to be too bad if you're selective, such as their house-brand products.
907.
by abrowne 12y ago
I wondered that too, and then I deleted the app (Moto E with small internal storage). I'll still try the final version, but this is a turn off.
908.
by abrowne 12y ago
Looks like Source Code Pro http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/
909.
by abrowne 12y ago
> Peru [...] Mesoamerican history ... Pre-Columbian history, maybe? (Mesoamerica is Mexico and Central America.)
910.
by abrowne 12y ago
I've only just started reading it, but does anyone know what they mean by "In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement"?
911.
by abrowne 12y ago
If you don't like that behavior, you probably wouldn't like Ablock's either: https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adbl... (Admittedly the author is biased towards ABP. My bia
912.
by abrowne 12y ago
> [...] while still maintaining a road legal and practical design. It had a low drag coefficient, but there wasn't much of a practical design to maintain: "the car is so tall that a stiff crosswind could send it careening to th
913.
by abrowne 12y ago
Although it was discontinued at first (I think), you can now buy a DVD of 10.6 (Snow Leopard) on Apple's online store: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow... You can also bu
914.
by abrowne 12y ago
Ditto the Moto E, for a slightly different set of compromises.
915.
by abrowne 12y ago
They are used a lot in Minneapolis.
916.
by abrowne 12y ago
Windows 95 looks quite similar to NeXTSTEP, with very similar gray window decorations and beveled (might be the wrong word) borders and buttons. It could be a design of times kind of thing, but to me it looks very "inspired".
917.
by abrowne 12y ago
I've been happy with my Bluetooth toaster, as long as I don't microwave something at the same time. ;-)
918.
by abrowne 12y ago
HTML version: http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
919.
by abrowne 12y ago
PDF.js is not limited to Firefox. Here's a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
920.
by abrowne 12y ago
The Google Code page used to have a comment on the origins of the name. Noto is short for 'no tofu', tofu being the rectangles you get when you don't have a font covering that glyph.
921.
by abrowne 12y ago
Which itself is a redrawing of Droid Sans. This Typophile thread has some comparisons, and a couple comments by the designer, Steve Matteson: http://typophile.com/node/101655
922.
by abrowne 12y ago
> SSD drive that is soldered to the motherboard of your MacBook Air/High-End Notebook/Chromebook Nitpick of something I hear a lot: No SSD is soldered on in a MacBook Air or any Chromebook I've seen[1]. You may
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Supreme Court Sides With Whistleblower In Retaliation Case(npr.org)
2 points by abrowne 12y ago|0 comments
924.
by abrowne 12y ago
Fewer layers between machine and app -- just Gonk (linux layer) and Gecko (application runtime). With Android, you have all the Android runtime in between.
925.
by abrowne 12y ago
(2012) [based on the URL]
926.
by abrowne 12y ago
As long as they stay pro-GSM and unlocked phones. And no matter what, it's way better than a purchase by Comcast!
927.
by abrowne 12y ago
Unfortunately the math figures didn't survive OCR, so the epub and other text versions are not really readable. Luckily the "read online" version is full-page images and works quite well.
928.
by abrowne 12y ago
Here's a list of "refarmed" markets: http://support.t-mobile.com/community/coverage/blog/2013/12/... In my experience, anywhere you could get LTE on T-Mo has 3G on 1900.
929.
by abrowne 12y ago
Pinboard does describe itself as "antisocial bookmarking" (and "Social Bookmarking for Introverts"). Delicious seemed to me to be about making bookmarking social. Pinboard seems to be about bookmarking with some social o
930.
by abrowne 12y ago
Same with "ChromeOS" → "Chrome OS".

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