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by akent 11y ago
Why would they have to? Just because there happens to be a movie called "The Hangover"?
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by akent 11y ago
nitpicking: ... to effect a run out
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by akent 11y ago
Can I actually tile my bathroom with tiles like this? Do any tile manufacturers make them that shape? EDIT: I found these, at least http://www.ballerhouse.com/2010/08/19/precision-concrete-til...
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by akent 11y ago
For now yes it is indoor-only but we are working on plans for a weather-proof outdoor version.
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by akent 11y ago
Check out Homeboy - https://www.homeboy.com - completely cordless (battery powered, rechargeable, lasts up to 3 months on a charge) - not continuously recording video but clip based, armed like a security alarm, video recordings
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iOS 8.3 and Desktop File Managers(macstories.net)
1 points by akent 11y ago|0 comments
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by akent 12y ago
> "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?" Do as politicians do; don't answer the question, change tack. "Here's my driver licence, officer."
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by akent 12y ago
What's the logic in restricting it to meetups of maximum five people?
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by akent 12y ago
If you have this problem, you definitely know about it. Complete system lockups, glitches all over the screen, you name it. It's not just a simple software error.
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by akent 12y ago
I downvoted you because you simply can't draw that conclusion just based on the evidence of one anecdotal account from an affected user and from your own ignorance of the problem. Of course this has damaged their reputation in the mi
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by akent 12y ago
For me the end-of-line word hyphenation also detracts from the readability.
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by akent 12y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382
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by akent 12y ago
Why do you do this to yourself?
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by akent 12y ago
Low energy bluetooth is neat technology and I'm impressed with Estimote too. My question is what happens when the batteries die in these beacons if you have set many of them them up in a constellation like this for intra-room location?
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The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth(rustyshelf.org)
13 points by akent 12y ago|0 comments
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by akent 13y ago
Here's the original from Facebook rather than this bizarre rewritten blogpost about it: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/A-Streamlined-Look-fo...
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by akent 13y ago
People have private repos too you know.
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by akent 13y ago
And what of it? Here's another unrelated whinge: no Apple stuff supports WPS even though it's highly useful for getting your device on the network quickly. Way to find something negative to say when this MPTCP deployment is overwh
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by akent 13y ago
Maybe it's just because the post is out of date now (2011) but I'm not sure why "new technology", "rockstar" and "produces unmaintainable code" are all conflated together.
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Apple apply for trademark of the term 'startup' in Australia(tmwatch.net)
9 points by akent 13y ago|1 comments
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Weekend project Sunrise/Sunset API server in Go(astroapi.appspot.com)
2 points by akent 13y ago|0 comments
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by akent 13y ago
Probably worth a (2004) tag.
53.
by akent 13y ago
Which app in particular are you thinking of? All the ones I've tried so far haven't been all that impressive.
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by akent 13y ago
"My Maps functionality is not supported in this release but will return to future versions of the app" -> Deliberately regressing, so sorry, we'll add it back later. Um what?
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by akent 13y ago
The author of gevent Denis Bilenko himself says, in a nutshell, don't use gevent directly in production, use gunicorn. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7855343/run-web-app-with-...
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by akent 13y ago
Australia is almost completely metric, people only use imperial occasionally for old recipes and the like, also we often use pounds per square inch for car tire pressure, but weather related pressure is in pascals. Wikipedia has a surprisin
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by akent 13y ago
Thanks for the link. Particularly interesting is the Q&A post where they discuss HTML5 vs GIF http://annstreetstudio.com/2011/12/22/the-other-half/
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by akent 13y ago
The real weakness is because iOS default / suggested passphrases aren't very secure: "As the hotspot wordlist consists of only 1842 entries followed by a four-digit number, there are only around 18.5 million possible combinat
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by akent 13y ago
The lecture slides are in Comic Sans, ugh.
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Desk that's perfect for coworking by Miguel de la Garza(design-milk.com)
2 points by akent 13y ago|0 comments

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